Wayside Inn’s Ford Purchase Preserves Historic Site
Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford recount how the Wayside Inn at South Sudbury Massachusetts came into their hands to save it from conversion into a roadhouse. They kept it as a museum with limited guests and strict access to protect its historic character.
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Wayside Inn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Ford
South Sudbury
Mass
Cambridge
Albany
N. Y
Red Horse Tavern
David Howe
Howes
Lyman Howe
Longfellow
Paul Revere
Ford
Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association
Boston
Lemon
New England
Michigan
Ford's Wayside Inn Restored Shrine of an American Era
The article recounts Henry Ford financing a major restoration of the Wayside Inn, preserving the original furnishings and sign, rebuilding a dining room and kitchen, and preserving rooms tied to Longfellow and Washington. It notes Ford’s purchases of surrounding land, highway work, and efforts to keep the inn’s historic character while welcoming modern visitors.
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Wayside Inn
Boston Post
Mary
Sterling
Mass
Ford
Re Horse Inn
David
Longfellow
Ole Bull
Professor Treadwell
Isaac ¥ Iehl
Luigi
Harvard
Thomas W. Parsons
Red Horse
Henry Ford
Starking Apple Color Boosts Market Value Say Experts
A Louisiana Missouri nursery introduces Starking a solid red Delicious mutation that colors weeks earlier, offering higher market appeal. The new variety bears at three to four years, stores well, resists insects and diseases, and could raise regional apple income by about a million dollars annually.
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Louisiana
Wenatchee, Washington
New Jersey
Painless Dentistry Tried on Lioness
A Zurich dentist reports performing a difficult dental extraction on a twenty year old lioness at Seebach Zoo. The animal was narcotized and restrained with chains while Doctor Burgi crushed the ulcerated canine and removed it in many fragments. The socket was cleaned and the lioness released relieved of tooth ache.
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Oskar Burgl
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Seebach
Burgi
Worthless Man Has A Good Disposition
A short proverb notes that many men of little value can still possess a pleasant temperament. It contrasts character with personal utility, suggesting virtue in kindness despite lack of merit.
Burns Deathbed Utterance Gains Fame Despite Debt
The article recalls Robert Burns on his deathbed in Dumfries promising his wife Jean that he would be better known a century hence. It notes his enduring fame despite a $50 debt and that a single early edition of his poems could have funded his life.
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Robert Burns
Dumfries
Jean
Burns
Bolster the Pasture With More Crops
New Jersey agriculture advisor H R Cox recommends summer pasture supplements to prevent feed shortages and overgrazing. Options include renting extra grass, temporary pastures, silage, hay land grazing after mowing, grain stubble, and occasional second cuttings of alfalfa. Solling or green-crop cutting is an alternative, but selling forage is often cheaper than extra labor.
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H. R. Cox
New Jersey State College of Agriculture
New Jersey
Avian Tuberculosis Spreads To Pigs Through Feces
Illinois experiment station investigators report that the avian type of tuberculosis can persist in swine without direct contact to infected chickens or contaminated ground. They found virulent tubercle bacilli shed in pig feces can infect other pigs, making sows a potential disease spreader.
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Illinois Experiment Station
Smut Losses in Wheat Rise in Five Years
Wheat growers urged to seed with copper carbonate dust to curb smut losses. An eastern Colorado study reports 7 to 10 percent crop ruined last year, with some fields 30 to 50 percent. copper carbonate dust treatment reportedly kills spores and does not affect germination.
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United States
Colorado
E. A. Lungren
Colorado Agricultural College
Flush Kidney Health Via Gentle Salts and Water
If back hurts and kidneys ache avoid drugs and focus on gentle cleansing. Drink ample water and use four ounces of Salts per glass of water before breakfast for several days to stimulate kidneys. Jad Salts, made from grape and lemon acids with lithia, helps cleanse and neutralize system acids. The note cites Red Cross Ball Blue as a laundry ad and ends with a quotation.
Castoria: a trusted remedy for babies and children
Castoria is advertised as a safe vegetable remedy for babies and fretful children. It claims quick relief for colic, constipation, and general discomfort, recommending a spare bottle for emergencies and noting usefulness for older kids as explained in the accompanying booklet.
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The fragment discusses the Castoria product and notes about its use around children with good minds, suggesting limited harm compared to common concerns. The wording is unclear and appears to reflect a dated or fragmented viewpoint on child health and medicine.
First Bottle Helped Her in Philadelphia Ad
Mrs Anna Louder of 1607 8 Front Street Philadelphia testifies after childbirth that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improves her health after the first bottle. She says she felt run down nervous dizzy and weak and lies in bed before using it. She recommends the remedy to friends as a good tonic.
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Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna Louder Pack
Front Street
Phila
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Elmo Scott Watson
Sudbury
Sia
Grace Fair Princess Mary
Hawthorne
Edward Faulkner
London
Starking
Luther
Castoria
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