The Cost of Living and Rural Prosperity
An essay argues that 71 percent of Americans live in rural areas while 29 percent dwell in cities. It estimates 19 billion dollars spent on necessities yearly, with rural residents shouldering 60 percent of that, yet one third of rural trade leaks to cities. The piece blames urban drift on lack of home industries and trusts, and calls for boosting local commerce. Joah Wise remarks on the folly of fortunes that have not built work ethic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Education as blessing and danger of tobacco
A fragment essay argues education distinguishes civilized people from savages and praises schooling while condemning tobacco use. It notes education as vital in America and warns against tobacco in religious spaces and society, reflecting a mix of moralistic and reformist tone.
Great Scheme in Cottage Plot Over Chickens
A bickering exchange reveals a man bragging how he solved a neighbor’s poultry issue by nightly milking a tot of disguised liquor into the grass and then pulling the birds inside each morning before the neighbor looked.
Cuban Itch Cured by Cuticura at Seventy-Five Cents
A mother's testimony from 1906 describes a infant plagued by Cuban Itch, sleeping poorly and in pain until using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After three applications sores dried and within two weeks the child recovered, costing only seventy five cents. Additional ads and snippets follow in the page.
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Zana Miller
Union City
Branch Co
Mich
Aunt Cecilia Cromwell Returns to Wash at Last
A Richmond housekeeper recounts Aunt Cecilia Cromwell's absence from work and her humorous reply about returning to washing. The piece notes how sheer white goods gain appeal from proper laundering and starching, praising Defiance Starch for stronger stiffness without thickening.
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Richmond
Cecilia Cromwell
Aunt Cecilia
Annie
Lippincott's
Not the Residence and Other Oddities in Ads
A mosaic of odd early 20th century snippets. Norweigan domestic in a Kansas City context and a flirtation with a Browning residence exchange. Then a volley of consumer pitches from lemon pie mixes to bronchial lozenges and laundry blues.
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South Side
Norway
Freda
Not for That Kind of Fire in Edmonton
Edmonton firemen protest misuse of new alarm boxes as a passerby stops a youth who tries to stuff a letter into a fire alarm box. The man jokes that the youth’s heart may be on fire but directs him to use the box at the next corner.
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Edmonton
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
New York City
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Joah Wise
Pertherler
America
Abyssinia
Sorghum
Harper’s Weekly
St. Vitua
Kline
Dr.r. Line
Arch St
Philadelphia
Jay
Peoria
E. Grymestone
Brown
Lewis’ Factory
Ill
Dodds
Guare
Thompson's Eye
W.l.douglas
SGA
Douglas Brockton
Mass
Nanak
Lorcea
Fac Sumile Signature of
New York
Bears
Castoria
BORAX
Weents
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Chicago
Kansas City
VANCE
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