Thankful For A Little Child Lydia E Pinkham Ad
Mrs Charles A Mertz of Kutztown Pa testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her after childbirth. She says her baby is healthy and she can speak some words. The letter promotes the product as meritorious with a fifty year record and encouraging other women to try it.
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Utztown
Lydia E. —_ oo Pinkham
IPS
Charles A. Mertz
Kutztown
Lydia E. Pi
Lydia E. Pinkham
Little Mabel’s Surprising Observation on Old Age
In a courtroom anecdote a eight year old girl named Mabel, living with her aunt, questions politeness by calling an elderly Mrs. Brown a well Pickied old lady. The judge records the humorous mishearing and playful critique of age labels.
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Mabel
Mrs. Brown
Prepared for Death in Suburban Scene
A suburban lady notes a plane overhead and asks her maid Cottie if she would ride. Cottie declines, saying she would prefer to stay on the ground and be ready to keep moving, avoiding flight.
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Cottie
Taking Chances in San Francisco Shipboard Banter
New Mexico sailors ashore in San Francisco joke at a restaurant as a waiter jokes about hash to the Gob and Leatherneck. The quick exchange ends with the Leatherneck echoing a similar order and the crowd reacting.
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Woeshore
New Mexico
San Francisco
Use of Milking Machines Gains
United States Department of Agriculture summarizes cleaning and sterilizing milking machines. Hot water method reduces bacteria counts dramatically. weekly disassembly and scrubbing required. vacuum line cleaned biweekly. pails and covers sterilized after each milking.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Wood ashes assist garden use in beds
Do not waste ashes from the grate. Strew them over the garden as they are rich in potash fertilizer. They leach into the ground and remain in suspension for plant uptake. Especially valuable for daffodil and tulip beds.
Cucumber Mosaic Disease Spread by Insects Warned
Wild cucumber vine and common milkweed are primary hosts of cucumber mosaic or white pickle disease. The virus spreads mainly via striped cucumber beetle and melonaphis, and eradicating these wild hosts is urged to reduce field infection and delay disease onset by several weeks.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Middle West
Corn for Silage Purposes in the North
The article advises northern farmers to plant well matured seed of a long season corn variety when aiming for silage. It notes that silage crops benefit from extra maturity time, unlike grain crops, and that selecting a longer season variety can boost production, giving northern silo owners an edge over neighbors.
Lime dangers in long term truck cropping
A Rhode Island experiment station report notes 15 years of lime and manure fertilization on truck crops. After initial yields, soils failed, suggesting no fertilizer in continuous rotation without green manuring. Excess lime harms soil acidity, especially for spinach, and pink litmus signals soil sufficiency.
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Doctor Hartwell
Rhode Island
Value of alfalfa pasture for pig feeding in Iowa
J. M. Evvard of the Iowa Station notes alfalfa pasture yields high value at 25 to 35 dollars per acre. It can feed 20 pigs per acre with each gaining 200 pounds in the season. Grazing plus mowing a ton or two of hay provides better results than feeding with no pasture, reducing needs for corn and fodder.
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J. M. Evvard
Iowa Station
Juvenile in Knickerbockers Becomes Prison Convict For Life
Laporte Indiana. John Mellick age sixteen orphaned by fate has entered Indiana state prison in Michigan City wearing long pants as a convict with a life sentence for murder. He killed his foster mother Mrs Stoltz and faced a death penalty that was commuted. Protests arise over the sentence and a drive to have him judged insane continues.
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Laporte
Ind
John Mellick
John
Indiana State Prison
Michigan City
Knickerbockers
Edward J. Fogarty
Mellick
Robert Stoltz
Catherine Marec
Stoltz
Farmer Seeks Low-Cost Fertile Lands For Better Cropping
An advertorial urges farmers to expand into cheaper land to boost crop yields and profits amid market and financing pressures. It argues large crops yield higher net profit and promotes soil, moisture, and variety improvements, suggesting Western Canada or other cheap lands as solutions with guidance from Canadian government agents.
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Western
Canada
Western Canada
Skirts Made Heiber Wild As Heifer Rampages in Olive Street
Margot the prize black heifer broke free from a youth leading her to the slaughterhouse on Olive street. She chased a tenant up three flights of stairs before retreating, then charged back and smashed glass panels. Cowboys from the stock yards pursued and shot the animal after it caused chaos near a white haired old woman.
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St. Louis
Margot
Olive Street
Portelman O'Flaherty
O'Flaherty
Hold World Marriage Record
Mrs Elizabeth Bradshaw aged seventy seven wed Sylvester Hargreaves at an improvised ceremony. The couple, living in Sheffield, announced their union as a quiet record for the parish despite their advanced ages and modest celebration.
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Sheffield, Eng
Elizabeth Bradshaw
Sylvester Hargreaves
Frost Keeps Grip on Gold in Frozen Alaska
Gold prospectors in Alaska face ground that stays frost bound even at summer surface. They thaw two to three feet, then blast and dig through frozen gravels with wood fires and picks, finding similar challenges to Siberian methods. The frost resists gunpowder and dynamite, while prospecting relies on persistence and sharp focus.
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Alaska
Siberia
Patty and the political grandmother who loved suffrage
A Chicago Journal anecdote recalls a grandmother active in suffrage work nicknamed Our Politician. A three year old Patty humorously defines Red Riding Hood as a politician, revealing the household’s playful view of politics amid a broader note on public life and civic involvement.
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Patty
Red Riding Hood
Grandmother
Chicago Journal
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