Wilsons Service to Americas Farmers Proclaims New Laws
President Wilson hails a sweeping farm program as a landmark in rural improvement. The August 11, 1916 letter to Rep. Lever outlines acts on marketing finance storage and warehouse facilities, federal aid roads, and the federal farm loan act, detailing how cooperative extension, warehouse standards, grain and cotton reforms, and the Federal Reserve support will boost production, prices, and rural life nationwide.
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United States
Wilson
A. F. Lever
Committee On Agriculture
House of Representatives
White House
Washington
Lever
Department of Agriculture
Woodrow Wilson
The Best Laxative: Exercise and Diet Advice
Outdoor activity is the best laxative to keep bowels regular. Drink a full glass of water before breakfast and eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. Establish a regular habit and ensure a daily bowel movement. If medicine is needed use Chamberlain's Tablets. For sale by F D Stubenrauch.
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F. D. Stubenraich
A True Bear Story From Queen's Gardens
A humorous tale from Queen's Gardens recounts a man building a cabin in the Sierra high country and encountering a mother bear and her cub. The cub enters a sugar sack, the rat bites the cub, and the bears defend each other as the man cleans his cabin and chuckles at the unlikely misadventure. Brazil Origin of Name Explained The piece explains how Brazil got its name from a hard red wood called praza live coal in Portuguese, later shortened to Brazil, as the wood's vivid color inspired the country's designation.
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High
Sierras
Queen’s Gardens
Brazil
Treating Catarrh with Scott’s Emulsion
It is claimed that catarrh signals general weakness and local sprays fail. To correct catarrh, enrich the blood with the oil-food in Scott's Emulsion a medicinal food and building tonic free from alcohol or harming drugs. Try it. Scott & Bowne Bloomfield NJ.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
Campaign Against Flies Spurs Schoolyard Fundraiser
In Cincinnati many groups battle the house fly as a disease carrier. The Mothers Club at Avondale Public School led a big sale of fly traps, aided by Col. William Melish, who provided traps cheaply. Children bought 1028 traps, hoping to curb fly numbers and disease risk across the city.
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Queen of the West
Cincinnati
Mothers’ Club
Avondale
Col
William Melish
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Feix J. Koch
We Are Rich With Joyful Children And Home
A lyrical verse extols a merry couple and their two lovely children, a son and a daughter, cherished as priceless riches beyond gold. They boast a garden bounded home, free of guards, shaded by birdsong and clover, where love keeps a perpetual hoard.
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Love
Why Wet Land Is Cold Says Soil Expert Hopkins
G Hopkins, a soil expert, explains that evaporating water from a soil surface requires five times more heat than raising the same water from freezing to boiling. Wet, poorly drained soils stay cold because continual evaporation uses heat, and drainage helps warm the soil.
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G. Hopkins
Free Comic Drill Ends at Jersey City High School
A fragment notes free comic distribution at Jersey City High School H S Wells a referenced figure. The terse text mentions Stores Institutes and country drug as context, but the readable lines indicate a promotional event at a local school. No further details are available.
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H. S. Wells
Jersey City
N.J
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