Farm and Fireside tips on crops and home care
The article offers farming and home guidance with notes on pig seasons, feed value, baking measures, hanging baskets for porch plants, remedies for chilblains and cold feet, and simple foot-warming routines using salt, salves, and mild alcohol treatments. It emphasizes practical, old-fashioned advice for farmers and households.
Borrowing and Lending Habits Among Neighbors
A Country Gentleman writer describes how borrowing tools and equipment creates loss and tension in a rural community. He recalls tools vanished from neighbors, an overdue harrow with missing teeth, and the difficulty of fair lending. He advocates cautious helping, fixed prices not a solution, and notes neighbors respect those who set limits.
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Gentman
Aubonye
Mias
Aimmoyance
Trisan
Basving
Gas tar as insecticide praised by Brighton farmer
S Hart of Brighton New York reports gas tar water kills potato beetles effectively. He describes mixing tar with water in a three gallon pail, stirring and letting it settle, then applying the solution to beetles to control pests.
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Statjles
S. Hart
Brighton
N. Y
Hart
Bearding the Bluff: Counterfeit Twenty Sparks Poker Lesson
A tall sunburned man enters the editor's room and tries to learn poker from the editor. The two play two hands, wagers rise to seventeen dollars, and the sharper leaves with a counterfeit twenty as the editor explains the ruse.
The Lime Kiln Club Probes Wart Remedy Folly
A Detroit Free Press item reports the Lime Kiln Club on Warts Corns and Bunions has pushed its inquiry with few satisfactions. The committee mocks cures such as wart removal by midnight reflection and bunion relief by drastic measures, noting many quack remedies and unsafe ideas, while lampooning pretenders from coast to coast.
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Yurself
de Drift Peciac
Hull
Gwine Ober
Niagara Falls
Walkin
Detroit
Conservator to Sell John F Verheeke Real Estate at Rock Island Court
Eugene Lewis conservator of John F Verheeke an insane person will apply at the Rock Island County Court in April to sell real estate described as Lot sixteen of the assessor's plat in section 4 township 17 range 1 west containing ten acres more or less with deletions from two prior deeds. Five and one fourth acres remain to be sold. No petition is on file.
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Joseph Fernbaugh
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Rock Léland
Illinois
Pitts
Gilbert & Pitta
Moline
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