Portland Business Directory excerpt highlights local services
A Portland business directory fragment lists diverse offerings including private sanitariums, auto and engine schools, school furniture, massage, talking machines, typewriters for sale, chiropractic services, a hospital connection, and a university college addressing out of town patients. It mentions Hawthorne Avenue addresses and multiple vendors with varied trades.
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Miley Vachon
Fail Pala Telegraph Institute
Y. Exch Pig
RCIA
Morrison
Hawthorne Auto & Gam
Hawthorne Ave
Northwest
Echaola
Ann Wonton
Hanselatrom
Medien
Columbia
Underwood Typewriter Co
Biark
Portland
Iittock
Chiropractic Diagnosticiane
Paciplg
Park and Yamhill
College
Watch Your Knees During Fasts
The piece argues the brain stays weight-stable while the body loses fat in a long fast. It warns brain workers may feel fine while in danger and urges watching knee health over brain function to gauge physical condition.
Fast traveling housefly but short on wanderlust
A housefly rarely travels but can sprint up to 160 feet per second when pushed, about 110 miles an hour. The piece also notes a six year old named Willie asking if his brother is good and mentions water weeds in Gutun Lake containing enough potash to be used as fertilizer.
Portland Business College Enrolls for Stenography Courses
Northwest's biggest business college invites applications for an eight course program covering stenography telegraphy accounting shorthand and secretarial work. Enrollees gain assured positions upon completion and catalogues are available.
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Behnke-Walker
Portland
Northwest
Sttight flea threat to Southern poultry and control methods
USDA notes the sticktight flea or Southern chicken flea inflicts heavy losses on young chickens, clusters on heads and wattles, and can persist in empty houses. It recommends isolating poultry from other animals, thorough cleaning, removing nesting material, treating breeding sites with crude oil, and applying carbolated vaseline or kerosene lard mixtures to infestations while cleaning coops and runs to curb mites and ticks.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Northwest
Desert plants used as emergency stock feed soapweed yucca
United States Department of Agriculture notes soapweed and other desert species can serve as emergency drought feed for southwestern stockmen. Ground or chopped yucca can be balanced with cottonseed meal, saving cattle and sheep when range forage is scarce. Yield rates, feeding guidelines, and renewal times are provided, with soapweed and bear grass needing years to regrow.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture Love
New Mexico-Texas Plains
Seed corn selection and handling guidance
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture emphasizes seed corn must suit local conditions, come from productive varieties, be dried promptly after harvest and kept dry and protected from pests and rodents to retain full productivity.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Increase of Milk in Cows Tied to Milking Practices
Thorough milking tends to develop a cow s udder and increase her milk capacity, suggesting regular milking improves yields and udder health through consistent stimulation.
Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Dark Hair
Old time remedy Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is advertised as restoring natural color to faded gray hair. The ad claims you can apply with a sponge or brush and after a few uses hair will look dark, glossy, and youthful. it states the product is for cosmetic use only.
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Wyeth
Penalty for Disobedience Quotation Card
Obedience is economy and disobedience extravagance. A person who breaks nature's laws bears a doctor's bill and breaking country laws incurs a lawyer's bill.
Germ destroying toxins form in blood of man and beast
Some microscopic one cell animals develop a poison that kills other microorganisms that feed on them. This describes the nature of the poisons formed in the blood of men and animals.
Yes he made it by grinding others gains into hay
The millionaire declares he did not rely on luck but harvested wealth from the work and resources of others. He claims success came from seizing opportunities created by competitors and external forces, turning the grass under others feet into his own fortune.
Kitchen Oilcloth Pasted Over Surfaces For Neater Wears
When oilcloth is used about the kitchen on shelves or around the sink, paste it on instead of tacking. A much neater appearance is the result and it wears better.
Freezone claims quick corn relief from a Cincinnati authority
A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a painless method to remove corns and calluses. He says a few drops stop soreness and dry the corn, lifting it off without irritation. A small bottle costs little and will remove hard or soft corns, with broad consumer appeal since high heels became popular.
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Cincinnati
America
Adv
Social Graces Crowned By Quiet Confidence
A fragment notes that restraint and poised talk mark social superiority and ease in conversation. It observes that challenging a social superior with spitting or rude speech harms self command and public impression.
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Ob State Journal
Woman works 15 hours a day and finds relief
Anna Mets of Peru Indiana testifies that Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved backache drag and fatigue from long daily labor. She describes years of pain and poor care until the remedy helped her regain strength and energy for housework factory work and family duties.
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Ind
Lydia Pinkham
Anna Mets
West 10Th St
Peru
Lydia B. Pu Ham
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Alamice Big & Metal Co
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Phote Raatie
Nerva
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Ah Arn Stark
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Ballacana
Joh Tote Sacks
Naty Aig & Co
Front Bt
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Optician
Perene
Chas. Woiman
Oplumetrial
Northap
A. Philip
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Sanitariianes
Huilding Main
Bantary
Bernaide
Multnomah
Hemical CO
Wiel Freye
Neapare
Chase & Waist
Brown
W. H. Wallingford
Liberty Six
der Street
DELCO
Modern Appliance CO
Seattle
Mother
Willie
B.A. D
Panama Canal
Gutun Lake
Marine
His Remedy Co
Chicago
New Houston Hotel
Everett Sts
Union Depot
New Pontoffice
Chas. G. Hopkins
Mornoder
Hotel Hoyt
Hoyt Sta
Lou Jimes
Tore Hheatv Shipping Tay
the &. F. Norton Company
Aed
Johnson St
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Weunls
Bellingham
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F. M. Cronkhite
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Oregon
Fred Dundee Motor
Flanders
Portland, Or
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Corns
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