Did Not Wear It and Other Light Quotations
A collage of light anecdotes and jokes from various U.S. newspapers. The pieces include a wife recounting a dinner with the Turkish ambassador, children’s humor about teasing and etiquette, misunderstandings about faces and ears, a doctor patient exchange, a flea on kitty tale, nautical wordplay, and observations on discipline and timber used for shingles.
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New York
West
Saturday Evening Post
Edith
Kitty
Lipplincott
Baby Beef Finishing Gains Popularity Among Feedlot Cattle
The Agriculture Department notes baby beef has become a popular market segment. Finishing young cattle at 14 to 16 months yields comparable carcass weight with quality meat, as feeders push for prime finish and steady market demand in May to July and December preps.
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United States
Get rid of worms in hogs advice for farmers
Hog raisers are guided to treat hogs for worms using salt coal copperas and sulfur with a half pound of copperas per hundred pounds of slack coal. Feed in limited amounts twice weekly then increase until hogs eat freely. Also advise separating young calves at feeding and using collars tied to walls for restraint.
Pasture and clipping tune alfalfa water use during drought
U S Department bulletin notes that controlling alfalfa water use is possible by grazing or frequent clipping. When soil moisture is scarce, summer grazing maintains yields with less drought damage. with ample moisture, intensive pasturage lowers production. Australia and New South Wales favor summer pasturage and hay pasturage systems.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Australia
New South Wales
Necessity for Dust Mulch
T E Keitt explains how a light dry dust mulch reduces water loss from surface evaporation in field crops. Breaking the top layer to create a blanket, using 2 to 3 inches of disturbed soil, helps conserve moisture while allowing deeper root growth. mulch must be renewed after rain to maintain effectiveness.
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T E. Keitt
South Carolina
Spreader Use Turns To Root Crop Haulage On Farms
Farmers can repurpose manure spreaders to haul mangels sugar beets and turnips from field to cellar or pit during harvest. A simple end-board change lets roots roll into a trap door as the crank and apron shaft discharge the load quickly. Also notes July August sun dries moisture fast.
Rainy day profits and livestock feeding notes
The text outlines cheap meat production by letting oats and peas ripen then pasturing with sheep or hogs. It mentions dairy cows providing good milk as cows eat well and digest efficiently, linking to steady profits in farming during poor days.
Refreshment Tale From a Newport Garden Party
Rear Admiral Pletcher recalled a Naval maneuvers story at a Newport garden party. Ashore, the tale recounts an exchange about refreshments and a cooling sea breeze in a shore cottage setting with humor about frugality and hospitality.
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Pletcher
Newport
Stingee
George
Detroit Free Press
Simple Home Treatment Heals Eczema and Skin Ailments
A Baltimore doctor recommends a cheap home remedy for eczema ringworm rashes and similar skin troubles. Use resinol ointment and resinol soap bought at any druggist with warm water baths twice daily. Apply ointment after drying and cover with a light bandage to stop itching and burning, restoring clear healthy skin.
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Baltimore
True to His Word The Interviewer Bluebeard Exchange
A Philadelphia Bulletin quotation scene has Bluebeard defend his vow to love each wife until death while admitting multiple marriages and grim loyalty to his promises. The remark frames a dark, dark humor on fidelity and murder within a satirical interview.
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Bluebeard
Philadelphia Bulletin
Dangerous Game
A fragment refers to police dispersing a children’s game. The lines suggest confusion over why police intervened and mention a child’s play labeled as “I apy” with dialect wording.
Fritz the iceman hacks ten gates with ice trick
In a late night tale, Fritz the iceman devises a plan to cut a block of ice into ten pieces and place them at ten gates. He pours water to create puddles so passersby will think the ice melted, leaving ten homes to sample the trick in Detroit Free Press style.
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Fritz
Frita
Caimedlf
Jet Hip
Detroit
Cheering for Mr Slimpurse and Mrs Sihupurae
A quote from New York Weekly describing admiration for a capable cook and housekeeper. The dialogue contrasts a cheerful opinion with a calm acknowledgment that proper housekeeping matters for a retinue of servants.
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Slimpurse
Sihupurae
Shi
New York Weekly
Dust and Desire in a Country Boarding Scene
Fragmentary text shows a dialogue about a wife boarding in the country and weight loss. Mentions risk aversion and misperceptions about understanding people. Overall tone hints at social friction and financial strain within a rural setting.
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Gotham
Great Relief Patience Applause After Her Song
The exchange notes applause arriving only after she finished singing, with Patrice prompting the comment that praising came at the end. The dialogue points to audience reaction during a performance.
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Patrice
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad Letters
Readers in Princeton Illinois and Poland New York praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from female troubles headaches and fatigue. Nurses and neighbors endorse its use and urge others to seek advice from the company.
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Princeton
Ill
Lydia E
Pinkham
J. F. Johnson
Box 30
Princeston
Iiinols
Poland
Lydia E. Pinksham
Horace Newman
Herkimer Co
N.Y
Lydia E. Plakham
Thought Boss Was Right Echoes Militancy in Punch Snippet
A humorous exchange notes a real estate man reacting to a boss insult after resigning for not being fired. The piece references a Cleveland Plain Dealer cartoon caption and an elderly Punch style dialogue about suffrage and a guardsman, with a wry tone on workplace pride and recognition.
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Boas
Hosa
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Undefined historic note about chickens and prices
Fragmentary text mentions chickens and prices with unclear context and stray phrases. No clear event, person, or organization identified.
Why the Applause
An amateur theater discussion recalls a scene where a man forcefully confines a woman in a cupboard. A disruptive audience member applauded and was removed. The twist reveals the applauding man is the actress’s husband, her first sight of a staged confinement.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Nebraska
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State of
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Cascades
Iceman
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Denny
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Idaho
J. W. Webster
Lewiston
Lydia FE
Pinkham Medicine Con
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Boss
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