Melancholy Women and Various Society Snippets
An array of short items including a testimonial about Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound vouches for its cure of female ailments. The Day notes include commentary on Ottoman decline, League of American Wheelmen membership, flowers in sick rooms, new paper machines, dental forceps varieties, German emperor’s chestnut pet, a Lochleven trout, Paris ink, and plant evaporation studies.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Tam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Clara
Danforth St
Buffalo
Torview
League of American Wheelman
New England
Germany
Susquehanna
Binghamton
Cards and etiquette for condolence and visiting notes
Cards of condolence are usually sent after a death with guidance on replies and etiquette. Condolence cards need not be answered, while courtesy cards should be promptly acknowledged. Strangers and visitors should leave full addresses and call promptly, with gifts sometimes accompanied by courtesy cards. A young woman to be married typically leaves a card about four weeks prior, with her mother’s card accompanying hers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Successful Farmers Promote Dairy and Poultry Care
A farm column urges readers to adopt poultry culture and dairy feed practices, showing how a single fancier can ignite local interest. It covers breeding challenges, the lure of the “chicken fever,” and the value of green fodder and soil management for dairy cows, with specific crop sequences and yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the
Addres& Good Poultry
Wreen
Osco Poultry Farm
Henry County
Illinois
Poultry Raising in Plymouth Rocks and Leghorns
The narrator describes fifteen years of poultry keeping focused on pure-blood Plymouth Rocks and various Leghorn strains. They detail flock management, feeding regimes, winter housing, disease remedies, and seasonal egg production. They note losses from cholera, minks, and weasels, and report shipping eggs at high weekly volumes this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Plymouth Rocks
Beet cattle shrinkage under drive conditions studied
A Nevada stockman reports that beet cattle driven 25 miles without water lose about 50 pounds per animal, while 50 miles with frequent drinking yield 20 pounds shrinkage. If given water and food for three hours after a 25 mile drive, shrinkage disappears. In a 600 pound group driven 50 miles with care and post drive six hours of eating and drinking, average shrinkage was 15 pounds per animal. Denver Farm and Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay
Cnt
Amherst
Canada
England
Japan
Nevada
Denver Farm
Canadian cheese syndicate plan aims for uniform quality
Western Ontario cheese producers propose a syndicate system to standardize methods and instruction across about 350 factories. Each syndicate of 15 to 25 would have a competent inspector visiting monthly, with per factory costs estimated at 20 to 46 dollars, depending on syndicate size. A Rochester Post Express note follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Dairymen’s Association
Ontario
Afteen
Notable Women of Warrendale and Philadelphia
Mrs. Phoebe Filcher of Warrendale narrowly escaped a rifle incident within ten feet during a trip. Bertha Creighton of Philadelphia wears ground pulp slippers reportedly worth 5 000 dollars. Helen Mar, known as Miss Mar in London, performs in drawing rooms after touring England. Virginia Patterson of Philadelphia displays remarkable fishing and hunting prowess, catching two tarpon over two feet long and enjoying the thrill of burning as she does angling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoebe Filcher
Warrendale
Ore
Filcher
Bertha Creighton
Philadelphia
Tift
United States Treasury Department
Washington
Creighton
London
Helen Mar
Steele Mackaye
America
Miss Mar
England
Mi H
Virginia Patterson
Fragmented Text From Patents Ads And Naturalist Note
A garbled excerpt covers patent office notices in Des Moines with names and places, a health ad for Pink Pills, testimonials about medical remedies, a claim that whales may have originated on land, and a reference to a Niagara rallye age. The passage intertwines unrelated items from medicine, patents, and natural history with fragmented personal names.
Railroad ticketing note to points in the South and Nashville
The notice directs travelers to ask the ticket agent about sion tickets and, if unavailable, to write to C. P. General Passenger Agent in Louisville Kentucky. It lists Geo. J. Horner and D. A. St. Louis Mo as contact points for further assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South & Nashville Railroad
C. P. General
Louisville, Ky
Geo. J. Horner
D. A
St. Louis
Fragmentary ad and obsolete notices on seeds and travel rates
The text mixes fragmented lines about seed catalogs, farm advice, and rail excursion offers. It cites Salter's Fall Seed Catalogue, a request to send 4 cents for samples, LaCrosse income figures, and Missouri Kansas Texas Railway excursion dates for home seekers and harvesters. Names include Cyrus W. Field and James Harker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salter
LaCrosse
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Viines
James Harker
St. Loui
Beiter
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Lochleven
Kinghorn Loch
Bellefield
Young Spifine
Bloomfela
Experie
Western Patent Office
Des Moines
Sinnepit F. Hogan
Menlo
Nichole Kelle
Dubuque
Mark A. Reploge
Edar Falls
Hert Ntermburg
Mitchellville
HL Gamble
Perry
Westrax
Kad
P.O. Box
Philadelphi
Paule Zwalit
Bheetor
Pino
Amexley
Hissicians
Tever
Price
Clark
United States
Niagara Rallye Siu
California Fig Syrup Co
Biles
Mr. Slimpurse
Cyrus W. Field
Ayer
Middle South
Opiui
Hartfords
Hartford
Pope Mfg. Co
Columbia
Hartior
Horan
Arsusine
Labor
Rot
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