Fattening Fowl on Stubble Field Experiment at Oregon State
Oregon Agricultural College professor James Dryden conducts a field trial near Moro with 600 white Plymouth Rocks housed in movable tents to test fattening poultry on waste grain. The study aims to determine weight gains per area with minimal cost, using pasture and grain scraps.
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Oregon Agriculural College
Corvallia
Oregon
James Dryden
Oregon Agricultural College
Moro
Dryden
Portland
Pink eggs and chickens charm Salem fair exhibit
In Salem Oregon an Oregon Agricultural College poultry display draws attention with airy blue pink chickens and eggs. Coal tar dye feeds alter egg yolk color flesh and feathers overnight showing the diet’s swift impact on the fowls.
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Salem
Poultry Department
Oregon Agricultural College
Pork curing and alfalfa feeding notes from Experiment Station
Washington Experiment Station notes describe pickling pork with salt saltpetre sugar and molasses. two methods cover eight hundred pounds or eighty pounds of meat. Guidance on re salting timing barrelling hams and smoking and peppering. Alfalfa pasture advice for hogs and cows notes high protein hay affects feed choices.
Child recounts big house with many servants and chain pulls
Ten year old Arthur boasts about the number of servants in his home and explains a chain system to summon services. An onlooker questions the need for so many workers, and Arthur confirms they exist to pull the chains for drinks, window openings, or stairs.
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Arthur
Mail boxes in streetcars to aid husbands in Letters
Government experiment in Washington installs mail boxes in street cars to prompt men to mail wives letters promptly. If successful in the capital, plan may expand to other cities. The aim is to reduce forgotten letters by providing a visible daily reminder to mail.
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United States
Washington
Success Magazine
Epic of Hugh Glass Echoes in 19th Century Reflections
The passage recounts Hugh Glass mauled by a grizzly in early frontier campaigns and his miraculous survival. It juxtaposes John C. Neihart’s view of Americans living epics with Orison Swett Marden’s warning on youth losing ideals to rampant commercialism.
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John C. Neihart
Hugh Glass
Grant
Leavenworth
Old Glass
Anys Orison Swett Marden
Success Magazine
Pigeon Thunderbolt II Found After Five Years
Charley Otto, longtime pigeonist, recalls a missing racer from the 1905 St. Louis exposition. He finds Thunderbolt II in the coop, healthy though thin and with worn toenails from long walks.
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Charley Otto
Otto
California Memorial to Stevenson on Mount St. Helena
The Robert Louis Stevenson memorial near Calistoga on Mount St. Helena was erected by Napa county women. The Ladies' club raised the funds quickly to honor the Scotch writer associated with the district. The monument sits at 2400 feet along the trail where Stevenson once brought his bride and wrote The Silverado Squatters.
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California
Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mount St. Helena
Napa County
Ladies’ Club
Callstoga
Silverado
Oakland Tribune
What He Thought
A man wakes with a toothache and groans loudly hoping for sympathy from his sleeping wife. Despite three piercing cries and the infant’s soft sighs, the wife remains unmoved, prompting the man to question whether she truly loves him.
Music at Hand Pleases All Ages and Hearts
A compact reflection on music as a universal pleasure and aid for all ages from childhood to old age. It notes music’s presence beside life and death, speaking to its enduring, soothing power across stages of human experience.
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Spirita
Luskin
Grateful Women Credit Lydia Pinkham’s Remedy
A Waurika Oklahoma woman reports seven years of female troubles and insomnia eased after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Huntington Massachusetts residents credit the remedy for nervous, rundown conditions and life saved, noting doctors approve its use. The ad touts the product as curing inflammatory and uterine disorders, irregularities, backache, bearing-down sensations, and neural weakness.
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Waurika
Okla
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie Stevens
RE. F. D
Huntington
Mass
Mari Janette Bates
Masa
Lydia XE
Pinkham
Wireless telegraphy careers for ambitious young people
A notice from the National Telegraph Institute Portland Oregon offers opportunities in wireless and railway telegraphy. With the 8 hour law and new wireless stations, there is a telegraphist shortage. Beginners earn 70 to 80 dollars per month with advancement prospects. The institute, overseen by R A and Wireless class, places graduates into positions and invites letters for full details.
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National Telegraph Institute
Commonwealth Building
Portland
Oregon
Spervision
R. A. and Wireless E
Judge’s Hangover Stuns Western Town
A Western town judge, known to drink, faced a rough morning after a heavy night. He appeared at work despondent and shaken, telling a friend he felt worse than ever. He revealed his home life was strained as his children called him Sam and his wife addressed him as Mister.
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Sam
Red Cross Ball Blue laundry bluing ad headline
The laundrees' delight is RED CROSS BALL BLUE a neat handy package nothing to break or spill and a blue that is all blue. It is so far superior to any liquid bluing that there is no coin. Always produces snow white clothes. Large package 10 cents ASK YOUR GROCER.
Wizard Oil Brings Comfort to Kids Sprains Burns
Children suffer daily from sprains bruises burns and cuts. Hamlins Wizard Oil has cured these aches for nearly sixty years delivering relief through generations in homes and clinics.
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Hamlins Wizard Oil
Swanson Recalls First Political Speech in Virginia
Senator Swanson of Virginia recounts his first political address when he quoted Herodotus as a crowd member challenged him with "Which ticket's he on" and dismissed fear, noting the audience had been tested by tumult.
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Swanson
Virginia
Herodotus
Buffalo
Youth Never to Be Recalled
A humorous note warns that age dulls memory and self assessment as a man insists he feels young while losing touch with youth. The piece mentions teething remedies such as Motiers and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a humorous aside.
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Motiers
Mrs. Winslow
Not Guilty Found In Pocket-Picking Case
A man charged with picking a pocket pleaded guilty at arraignment but the jury returned a not guilty verdict. The court condemned him, saying his confession branded him a thief and his verdict branded him a liar.
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Cleveland Plaindealer
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