Advocates for Good Roads Press Simple, Local Plan
The piece argues for a network of affordable 9 to 12 foot wide roads linking farms to markets, stresses economic and social benefits, condemns impractical grand schemes, and urges state aided, locally suited construction using gravel or crushed stone to keep costs between 1000 and 5000 dollars per mile. It highlights farmer backing, rail and road synergy, and long term value of well built highways.
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Mississippi Valley
Fie
Wes
Office of Public Roads
Washington
Wealthy Louisville brides wed twice more in Paris and Louisville
In Louisville Mrs Katherine Maxon Smith Baumgardner, reputedly the citys wealthiest woman, wed Carl Neumeyer in Louisville. Simultaneously in Paris Mrs Albert Clifford Barney, aged about sixty one, married Christian D Hemmick. Both unions show the age and wealth contrasts in the social scene.
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Pittsburg
Katherine Maxon-Smith-Baumgardner
Louisville
Carl Neumeyer
Louiisville
Paris
Albert Clifford Barney
Washington
Christian D. Hemmick
Uncertain Step Referenced in Humorous Exchange
A Houston Post item quotes a joke about Ye’s awkward courtship. One fiancée wore a hobble gown, the other a harem skirt, and he now tries to keep step with his new partner.
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Houston Post
Ventilation for Hen House Improves Airflow
The Orange Judd Farmer advises a simple hen house ventilation fix using a wire panel in doors with a burlap backing to allow air flow in hot weather and reduce drafts in severe weather. Daily droppings removal helps keep air fresh without extra outlets.
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Orange Judd
Metal brooder coop guards chicks from day and night threats
A town invents a circular galvanized steel brooder coop that is insect and predator proof. The conical top with a ventilator and sliding perforated door keeps predators out while allowing chicks and hens to move freely. The design enables confinement of the brood during night.
Success with the Turkeys Care and Feeding Guide
The article explains keeping turkeys off grass in the morning, letting them range feed briefly at dusk, and providing air-slaked lime and grit. It notes checking for lice with quill feather clues, dusting with insect powder weekly until eight weeks, and giving half a teaspoon of salts if illness isn’t due to lice.
Free Range Fowls Boost Farm Profits
The poultry operation relies on spring grass and hay fields to feed the birds. A farmer gains the greatest value by granting his fowls free range as part of a money-making system.
Eradicates Chickenpox in Flocks Warns Kansas Industrialist
A Kansas industry figure warns that chickenpox-like disease spreads rapidly in growing stock this season. Symptoms include yellow nodules on the comb face and wattles. remove affected birds, treat with carbolated vaseline, or use zinc oxide ointment.
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Kansas
Lehman
Secure Water Pan for Fowls Demonstrated in Illustration
The image shows a method to fix a drinking pan for fowls so it won’t spill. Two new iron stakes should be driven into the ground several inches, and a pan wired to the frames by boring holes in opposite sides of the rim.
Keeping a Poultry Record
Poultry keepers need definite records of expenditures and receipts to know if their flocks are profitable. Expenditures and income are spread over the year and are often small, with much product used at home and poultry activity intertwined with other farm work.
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R.dp. Schmidt
Poultry Care Tips From A Historic Farm Guidance
Advice covers feeding and housing for fowls of all ages with emphasis on avoiding wooden waterers, preserving eggs commercially, and ensuring ducklings have water and green feed. Manage age separation, provide sand and dry straw, and guard against lice as heat rises.
The Same but Different Parlor Carpet Row
A terse dialogue contrasts hesitation with action as one speaker asks about taking up the parlor carpet and the other asserts they beat it. The exchange centers on refusal versus completion and resolve.
Ukckayne Tenn Religion and Personal Faith Emphasized
The text reflects a shift from state religion to individual belief, noting that the faith and ideal of the soul grow in prominence. It asserts love as a centerpiece, suggesting personal conviction outweighs formal dogma and material rewards.
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by Michigan Farmer
Scottville resident J. Q. Johnson, a farm mother of thirteen, extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanstiva Wash for relieving backache and bearing down pains. He credits the remedies with improving health and happiness and notes his daughter also benefited from the compounds. The advertisement claims the product is made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics, and has many cures of female diseases.
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Scottville
Mich
Lydia E.pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E. ‘Ham
J. Q. Johnson
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Animal Proof
Everett Eet
Ottle
Ted
Re Ae
Spohn
Medical, Co
Lydia E. Pinkham
Kusse
Leree
Andy
Whittemore Bros. & CO
Albany &Ct
Cambridge
Mase
Carter’s
Carters Iver
Ree
Hanold Somers
de Kalb Aves
Brooklyn
ALLEN
Paul Minn
Bahn
Volooy
Hox
Lake Ee Gye Worida
Minneapolis
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