Sheep Industry in Colorado and New Mexico
The piece notes rapid growth of sheep farming in Colorado with a reporter citing a Northern farmer who shorn 100,000 pounds of wool this year and describes Colorado wool as high quality rating with Wisconsin in price. It contrasts New Mexico flocks managed by old Mexican Spaniards with poor wool and small sheep, blaming dry native grass for dry meat and predicting improvements in New Mexico sheep husbandry.
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Colorado
New Mexico
Chicago
Wisconsin
Mexico
Prices for magazine writers rise and fall in history
A New York magazine writer recalls how thirty five years ago American monthlies paid high rates per page, noting Edward Everett's dollar per page, Pencillings by the Way earning five thousand dollars, and the shift to lower payments. He compares English magazines paying four to seven fifty per page and Scottish and British outlets offering varied rates, with some occasional increases.
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New York
American Progress
North American Review
Edward Everett
New York Mirror
N. P. Willie
Graham
Godey
London
Atlantic Monthly
Blackwood
London Society
Quarterly
Edinburg
Why We Commence Dinner with Soup
Sir Henry Thompson argues that soup at the start of meals boosts hunger relief and readiness for the main course. He debunks the idea that soup dilutes gastric juices and says soup provides readily digested nourishment, easing exhaustion and promoting sociable dining, warning against early sherry.
Watch found after night trek through dream guidance
Florace Wedge of Long Hill Bridgeport returned from a long tramp to find his watch missing. He recalled a Stepney depot clock check, then dreamed of a beech tree east of Long Hill where birds were shot. He searched and found the watch near that tree, as dreamt, safe and sound.
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Florace Wedge
Long Hill
Bridgeport
Stepney Depot
The Locomotive Poem Expresses Power and Kinship
Ella Wheeler writes of the locomotive as a half human, radiant and powerful, pulsing with heart and fires. The speaker longs to drive or feed the engine and feels kinship with its force and fiery unrest, imagining a soul in the machine.
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Ella Wheeler
Inter Ocean
Attire and remedies advertised in local shop notices
A collage of local ads offers fur and straw hats at Frank A. Hays' Trademporium, Bucklen's Arnica Salve guaranteed for skin ailments, cheap hack fare discussed, Mrs. Rudisill selling fowl varieties, and Dr King’s New Discovery touted for coughs and lung diseases with trial bottles offered. Jerome Allen in Greencastle promotes products.
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Frank A. Hays
Jerome Allen
London
Paris
Hall
Dr. Kings
Dr. King
Jerde Allen Greencastle
Cure for youth disorders advertised by missionary in 1950
An advertisement promises a free remedy for nervous weakness and early decay. It claims the formula was discovered by a South American missionary and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman in New York City for details.
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South America
Joseph T. Inman
New York City
Carter
Besxert Jones
Sd St
Eric
Carter Medicine Co
Erie
Warner
Brigtat
Mary Divensen
H. Warner & Co
Rochester
N. Y
Beware of the man who cannot keep a cheerful home
A moral warning on marriage happiness. The author argues that a wife’s cheerfulness hinges on her husband’s daily effort and restraint. Men focus on wealth and security, neglecting joy at home, risking grim evenings and broken harmony. Choose a partner who values daily cheer.
Heat of the Sun and stray animal anecdotes edit
Astronomers debate sun heating sources arguing meteorites could supply heat while gravity keeps mass stable. A Virginia City bee story recalls Tabby the cat attacked by bees then escaped with a dramatic leap after a beekeeper’s intervention. A Edinburgh medical grad address recounts a phrenology quip about gout treatment.
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Peirce
Harvard University
A Terrible Weapon in London News Cigar shaped torpedo
The cigar shaped fish torpedo moves by compressed air stored inside its body and uses a tail screw to propel it at twenty miles per hour for many hundred yards. On impact the head containing the charge explodes violently, making it a weapon of terrible effect.
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London News
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Lamily
Salily
Hop Ruther Mfg
N. Ws
Rome
Mississippi River
W. O. Hivgriart
Grand Rapids
Michigan
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L. H. Rudisill
Plymouth Rock
Vine and
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Beys
Hanna & Black
Northeast Corner Public Square
Greencastle
Ind
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New
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Charles Kaiser
Tabby
Aqua
Gainger Stewart
University of Edinburgh
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Second ST
Cincinnati
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Iver Pills
Merse
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J.B. Mulhol
Putnam, Hendricks
Morgan Counties
Philander Wiley
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Clinton
Madison
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Parke County
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Hartford
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Ellis & Smith
East Washington Street
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Lews & Newgent
Landes’ Drug Store
Leff
G. C. Smythe, M. D
Vine Street
Washington and
Walmut
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Louisville, New Albany
Chicago Road
A. R. Brattin
Aboae
Law
Bahn
Nisher
Rerick, Curtis & Co
Greencastle, Ind
G. W. Bence
Mulhomn
EVANS
Donnahue & Lewis
H. H. Mathias
Eastside Square
J. KR. Miller
Miller & Moore
T.T. Moore
Greencastle Ind
Bayne’s Black
James J. Swiiry
Wils G. Nero
Smiley & Neff
Albin’s Black
South Side Public Square
Ready Family
Lewis
G.T. Lewis & Menzies Co
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