Agricultural Hints on Destroying Horse Nettle Weeds
A subscriber reports a long standing weed problem on a farm. Professor Pamnel identifies it as horse nettle Audinum carelinense L, noting deep running roots and prickly stems. Observations from Illinois Missouri and Iowa detail persistence. removal of roots and leaves is required to kill it, with vigorous treatment and grazing pressure suggested as control ideas.
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Orange Judd
L. Wi. Pamnel
Lows
Illinois
Missouri
Town
Connecticut
Florida
Texas
Ilinois
Towa
Darlington
Hollister
Steel
Tam
George O. van Houten
Horticultural Notes and World Fair Caladium Exhibit
Advice on plant care including removing plum tree knots and burning limbs. Promotes pleasant home gardens with flowers and shrubs and suggests transplants for lawns. Describes an exhibit by A Linver of Rio de Janeiro for 400 caladium varieties and notes a Women’s London Gardening association planning plant care contracts for London conservatories and window boxes.
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Viet Farm
Italy
United States
A. Linver
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Chicago
Women's London Gardening Association
London
Associatio
The Value of Good Water for Livestock
The piece argues water quality is crucial as water makes up about 70 percent of animals and at least 7 percent of milk. It warns impure water laden with germs harms flesh and milk, linking disease and poor health in humans to dirty stock water.
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Epps
Mair
Sola Tames Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chanists
London
England
Tower
A. Je Tower
Lafres Boston
Storing Fruits and Vegetables for Winter on the Farm
Agricultural guidance from the St. Louis Republic outlines best methods to store apples pears grapes potatoes turnips and other produce. It covers cooling storage near freezing trench and pit methods board and straw packing and stages for harvesting and layering to extend winter keeping.
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St. Louis Republic
The Hackney Horse Points System Explored
An English contemporary engraving explains a hackney or trotting stallion by a detailed scoring scheme. It allocates 250 points in single-point format across head forequarter middle hindquarter and legs, with groups reducing totals to 100.
Startling Figures on Wheat Supply Reach
A broker in Colman's Rural World estimates 1 000 000 bushels of wheat would stretch a freight train over fifteen miles if loaded at 500 bushels per car. By wagon it would form a 143 mile line with forty four bushels per wagon, and bread would yield a two pound loaf for every person in the United States.
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United States
Colman
Domestic Tips From Historic Cookery Fragments
A collection of kitchen hints and recipes from various papers. Tips include using copper wire for hanging pictures and moth proofing, removing paint stains with ammonia and turpentine, broiling sliced cold potatoes with butter, making drawn butter, purifying water with alum and carbon, and cleansing the face with vaseline. Recipes cover broiled potatoes, deviled eggs with mustard and ham, pot roast with onions and thyme, iced coffee dessert, and stuffed onions with beef, bacon, and lemon zest.
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Demorest
Boston
Detroit Free Press
Boston Herald
N. Y
Fashions in Jewelry from the Jewelers' Circular
Odd bric-a-brac and cut glass pieces headline this Jewelers' Circular item. Silver hairpins with twisted legs, bottle holders, enamel mountings, moonstone hearts set with diamonds and olivines, and a range of silver gilt trim and novelty glass pieces showcase current decorative jewelry trends.
A Basque Nobleman Bets On Spotted Horses In Mexico
A wealthy Basque gentleman in Mexico City wagered twenty thousand dollars that he could drive four spotted horses through the main streets. He paraded the coach before the viceregal palace and gifted the coach to the viceroy, who had to accept. The four horses and coach cost three thousand dollars. theBasque kept seventeen thousand as winnings.
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Mexico
Groniteman
Calavera
Ltarbide
Viceregal Palace
The Only One Ever Printed Word Hunt Ad
A 3 inch display ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co invites readers to find the unique word across weekly prints. The Crescent symbol marks each item and winners receive books lithographs or samples. The piece includes a quoted exchange from Life magazine.
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Dr. Harter Medicine Co
St. Louis
Syrup of Figs and Carter's Pills Promoted in Ad Snippet
A nostalgic excerpt touts Syrup of Figs as a perfect laxative and gentle diuretic while pitching Carter's Little Liver Pills as a cure for sick headache and liver ills. It also jokes about loud trousers in tailor shop windows and compares book agents to sailors with favorable winds.
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Carter
Excursions to the South on a single round fare
The C., HW. & D. will sell harvest excursion tickets from all stations October 14 to fl y to Florida Virginia Louisiana Tennessee Kentucky Georgia Alabama and Mississippi at one round trip fare. Tickets valid for Oct 14 outbound and return any time within thirty days from sale. Inquire via CG HK DD or address E O McCormick G P T Agt Cincinnati Ohio.
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Florida
Virginia
Louisiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
McCormick
G. P. T. Agt
Cincinnati
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Liver Pill Advertisement
An old time drug ad touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original Liver Pill. It claims the small vegetable pills cleanse and regulate the liver stomach and bowels gently and effectively, preventing disease as well as curing it. It promises satisfaction with a money back guarantee and emphasizes affordability.
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Dr. Pierce
Dyspepsia Cured by August Flower According to Patient
Suffering two years with stomach trouble, James E. Dederick of Saugerties New York credits August Flower with restoring strength appetite and curing severe dyspepsia after physician advised quitting solids. Another note from W B Utsey of St George South Carolina praises the remedy as excellent for dyspepsia.
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James E. Dederick
Saugerties
New York
W. B. Utsey
St. George’s
S.C
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