Up-to-date Farm Hints From Indiana Institute Notes
Notes from Indiana Institute emphasize effective leadership, poultry care, wheat feeding for hogs, and clover as a fertilizer. Reports discuss broom sedge, top-dressing with stable manure, soil analysis, and the varietal uses of clovers, plus apple butter making and weed control strategies for farms.
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Chicago
Livery Barn
Timothy Meadows
Houston
Purdue
Logansport
Woman credits Pink Pills for recovery from nervous illness
Mrs Helen Meyers of Chicago recalls a severe nervous malady fifteen years ago triggered by worry and illness. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, taken after a Keokuk visit, with restoring her health and energy, and returns to Chicago with renewed vigor. She praises the pills as life changing and says they revived her complexion and strength.
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Keokuk, Ions
Helen Meyers
Zernon Avenue
Chicago
Keokuk
Gate City
Dallas County
Lows
New York State
Willams
Bornn
Insane Conductor Tale and Whistle Language Note
A reader recounts an eccentric longtime railroad conductor from the Hannibal and St. Joseph lines who caused chaos aboard a ferry transfer and was confined after a dramatic standoff. The piece then notes Gomera Island’s whistling language, a spoken-to-whistle method translating common speech for long distance communication and even calling out a whopper.
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Hannibal
St. Joe
Hannibal and
St. Joseph
Chicago Herald
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
St Joseph
Council Buffs
A.C. Dawes
Atchison
Winthrop
Missouri
Contuctor
Fulton
Gomera
Canary Archipelago
Cameron
Mera
Bsundererson
Alligator Attacks at Indian Bathing Ghat
A historical account describes how sacred river bathing ghats in India draw crowds while danger from alligators lurks. Women of higher classes bathe at dawn as chaperones watch, and tragic drownings occur when an alligator drags a bather. A giant alligator once killed was found to have worn ornaments in its belly, including silver and gold.
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Cuttack
Murderer Hides Clothes with Laundry Mark in Bold Script
A killer panics and hides blood-stained garments, marking them with initials in large type. He then wraps the clothes in paper bearing his name and address, sending the bundle to a steam laundry. He exits in apparent triumph and security. Detroit Tribune reports the event.
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Detroit Tribune
Wild cattle roam Oregon mountains threatening local farms
A report notes about 500 wild cattle roam between Rogue River and the Umpqua south fork in Oregon for two decades, luring farmer stock away. Authorities propose rounding up and killing the herd to protect ranchers. Nearby items include obliquely dated remarks on unrelated topics and a ram attack fatality in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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California
Monhegan Island
Mai
Andrew Moore
Butler
Rogue River
South Fork
Umpqua
Oregon
Louis XIV watch linked to Empress Josephine owner
A New York collector possesses a Louis XIV watch claimed to have belonged to Empress Josephine. Said to have been given by Josephine at Malmaison to Abbo Blanchard, then to his niece Marie Fectig of Strassburg, this piece features a black enamel and gold cross with a kneeling angel and saint heads. The article also notes Bermuda tugs and the Galdiston aiding distressed vessels in winter and summer.
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Ewpaine
Waton
New York
Josephine
Malmaison
Abbo Blanchard
Marie Fectig
Strassburg
Fectig
Auctioneer Announces Schmirinsky Masterpiece for Sale
In a lively exchange the auctioneer presents a painting by the famed Schmirinsky in a gold frame as an Art Patron bids three marks, noting the artwork's value exceeds the bid.
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Ata
Schmirinsky
A Wrong Mandation Puck Mention by Dealer and Customer
A dialogue fragment shows a customer praising cigars and a dealer replying that the best are given to police on the beat. The line ends with the period in the exchange.
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Puck
Danvers Yellow Seeds Claim Grand Yield Per Acre
Fragmented ad text touts Danvers Yellow grown by John Rath in Michigan from one pound seed, claiming 648 bushels per acre with Salvers seeds. Promotes Kalzer seeds for beets carrots cabbage cucumbers onions peas corn radishes tomatoes and offers a seed catalogue by mail with money order options.
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John 1 Rath
Rath Anys
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Indiana Institute
Farmers” Institute
Paris
South Dakota
Brookings
Mark
Androfogon
Animal Life
Fingie
Fliriena
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pacific Ocean
Bermudas
Bermuda Islands
Philadelphia
Galdiston
John Re Salter Seed Company
Iran
Eleep
Hood
Ghesse
ER Rubber Co
Akina
Soedovan
Asip Rome
Pompeli
Dora Thorne
Webster West-Pocket Dictions
Gem Songater
Stowe
Marvel
Bulwer Tytton
Conan Davis
Adress Harrison Book CO
West Jackson St
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