Farming Opportunity in Texas Panhandle Lands by Rock Island Lines
Texas Panhandle farming prospects highlight Rock Island Lines land for settlement. Wheat yields by J C Eshle of Groom reach 15 000 bushels from 600 acres at about 25 bushels per acre, with wheat valued near a dollar per bushel. Stock raising and dairying offer steady profits, and ten dollar land supports feed for beef or pork. Rock Island Lines has no lands for sale but provides reliable agricultural data and homeseekers tickets on sale every first and third Tuesday of each month. Contact L M Allen, Passenger Traffic Manager, Rock Island Lines, Chicago.
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Texas
Rock Island
J.C. Eshle
Groom
L. M. Allen
Rock Island Lines
la Salle Station
Chicago
Farmer believes cattle plague affects him and seeks cure
A farmer convinced he suffers the epidemic after cattle losses visits doctors who dismiss his fear. An old practitioner agrees to cure and gives a prescription. At the town druggist the formula reads that the man has the cattle plague and should be shot in the back yard according to law.
Soap and Ointment Promise Quick Heal All Sores
The ad proclaims Cuticura as a premium soap and ointment line to cleanse purify and soothe skin. It promises relief rest and sleep after use and claims speedy healing for young and old even where usual remedies failed. Free samples by mail via postcard to Boston Department XY. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Soldiers Want No Children
In interviews with Zeni Peshkoff and other soldiers, the piece describes how combat alters minds. Soldiers say killing feels unreal, stars in the night serve as beauty before the command to advance, and many express a wish for permanent peace to spare their children from war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeni Peshkoff
New Republic
Care for Infant Request Delays Mothers Club Paper
A lit tie girl from the house next door asks Mrs. Brown to watch the baby so her mother can finish a paper on The Proper Care of Infants. Mrs. Brown agrees and inquires about the mother’s health, but the girl says she is not ill, only忙 drafting the paper for tomorrow.
Grape Nuts Proves Aid For Convalescents In Testimony
A Kansas woman recalls her six year old niece who battled typhoid fever in Ohio. After doctors lost hope, Grape Nuts provided delicate nourishment and rapid recovery. The letter cites recovery from severe weakness to playful health, credited to the product from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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Kansas
Ohio
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Good Stock Is Key To Profitable Turkey Raising
In turkey raising, quality stock matters most for profits. Mediocre birds rarely pay, except in sparsely settled areas with low-cost flocks. Strong, hardy, utility stock yields the best results, even if showroom traits exist.
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Turkey
Winter Care for Chickens and Breeding Practices
The article advises feeding oats in some form but warns whole oats can be dangerous for young birds. It stresses ventilated housing, recycling sour milk as prime poultry food, and avoiding close inbreeding by introducing a new male every three years. It favors selecting robust breeding birds and buying stock now for next spring.
Superior Feed for Poultry Mash Recipe and Tips
A poultry feeding note outlines a mash mix of two parts bran to one part middlings cornmeal oats meat scraps cut clover by weight. Dry mash includes ground grains with or without scraps. Feed from a hopper with a small morning portion, then close the hopper to stimulate scratching.
Animal Food Advice for Fowl Health
Animal food is essential and necessary for fowls confined to yards. They should be supplied with beef scraps ground green bone and butchers cracklings. Feeding ten percent of animal food three times a week is advisable.
Grow Sunflowers for Poultry Yards
Many poultrymen recommend growing sunflowers in poultry yards. The seeds provide good feed for both chicks and older birds.
Cause of Gap es in Chicks
Gapes cause heavy losses in young flocks when chicks contact gapeworms. Keep chicks off wet ground to prevent suffocation from worms attaching to the windpipe. Move to new range, plow and crop infested ground, as parasites diminish after a season.
Way to Kill Weeds
Practical tip advises tilling the soil before weed emergence to reduce growth.
Comfort in Poultry House Supplies Simple Open Housing
The article argues open houses with dry litter and proper feeding improve hen productivity without artificial heat. It recommends dry mash, green food, bone, scattered grain in straw, clean water at all times, and attention to hens similar to hogs and cattle for profitable returns. It praises farm hens nationwide.
Serious Disease in Fowls Warns Culling and Disinfection
A historical notice warns that gangrene of the crop is a serious disease that spreads between birds. It instructs to kill all first cases and burn them, quarantine additional cases, and feed sulpho-carbolate compound to exposed birds. Clean and disinfect poultry houses after the birds depart.
Keep the Hens Busy for Higher Laying
Farmers aim to keep hens active with enrichment and routines to boost egg production. Provides tips on exercise, foraging, and consistent lighting to prevent idle periods and encourage steady laying.
Alert Hens Are Profitable in Egg Trade
The article notes that alert hens yield profit by balancing feed costs with egg sale prices, emphasizing careful management of flock productivity and market prices to maximize returns.
Small plots prove poultry success for profitable fowls
Range not necessary. Farm range is good, but not essential to raise healthy and profitable fowls. Many successful poultry raisers operate on village lots. Success possible in small scale as well as larger ventures.
Winter Sheds for Ducks
Ducks favor staying in runs overnight. summer use indoors offers ventilation. Winter protection comes from well ventilated sheds or houses to keep them safe and comfortable during colder months.
Causes of Bowel Troubles in Fowls
Discussion notes that only strictly healthy fowls avoid bowel complaints. Looseness of bowels signals indigestion or digestive system derangement in birds.
Securing Winter Eggs Keep Small Colonies Favored
The note advises that winter eggs are most safely secured by maintaining small colonies. It emphasizes smaller groups to protect egg stores during cold months and suggests practical steps for colony management.
Look After Water Supply Be Sure to Keep Fresh Water
A brief poultry care note advises keeping ample clean water for hens to stay hydrated and productive, especially in warm weather. It emphasizes regular water changes and clean containers to prevent illness and ensure egg quality.
Honest newsboy finds coin returns it with 50 cent reward
The Los Angeles paper notes a five dollar note paid to a newsboy was returned to its owner who rewarded the boy with 50 cents. The piece argues for a statutory rule regulating rewards and finder’s fees to curb temptation and encourage honesty among passersby.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Rattler Maligned But Generally Harmless to People
The rattlesnake is often feared but rarely dangerous to humans. It displays a warning hiss via its tail rattle, lengthen shed skin cycles, and color from yellowish to dark brown. Attacks are limited to its length, it typically eats mice rats and occasionally a squirrel or rabbit, making it more farmer friend than foe.
Wagon Routine Chaos on Fulton and Broadway
An idle observer spots a wagon rolling slowly on Fulton street. The driver nearly crosses into traffic after a warning from a police officer. The wagon overturns near a hot chestnut vendor. the horse is unharnessed. A street excavation complicates the scene as the wagon is unloaded and leveled again.
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Fulton Street
Broadway
New York Evening Post
Last English state lottery drawn in 1826
The London Chronicle notes that from Elizabethan times lotteries were legal and lucrative, yielding about £300,000 annually at their height. It states the 1826 October 1 draw ended state participation in what chancellors viewed as a demoralizing, impoverishing gamble that diverted people from honest work.
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England
London Chronicle
Alcohol as a Useful Antiseptic for Home Use
A Pictorial Review excerpt explains diluting alcohol with cold water for gargling and nasal spray to dislodge germs from contagious throat ailments. It also notes alcohol as a mouth wash and, for more severe cuts, as an effective antiseptic.
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Pictorial Review
The Girl in Gray
In 1915 on a doomed Atlantic liner Jimmy Jarrold, a rich, selfish man, sees the girl in gray reveal a dying patient’s courage. He confronts mortality, and a chance at life rekindles his desire to live, aided by the woman who will be his ally in the final minutes.
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Jimmy Jarrold
Bethany
New York
Jimmy
Jarrold
Miss Jamieson
Gray
W. G. Chapman
The Charcoal Burners Society of Italy Revealed
A description of the secret Ital ian society linked to the struggle for national unity. Known as the charcoal burners, its name and secrecy shrouded origins. By 1815 it was largely unknown, but it claimed antiquity and rapidly expanded from 24 000 to 30 000 members, with reports in 1820 of up to 650 000 new initiates fighting Neapolitan Bourbon rule.
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Secret ‘Society
Naples
Disciplinary Value of Football
Hawkins laughs at his son Bill being knocked out on the field while Jimp Sonberry questions the moment. Hawkins claims his son needs a stern lesson after years of trouble, underscoring harsh discipline as a social value.
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Hawkins
Jimpsonberry
Bill
Causes of furred tongue and nervous influence
A Lancet summary by Sir James Goodhart argues furred tongue signals nervous system disturbance rather than always a stomach issue. He cites a hardworking, authoritative man whose furred tongue and bad mouth taste arose from nerve control, not digestion, noting anxiety and overwork as common factors.
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Sir James Goodhart
Guy’s Hospital
London
Sir James
Requisite of Art by John Galsworthy Thought
A short quotation from John Galsworthy in the Atlantic Monthly outlines art’s demand for an unforced natural correspondence between fancy and form matter and spirit. It argues that art should not distract with naturalism mysticism or cubism but move the viewer impersonally through another’s vision.
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John Galsworthy
The
Atlantic Monthly
Baker horse halts parade as officer cries restraint
A London Mail anecdote recalls a Jocal corps review where a horse once in a bakery business froze when a spectator shouted Baker. An officer quips Not today, thank you, and the procession proceeds without delay.
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Ian Hamilton
London Mail
Grove's General Tonic Ad Through History
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system for 50 cents.
Too Speedy for a Guaranty Joy Rider Quote
Dialogue captured from a rural constable interaction. A passenger argues constitutional rights to life liberty and happiness while arguing over a 9 mile per hour pursuit. The exchange reflects social tensions around speed limits and safety.
Wanted Butternut Meats From This Year’s Crop
Wanted butternut meats from this year s crop five to ten pounds more or less Will pay 73e per pound Geo A Joslyn Omaha Neb Ady.
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Geo
Joslyn
Omaha
Neb
Ady
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Advertised as Liver Pills
The ad promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills from forty years ago. It claims they regulate liver and bowels and includes a dated slogan contrasting yesterday today and tomorrow.
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Dr. Pierce
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