Winter wheat gains in southern Alberta yields 30 to 60 bu per acre
Western Canada, once ranching country, now a premier winter wheat district. Yields quoted from 30 to 60 bushels per acre, farmer returns of 25 to 50 dollars per acre. Reports from Magrath and Lethbridge detail wheat, oats, and barley yields and per acre values, with one grower noting 41.5 to 41% bushels per acre on Alberta Red winter, another describing wide stubble and volunteer crops. Information from Spring Coulee and other districts notes 2,000 to 3,000 acres in wheat and oats with per acre values ranging to 27 dollars for wheat and 15 dollars for oats.
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Canada
H. Howes
Magrath
Alberta
J. F. Haycock
J. F. Bradshaw
Masrath
Sherod
Lethbridge
Souris
North Dakota
R. W. Bradshaw
Spring Coulee
W. L. Thompson
Might Be Worse in Quipboard Endings
A farmer questions a motorist in a humorous exchange about a broken machine. The motorist snarls, and a passerby notes a local man once faced a worse fate after his machine failed to stop, per the Philadelphia Press.
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Philadelphia Press
Castoria Signature Ad and Moral Sermon Paraphrase
An archival ad fragment urges mothers to examine every Castoria bottle for the signature and notes the product is trusted for over 30 years. A side line promotes advertising yields, while a quoted motto by Farrar extols daily opportunities for goodness.
The Justly Celebrated Dog and Pony Show Ends
In Harlem a poor pair, Sammy and Sethie, face hunger as they plan a last night before the curtain falls on the Professor Margand Show. They seek meat on credit from Sammy’s mother’s butcher, hoping to ease their misery with a charged table purchase.
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Gishkin & Doyle
Professor Margand
Harlem Opera House
Sammy
Sam
Sethie
Sethe
Kosher Meat and Secrets Weave Through Gishkin Doyle Night
In a tense family drama a mother faces shop theft and social stigma over a meat purchase by her boy Sammy while Sethie Doyle watches in a perilous weave of accusation and fear. Mrs Doyle confronts Mrs Gishkin as the truth unfolds with a sobering moral edge.
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Mrs. Gishkin
Sethie
Miid
Fife
Sammy
Mr. Gorshski
Mrs.Gishkin
Thad
Sethie Doyle
Doyle Flat
Sethiet
Gishkin Mansion
Sam
Heten
Relic Watch Link Ties Civil War Soldier to Widow
Owosso resident J Rouse, who served in 1864, recalled taking a bloodstained silver watch from a fallen comrade at Fort Anderson, North Carolina. Decades later, on a Nebraska to San Francisco trip, he met a woman who turned out to be the dead man’s daughter, presenting the same watch wrapped in bloodstained paper. The reunion revived the long-ignored memory and temptation he felt at the time.
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Owosso
Mich
J. Rouse
Cleveland
Ft. Anderson
N. C
Rouse
Nebraska
San Francisco
Instrument for Car Testing on Moving Road Cars
An apparatus tests street cars in operation by recording eight electrical and motion values every five seconds. A rolling-paper recorder with clock-driven instruments tracks amperes volts motor speed and car location, producing a continuous graphical record. This method offers greater accuracy than human observers.
Gold Production Sees Growing Global Output
Global gold production reached 425 million dollars last year as output continues to climb from 12 million a century ago and 262 million eight years ago. The world gold stock has doubled since 1893 and ore profit margins have fallen from 14 to 2 dollars per unit.
Bread Was Bully Delights Muir At Dinner
The anecdote recalls John Muir dining with a friend as he tells a long tale while repeatedly breaking bread from a French loaf. Hunger finally breaks through when his companion asks what to order, and Muir replies that he has had all he wants. The line bread was bully captures the mood.
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John Muir
Muir
Mr. Muir
Bookmas
Fragmented Minnesota ads on cream and hides
Fragmented ad snippets reference North Star Creamery in Minneapolis offering cream prices and days for cash. Additional lines mention Taubert Tannery Minneapolis rivals, Miller & Holmes in St. Paul paying top prices for cream hides furs and tanning robes and coats. Ends with unrelated Latin quotes.
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Taubert Tannery
Minneapolis
Minn
Miller & Holmes
St. Paul, Minn
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Health for Women
Readers are told Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has helped many women through letters kept on file, claiming improved health and relief from illness. The ad emphasizes personal signatures and endorses the tonic as a trusted remedy amid widespread female health concerns.
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Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Canadian West
Dey
Farrar
Effeireer FG
The
Young Partners
Seata
California JO
Sa Ritts
Triccists
Ize
Tage and Prices
North Btar Creamery Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Os Iky'tos Press
Milton
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Lydia
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