Rival suitor stakes claim in Strath Hollow winter tale
In Spurville Nell Morrison and Ben Merce contend for Nell with Griswold returning home to woo her. Griswold races down the last hill to beat Ben for Nell, proving his devotion by risking a dangerous shortcut and rescuing the moment with Nell at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hank Deriewold
Fleary Criswold
Sparville
Griswold
Nelle Morrison
Questumatter
Ben Merce
Nell
Ben
Tad Sparville
Harry
Net
Chigwold
Beeman
Ken
Neil
Grinwald
Fiv
Ban
Jimmie Sweeney
Feld
Mother
Man with literary dreams seeks editor’s mercy
A tale of a man who brings a satire to a magazine editor hoping for publication. The editor reluctantly offers brief critique, likening the piece to Thackeray while noting crude flaws. The exchange ends with a self-deprecating joke about the writer’s “Thackeray nose.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons
Thackeray
Proper Form of Asseveiation and Blessings of the Blind
A Kansas City Star excerpt features a classroom moment where a teacher quells a wrong arithmetic remark and a pupil corrects it with humor. It then reflects on the blessings of the blind, praising inner will, spiritual strength, and perseverance toward light and promised land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatfield
Helen
James
Mike
Jimmy
Kansas City Star
Sinal
Promised Land
Helen Keblor
Grades and Crossbreds in Beef Cattle Development
The Virginian experiment station reports on grade and crossbred beef cattle. Whole milk calves show better gains than skim milk in early months, with growth most rapid from three to twelve months. Hereford-Shorthorn leads in productivity with strong meat yield and carcass value, followed by grade Shorthorn and grade Angus. Jersey and Shorthorn-Holstein lag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Hertford
Jersey
Holstein Friesians as dairy breed balance beef value
The article notes Holstein-Friesians are prized as dairy cattle in America yet carry significant beef and veal potential. In Holland, cattle are fattened before declining from prime, and late Professor J P Roberts praised Holstein-Friesian beef as tastier than English beef, though not as good as Shorthorn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Holland
Iate
J P Roberts
M Ho Gardner
Dangerous Milk Bottling Practices Exposed
A journalist reports unsafe milk bottling at a plant owned by a firm with many wagons. Bottles arrive unwashed or barely cleaned, scrubbed with a baldheaded brush on a small turbine wheel, placed in lukewarm water, spun, and rinsed in a tank without hot water to sanitize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Trueman
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Paris Green
Pingkes Drug & Book Store
C.P.R
W. Elliott
Isauer
Marriage Licenses Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat
Assiniboia Music Co
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Main Street
HL. Tweed& Co
Stewart & Tweed
Eeman
Uth Railway
M. M. Cusaini
Farsi
Spurville
Henry Urisweld
NeMabon
Teason
Turpin Bros
Campbell's
Methodist Sunday School
Powell's Grove
Irvine
Medicine Het
Epworth League
Fareenage Lawn
St John's Presbyterian Church
Sebor
Moose Jaw
Traler
Labor ‘Council
Brantforde
Bereford-Shorthuumn
Jen
Reople
BE. Lough, Phin B
Finlay
Eagle Butte
F.R. Kettlewell
the Post Office
T. Hutchinson
EL Presidente Cigar
A. E. Whiffin
W. R. Webster & CO
Sherbrooke, Quebec
W. H. Patterson & CO
Toronto
Monu
Chas
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