Ground bone and misc farm tips from a historic bulletin
Ground bone or bone meal is valued in poultry feed for cost and effectiveness. The text gives farm tips on wall care, making a cake stirrer from wood, ginger snaps recipe, crop guidance by Prof. Shelton on arable crops, breakfast coffee cake recipe, cattle crossbreeding critiques, need for a sweep or tread horse power, and Elmira Farmers Club advice on colt grain feeding with oats and bran.
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Shelton
Karishi State Agricultural College
Ihroom
Elmira Farmers’ Club
Cattle Buyer Juxtaposes Prices In Rural Trade Talk
A dialogue from a North Pacific Rural Spirit snippet shows a buyer and seller debating cattle value. They compare Thad's 1,200 pound yearlings to Smith's three quarter Durham stock priced at 7.50 per cwt. The buyer cites Chicago quotes of 8.95 for higher quality and 3.75 to 4.00 for common steers.
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Durham
Mr. Smith
Shut the Door-Softly Teach Doors to Close Properly
A Rural New Yorker reflection laments that nine of ten leave doors open and urges a public education in closing doors. It jokes about ineptness, suggests simple daily practice for boys and girls, and mocks improvised automatic door devices as insufficient. The piece critiques negligence and promotes a habit of securing doorways.
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New Yorker
Sawdust Inventions Spur Cargo Reductions And Foresight
A Northwestern Lumberman article extols unlikely sawdust uses from car wheels to bricks and frames. It highlights compression of bran and oats cutting bulk, enabling cheaper transport and foreign sales. The piece imagines tea bricks and pocketable coffee, noting a pine stock surge and no timber famine while sawdust holds out.
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Chicago
China
Rip van Winkle
Menominee
Michigan
Northwestern Lumberman
Care of Mowing Fields in Spring
Spring mowing fields demand early care from farmers. Cart manure before frost leaves ground and rake off coarse top dressing after frost. Remove obstructions from the mower, press back loose sands, and cut out bushes while soft soil allows easy root removal. Fill sparse natural grass spots with composted manure and grass seed to mix meadow and upland varieties at low cost. Avoid late autumn or early spring grazing on low soft land and do not remove all growth before cold weather to protect roots. Massachusetts Ploughman.
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Masachusetts Ploughman
Tragic Irwin County Father Dies After Daughter’s Death
Miss Lillie Wall of Irwin County lay dangerously ill for days. Doctors told her father Mr Jasper Wall she could not live. He visited her bedside and said I hope I may die first. He then convulsed and died three hours after his daughter. Atlanta Constitution reports.
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Lillie Wall
Irwin County
Jasper Wall
Atlanta
Fragmentary Health Note On Fatal Disease Case
A damaged OCR fragment describes a woman who swallowed from a bottle. Her thumb over the mouth of the bottle, she woke with blistering. Inflammation followed, gangrene developed, and she died.
How American Mothers Raise Healthy Children
A Detroit Post piece argues for simple diets for children, criticizing indulgent feeding. It contrasts English royal nursery practices with American trends, urging minimal sweets, light meals, and gentle products like milk and bread. The piece stresses self denial and careful nourishment to prevent future dyspepsia and poor health.
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Princess of Wales
Queen Victoria
Detroit Post
Rat and Ferrets At Local Pit Stand Out As Feisty Show
A Glasgow Herald report recalls a curious scene in a rat pit where a well known citizen hosted a gathering to watch ferrets fight rats. A single rat defeated five ferrets in sequence and was praised as a fine specimen. A local note ends with a Boston remark about a politician not seeking a Legislature seat next year.
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Wallace Wight
Glasgow
Scotland
Most Profitable Crop and the Labor Equation
A Farmers Magazine article analyzes crop profitability, noting the choice depends on soil, climate, capital, and labor. It warns against discarding troublesome vegetables and argues easy crops yield cheaper prices and higher profit, while labor-heavy crops can still pay if market prices justify the work.
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Farmers Magazine
A Drugegiat story from a druggist note
Mr Isaac C Chapman of Newburg New York writes that for ten years he has sold several gross of Dr William Halls Balsam for the Lungs and praises its virtues highly He has recommended it in many Whooping Cough cases with happy effects and uses it in his own family noting a bottle is always on hand The piece ends by urging to secure the address of a foundry manufacturing the product
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Isaac C. Chapman
Newburg
N. Y
William Hall
Our Progress as Stages Are Abandoned by Railroads
The passage contrasts old drastic medicines with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, sugar coated and small, made from concentrated vegetable extracts. The writer uses imagery of a sash obscuring light to express shifting ideas, noting Styrytze as a frame for thoughts.
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Dr. Pierce
St Jacobs Oil and a Maryland railroad damages case
A humorous fragment recounts Briscoe in Frisco using St Jacobs Oil for a toe pain after stamping. a Belair conductor injured in an accident is cared for. The Maryland railroad case ends with the victim’s father securing $500 damages after a sharp exchange about funeral costs and reputational damages.
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Briscoe
Frisco
St. Jacobs
Belair
St. Jacobs Oil
Old Man Praises Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla
Mr Jonathah Bowers of Blanchester Ohio, aged 72, writes that the remedy keeps him in good appetite and prevents dyspepsia. He says a dose every so often makes him feel like a boy and notes his life should be pure as snow fields with footprints that leave no stain.
Rheumatism Cure and Health Promises Exposed
An advertisement offers a free 40 page pamphlet on rheumatism from R K Helphens t ine Druggist Washington DC. It endorses Wise s Axle Grease as superior and cites Johnson Joubert on credulity plus Brown s Bronchial Troches as an effective cough remedy.
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R. K. Helphenstine
Washington, D. C
Voltatc Belt Co offers 30 day trial for nervous debility
Marshall Mich firm ships Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men afflicted with nervous debility and related troubles promising restoration of health and vigor. Belfast Me wife of Rev Libby says prayer cured her after two years bed rest.
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Voltatc Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
N. B
Belfast
Mr. Libby
Consumption Cure Trial Report by Elizabeth Thornton
Elizabeth Thornton of Montongo Arkansas writes that after physicians labeled her disease consumption and predicted death, nine bottles of Dr Pierce’s Discovery and Pellets restored her health and allowed her to ride out. In Corsicana Texas, Wira M Busn buried his wife and four children in one grave after they all died of measles within two days.
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R. V. Pierce
Elizabeth Thornton
Montongo
Ark
M. Busn
Corsicana
Texas
The Golden Bloom of Youth and a Remarkable Youth
The piece mentions Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female complaints. It notes a Rareton North Carolina youth, eighteen years old, six feet eight inches tall, working as a ham hanger in a country grocery store, claimed to be unmatched in height.
Quotations on temper, spring flowers, and healing trades
A collection of aphorisms and observations notes Wale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, cold oil on waters, Pike's toothache drops cure in a minute, and Emerson on character and souls. A Parisian florist laments spring as the worst season for selling flowers.
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Wale
Pike
Parisian Florist
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Boston
Maryland
Wise
Joubert
Lyon
Charles A, Vogeler Co
A, Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
Emerson
General Markets
Kansas City
Wheaton
Elon
Easton
Missouri
ST. Louis
Bork Now Mess
Gewine
Counry
H. Craddock & Co
West
Hanusas City
Tses den Mowen
Williams St
Providence
BR. L
Crisi
Hunt
Tam
J. Wurrr
Wiliams St
B. L
Hall
Perace
Susana
Paula
Cleveland
OnTazi0
L. Pond
Aurora
Kane Co
DatLy
C& Pagvar
I. W. EN Land
New York City
Annie H. Prescott
Annie E. Prescott
P.O. B. Cul
Kansas
Ourry
Canara
Auliman & Taylor Co
Mannfield
Ohio
Cortivalis
Erwin
Gayden & Yangue
Winona
Miss
Sindenta
Ptrawn County
W. Ziegler & CO
Adams
United States
Porler-let
Guihouse & Bro
Bocheser
N.Y
Peter Uae
Birces
Dey &T
Rochester
Oto
H. Glass
Rower
National Publishing Co
Louis, Mo
Sheridan
Earth
Jake Hens
Johnson & CO
Rash
Bens Jay Nike Sheridan
Casey
Uae
New York
Coe Sample Outfit
Queen City Suspender Co
Cincinnatio
Enon
Bagagty Folstier
Tate
Free Wacivisatcs Arsenises Los Bre Sl.w. Hu
Aete
True & & Co
Augusta
Aires
Receusers
Ito
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