Norcross's New Bird and Other Oddities
A jumble of miscues and digests including Norcross’s career note on covering courts and a case of William Burns fined for stealing a martingale from James Jones. The column touches on cats as disease vectors, a cream puff price anecdote, a minister’s wife button tale, and a quip about a widow’s marriage. a final line hints at a cure for gravel.
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Norcross
Khen
Charles P. Norcross
Washington
William Burns
James Jones
Wes Jones
Pittsburg
Sanny Evening Post
Whelesale
Caroline A Osborne
Clark Univerity
BE. H. Fortush
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Presa
Crested White duck details and field notes from agriculture
The Crested White duck is described as ornamental with crest and specific body features. Prices in Chicago show high middleman profits and farmers receive far lower prices. a discussion on dairy cow profitability and weeded herds follows. The article also covers horse weight value for draft, corn water needs, a hog ringing trap, barley use for horses, and feeding notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Pekin
Aylesbury
Drake
Chicago
Jena
Kola
Wheat Crop Prospects and Market Advice Highlight 1900 Report
The Commercial National Bank of Chicago reports a strong wheat harvest for 1900 with high yield weight and quality. It notes early export movement and likely large export business. An article cites advice on marketing produce from Walter Streenerder, urging top quality and direct customer focus, plus a cucumber cultivation tip. A fragment mentions cattle losses from smoke.
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Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
The Limit of NHeneaty and Secret Tales
A fragment from Cleveland Leader notes Dora’s secrets and a joke about keeping age, while Louisville Courier Journal reports a summer engagement paused as a husband plans a visit. The piece also advertises Dr Kitme’s nerve tonic and a brief hiatus in an alliance.
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Nheneaty
Dora
Flora
Cleveland
Oman
Loulaville Courier Journal
You Can Get A Nen's Foot-Ease Free in Olmsted Leroy NY
Wartime era ad promises Alien's Foot Ease sample in Leroy New York. It claims to cure sweating swelling and aching feet and to ease tight shoes. The copy pitches corns and ingrown nails relief and urges not to accept substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Olmsted
Leroy N.Y
Woman’s lemon tart advice sparks editor banter
A humorous exchange shows a female correspondent asking how to craft a lemon tart. The editor jokes that if the lemon isn’t tart, better discard it, echoing playful gendered banter of the era.
Catareh Cure Promises Cure All Stages
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarh disease claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease and strengthen the constitution. Offers $100 reward if it fails to cure and lists Cheney Co Toledo as sellers amid notes on unrelated local names and February desk costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edjcal
Catarro
Belarus
No Deliness In Funny Exchange From Old Philadelphia Dream
A quirky exchange features Attle White asking about a comatose state and Willen’s blunt reply that there isn’t a comatose state in the urban, bustling Philadelphia scene, where everything is lively and prosperous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attle White
Willen
Urbon
L’bladelphia Drese
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Antonie
Winlater
Rickett
Cora
East
Clothier
United States
Pacific
Sannah Glasee
Walter Streenider
Chas. H. Fletcher
Pareces
Lay
Kitme
Ril Kin
Pole
Cheney & CO
Toledo
L.bell
Ganner
Old Closeman
Schuyer
Pertund Trade Directory
Caram Bibaka Town
Hefem & Pemsirron
Alfred Menjoasia
Cas
Borton
Eto
Meares
Enea
Pruscian Remphy CO
ST. Paul
Minn
CHAS
H. Lilly
Seattie
Portland
Gene Hawkien
Buren
Tian
Toere
Mass
USA
Ceva Tohonto
Sis
Douglas
Sf. Douglas
Calalog
Speers Este
Mirsen
P.M
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