Bridge Grafting and Farm Hints From the Epitomist
Practical notes on bridge grafting to save girdled trees and on enforcing silos for dairy feeds. Also guidance on incubators brooders and horse halters, plus Almanac rental lease cautions, manure decay data, cistern foundations, and poultry breeding tips.
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Cornell Experiment Station
Celeste's Window Makes a Market Spark in Town
Celeste, a sixteen year old with a crooked smile and a limp, inspires a grocer, C. Smith, to revamp his shop window. She turns soup bones into creole soup and promotes fresh produce, transforming the storefront into a thriving delicatessen. Her artistry and effort lift both shop and family, and she envisions a future in painting.
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Celeste
Letitia
Litia
C Smith
C. Smith
Smith
Charles
C. Sovith
Benson in Farmland Home: Unexpected Results
Walter notes that a practice yields surprising outcomes, prompting him to stop the habit as described in Farm and Home.
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Walter
Benson
A Nocturne by A Syeaker in the Night Interior
A nocturne contrasts street noise and interior hush as rain patters the window. The speaker envisions a lover, the night deepens, stars glow, and dawn returns with revived memory while bells and distant bees fade.
Why Beauties Wed Plain Men and How Love Grows
A London Tit-Bits note argues the plain man makes a faithful, grateful husband while handsome lovers tempt jealousy and fragile flings. It cites deeper love from plain partners, earlier marriage for plain men, and the pride of ugly-wed couples. The piece contrasts sight-based flirtations with lasting affection.
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London
Wiggs
Waggs
Philadelphia
Land of the
Mr. Smithers
Algernon
Algy
Success Magazine
New York
Washington Star
Bowers
Murphy
Powers
Spokane
Ebeneezer
Skeeters
Ebener
Gladys
Mamma
Chicago Daily, News
Chicago Record-Herald
Louisville Courier-Journal
Bowton Globe
Not Immortal. A quarrel over verses and a sharp editor
A witty exchange shows a poet insisting his verses are immortal while an editor rejects them as offensive. The Cleveland Leader notes a blunt line about a woman in silk stockings and a husband with holey cotton socks, reflecting era humor.
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Cleveland
Rack of quirky one liners and wry exchanges
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from various papers. Jokes range from social observations to playful wordplay and light satire, featuring domestic banter, mistaken identities, and social mishaps across a parade of unnamed narrators.
Reverse Things
A playful exchange centers on a household scene where a wife and husband joke about handling a landlord visit. The wife reports paying rent and showing the baby, while the husband quips about the landlord coming again and suggests actions for next time.
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S.C. Miller
International Harvester Company
Crete
Clatern
Denver Post
Poultry Plcting
Massachusetts
Cornel University
Mother
Forestry Department
Atar
Woen
New York Times
Lisette
Pittsburs
Chicago Daily News