Home Grown Celery Storage Methods For Winter
An English paper notes celery storage tips including digging plants with soil, packing in a box, and blanching with bran. alternatives describe cellar storage with soil, leaves, and boards to blanch and protect stalks through winter. It mentions keeping roots undisturbed and using leaves and manure sparingly for insulation. Also notes a lighthearted aside about a married man at a saloon and a peculiar tooth replacement story about Sir Ker Singh.
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Golerye
Growing Buckwheat for Small Plots and Late Crops
Edo farmer explains buckwheat as a versatile, soil friendly late crop. Plant between June 20 and July 4, seed about one peck per dere, harvest before frosts, and handle as a small grain. Buckwheat can improve poor land, be ground into flour, and helps weed control when grown as a cleaning crop.
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Edo
Ovranme Judd
Root Crops Tolerate Freezing Until Hard Frost Arrives
Farmers advised turnips be left free or curden along with bert, other root crops, and cabbage until the expected hard freezing weather.
Deafness Cure Claim From Patented Remedy Ad
An old newspaper advertisement touts a Merlin ear cure claiming to restore hearing. It pitches a device called a tube to clear ear wax and promises dramatic results, urging readers to order a product labeled Catarrh Cure via mail order and listing a business address.
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Joral
Ieee
de Gothely
Leo Pheteria
Cetarrt
Malis
Tipuae
Mai
Strange romance links Ibsen and Bjornson in wedding tale
A tale traces the friendship and rift between Ibsen and Bjornson, their later reunion at their children’s wedding, and the long estrangement that ended in a family union. It also promotes Drandreth's Pills claiming a century of use and herbal potency.
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Ibsen
Tjornson
Bjornson
Thyen
Drandreth
Remarkable Life of Miser John Camden Neild
John Camden Neild, famed for a vast bequest to Queen Victoria, became one of Britain’s notable misers after a £250000 fortune. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, he lived frugally at 5 Cheynewalk, Chelsea, with two old women and a black cat as companions. He walked on estates and even rode in a dung cart for free, shivering on stagecoaches when weather forced him to ride.
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John Camden Neild
Prince Consort
Chelsea
Midlands
Law Wave Binds Ten Hour Day In NH 1847
Early labor history notes a 1847 New Hampshire law instituting a ten hour workday. The brief account frames the milestone as part of a broader law war shaping working hours in the state.
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New Hampshire
Coffee risks and Postum as remedy in old promotional note
A dated promotional piece argues coffee harms the heart and nerves while endorsing Postum as a safer beverage. It cites supposed science and testimonials, urges preparation per directions, and references a Postum booklet “The Road to Wellvil g” with the line There’s a reason.
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Ehrag
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Advised for Girlhood to Womanhood
A promotional piece urges mothers to guide daughters through puberty using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It cites letters from young women praising the remedy for easing menstrual problems and the transition to womanhood, and invites others to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Minkham
Lydia BB. Winkham
Lydia BH
Lydia EL
Myrtie Milly
Oquawka
Matilda Borman
Micklam
Minkham
Lydia FE Linkhan
Matildea Borman
Farmington
Iowa
Mes. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia BE
Plenty More and Kaiser Marriages Staged by Wit
Russell Sage opposed to drinking and mocks its logic with a broker tale and a seaside boy who drinks salt water for thirst. A curious Kaiser marriage incident follows, where a polite refusal led to a dramatic late proposal and a quick wedding a month later at the banker’s daughter’s house, as Reynolds' Newspaper reports.
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Russell Sage
Berlin
Ald
Reynolds
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