Notes on Nationalities and Customs Worldwide
A compilation of curious cultural practices from various regions. It covers dietary allowances in rural France, Moroccan female age awareness, Japanese youth tobacco laws, Norwegian ball attire, Java wedding customs, Russian hair shaving, Hindu family incomes, meat consumption, and Turkish dowry control. It also notes Cairo wedding celebrations lasting three days with continuous feasting and festive décor.
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Morocco
Java
Russia
Cairo
Oracular Observations From a Pondering Mind
Witty maxims offer reflections on time, luck, reform, and self discipline. The speaker muses on diligence versus shiftlessness, the value of facing trouble, and the folly of boasting. Sharp lines relate appetite, mind, and daily choices to personal mastery.
Grape-Nuts Help At Hot Springs Healing Stomach Woes
A Hot Springs visitor recounts long lasting stomach and bowel issues aided by Grape-Nuts and cream. After two operations and worry of appendicitis, he slept better, constipation vanished, and he gained eight pounds in five weeks. He notes improved memory and mental sharpness. Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Wellville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Dodder Threat to Central New York Alfalfa and Clover
The parasitic dodder threatens alfalfa and clover fields with mounting damage. Seeds hitchhike on hay and seeds, then germinate near host plants. Removal methods include deep soil cultivation for three weeks, fire, or smothering with manure. Sheep grazing and clean cultivation over two seasons also help eradicate dodder.
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New York
L. H. Dewey
United States
Department of Agriculture
Orange Judd
The Bee in the Orchard Benefits of Pollination
The article explains the bee as the key tool for cross pollination in orchards. It argues that bees reliably transfer pollen from bloom to bloom, increasing fruit set and yield, making bees essential for both amateur and commercial growers.
Thoughtful guidance for farming and education
The excerpt urges cheerful effort and practical farming steps. It notes saving barnyard manure for spring crops and burning mummied fruit to prevent disease. It highlights growing demand for elementary agriculture teaching and stresses a broad foundation for this work.
Plucking The Duck From Live Bird Described
The Farmers' Sentinel explains a step by step method to pluck a live duck without panicking it. Process covers catching positioning, feeding to herd, selecting ready birds, and careful plucking with attention to the breast and under parts. It notes scalding and drying, plus using Pekin duck feathers for pillows and potential stock value.
DEVICE FOR HOLDING FOWLS FOR DRESSING
A Farm and Home writer describes a simple poultry restraint. A 4 inch ring on a short rod passes through a beam to form a swivel. A flat steel piece and a clawed end grip the bird by the legs, allowing hands-free hanging during dressing.
A Garden Roller From a Two-Gallon Jug
An old tip describes making a garden roller by drilling a hole in a two gallon jug, inserting a wood axle, filling with sand for weight, and fastening ends with nails to a light frame. A farmer in Ohio is cited as hive hatching eggs by bee heat using an oat chaff hive and cheescloth above the bees for egg placement.
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Ohio
Massachusetts
Farmer and Niece Debate Farm Use Beyond Crops
A farmer laments that few know how to manage a farm after acquiring one. His pretty town niece suggests turning the land into leisure amenities like tennis courts and golf links instead of just corn and oats, highlighting contrasting visions for rural property.
Old Geese Best For Raising In Fall Sales
If a portion of the geese are to be sold this autumn, avoid separating pairs mated in the previous season. I erred last year and they failed to breed well. Old geese are best to raise from, as young geese yield small weak goslings unlikely to survive.
Negro for Liberian Minister from Keokuk
B L Anderson a colored Keokuk citizen has filed for appointment as minister to Liberia with endorsements sent to Congressman Thomas Hedge. He was educated in Keokuk public schools and high school, is a young married barber, quiet and well regarded, who has given eloquent speeches locally and elsewhere.
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Keokuk
B. L. Anderson
Liberia
Thomas Hedge
Iowa
Remarkable dental operation at Iowa university clinic
Dr G I V Brown of Milwaukee performed the removal of two teeth near the cheekbone using X rays at the Iowa university dental clinic during the Alumni association meeting. The case, before about 200 Iowa dentists, is described as perhaps the first of its kind on record in the state. In Council Bluffs the Portland Mining Company departs president James I Burns after praise for the mine’s operation. Irving Herbert named successor as directors back the Colorado Mine Owners' association. profits last year reached 690000 dollars.
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Iowa City
Iowa University Dental Clinic
G. I. V. Brown
Milwaukee
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Portland Mining Company
James I. Burns
Colorado
Irving Herbert
Colorado Mine Owners’ Association
Sioux City
G. W. Sanborn
Northwest
Los Angeles
Cal
Clinton
Marvin J. Gates
Artemus Lamb
Clinton Enterprises
Ames
Curtiss
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Joseph S. Anderson
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Iowa State College
Grinnell
Iowa College
Shenandoah
Leonard Waters
Cedar Falls
Joseph Meyers
George W. Swords
First National Bank of Grinnell
Treasury
Ottumwa
C. A. Walsh
Democratic National Committee
Ottumwa Brewing & Ice Company
Washington plane dealer recalls Hoch tale linked to Goerk
H F Maass of Washington, brother of Mrs Mary Goerk, discusses Johann Hoch connections. Goerk ran a Chicago boarding house and Maass recalls Hoch calling himself Jacob Smith and proposing to Goerk. Maass says she could decide for herself as she was old enough.
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Washington
H. F. Maass
Mary Goerk
Johann Hoch
Death in Eldora Family Suspected Poison Coffee Ingestion
Benjamin Walton aged 86 died at his home near Eldora after drinking coffee believed poisoned. His wife and younger son are gravely ill from the same tainted beverage, and the family all suffered severe agony. Authorities have not determined how the coffee became tainted.
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Eldora
Benjamin Walton
State Dairymen Session Opens With Noted Addresses
The State Dairymen's association closed its session with strong addresses by President Tucker of the Memorial university and Prof. Frazer of Ames. President Shilling reappointed all old committees with EK. M. Wentworth as legislative chairman. The James Rowland Commission Company bid $1,000 for 166 tubs of butter.
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State Dairymen
Mason City
State Dairymen’s Association
Tucker
Memorial University
Frazer
Ames
Shilling
EK. M. Wentworth
James Rowland Commission Company
Bank President Dies Suddenly in Clarinda at 59
Frank W. Parish longtime president of the Clarinda national bank and Civil War veteran dies suddenly in Clarinda aged 59. Born in Wisconsin he served in the war and was a prominent Grand Army man.
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Clarinda
Frank W. Parish
Clarinda National Bank
Wisconsin
Speaker Cannon Refuses Article Pitches in Comic Moment
A Washington letter in the New York American describes an amusing scene as Speaker Cannon, interrupted by a wardrobe mishap, declines a magazine request to write congressional articles. He tells the visitor he lacks time and quips about a litter atatorium or journalisticum before restoring order with his gavel.
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New York
Washington
Cannon
New York American
Ray
Backache cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills claim
Mrs W H Ambrose of Dover Kentucky reports her backache vanished after using one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The ad claims kidney relief prevents diabetes Bright's disease or rheumatism if treated early.
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Dodd
W. H. Ambrose
Dover
America
Bright
To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
A vintage drug advertisement promises a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and offers a money back refund if it fails. Ki W Grove signs each box.
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Ki. W. Grove
Miser Rat Plans Final Escape Beneath the Frozen Sod
The miser rat, cackling in biting cold, counts his gold and schemes a last retreat to narrow quarters beneath the frozen sod. He sews it in the dining and fools the village crowd that never doubted the sly slaying.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Crying Need in Language Mastery
A jokey note from the Brooklyn Eagle laments Dutch traffic slang and urges stopping the dominance of language barriers. The Commoner editorial cartoonishly argues that learning English would be a valuable linguistic asset for global users.
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Holland
Flolland
Cured Rapidly By Pink Pills For Rheumatism
In 1902 8 Mr Schroeppel bedridden by rheumatism found no relief from doctors. His mother advised Dr Williams Pink Pills and after starting them he recovered quickly, leaving bed in two weeks and remaining well for over a year. Captain George Balfour also used the pills and was freed from rheumatism. The pills are popular in the community and touted to cure neuralgia sciatica and partial paralysis.
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Schroeppel
Dr. Williams
China Township
St. Clair County
Mich
Henry Schroeppel
George Balfour
Mr. Schroeppel
Captain Balfour
Health of American Women at New York Assembly of Mothers
A New York doctor told 600 women that healthy American women are rare and promoted Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy. The ad-like text claims the product cures a wide range of female troubles, urging women to write for advice and buy the compound.
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New York
Lydia BE
C. Willadsen
Manning, In
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mattie Henry
Danville Art Club
Green St
Danville
Mra. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia K. Piniham
Pinkhorn
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Yonkers Statesman
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Tower Canadian Co.,ltd
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G. W. Smith
Marquette Building
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Traction
Cincinnati
T. B. Cookerly
Citizens Nat'l Bank
Des Moines
G. A. McNutt
Blossom House
Ittelsef
L.C. McLain Orthopedic Sanitarium
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