Eucalyptus in America A Rapid Growing Timber and Its Uses
A survey of eucalyptus as a fast growing timber in California Florida and other warm regions. Blue gum dominates plantings reaches 175 feet in California and 5 feet diameter in 25 years. It yields timber oil and windbreak value while resisting pests and marine borers but is highly fire prone and frost sensitive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
California
Acalyptus
Australia
Tasmania
Cape of Good Hope
Algiers
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
United States
Oregon
Arizona
Mexico
Texas
Gulf Coast
Doan's Kidney Pills Allegedly Cure Gravel
A Wooster resident claims gravel pain eased after twelve days using Doan's Kidney Pills and urges others to try the remedy. The advertisement quotes a D. Dashem praising the treatment and notes the product is sold by dealers for fifty cents a box from Foster Millburn Co. in Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
A. Dashem
N. Grant St
Wooster
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Standard. Oil Co
Allen’s Foot-Ease Ad Claims Lasting Merit After Sixteen Years
An advertisement extols Allen’s Foot-Ease antiseptic powder as a proven, lasting remedy praised by repeat readers and customers. The piece warns against imitators and urges buyers to demand advertised products rather than substitutes. It notes the cream’s sustained sale and the proliferation of competing foot powders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Avard
Busy Season At The Drugstore Commerce
A druggist describes a brisk business season noting purchases of two picnic tickets and four excursion passes this morning while also donating goods for several indoor events. The exchange highlights strong local demand and community involvement in planned activities.
Dr Martel's Female Pills Endorsed In Ad Copy
An old advertisement touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a seventeen year standard remedy for women's ailments. It claims quick permanent results and promotes sale at drug stores, alongside a Marine Eye Salve remedy and a scornful aphorism about marriage and property.
Willy Was Too Liberal
Dean Ramsay recalls an Strathpey tale where an old woman asks for as much whisky at her funeral as at her baptism. The grandnephew distributes drink to all mourners, delays the coffin, and the procession reaches the churchyard at night to bury a day late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Ramsay
Strath
Pey
Willy
Crrchyard
Mushrooms and mischief in a late dinner tale
A domestic scene shows a quarrel over a two hour late return for dinner. A husband and wife exchange jests about hunting mushrooms, joking that the mushrooms are in the wife’s pocket and the pair had little meat but much amusement.
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Augustus Jones
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BR. Young
Zeeae
Ssri Cetit
Ella
Stella
DR. Martel
Marine Eye Remedy
Chicago
Ee ‘Willy
UT Ee Ta
F. Felix Qc
Cream
Uraud
Dr. L. A
Gouraad
Oaly
Europe
Ferd.t. Hopkins
Great Jones St
New York
Cascarets
Stochers & Feeders
Rede
National Live Stock
Kansas City
Joseph
Oman
Pierce
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
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