The Teating of Abraham in a Vision Between Lines
A Bible story narrative portrays Abraham hesitating under God’s command to offer Isaac, the son of promise, on Moriah. The tale follows Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Eliezer as they wrestle with faith, obedience, and the revelation that God provides a greater sacrifice through Jesus Christ.
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Abraham
Isaac
Morian
Jerah
Eliezer
Beersheba
Jehovah
Sarah
Moriah
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Jorah
Aram
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If no drunkard can go to Heaven what will become of the drunkard maker
Short aphorism from American Home contemplating moral causes and consequences. The line questions who is responsible if drinkers are barred from paradise, implying satire on moral blame and social hypocrisy.
Hats Return to Shepherdess Styles in Modern Millinery
Watteau influenced millinery rises with shepherdess shapes and sideward sits. Bright ribbons and vivid blues and pinks accent tiny crowns and tall bands while brims incline high and back trimming creates a straight forehead dip. The look blends massed under-trimmings with exaggerated bands and left side tilt.
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Shanes
Gifts For Graduate From Practical To Pretty Delights
The article lists a range of graduation gifts from practical thimbles and silver scissors to fine apparel like silk stockings and embroidered collars. It stresses choosing quality over budget, noting the value of books and personalized taste, and suggests matching presents to the recipient’s character and needs.
Real Beauty Through Health and Fresh Air
The text urges health as the path to beauty noting fresh air and exercise brighten the eyes and cheeks and make a middle aged woman look younger. It recommends a plain diet with little cake or pastry to achieve a clear complexion and good digestion.
The Ladylike Girl and The Talk That Shapes Life
Margaret Hubbard Ayer argues that every girl should strive for refined speech and good manners as the path to success. Slang signals limited language and can deter progress in social and professional roles, especially for wives and mothers, who teach children.
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Margaret Hubbard Ayer
New York
Cross stitch fashion tips for collars and dresses
A bright woman defends cross stitch as easy and enduring. The feature showcases a large pattern suitable for scrim or canvas collars and cuff borders, and suggests using cross stitch on summer dresses for children. It notes easy counting of stitches in the pattern.
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Parra
Rain Water for Toilet Use and Winter Snow Glow
Rain water is ideal for toilet use as it is soft and pure. A change between water types can roughen the skin briefly. In winter, stepping outside to brush a handful of soft snow on the face then drying in a warm room leaves cheeks rosy and eyes bright for hours and boosts breakfast appetite.
Utility Gown: Classic Materials for Everyday Wear
The general-utility gown favors plain-colored cheviots serges hopsack and homespun suitings with staple worsted options. For travel two favored fabrics are home spun and Paris coverts, rain proofed and cravanetted to endure bad weather.
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Paris
A GOOD PIKE ON SPRINGVILLE ROAD NEAR FOSTORIA
An Oslo correspondent of the Ohio Farmer praises the Springville road in Seneca county Ohio. The project began with surveying and grading then rolling a solid base. Crushed stone was added in layers totaling 12 inches at the sides and 15 inches in the middle before limestone gravel and final rolling produced a durable road.
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Springville
Fostoria
Seneca County
Oho
Ohio Farmer
Substantial Stone Boat For Farm Use
An old farming note describes a stone boat as a vital farm implement for moving stones stumps and rubbish and for hauling seed fertilizer plows and other gear. It explains construction with runners thick cross boards a top ship and a pole and details secure fastening guiding lines and draft methods.
Goat milk for butter considered viable by expert
Prof Farrington of Hoard's Dairyman explains goats milk can be as valuable as cow milk for butter if goats are healthy and fed well. He suggests testing milk before acceptance and notes no law forbids butter from goat milk. Cashier credit could apply for higher butter yield.
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Hoard's Dairyman
Farrington
Egg Moisture Theory Debated By Poultry Writer
A poultry writer argues internal pressure drives egg moisture loss more than surface evaporation. The Farmers' Review counters, noting infertile eggs lose more moisture than fertile ones, evidenced by buoyancy tests where infertile eggs float and fertile with chicks sink, indicating greater moisture loss in infertile eggs.
Worms and Grubs for Birds in Domestic Breeding
Instructions from Farm and Home describe using meal worms and maggots to feed birds, including pheasants and quail. Grow maggots on a sheep liver fly blown, collect in a pan as they drop off. To raise meal worms, bury worms in bran with old flannel in an earthen jar, keep damp and undisturbed for several months to yield thousands.
Dairy Hints From The Cheese Maker’s Ten Commands
A writer in a dairy journal is reviewed with a humorous take on “The Cheese Maker’s Ten Commandments.” The piece mocks lax dairy practices urging early milking, clean cans, no mixing water with milk, careful cow feed, proper whey handling, and sanitary conditions to improve product quality and avoid blame.
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Cheese and Dairy Journal
Tying Out A Cow With Picket Stakes And Wire
The article describes a method to tether a cow or horse using two picket stakes, a smooth wire, and rings. Welded iron stakes driven to the ground grip a middle rope through loops to permit a sliding ring for range. It claims this setup is cheaper and more satisfactory than a long rope.
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Bayshearn
Home
Low Poultry House Design Promises Warmth and Access
A Farm Journal description outlines a four foot high poultry house with a low rear grade to retain heat. It notes that standing room is unnecessary over half the floor space and that warm air rises, suggesting floor level openings and a lowered door for cleaning. In summer the netting is removable to allow fowl access.
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Farm Journal
When to Cut Alfalfa
Cutting alfalfa at full bloom yields the best balance of digestibility and nutritive content. Early cuts improve digestibility but reduce nutrients, while late cuts increase nutrients but lower digestibility. A week window exists for optimal harvest, with field managers needed to start early to avoid overripe heads.
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Farmera’ Review
Puts Creed Above Wealth in Iowa Tale of Refusal
Davenport woman Lucind Ganson rejects a $30,000 bequest to convert to Catholicism, saying she cannot change faith for money. if she declines the sum, it goes to a Catholic orphanage in Sacramento. Boone Champlin, longtime railroad man and bank president, dies suddenly at 75 after a bronchial hemorrhage.
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Davenport
Lucind Ganson
Charles Stimpson
Ganson
Sacramento
Gal
Gamson
Boone
Wrank Champlin
Champlin
National Order of Railway
Flood Threat Grips Iowa towns Along Mississippi
Des Moines reports the Mississippi River cut its banks from Clinton to Davenport while near danger in Darlington and Keokuk. Thousands of acres flooded and property losses reach hundreds of thousands. Muscatine and Clinton face rising danger with another foot risk flooding streets in both cities.
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Des Moines
Mississippi
Clintom
Davenport
Darlington
Keokuk
Muscatine
Clinton
Pig Resembles Elephant in Fort Dodge
A pig owned by William Lynch shows an elephant like head with ears and trunk suggesting a near perfect elephant form in the head and neck while the rest of the body remains normal. It is one of eight in the litter and draws local curiosity.
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Fort Dodge
William Lynch
Arun
Farmer Charles C. McChord Dies by Own Hand
Charles C. McChord a wealthy farmer living near Cottonwood died by suicide shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He had been in ill health for several years. He was 60 years old and left a wife five children and several brothers and sisters.
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Cottonwood
Charles C. McChord
Multiple Iowa towns report accidents, crimes and appointments
A sweep of brief items notes Nashua injury from lightning. a railroad incorporation in St Paul and Dew Maines. a fatal train strike in Council Bluffs. deaths of James Morgan in Neola and others. Other entries cover legal cases, a prison confession, a self inflicted death, a body found in a rail yard, a county telecom absorption, trout shipments to Waukon, a fatal industrial accident, Chicago charity funding, Iowa health officers meeting, church ordination, honorary degree at Iowa University, burglaries in Charles City, and upcoming conventions in Council Bluffs plus Rhodes scholar Jacob Van der Zee receiving a gold watch.
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Counc Bluffs
John Hawkins
Vail
Northwestern
Ida Grove
Cherokee
Sioux City
Wd Williams
Sioux Falls
Bertrau
Jefferson
D. D
Worris Lavich
Frank Ammerman
Des Moines
Axter Johnson
Chicago
S. G. Harger
Randolph
Erie
Onawa
Monona County
John W. Parmelee
Iowa City
Iowa Association of Health Officers
Stanton
Augustant Synod
Iowa University
Fairbanks
Charles City
E. M. Jeneth
Jeneth
Council Bluffs
Iowa Liquor Dealers’ Association
State Association of
Jacob van der Zee
Presen
Cliens
Sioux Center
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