Patten Greening Apple Emerges as Hardy Upper Mississippi Variety
The article traces hardiness efforts for northern apple varieties, highlighting Oldenburg and Russian introductions, and notes Patten Greening as a vigorous snowbound survivor. It explains its origin from Patten seed at Charles City, Iowa, in 1869, its 1885 introduction, and growing popularity for vigor, regular yields, and longer keeping quality in cold regions.
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Assaissippi
England
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Europe
Russia
A. G. Tuttle
Baraboo
Wis
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa Agricultural College
Dominion of Canada
Oldenburg
G. Patten
Charles City
Patten
Missiasippi Valley
Javent
Helendale dairy cow stall features and hen neglect note
The Helendale stall showcases an adjustable crossbar and hinged partitions to keep cows in place and aid milking and cleaning. It cites cost for ten stalls at $58.71 and notes a distinctive gutter design. The piece also warns that hens, when poorly housed or fed, quickly reduce egg yield despite good care. It mentions wide farm auto use.
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Helendale
Homestead
Hands Finally Heal After Cuticura Remedies
A 70 year old man recounts years of cracked bleeding hands and sleepless pain. After trying two doctors he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for one week and healed completely with lasting improvement. He notes a neighbor's child also benefited and quotes John W. Hasty of S. Eppingham New Hampshire.
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John W. Hasty
Eefingham
N. H
Where She Scored by Sheldon Kerruish A Father and a Cigars Tale
The essay narrates a neighborhood child’s joke about parents bad habits and a sister boasting about her father’s Cicero reading. It then shifts to Uncle Hobart’s illness and the doctor’s cautious outlook, reflecting on family strain and Thanksgiving as a backdrop.
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Sheldon Kerruish
Elster
Cleveland Leader
Color Slur Sparks Alarm in Household Incident
An incident in a kitchen ends with a youth shouting that a colored porter’s color is coming off after he sees coal dust impressions on a towel. The porter had just come from the cellar where he shoveled coal into the heater, and the youth’s remark is sudden and reflective of racial prejudice observed in the moment.
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Sam
Tudge
Ws Stro Nexrest Agency
O11 Company Incorporated
Misleading Misfit in Brooklyn Prompts Grape-Nuts Endorsement
A Brooklyn man tells of a thin, pale eleven month old whose health improved after his mother fed him Grape-Nuts soaked with milk and sugar. The letter claims the grain-based food aided both baby and adult nourishment, praising the product as a science-backed body and brain builder.
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Brooklyn
Grace-Nuts
Wellville
The Important Problem of a Healthful Laxative Choice
A timeless sales pitch extols the benefits of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle, effective laxative for healthful, lasting relief. It claims physician approval and widespread satisfaction among well informed families, urging purchase of the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product.
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California Fig Syrup Co
The Literary Fabricator and Odd Ad Snippets
A fragmentary page shows a dialogue about Washington and a press agent, then muses on marriages and widowers. It shifts to assorted vintage ads and health remedies, touting eye salve, lamb quarters, joint pain relief, soothing syrups, and a quip about rain checks, all in a breezy miscellany tone.
Something Stranger Than Wind at Washington Dinner
Senator Depaw, amid March winds, recalls an old-fashioned man who paid many Easter calls and drank too much eggnog. In the late afternoon a little girl watched him from a window and exclaimed to her mother that the wind was plowing Mr. Stuyvesant.
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Senator Depaw
Washington
Nearly the Same Policy Question Cited by Leader
A Cleveland Leader excerpt frames a light public policy query about marriage as a social matter. The brief quip highlights varying views on whether marriage could be dictated by policy, signaling cultural debate in a local context.
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Cleveland
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