Advice and notes on farming and food from era periodicals
A compilation of scattered advisory items from various newspapers. Topics include avoiding swindlers targeting farmers, beet cultivation costs, the Essex County Agricultural Society, fat quality in foods, cooking vegetables and rice, natural disease prevention, beef selection and earache remedies, horseflesh testing by fat, meat price pressures, and cattle breed strategies for cheaper beef. References span St Louis Republican Cincinnati Times Montreal Witness Chicago Tribune Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Essex County
N. Y
Feliz L. Oswald
Cincinnati Times
Montreal
Porter House
Mother’ S Magazine
James Bell
Chetcago Tribune
Europe
Boston
Good disinfectants for live stock kept in spring clean
Advice from Farm Field and Stockman urges thorough spring disinfection to prevent disease. Keeping stock in thrifty, clean, dry quarters reduces risk, with emphasis on cleaning poultry houses, pig pens, stables, and sheds. Use burnt sulfur, crude carbolic acid diluted with water, and lime whitewash to destroy germs.
Umbrella Thief Exposed by Limeriln Club Trial
In a Detroit Free Press report the Limeriln Club punishes Brother Process Davis after Sir Isaac Walpole’s missing umbrella reappears. Davis is charged with theft and lying, his name crossed from the books, and a mob-clearing punishment ends with his removal to the alley.
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Brother Gardner
Sir Isaac Walpole
Waydown Bebee
Brother Process Davis
Bradder
Davis
Isaac Walpole
Las
Isaac
Bar of Justice
Paradise Hall
Process Davis
Canada
Detroit Free Press
High Life Nuptials In Muddy Forks Society
Bill Shanks and Lib Ripper wed in Muddy Forks with the justice of the peace. The couple, leading local society figures, depart on foot for Kansas City for a wedding tour and honeymoon, planning to settle in their dugout after the 10th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muddy Forks
Bill Shanks
Lib Ripper
Justice of the Peace
Lib
Bill
Kansas City
Answers to Correspondents and Fashion Advice
A condensed panel of reader questions covers etiquette, wardrobe fixes, and dress alterations. Topics include dyeing a yellow satin for street wear, bell handling of doors, velvet skirt trimming, and wrist-length sleeves for a graduation dress. Also notes on seal-skin sacques, sash width, and polite mail etiquette. The column ends with a reflective proverb about small things shaping larger outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie
Daisy
Clara B
Paris Anarchists and Their Liberties of Speech
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent describes Paris anarchists as divided into groups with dramatic names and meeting in cafes and halls such as Salle Flavie and Salle Graffard. Meetings are chaotic, with constant interruptions, no clear order, and violent outbursts, while police stay outside. Outside protests occur near venues, and the only truly free meetings occur outdoors in Pere-la-Chaise cemetery or among the dispersed groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Pall Mall Gazette
Black Hand
Panthers
Salle Flavie
Belleville
Pere-la-Chaise
Gobelins
Citoyens and
Citoyennes
Bianqui
God
Proudhon
London
Jules Valles
la Porte
Cabman
Moore
la Solidarite
Bis
France
Large German Bible Claim of Continental Century-Old Relic
John Conrad of Prestine NL owns a fifteenth century German Bible described as the largest issued copy. The volume measures fourteen by ten by six and a half inches and weighs fourteen to sixteen pounds. It carries a two century Conrad family register, has sable leather binding, wooden lining, and bolted construction, yet remains in remarkably good preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Conrad
Prestine, NL
Conrad
The Jury’s Jeremiah Poem by Edward E. Kidder
A poem laments jury pressure and legal control. It portrays twelve jurors as trapped by law, threatened, silenced, and watched, feeling fear for livelihoods and family as they decide a criminal case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah
Edward E. Kidder
A Quirky Verse Collection From a Newspaper Page
A collage of light verse and comic pieces from a 19th or early 20th century paper. It includes playful poems about babies, angels, conductors, and modern women, with caricatured names and a regional humor tone. Authors cited include Milly’s Manners and James Whitcomb Riley, reflecting a domestic and social slice of life.
Merry Moments and Modern Wit
A quirky column of aphorisms and curiosities on culture and youth. Snippets mock vanity and intellect while lampooning trends from coats to faith cures, with light social satire and playful observations.
Desirable park lot dwelling and farm for sale
Desirable park lot dwelling on Rhode Island street lot 50x180 with a good house, cellar, well, cistern and all out buildings including a stable. Fine farm containing 110 acres, 12 miles southwest of Lawrence, 100 acres under A number one bargain in West Lawrence with 10 lots, a villa of 10 rooms, furnaces and grates, large barn, 2 wells, wind mill, fine orchard. Must be sold during April.
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Correll
P.co
Bismarck Grove
K.P. R.R
Rhode Island Street
S. W
Lawrence
West Lawrence
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Limeriln Club
Anarchists
Queer Angel
Mary
Milly
Mamma
Ingram Harrison
Detroit
Clevdland Ctrand
Tommy
Emily
Jamea Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis
Tur
Tuerg
Ctus
Fair Land
I.N. van Hoesen
Selig
Kansas
Massachusetts Street
Rattan Goods
National Bank
Hill & Mendenhall
Whitcomb
Well Say
Richardson & Robbin's
Turkey
L'Zice I.isé
H. W. Johns Manufacturing CO
Golt
H.W. Johns
Randolph ST
Chicago
Grovenor
Lawrerce
Sal
Tark Nur
P. O. Vickery
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