Planning a Farmstead Layout for Efficient Rural Living
A Breeders' Gazette plan outlines locating farm buildings in a row 300 feet behind the house to cut noise while keeping proximity for access. It lists placement of cattle barn, feedlot, paddocks, a double cribs with shed, horse stable, sheep or pig units, and a galvanized iron shelter between the stables for tool storage. It suggests a wagon shed, a meadow sweep south of the house, and tree clumps for beauty, noting construction can occur in stages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breeders' Gazette
Intensive Farming Proves Its Value in Modern Agriculture
The article argues that intensive farming increases yields and profits while improving soil health. It cites that smaller, well managed acreage with close attention can outperform large, sparsely tended farms. Emphasizes labor input and careful cultivation as keys to higher incomes and better land condition.
Corn Fodder For Winter On The Farm
The note urges storing corn fodder for winter and spring on ordinary farms. It highlights using feed from cows kept for milk, warns that frost will end fodder quality, and advises having ample shocks to avoid running short in spring. It emphasizes planning to avoid scarcity and regrets.
Inexpensive kidney remedy mix promoted in New York press
A homemade blend of fluid extract dandelion compound karyon and syrup sarsaparilla is touted by an eminent kidney diseases authority as a safe, inexpensive cure for kidney and bladder trouble before Bright's disease. It claims to ease back pain frequent urination and discolored urine and to cleanse uric acid from blood.
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New York
Bright
Hospital Five Months Endures Then Finds Cure
Lavi P Brockway of Anoka Minnesota endured five months in a hospital before being discharged as incurable with a prognosis of months to live. She suffered heart trouble and fainting spells, loss of strength, and kidney issues. After using Dean's Kidney Pills her condition improved dramatically and she has felt well since. Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Lavi P. Brockway
Second Ave
Anoka
Minn
Dean
Tey
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Life’s brief span and fragile loves
A reflection on human life as brief and uncertain. It recalls loving moments and sorrow, bright hopeful periods and brutal disappointments, with vivid contrasts like glorious Thursdays and dismal Fridays. The passage ends with life as a fading, sorrowful memory.
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Matthew Hale Carpenter
Phonograph Lesson Turns Buyer Away
A great tenor recalls hearing himself on a phonograph after a salesman offered a trial record. He compares the experience to seeing ourselves as others see us, noting the strange accuracy of his own flute performance recorded by the machine. He ends by preferring to sell his flute rather than buy the phonograph.
Hospital Story Telling and Charity Starch Ad
A New York philanthropist funds Marshall P Wilder to visit hospitals and cheer convalescent parents with stories, bringing cheer to patients. A Defiance Starch advertisement claims its starch provides stronger, thinner application for laundry, improving fabric appearance and wear.
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New York
Marshall P. Wilder
Financial strain of government redemptions cited
The piece notes that 1904 redemptions totaled 912 million, covering fresh notes or other denominations. It mixes unrelated ad-like snippets about cures, starch, cigars, and a quip on mind readers, reflecting a garbled OCR from a newspaper page.
Cure of Eight Year Skin Disease by Cuticura Remedies
Fritz Hirschiaff of 24 Columbus Ave New York reports eight years of rough skin between toes and under arms kept him home. After costly failed remedies and doctors, seven days of Cuticura Remedies cured him, allowing return to work. Dates cited March 29 and April 6, 1906.
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Fritz Hirschiaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Man-Eating Mosquitoes Stir Ben Cary Fight
A New England homespun quarrel unfolds as neighbors urge Ben Cary to exterminate swamp-bred mosquitoes. Cary resists, recalling $32 spent on screening the side porch, arguing against eradicating the pests. The note then shifts to John Brown juror William Abrams Martin, sole survivor of the 12 men who convicted Brown, marking his seventy-fifth anniversary in Virginia.
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Ben Cary
Ben
Cary
Skeeters
John Brown
Williama Abrams Martin
Virginia
Cromwell’s Boots Fetch London Auction Price
A pair of Oliver Cromwell riding boots sold in London for 43 dollars after being unearthed 80 years ago at Canonbury Tower Islington. Also mentions Defiance Starch promising easy shirt laundering and iron finish. Concludes with a remark on people delaying success awaiting external approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cromwell
London
Oliver Cromwell
Canonbury Tower
Islington
Old Soaker Gives Up Coffee To Save Her Health
Huntsville Alabama woman recalls forty years of coffee use and twenty years of severe stomach trouble. After failed treatments and near collapse she stopped coffee, tried tea and milk with poor results, then switched to Postum. Four months in, health greatly improves, digestion and sleep restore. She credits Postum and endorses it with a testimonial. There’s a Reason. Read The Road to Wellville in pkgs.
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Huntsville
Ala
Wellville
Classifying Her and Other Fragments in a Humorous Scrap
A jumble of clipped notes covers social snippets and quips. It mentions Mrs Rownder described as a club widow with a living husband, Defiance Starch sales surpassing rivals, a line about preferring big feet to high insteps, Bishop Potter in a country house, a boy reading instead of going to church, and a quip about a thin voiced girl in a Baltimore American collection.
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Ascum
Bishop Potter
Tom
Sam
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