Unto the Least of These Aims for a Better Life
Gussie, a factory worker and later a typist, seeks improved prospects for herself and her family. She joins a slick swindler Frank B. Austin, becomes his confidential secretary, and unknowingly aids a large fraud. After arrest and a heartfelt confession, she chooses truth over escape, aided by Mrs. Travers, leading to redemption and renewed family ties.
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Gusie Felstrom
Gussie
Mother
Frank Austin
Guasie
Pyro Mining and Investment Company
Frank B. Austin
Austin
Mr. Austin
the Law
Frank R. Austin
Mrs. Travers
English Estates Illustrate Size and Stewardship Across Dukedoms
The Philadelphia Ledger notes English estates of 191481 acres for the Duke of Northumberland 132998 for the Duke of Devonshire and 87515 for the Duke of Bedford. It argues breaking up estates would harm fertility, while acknowledging landlords often invest in tenant welfare and livestock improvement.
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Duke of Northumberland
Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Bedford
England
Philadelphia Ledger
Famous Old Freiburg Battle and Berthold Schwarz Legacy
The Freiburg region saw three August 1644 battles where French forces led by Conde Enghein and Turenne were defeated by General Mercy, ultimately yielding the Rhine valley to French control from Basel to Coblenz. A Freiburg square honors Berthold Schwarz, traditionally credited with inventing gunpowder in 1259.
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Freiburg
Conde
Enghein
Turenne
Mercy
Rhine
Basel
Coblentz
Berthold Schwarz
Preventing Hog Cholera and Swine Plague Spread
This guide urges early recognition of hog cholera and swine plague even when symptoms are unclear. It recommends destroying sick hogs for post mortem, dividing herds, quarantining animals, cleaning and disinfecting facilities, and using portable hog houses and tar disinfectant sprays to prevent outbreaks.
Water for Hogs in Summer
Farmers should provide ample water for hogs during hot months and avoid muddy wallows that spread diseases like cholera. Build shallow concrete-sided wallows with drains for easy water changes and cleanliness. Apply a half inch layer of crude oil on water to kill lice and fleas when pigs bathe.
Bot Flies Annoy Horses In Summer And Fall
Bot flies annoy horses by buzzing around legs and throat and laying small yellow eggs on hair tips. Eggs are ingested, hatch in the stomach and attach to the stomach lining, causing harm. Regularly clipping hairs carrying eggs reduces the number reaching the stomach and hatch.
Shortage of Sound Horses Edges Breeding Efforts
Farmers face a growing shortage of good horses as demand rises. Breeding sound mares to strong stallions is urged, though it takes five years to produce market-ready horses. The paper argues horses remain preferred for farm motive power over other options.
Cadet’s Business Claims Stir Ft Harrison Selection
At Ft Harrison the quartermaster corps selection favors candidates with business experience. An applicant claimed seven years of business background, saying he started work at fourteen. The instructor officer questioned him about age and experience, noting he was only twenty one and that his farm duties were cited as business.
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Ft. Harrison
Quartermaster’s Corps
Indianapolis
Cuticura Skin Care Ad Promotes Daily Use
An advertisement advises a hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment to clear skin and scalp for eczema rashes and itching in children and adults. It urges daily use as a toilet preparation and offers a free sample by mail via a postcard to Boston. Also includes a brief film industry joke about a screen artist and a general quip on being good versus great.
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Dept. L
Boston
Explosion Averted in Garage as Worker Confesses Fear of Heaven
In a garage, manager speaks with Mr. Erastus Pinkley who reveals his belief that he survived due to being unworthy to go to heaven. He explains his confidence came from his recovery and that working in gasoline-soaked conditions had him fearing for his afterlife.
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Yas Sur
Erastus Pinkley
Truthful for once in a fisherman's tall tale
An old quip on honesty in fishing circles frames a joke about an amateur angler boasting of truthfulness. The banter suggests clever deceit and communal skepticism about yardstick honesty among local anglers.
Keeping up appearances through frugal diet for dinners
A fragment suggests maintaining appearances by cutting costs to allow occasional dinners. The text hints at budgeting and social pressure without detailing people, places, or events.
Try This on Chiggers Collodion Relief for Bites
Collodion, a gun cotton in alcohol and ether solution, forms a clear film on skin when applied and may relieve chigger bites. It also serves as an excellent treatment for hang nails, and the bottle should be kept tightly corked.
Be good or face envy and social pins
A philosopher urges goodness as a path to happiness but a conscience driven man resists. He warns that trying to seem virtuous may provoke envy and social sniping, leaving him wounded by others’ pins of judgment.
Speaking of Vegetables Card Trick Heard by Domestic Help
A young wife explains metal chemistry to a child. She says real silver always has a lion mark. The child replies that carrots are said to appear on gold, though she has not seen them.
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Mary
War Gardener Intervenes as Burglar Crashes Home
In a tense exchange a burglar admits entry through the back window while the resident, a war gardener, frets about harming his potato patch. The scene unfolds with startled relief as the intruder consents to leaving.
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Scott
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Alice E. Ives
W. A. Chapman
Old Freiburg
Contented Money Makers
Ripp
Rapp
Tue Genraun Gompant
NEW_ YORK
the Centaur Company
New York
GITT
Detroit
Saxon Motor Car Corporation
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