Advice on Yukon outfit for Alaska and Northwest Territory
The article emphasizes preparing a full 18 month equipment for Yukon seekers. It warns that reliance on purchases at trading posts can mean starvation and disaster. It details essential gear, food supplies, packing methods, clothing, footwear, tools, and health items, urging experienced outfitters and prestarting outfitting at the port of departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yukon
Dawson City
Dawson
Dyea
Skagway
Grantml
Winter Garden Protection and Farm Practices
Practical guidance on protecting gardens in cold weather with snow cover alternatives such as sod mulch and compost. It covers shielding roots for roses pampas grass and border plantings to prevent freeze thaw damage, plus notes on curing hams docking pig tails and whitewashing trunks with ash solution for insect control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
United States
England
Siberia
Labrador
Vick's
Small Farms Prove More Profitable Than Large Areas
The article argues that employment secured on a farm makes a small farm or flock more economical than expanding land or increasing stock. It states that small holdings yield higher returns relative to expenses, especially when labor is a key factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Forage Crops and Horse Feeding Practices
An old-timer advises sorghum as a top fall forage next to orchard grass, noting yields up to fifteen tons per acre and quick start feeding by late August. It keeps well in shocks or barns, blends with oats and corn to fatten stock, and aids winter feed. Also covered are benefits of cutting hay for horses, improved digestion, reduced waste, and guidance on steaming hay with grain for winter feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Chlio
Baldwin Apple Origin and Early History in New England
The Baldwin apple originated near Boston in the early 1800s on Mr. Butters farm in Somerville and was known as Butters' apple and woodpecker's apple. It was promoted by Dr. Jabez Brown of Wilmington and Col Baldwin of Woburn, later popular nationwide. The fruit is valued as a winter apple in the Northeast, ripening in autumn in the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Boston
Mass
Somerville
Butters
Jabez Brown
Wilmington
Woburn
Not Content with Any Thing and St Jacobs Oil
The piece notes that some people remain unsatisfied despite cures for neuralgia and promotes St Jacobs Oil as a remedy. It also reports that John Redmond will sail for America on December 30 to speak on the 1793 rebellion and rally Irish Americans for a July pilgrimage to commemorate the rising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
St. Jacobs Oil
John KE. Redmond
America
Ireland
Whaling Fleet In Ice Faces Danger And Health Warnings
Predictions warn San Francisco underwriters that whaling vessels may be trapped by ice and fail to survive the edge. The piece also urges immediate use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for early rheumatism constipation nervousness and kidney troubles. It notes tool orientation in Japanese saws and planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Hostetter
Rights claim over CASTORIA trade name and legacy of Pitcher’s Castoria
In a court action Samuel Pitcher M D asserts exclusive rights to the word CASTORIA and the Pitcher 3 Castoria trade name held by The Centaur Company with Fletcher signature on wrappers. He cites three decades of domestic use and asserts no one else may use his name without authorization. The note mentions the Centaur Company headed by Chas H Fletcher as president. Also included is a folklore line about cats’ blood for croup and a separate human-interest note about the oldest married couple in the United States, Cape Porpoise locals Mr and Mrs Joseph Manuel aged 98 and 101, married 77 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Dr. Samuel Fitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Pitcher's Castoria
Chas.h, Fletcher
Mothers of America
United States
Joseph Manuel
Cape Porpoise
Mass
Brave Spirits and the Cure for Back Aches
An old advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for menstrual and uterine pains. It claims the product stops suffering, restores courage, and relieves congestion of the ovaries and womb inflammation, citing a Milwaukee reader testimonial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E.pinkham
Sweden Street Cars Rarely Stop for Passengers
Travelers report that Swedish street cars seldom stop for passengers. Both men and women jump on and off while moving, and accidents are scarcely ever heard of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Deafness Cure Promoted by Constitutional Remedies
Advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure claiming nine of ten deafness cases are from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any case cured not by the remedy. Mentions Eustachian Tube inflammation and domino effect on hearing. Notes Kansas University dismissed natural history classes for circus day to study animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
The
Kansas University
All Eastern Syrup Ad Offered By First Class Growers
All Eastern Syrup described as light colored and heavy bodied is made from lucose and cane sap, sold in cans by first class growers. Manufactured by the Continent Coasy S nar Co with the maker’s name lithographed on each can. E Green of Effingham, Kansas, claims Continental currency once received by his great grandfather for Revolution service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gropers
Facnre
Coasy S
E. Green
Effingham, Kans
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Northwest Territory
Yukon River
Klondike
Jose
Champness
Merriam
Maurice Penfield Fikes
First Baptist Church
Trenton
N. J
Fikes
Folka
Zertucha
Maceo
Bejneal
Havana
Cuba
Vuelta Abajo
South Sea Island
John F. Hobbs
South Carolina
Alika
South Sea
Four Islands
Mr. Hobba
New York
Australia
Ella Collin
Oumalea
Eoom
Tilika
Mir
Hotvice
Little Kingdom
Seven Devils
Cape Arago
Mel
Hicwell
Mason Chemical O
P.O
Philadelphia
Viso
George W. Lotz
Fahncher, la
Schilling
A Schilling & Co
Illustrated Lamberson
Portland, OR
Moore
Stewart & Holmes Drug Co
Seattle
Erie Medical CO
Niagara St
Buffalo
N. Y
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Sanden Electric Belt CO
West Washington St
Ferry
D-M. Ferry & CO
Detroit
Mich
Hercules
Hercules Gas Engine Works
Bay St
San Francisco, Cal
Kodaks
Worpers, Chawne & Co
Southington
Hhicaga
Athorough
R. N
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