Producers Favor Market Plan for Agriculture Bureau
Texas producers meeting at request of Congressman Hatton Sumners favor creating a market bureau within the U S Department of Agriculture. They urge federal action to regulate distribution, curb middlemen, and protect prices for truck and food crops. The resolution calls for authority to aid relief and cooperation with states. A case study cites a 66 percent crop loss from distribution failure and rising living costs.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Hatton W. Sumners
Department of Agriculture
America
Congress
Sumners
Police search for evidence of plot against Huerta
The police are conducting a thorough search for further evidence of an alleged plot against Provisional President Huerta, revealed to authorities by two women on Thursday night.
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City of
Mexico
Huerta
Caveat Filed Against Watmough Will Probate
In Philadelphia a caveat was filed Friday against probating the will of John G. Watmough. He left more than $1,000,000 to non heirs at law and $100,000 to his wife’s former nurse who stayed on as a nurse after Mrs. Watmough’s death.
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Philadelphia
John G. Watmough
Grapeland Holds Big Trade Day with Cotton Prize
Grapeland Texas reports a large crowd at its first trades day. The capital prize of 100 dollars for the bale of cotton shipped the farthest distance went to G. W. Maize for a 27 mile haul.
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Grapeland
Tex
G. W. Maize
Nomination Confirmed for Texas Southern District Marshal
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jake Herring’s nomination as marshal for the Southern District of Texas.
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Washington
Senate
Jake Herring
Texas
Mrs Eaton Freely Acquitted in Plymouth Murder Trial
Mrs Jennie May Eaton was acquitted of murdering her husband Rear Admiral Joseph G Eaton by jury verdict. The Plymouth Massachusetts case concludes with a verdict of not guilty after deliberation on Thursday.
Bremen Warship Report Reaches Vera Cruz Arrival
The warship Bremen arrived on Friday at Vera Cruz and wireless reports to the Hertha that two more ships of the same nation are expected soon.
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Vera Cruz
Bremen
Hertha
Easy Household Hints for Cleaning and Care
Practical tips from Mrs J C B of Mr Pleasant Michigan cover keeping silver without soap using sour milk for cleaning and brightening floors with borax soaking mildew in sour milk and lime solution for stains. Also advice on removing blood with ammonia and stove cleanup by soaking burnt pots in cold water.
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Mr. Pleasant
Mich
Household V Questions for Practical Domestic Tasks
Encourage children to garden. Use charcoal for cleaning, sunlight to set fabrics, browning flour for gravy, and freezing eggs for later use. Prepare horse radish relish, prevent salt caking with rice, blanch fruit for easy peeling, and remove ink with Temon juice and salt. Use tissue paper under fabric for smooth sewing.
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Kei Si
Sweet Clover for Linen and Rubber Bottle Cleaning Tips
Gather flowering clover branches and dry them to scent linen. Tie in cheesecloth bags and place between sheets and linens to make linen sweeter. A soiled rubber hot water bottle cleans easily by rubbing with hot soapy flannel, then drying to restore look.
Washday Iron Care Routine
Instructions advise heating irons briefly after washing clothes, then removing and wiping with a soft dry cloth. Regular weekly maintenance keeps irons in good condition.
Apple Sauce Cake Recipe Note
A casual recipe fragment lists ingredients including one cup sugar one half cup butter one cup unsweetened apple sauce one teaspoon soda dissolved in apple sauce two cups flour and one cup raising spices.
Vinegar Cruet Cleaning Tip In Historic Note
A dated tip advises cleaning vinegar cruets by using potato parings place parings in the cruet with water. Let the mixture stand until the parings ferment providing a cleaning method noted in the source.
Doctors Did Not Help Her in Detroit and Philadelphia
Two women describe relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. In Detroit Mrs James G Leclear reports years of suffering from bearing down pains and nervous strain followed by improved health after trying the remedy. In Philadelphia Mrs Charles Boell says menstrual pains and organic inflammation vanished after two bottles, with lasting relief and no return of trouble.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. LeClear
Detroit
Mich
Ora
Lydia EB. Pinkham
James G. Leclear
Hunt St
Detroit, Mich
Philadelphia
Lydia E.pinkham
Mrs
Chas. Boell
Chadwick St
Phila.,Pa
Revolt Leader Defends Cruelty Claims in Interview
The insurgent general’s capture involved starvation and punishment, but the revolutionary speaks to reporters denying extreme cruelty. He jokes that they have not even considered running him for vice president.
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New York Evening Post
Giles Met by Stranger in Street Exchange
An exchange on the street features Giles meeting an acquaintance who greets him with a grim phrase. Giles politely avoids further chatter and continues toward London, declining any favors as he moves on.
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Giles
London
Lippincott's
California Syrup of Figs Promoted for Kinder Pediatric Laxative
An old style physician ad urges mothers to switch from castor oil and calomel to California Syrup of Figs. It claims gentle yet positive cleansing for stomach, liver and bowels, noting children love the fruit laxative and that a teaspoonful today prevents sickness tomorrow.
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California
Getting Some Business
A humorous remark notes the young doctor son doing well in business during the green apple season and forecasts a strong football season ahead.
Good Men and Self-Dissatisfaction Exhortation
An Exchange column urges men to embrace self-dissatisfaction as a spur to performance. It argues a healthy restlessness keeps leaders from complacency and warns against excessive self-pity, calling ambition and dissatisfaction siblings in the drive to succeed.
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David Harum
Bantam Chicken Egg Joke Sparks Bet in Clubroom
Skimps tells a joke about tiny eggs in a collar-box provoking bets from Gaswell and Dukane. The group challenges proof and demands to see the eggs, with a warning that Skimps would be exposed if false while noting the horse-collar-box detail.
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Ananias Club
Gaswell
Dukane
Skimps
Mrs Walls Endorses Cardus For Women’s Ailments
A Tennessee resident, Mrs Martha Walls of Leinarts, extols Cardus the woman’s tonic after four years of severe female troubles. She reports relief after six bottles and urges other women to try it. The ad cites a large past user base and invites readers to obtain Cardui from their druggist and to write for treatment information.
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Ladies’ Advisory Dept
Chattanooga
Tenn
Quotations and Advertisements in a Humorous Patch
A playful collection of quips and ad lines notes how a brilliant conversationalist may falter without knowledge a cough remedy promises relief with Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops a remark on jealousy lacks reason and belief.
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Dean
Beauty deep and enamel in burns care at Hanford’s Balsam
A fragment notes that beauty is enamel deep for some women and that Hanford's Balsam is used to cool burns. It also mentions Australia raising nearly 10,000,000 acres of wheat annually.
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Hanford
Australia
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