Adam Bede Delivers Droll Pittsburg Banquet Speech
Former Congressman Adam Bede of Minnesota mocked Pittsburg with a smoky pun at a chamber of commerce banquet. He praised Pittsburg’s people and wealth, then quipped that if tired of the town he could wash it off.
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Quiet-Spoken Customer Demands An Axe For Piano
A quiet customer asks for an axe in a sales scene about piano accessories. The salesman confirms they stock everything for the piano, prompting the demand for a tool not related to music.
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Puck
Fliptons Separate as Woman Keeps the Poodle
In High Life a dialogue notes the Fliptons have separated. The woman retains ownership of the poodle, revealing a personal detail of the split. The snippet hints at marriage or relationship changes without broader context.
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Old Boiler Uses as Feed Troughs on Texas Farm
A Texas onion grower’s farm shows two abandoned kitchen range boilers repurposed as a feed manger and a hog trough. The writer notes such boilers are common on farms and can be found in scrap piles at blacksmith shops. Clear drawings illustrate the conversion.
Feed Rations For Growing Market Sheep In Spring
An Iowa breeder advises feeding to increase weight for market in spring using corn and oats with alfalfa or clover as roughage. If using corn fodder and straw, add bran. harvest time wheat lowers bran prices, enabling stockpiling. For breeders with only ewes, use oats and bran or bran oats peas, two to one to one, with oil meal if fodder dominates.
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Feeding and care tips for growing pigs and stock
The article emphasizes feeding strategies for hogs and livestock. It discusses barley sprouts as feed, the impact of exercise and palatability on growth, breeding sow selection, and timing of markets for young porkers. It also covers skim milk and cracked corn as side dishes, flaxseed meal usage, water quality in winter, charcoal and salt for digestion, and humane handling such as avoiding check reins and using a muzzle for troublesome horses. It concludes that a pig weighing 200 to 250 pounds is the ideal target for growers and feeders.
Nehemiah Prayer and Its Call to Action in Shushan
Nehemiah 1 outlined prayer for guidance during a crisis in Shushan around 445 BC. The piece portrays Nehemiah as devoted and prudent, seeking divine aid for Jerusalem’s reforms and a future in which God’s kingdom advances through patient preparation and practical effort.
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Charles Reade
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Oats Advertisement Offers Cooker With Coupons
A vintage ad promises 10 coupons per customer and a free cooker with AZoth er s Oats coupons. Readers are urged to clip and save, noting only one ad per customer as LO coupons.
Mother's Oats in Chicago Prompt Local Mystery
A fragment mentions Mother's Oats Chicago and a dialogue about living there versus New York. The text also includes an assertive line about sin and a reference to Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, priced 25c, with a moral note about green pastures for the Lord's sheep.
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