Bayer Aspirin Ad Promotes Genuine Product and Prices
An advertisement urges buyers to look for Bayer on tablets to ensure genuine aspirin used for colds headaches and other pains. It notes packaging options including twelve tablets and bottles of 24 or 100, with Bayer as the trade mark and the medicine described as safe by millions. A separate Current Event quotes Gen. George A Wingate in New York mocking mistreatment of war invalids and ends with a Mrs Malaprop anecdote about electrocuting a daughter.
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Bayer
George A. Wingate
New York
Cuticura Steps For Pimply Skin Care
Advertisement advises using Cuticura Ointment to remove pimples and blackheads, wash with Cuticura Soap and hot water in five minutes, and maintain clear skin with daily use of the products including Cuticura Talcum.
Lost House in Town Prompted Child to Cry
A boy on a busy street corner sobbed that he had a house somewhere in town but could not find it. He spoke to a passerby about his predicament, describing his sense of loss amid the urban bustle.
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Sonny
Chicago Tribune
Method in His Action
Tommy Boy asks for more pea soup in a playful scene with Grandma. He jokes that eating a lot of it will give him a bellyache and excuse him from school, though the remark is lighthearted and humorous.
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Tommy Boy
Buddy
Immediate relative question cited in dialogue fragment
A reader quote asks what qualifies as an immediate relative. The reply references a twin brother as an example, suggesting a family relation within a casual exchange.
Wise On Job Feeling Fine After Tanlac Cure
A. C. Wise of Omaha reports recovery from flu illness after taking Tanlac. He says appetite returned, weight increased by ten pounds, and energy restored enabling him to return to work. Tanlac advertised as effective with over 37 million bottles sold. Advertisement.
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A. C. Wise
Manderson St
Omaha
Nebi
Tanlac
Rich Wichita Man Gives Girl Calendar Gift Story
A wealthy Wichita magnate saw a poorly dressed girl eyeing cafe displays and learned her parents’ plight. He gave her a package to give to her mother, saying it would last a year, and inside lay a new calendar, a Good Fairy moment recounted by the Wichita Eagle.
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Wichita
Honors Were Even Exchange at School Board
A classroom scene recalls a girl encouraging her brother Hugh at the board. She tells how she boosts him with go and try and he overcomes fear. A boy in another room adds a quip about a sister calling him when she sees a dog, ending with a light exchange.
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Hugh
Not That Kind of Soldier Excerpt
An exchange between an examining surgeon and a conscription candidate highlights the candidate’s refusal to enlist due to an old injury. The dialogue touches on endurance and the phrase milk of human kindness turning sour when stirred, reflecting wartime attitudes.
Barberry linked to wheat rust in historic find
USDA explains how the barberry bush spreads black stem rust to nearby wheat. Dr. EB O Stakman notes rust epidemics vanish when bushes are removed. De Bary’s 1865 work confirmed the life cycle from barberry to barberry infection and back to black rust.
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United States Department of Agriculture
EB. O. Stakman
England
Caase
de Bary
Doctor Stakman
Chickens and Eggs Sold Make Family Comfortable
A Colorado woman attained comfort and financial security last year through poultry keeping despite a nearly failed main crop. After culling and selling stock for 106 dollars she bought lumber for a larger poultry house. Eggs and chickens brought 597.20 dollars, covering taxes, interest, house expansion, and finishing two rooms for a warm three room home.
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Colorado
United States Department of Agriculture
Flies Hurt Milk Output. Dairyman Advises Repellent Mix
A dairy farmer warns that flies significantly reduce milk flow and recommends a repellent spray. The extension division suggests a mixture of crude carbolic acid turpentine oil of tar and tannin diluted to five gallons with kerosene for nightly and morning use on cows in the stable.
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College
Alfalfa Best of Forage Crops
The United States Department of Agriculture notes alfalfa as a premier forage crop grown globally. It prefers dry, moist soils with good drainage, tolerates heat in dry air, and thrives from sea level to high mountain altitudes, but suffers from prolonged flooding, cold damage, and shallow water tables.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Imperial Valley
Cal
Colorado
Taming of Guineas Must Be Started Right Away
Guineas can be tamed if training begins immediately after hatching. Hatch under common turrets and keep confined while small guiding them to roost in hen houses for tame behavior. They may be wild by choice, but on farms with enemies roaming may be killed. Guineas are noisy yet valued on farms with growing demand in Eastern markets. Eggs are rich and keep longer.
Insure Cleaner Potatoes Seed Treatment Call
Farmers urged to treat seed potatoes with formaldehyde or corrosive sublimate to improve harvest quality. Advises digging more potatoes and aiming for cleaner yields as conditions favor better production.
Feather Eating Habit in Fowls Tied to Diet
Harry Embleton of the A. and M. college poultry department explains that feather eating in fowls stems from missing food groups. He says supplying milk, tankage, meat scraps, or alfalfa pasture in sufficient quantities helps birds overcome the habit.
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Harry Embleton
The
A. and M. College
Culture of Clover for Profitable Seed Crop
For heavy clover growth intended for seed, cut when heads brown, cure in windrows, and haul under cover as heads rattles. Apply one peck of horse salt per two loads or layer straw between loads to absorb moisture. Use side delivery rake to air and cure hay, avoiding leaf loss and reducing need for a tedder.
Color of Eggs by Ear Lobes in Hens
A hen with a white ear lobe lays a white shelled egg while a hen with a colored ear lobe lays a colored egg. Leghorns and Anconas have white ear lobes. Plymouth Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Wyandottes have red ear lobes.
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Leghorns
Anconas
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Wyandottes
Reunion at the Train Platform
A man greets his mother on a station platform as she exits a train wearing a blue suit and red hat. A passing colored woman interrupts with a playful remark, causing laughs among bystanders before mother is escorted to a waiting auto.
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Mother
Chicago Tribune
Obedient Chid Learns Seed Lesson At Lunch
Florence had been warned not to swallow fruit seeds and was picking out bones in salmon at lunch. She then looked up and proudly showed her mother the seeds she had already removed.
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Florence
Happiness. The Way To Be Happy Now
A brief quotation noting happiness as present, morphing into a call to share joy by making others happy, attributed to Robert Ingersoll. The piece emphasizes living in the moment and communal happiness.
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Robert Ingersoll
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