Mary returns to Jim Bomar at the orchard tree
In a rainy early summer tale Jim Bomar recalls his past with Mary Andrews. After years of separation and misunderstandings, Mary reveals her enduring love, restoring the couple at the beloved orchard bench and planning a shared future.
Quiet library donor in old pamphlet gift
An elderly, shabby man at the library offers to donate two old magazine back numbers he has saved for fifteen years. He requests they be placed in the reading room and asks for no publicity about the gift, insisting the librarian not reveal his name.
Siamese English Ad Snippet Sparks Magazine Controversy
A fragment from Everybody's Magazine quotes a Siamese newspaper proprietor distributing handbills. The notice touts English writing as perfect and earliest, hints at sensational content, and mocks advertisements while claiming cultural prestige. The garbled text includes references to Kipling Dickens and circled terms.
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Invention of an Auxiliary Planter by Baldwin
An auxiliary planter by A R Baldwin of Springfield Missouri is described by Scientific American. The device attaches to an independent hauling truck and can be used with other farm implements. It promises to shorten field preparation and planting time, reducing labor and costs.
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Phosphorus Need in Livestock Farming Warned by Hopkins
The text argues soil fertility declines in farmyards with little field care and warns that without supplementary foods or purchased manure, phosphorus must be applied. Professor Hopkins notes livestock farming loses about 20 pounds per acre over four years, even when grain yields are high and manure returns to land.
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Device for Double Harness
A device allows using a single harness for a double team when a regular double harness is unavailable. It adds an extra front attachment that connects with the breeching, giving the same holding power as a single harness and easing attachment to the yoke.
Impassable Roads and Forgotten Resolutions
A brief note laments weed growth along roadsides that causes drifting snow and impassable routes. It predicts roadside clearing will occur this year but fears resolutions to maintain them will be forgotten as the year ends and new cycles begin.
Ideal Barnyard Preservation From Crushed Rock and Cement
A historical note emphasizes a clean dry yard around the dairy barn. It argues against costly ideal barnyard constructions and suggests maintaining a tidy, dry area. The focus is on keeping milk equipment in perfect condition and daily removal of manure and mud from the office area.
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Avery
Preventing soil erosion on hillside fields
This piece explains methods to control erosion including brush in ditches, woven wire stakes, and hay to catch material. It emphasizes keeping humus and moisture in soil, using grasses and legumes in rotation, and notes erosion cannot be fully prevented but can be greatly reduced with proper field management.
Handy Shaving Horse Forsaken On Modern Farms
An old-fashioned shaving horse, a simple yet versatile farm tool, is rarely seen today though it is easily constructed and uniquely suited to its task. It remains unmatched by alternatives in farm work it performs.
Lettuce Proves Hardy and Ready for Early Sowing
Lettuce is a hardy cool weather plant that tolerates varied conditions. Seed can be sown early if the ground is unfrozen, treated like beets or onions. It grows quickly once warm weather arrives and is valued as a salad and as a pot herb though usage as such is not widely known.
Gardening With a Wheel Hoe Delights Early Gardeners
A wheel hoe transforms gardening by allowing a person to cultivate the entire plot before breakfast. The device stimulates pride in work and helps keep the soil in ideal condition through frequent use by experienced gardeners.
Goop Roads and Farm Notes Suggest Better Practices
District farming column urges improved pasture rotation and seed quality. Advice highlights importance of legume inclusion, properly dried seed corn, timely lime on heavy soils, and yard cleanups. Encourages forming a Good Roads club and expanding ornament plantings next spring.
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Good Roads Club
Catia
Fatty hero saves boy from ice fat boy hoax
A boy named Fatty rescues another child from a widening ice hole while peers scream. The event ends with Fatty explaining his courage and admitting a crush on a sister, reflecting a tale of bravery and affection.
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Tommy
Little Mary Dreams Of Being A Lady
Six year old Mary wakefully recounts a dream of becoming a young lady. She notes with a humorous aside that she felt rather fat, prompting gentle motherly commentary on the surprising scale of a child’s aspirations.
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Mary
Personal health ad recounts Cuticura relief for severe back skin eruption
A man describes long lasting back pimples and misery before using Cuticura remedies. After two weeks of relief he continues treatments and reports near cure in months, praising Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s pellets and general wellness tips amid ad text.
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W. A. Armstrong
Corbin, Kan
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restores Sikeston Woman's Health
Mrs Dema Bethune of Sikeston Missouri credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing years of weakness backache and nervous prostration. She says the remedy helped her perform housework garden work and entertain guests again and urges other women to try it for displacements inflammation and related symptoms.
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Sikeston Mo
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Lydia‘ B.' Pinkham
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