Open Air Schools Grow In Favor And Tricks Of Finance
A disjointed column discusses a self styled financial genius who exploits a jeweler and a betrothal ring scheme. It then reports on open air schools expanding for tuberculosis and anaemic children, with growth from 18 in 1910 to nearly 50 cities across 19 states. It closes with a quip about fashion and a drowning joke in Chicago.
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United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
Providence
R. I
Massachusetts
Boston
New York
Ohio
Young Woman and Suitor With Distant Look
A fragment shows a caution from a mother about keeping young men at a distance. A nephew notes a young man with his arm around the woman, who then appears to have a faraway look in her eyes.
Doctor's Trials How Grape-Nuts Restored Health
An overworked Ohio clinician details severe health collapse from heavy practice. He credits daily Grape-Nuts with rapid, lasting gains in weight stamina and mental endurance, aided by The Road to Wellville pamphlet. Endorsed by Postumium Co.
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Ohio
Wellville
Postumium _Co
Battle
Ebner
Texas Farmers Unite Against Grasshoppers and Pests
Texas farmers and ranchers plan a broad campaign against grasshoppers cotton boll weevil and other pests after a decade long prairie dog extermination effort led by Ashher G. Smoot. The campaign targets wolves and other threats to cattle calves and goats with organized outfits and bounties set to begin November 1.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Ashher G. Smoot
Smoot
Thiata-At-An
Jilted at Altar Bascomb Faints in Copley Parlor
Boston electrical inspector Arthur L Bascomb fainted after learning parental objections prevented his marriage to Ada L Powers. The wedding was to be held in a Copley Square hotel parlor with guests present. Powers informed Bascomb by Ada Powers’ father William H Powers led to his collapse.
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Bascomb
Bascome
Commonwealth Avenue
Allston
Mr. Powers
Boston
Mass
Arthur L. Bagcomb
Ada L. Powers
Copley Square
William H. Powers
Oldest mummy claim challenged by new Egyptian find
London reports Ra-Nefer at the Royal College of Surgeons as the oldest mummy, dated to 3700 BC. New Sakkara discoveries, dating to 4000 BC, include a woman about thirty five preserved in bandages with natron evidence, suggesting earlier use of preservation methods.
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London
Ra-Nefer
The
Royal College of Surgeons
Elliot Smith
Sénefra
Egypt
Sakkara
Cairo
Sminith
When Is Egg Bad
Debates over whether decomposed eggs under the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act equal rotten eggs. Jersey City seizure of 443 cans of frozen egg product prompts testimony from government chemists on decomposition, with the Keith company arguing for a common law definition and criticism of Agriculture Department standards.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
Jersey City
N. I
Peka
Kan
the-Seymour
Keith Company
Congress
Supreme Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Moose stops phone service in Maine after bull moose snaps line
A charging bull moose tore about 250 feet of private telephone wire near West Carry Pond Camps in Maine, cutting all outside contact. Rufus B. Taylor, owner of the camps, says moose are state protected and may sue the state for damages. The moose with tangled wire was spotted crossing a tote road. moose protection lasts until October 15.
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Dead River
West Carry Pond
Rufus B. Taylor
Maine
Robbed of His Whiskers at Old Bridge
Benjamin Tice was approached by a group of men on a lonely road in Old Bridge New Jersey who demanded his belongings and then shaved his whiskers with shears. The bandits warned they wanted nothing but his facial hair.
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Old Bridge
N. J
Benjamin Tice
Missouri cure for gapes in chicks from damp weather
An article by Mrs. John J. Moore outlines a common chicken disease called gapes, caused by worms in the windpipe, worsened by cool damp weather. It recommends using crushed leaves of Jerus lemma oak as a vermifuge mixed into feed or water to prevent and stop the ailment.
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John J. Moore
Missouri
Simple Feeder for Poultry Invented for Practical Use
An automatic poultry feeder shown in the illustration is simple in design and practical. It hangs from a support and uses a grain container with a discharge opening a pivoted scoop and a pendulum with a ball. Chickens peck the ball to swing the pendulum, tilting the scoop to release grain onto the ground.
Practical advice for raising farm chicks and worm feeding
Suggests preparing brooding areas with coarse straw manure three inches deep to keep moist, placing chicks under shade, and letting them forage for angleworms to promote growth. Recommends currant brush as a good location for chicks.
Six hens start a profitable poultry grow operation
The article advises starting with six hens to grow a flock and emphasizes selecting perfectly fresh eggs for preservation. It notes profit per hen matters, milk aids chick growth, and a vermin free, well fed environment is crucial for flock health and yard efficiency.
A Good Prophet Quote From Journal Amusant
A short exchange notes Pierre being nicknamed a good prophet after his uncle mentions Hoe's crime. The line suggests the nephew Pierre faces transport to New Caledona for strangling an elderly woman. The dialogue preserves a satirical tone from Journal Amusant.
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Pierre
New Caledona
Journal Amusant
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