Fruit and farming notes from Farm and Home column
The piece discusses marketing first class fruit like Fameuse apples with careful packing, and promotes hiring city salesmen for growers. It covers lettuce growing in greenhouses, nitrate use, cutting and storing seed potatoes, sulphur washes as a spray alternative, and farm tips on marking egg placements and monitoring a troublesome cat and dog to protect chicks.
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Geneva
N. Y
Massachusetts
Pioughman
Milking Technique Debates and Poultry Flying Aids
Reader letters discuss cow milking order and its effect on milk quality citing Prof Babcock findings. Agricultural notes describe a method to constrain fowls by tying wings to limit flight without harm, promoting freedom with caution.
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Babcock
Babat Guvs
Pale Nervous Patient Hears Ayeor's Pills Cure
A clinic advertises Ayeor's Pills as a cure for pale anxious patients. It claims relief for bowels and nerves through regular use and promises quick results, urging readers to obtain the remedy.
Prices rise for farmers as 1897 1903 era profits climb
A historical report notes farmer and stockman gain from price increases between 1897 and 1903 with bread, meat, dairy, clothing up by substantial margins while metals rise for miners. Rail freight fell 4.4 percent and railroad pay grew about 8.6 percent in the period.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Upperton Ball Attire Dilemma Sparks Fashion Banter
Geood Advice and Phylita discuss what to wear to an upcoming Upperton ball. A humorous aside mocks bogus tonics and quack cures while a reference to Dr Kiine’s trial products appears. A child reports edible snails advertised in an English restaurant, prompting curiosity about novelty foods.
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Geood
Bylvia
Upperton
Phylita
You Can Oct Aen's Feet Ease Free Sample Ad
An advertisement offers a free sample of Foot-Ease for swollen and aching feet. It claims to ease corns and calluses and promises easier use of shoes. The sample is available from Alien & Olmated in Le Roy New York, urging customers not to accept substitutes.
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le Roy
Out of the Ordinary Patter on Pugilists and Teething
Miffies and others discuss Koox em as a boxer doubting his ambition to improve the sport. Miffies notes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy. Hyker cites Shakespeare on jesters and prophets, hinting that prophets can be political and weather forecasters.
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Miffies
Kooxem
Biffson
Kiffson
Mrs. Winslow
Hyker
Shakapeare
Pyker
Key to a Clock Factory Winds Up Sheriff Jest
The sheriff on the corner holds a large brass key claiming it winds a clock factory left to rot by the proprietor. A line from Piso’s Cure for Consumption is cited as a joke. A Princeton Tiger humor snippet notes two exceptions to the rule about love and family.
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Princeton Tiger
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