Big Jack Faces Grim Choice Over Henry Ledbetter
A 60 year old giant named Big Jack ponders vengeance after Henry Ledbetter, a mulatto, repeatedly visits Big Jack's daughter. On a furnace platform at noon under a blistering sun, Big Jack wrests a man and contemplates how to end the mulatto’s visits, leading toward a dangerous confrontation amid the heated work site.
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Big Jack
Henry Ledbetter
Henry
Ledbetter
Oak Grove
Col. Marshland
Jacken
Old Mose
Mose
Pickaninny
Jeld
Irvin Grey
Hig Jack
Liza
Jack
Practical Results Of Orchard Spraying At Oklahoma Station
An on farm scale study at the Oklahoma Experiment Station tests spraying costs benefits and feasibility. Plats with and without spraying compare Paris green lead arsenate Bordeaux mixture and different spray schedules. Sprayed trees show less windfall loss and more fruit reaching maturity though early sprayings faced pump power issues and weather delays.
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Oklahoma Experiment Station
Paris
Enchantress of Art and a Strange Hinckley Disc
A artful ode to a spring hat queen opens with lofty verse. The Hinckley town scene follows a night of a wheel shaped disc rolling down Main Street, smashing a window and a safe, then provoking quirky theories from locals about its origin before a man retrieves and returns his wife’s pie, ending with lingering poetic reflections on memory and scenery.
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Hinckley
Bings
Banks
Hanks
Ptolemy
Punderton
Pegasus
Mr. Adams
Beautify the Home Grounds with Color and Fragrance
The article advises choosing flowering plants by purpose and fragrance. It highlights nicotiana affinis for border scent, golden California poppy for mass yellow color, rudbeckia golden glow for hardy yellow blooms, and dahlias with cosmos for fence-front beds. It notes chrysanthemums for autumn display and Drummond phlox as small late-bloomers.
Remarkable cures lauded for Peruna across states
Testimonies from David Meekison and others praise Peruna for curing long running illnesses. Letters from Jacob L. Davis in Missouri and C N Peterson in Iowa claim dramatic health recoveries after taking Peruna. A Michigan case reports stomach catarrh improvement after several bottles. A stray anecdote ends with a humorous mispronunciation from a classroom bull terrier tale.
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Jacob L. Davis
Galena
Stone County
Vr. C. N. Peterson
South Main Stt
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Catarrh Cure Advertisement Promises Nationwide Cure
A 100 dollar reward offer accompanies claims that Halls Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The ad asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promising strength and constitution improvement. It invites readers to send testimonials and lists J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as proprietors. Sold by all druggists.
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Eciuce Mn
Haji
Qureta
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Two Bad Ways to Judge a Man and Odd Advertisements
A satirical remark about judging men by what they withhold and what they overlook appears alongside varied ads. It notes Minnesota land sales promising 300000 acres in June and July 1908 with contact for state auditor S. G. Iverson in St Paul. Additional lines tout health claims for Garfield Tea and Lewin's Bing Binder cigars.
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Minnesota
G. Iverson
St. Paul
Minn
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John F. Nicholson
Comfort
Pup
Meekison
Peruna
David Meekison
D. C. Prosser
Bravo
Allegan Co
Mich
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus, Ohio
George Eliet
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Grand Rapide
Baste
SeapStan
Lance E Journal Ecw
Miacwaty
Pope
Washington
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