Farm and Household Tips and Observations
A collection of practical notes on farm life and household care including hiccough relief with sugar and vinegar, a Halifax lamb with two necks, poultry costs by weight, corn and milk soup, Graham muffins recipe, lamp shade fashions, and butter cow welfare with pasture shelter and dairy practices.
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W. B. Grover
Halifax
Man
Boston
Chicago Journal
Cincinnati Times
Lansing
Mich
Republican
Near to Your Boy's Heart and a Mother's Love
A Rural New Yorker essay recalls Walter D as a lively boy who returns home, washes, and seeks his mother for a full share of sympathy. It argues mothers shape sons, prevent temptations, and keep children close at night, warning against harshness that drives boys away. The piece praises maternal guidance as essential to a boy's character.
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Walter D
Joseph
New Yorker
Axions in Fruit Tree Culture Tips and Warnings
A Canadian Farmer excerpt offers orchard guidance on prune shapes soil application and manure spread with six points stressing even tree form broadcast feeding surface soil and cautious use of tobacco as an insecticide. The piece ends with a fatal incident: Ells Linsey, sixteen, of Sandersville Mississippi, was killed by a charging dog while collecting firewood.
War on Pests Across Farms and Livestock
The article warns farmers of widespread parasites harming crops and animals. It outlines diverse insects, from leaf eaters to bat flies, and stresses proactive, offensive control, sanitation, and vigilance to protect health and yield. It notes parasites can infect homes and stables and urges thorough study and rapid destruction of eggs, larvae, and adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Misleading health claims and a turn toward charity
A melodramatic promotional piece presents a benevolent speaker urging readers to embrace a universal medicine described as a cure for many ailments. It extols Dr. Pierce and the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, detailing a vast Buffalo complex and laboratory, with assurances of dramatic health benefits and moral uplift.
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Help for Suffering Souls
A lengthy advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a sovereign remedy for those feeling irritable, depressed, and overwhelmed by life. It urges trials after failures with other medicines, touts the Discovery's physician backing, and promotes Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a complementary aid, plus a sale of the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser priced at one dollar and fifty cents postpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamgia
Apo
Bierce
Buffalo
Dispensary Medical Association
New York
Pierce
Congress of the United States
Invalids’ Hotel
N. Y
Thors
Treak
Dr. Pierce
Re. Pierce
Common Sense Medical Adviser
Chimps Play With Doll In Zoo Cage
A Philadelphia Press account describes chimpanzees at a city zoo reacting to a doll baby placed in their cage. The apes exhibit curiosity and timidity, tugging rope, tugging at the doll, and staging a mock dress up before a final, playful scramble, now eight months in residence.
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Zoological Garden
Tom Manley
Philadelphia Press
Instant Relief Adverts and Pithy Quotations
A collage of medical testimonials and product pitches appears, including a New Orleans mother praising Dr Wu HaLy s BALSAM, a claim of instant relief for a sick son, and notices for rheumatism cures, Hale s Honey of Horehound, Pike s toothache drops, and telegraph instructor ads. It is laced with literary quips and old ad language. The fragmentary OCR captures diverse items: product pitches, quotes, and a brief dating snippet about visiting baby cards in Paris.
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Ann Lacour
New Orleans
St Jacobs Oil Stories and Uncle Eb Liquor Trick
A rustic tale features Shaw finger near a buzz saw cured by St Jacobs Oil and a rheumatic man Meeker saved by the remedy. An 82 year old named Uncle Es or Eb uses a water bottle ruse to buy gin, faces a tin coin misread, and leaves with a quart of water as a joke ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meeker
Topecker
St. Jacobs Oil
Osweeger
Uncle el
Uncle Eb
Unhappy Women Promised Relief From Nervous Weakness
A garbled古advertisement style item touts Dr Guysett Yel low Dock and Sarsaparilla as a cure for nervous prostration faintness and related female ailments. It also promotes Lyon's Patent Heel Stifener Chrolithion collars Jamaica Ginger and various patent remedies with minimal context.
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Dr. Guysett
Our Reporter's Vacation Notes Promotes Roger Williams Goods
A local column showcases Roger Williams city products and a Providence interview praising Hunt's Remedy. Mrs. L. G Taxxes recounts relief from rheumatism and neuralgia after using Hunt's Remedy and Flint's Remedy, noting improved skin eruptions, blood impurity, headaches, and general health boosts.
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Sesson
Roger Williams
Mont Potent
Providence
Sheanya
Hunt
Flint
Hunts
L. G Taxxes
Pearl Street
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Ells Linsey
Sandersville
Miss
World’s Hotel
St. Joseph
Personall Tax Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
N. B
New York Star
Kansas City
Los
Hami Lee
ST. Louis
Chicago
Puck
R. K. Helphenstine
Washington, D. C
Paris
Hale
Pike
Plutarch
C. E. Jones & Eno
Cincinnati
New York News
George Elias
Lyon
Brown
Jamaica
Jango Phlompson
Renota
Wise
Avaret G. Mans
College Home
Eid Bey
J.H. Schenck
Paler
Dee A. Schenck
Draguiain Fara
C. C. D. Wigan
E. Builnham
Galendar
Mall Agente
Ecovospy Irioting Co
Newburyport
Afass
Johnson
Don't Johnson & CO
Bowron
Mans
Maud
Ocester
Asents
Petunia! Bouka and
National PuaLisanne Co
St Louie Mo
FANG
Nail
C.B. Miller
de Chase
Ys Co
Ann F. Mich
Vaalentixe Broc
Jancaville
Wis
Lebanon
Strate Sade Shops
Tee
Seurmirs
Fita
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