Glowing Canada Report From Indiana Farmer Fisher
Frank Fisher of Mexico Indiana writes of a Western Canada visit praising Alberta Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. He highlights rich black soil ample grazing and water access, low entry costs and favorable five year yields versus Indiana. Fisher extols rail access dry winters and government creameries aiding farmers and notes Edmonton area oats winning prizes.
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Department of the Interior
Ottawa
HE. T. Melmes
Indianapolis
Ind
F. Fisher
Dunkards
Mexico
Avenue
Detroit
Michigan
Jamee Grieve
Sault Ste. Marie
Callahan's Brock
Grand Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
C. J. Broughton
Chicago
Ill
W. V. Bennett
New York Life Building
Omaha
Neb
MD. Rogers
Watertown
South Dakota
N. Bartholomew
Fifth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
MM. Parker
Chamber of Commerce
Duluth
Minn
Canada
Indiana
White County
Thomas Daley
Edmonton
Alberta
Frank Fisher
Wisconsin farm lands in Marinette County on railroad line
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers farm lands in Marinette County Wisconsin at low prices and favorable terms. Wisconsin is praised for crops markets and climate. Buy now instead of renting and own property in a few years. For details contact F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Chicago.
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Marinette County
Wisconsin
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
F. A. Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago
Rockefeller Sees Quoits as Favorite Pastime
John D. Rockefeller reveals quoits is his preferred leisure activity outside business hours. He dismisses golf, stating he does not know how to play and would not know how to hold a caddie. The remark comes as a light moment during an informal chat.
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Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Dictionary plurals and spelling styles questioned
The New York press notes that dictionary publishers dodge plurals and spelling forms. It argues a definitive work giving approved plurals and correct spellings is long overdue, criticizing existing dictionaries as slack wads.
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New York
Preas
Hood River Growers Union Gets Large Apple Order
The Hood River Fruit Growers' union in Oregon reported a Chicago firm ordered 50 000 to 100 000 bushels of apples in bulk lots. Supply this year is expected to reach about 90 000 boxes, but demand exceeds available stock.
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Hood River
Devoe Ready Paint Ad From Chicago Publication
An old illustrated advertisement promotes Devoe ready paint highlighting durability and protective qualities. It urges readers to contact local dealers and mentions a free pamphlet upon mentioning the paper.
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Devoe
Chicago
Rich Thunber Land in Cuba Forests
Cuba holds an estimated 13,000,000 acres of virgin forest covering about half the land. Transportation upgrades will bring timber to markets including mahogany ebony grandilla majagua cedar walnut Ngnum vitae oak and pine with over thirty palm species for various uses. Timber cutting remains risky for the uninitiated.
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Cuba
Pin Worm Destroys Night Comfort Warns Mothers
A vintage ad warns parents that pin worms cause rectal itching in children and adults, not piles. It touts Steketee's Pin Worm Destroyer as the reliable remedy, urging readers to mail 260 postage to Geo G. Steketee in Grand Rapids for the medicine and to mention the paper.
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Steketee
Geo. G. Steketee
Grand Rapids
Mion
Elevat ed road speed debate sparks quirky NYC critique
The Cleveland Plain Dealer lampoons a proposed New York City elevated road at 200 mph. The joke notes the impracticality of stopping at a specific stop like Forty-second Street, implying riders would need advance conductor notice to exit. The gag highlights fantasy speed versus real urban access.
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New York City
Forty-second Street
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Community profile of Hoopeston Illinois city government
A brief sketch notes Hoopeston Illinois a model city with a 4000 population and no saloon. The mayor earns 650 cents a year and councilmen half that. Streets fire department water supply and pubic works are described as satisfactory. Additional quips comment on journalism and a Mrs. Austin Pan Cox Sour product promotional line and a jab about singers with bad notes.
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Hoopeston
Ill
The Rocket and the Rose Poem Parable in Flight
A Denver Times verse by Henry E. Warner compares a rocket’s ascent toward the moon with a rose’s wish to touch the sky. The rocket rises in praise then descends, while the rose laments not leaving a skyward imprint. The piece uses lyrical imagery to reflect on ambition and the desire for great deeds.
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Henry E. Warner
Denver Times
Return of a Lost Father at the Burke Place
An aged man returns to his old home after thirty years and recognizes a former foe as his long lost son John Parkerson. The reunion reveals kinship and forgiveness as John offers the Burke place, a 30 acre land and house, with the back salary settled to buy it. The family plans settle if work and health permit.
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Fercely
Pap
Hans
Colonel Parkergon
John
Phil Turner
Colonel Tom Parkerson
John Parkerson
Phil
Burke
Burke Place
Boston Home Journal
Ham
Quaint Clocks of Exquisite Beauty
A Paris made clock for an American millionaire features a flat bronze dial with water in a shallow bowl and a tiny tortoise that moves to show the time. Another clock imitates a sunflower with gold bronze petals and a tiny ladybird to mark hours, blending art and timekeeping.
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Louis Quatorze
Paris
A Chalk and a Ginger Diet Causes Ills and Deaths
The note recalls girls craving pallor through chalk and chalky diets, ginger, tea, and slate pencil. Eating chalk harms digestion and causes anaemia, while ginger and other drastic measures led to illness and deaths among youths once drawn to pale looks, a tale from Notes and Queries.
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Buckinhamshire
Journal of the Year by a Mechanical Mind
A satirical piece by H G Wells via North American Review outlines a preferred daily paper. It envisions a wide blend of trustworthy news, inventions, theories, art reproductions, and lively public discourse. The author imagines extensive correspondence, paid editorials, and richly classified advertisements as part of a future newspaper.
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Medianic
H. G. Wells
North American Review
A Narrow Escape At The Soldiers and Sailors Home
Bath New Hampshire Sept 16 At the Soldiers and Sailors Home an old soldier A E Ayers formerly of Minneapolis Minnesota recounts a near death from Brights disease Doctors said he could not live four days He revived after using Dodds Kidney Pills He is strong and well today and calls them the greatest medicine in the world.
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Bath
Hiis
A. E. Ayers
Minneapolis
Minn
Mr. Ayers
Dodd
Curious noises attract cobras beside mowing machine
A curious note reports that certain noises draw snakes and cites a six month tally of 120 cobras killed by a mowing machine on an Indian grass farm. The rest covers ads, jokes, and short items including Garfield Tea Co office move, patent remedies, and humorous quips.
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India
Peruna touted as cure for Brights disease in letters
A reader letter from John Herziger of Neenah Wisconsin praises Peruna claiming relief from two years of kidney trouble and severe back pain. The sponsor cites Dr Hartman and appeals to others with catarrh of the kidneys to seek Peruna, asserting cures across many states.
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John Herziger
Alderman Hersiger
Neenah
Wis
Neenah Young Men’s Club
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Commercial Street
Neensh
Wisconsin
Union
Bright
Bankhead
J. H. Bankhead
Alabama
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
Samuel R. Sprecher
Beadle Court
Angelina No
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Extra Safe Investment ads for Omaha acre lots near town
An advertisement offers 126 by 296 foot acre lots in Salomon's Addition Omaha at 200 dollars per acre with 33 lots left and 30 day cash terms. Included is a county clerk's office note and a joke about weather and a boy with stomach ache from apples.
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Omaha
Salomon
Country Club
Ik. G. Solomon
Neb
Care County Clerk’s Office
Odd Fragments From a Busy Missouri Day
A clipped news note from Joplin Missouri mentions Mr. Jack Frost becoming overheated amid chilly mornings. Advertisements tout Mrs Austin Pan Cake Flour ready in a moment and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children. Manitoba wheat area surpasses two million acres. UK operates eight hundred fifty blast furnaces and France seven hundred sixty seven.
Farm Property Guide Ad News Clipping
Investors urged to buy October copy of Homes, a farm sale journal covering Maine to California and the Dakotas to Florida. Homes Pub Co lists address at 10-12 Custom House Place, Chicago. Also notes more than twenty dirigible balloons under construction near Paris.
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Maine
California
Dakotas
Florida
Homes Pub. Co
Custom House Place
Chicago
N. E
Kansas
Atchison
Kansas City
Butler
Pardes
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Dunkard
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Journal OF the
Boro Writeria
Brooklyn
N. Y
Garfield Tea Co
Philadelphia Times
Hamlin
Theater Francais
Putnam
Kiine
Gireat Nerva Restorer
Kiana, Ltd
Arch Se
Philadelphia
Piso
Joan F Borex
Trinity Springs
Gatarah
Jacobs Oil
Willie
Fall
Jack Frost
Joplin, Mo
Manitoba
United Kingdom
France
SOWER
A.J. Tower CO
Boston
Mass
King
Howe
Ball Dearings
Borden & Selleck CO
U.S
E. Duffy
Wakco
Pat
Phelps Brown
Brown
Ofec
Tracy
Waeacthe
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Jobani
Waley
Mouston
Hall & Ruckel
W. L. Douglas
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Thongias
Brockton
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Green's Sons
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Alianta
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