Practical farming tips for year round stock care
A broad farm advisory piece covers pasture maintenance, shelter, feeding, and manure use. It stresses balanced rations, leguminous crops, careful grain finishing before market, grape vine propagation, soil fertility, and water quality. It warns on overfeeding swine, appropriate straw handling, and using molasses in dairy rations for better milk. It cites Prof. Creelman and Ex Gov Hoard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Creelman
Italy
Hoard
Wisconsin
Susan
Rothamstead
England
Patent leather bags trend in smart fashion accessories
The article surveys patent leather and other bags noting their brightness and popularity despite wear. It highlights fittings ingenuity from vanity cases to change purses, discusses bag types for shopping luncheons and travel, and praises new shapes with overlapping flaps and metal mounting designs. It mentions lizard skins for dressy uses and color tones from pale biscuit to white with gold mounts and stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
Proper Dinner Table Service Principles Drawn From Household Practice
A young housekeeper explains noiseless, proper service at meals with layout rules. Place settings center on balance, with salt cellars paired, central centerpiece, and forks on the left, knives on the right. The oyster fork sits at the right. dessert spoons cross the top. Napkin folded with two points under plate, bread tucked in. Plates are placed before each guest as meals proceed. Quiet dining is stressed. servants should avoid noise.
Candle Shade Craft From Water Color Paper
Neat candle shade instructions describe a frame built from waterproof paper with a painted design in bright colors mimicking leaded glass. Steps include tracing a four-part pattern, painting in water colors, outlining with India ink, and gluing panels into a frame with strong glue for a finished shade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle
Defiance Starch Promises Thinner, Weaker Paste Solution
The advertisement touts Defiance Starch as stronger than competitors, allowing clothes to be starched thinner without sacrificing stiffness. It contrasts this with rival starches that require heavy pastes, dulling fabric and diminishing wear. It also references a humorous exchange about hard times and chicken theft.
Public bust carved as winds push leftward in Scotland
In a western Scottish town a public building under construction hosts a bust of The Bruce. A bailie heckles the sculptor about the beard direction, prompting the artist to wittily compare it to the wind blowing along the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
the Bruce
Bailie
Resinolla Endorsed Worldwide for Skin Eruptions
A testimonial from M. F. Ryan of Bedford London praising Resinol Ointment as highly effective for skin eruptions. The statement claims resinolla is appreciated by intelligent people worldwide and recommends the product to all sufferers of skin conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Resinolla
M. F. Ryan
Bedford ,Q
London
When He Moved On andoffice banter
A fragmentary 19th century exchange appears with a quip about paint on a railing and a jokey line from a busy man. Includes a tease about a bear likened young man and a teething advertised remedy. Mixed ads mention Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Russ Blue laundry product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caledonian
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Chile
Dodds
ReaIs
Guaranty
RS Carters
Au Refuse Subs
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DR. D. Jayne
Br. D. Jayne
Douge
W. S. Douglas
W. S. Dougias
Douglna
W. 1. Douglas
Boya
W. L. Douglas
Ravena
W.l.douglas
Brockton
Mass
Humanity
Fisher
Roanoke
Anerlean Iron Works
Lowa
Uni
Firat
Des Moines
Dr. Zownsend & Bro
Greanville
Watson E. Coleman
Wash
Inston LA
Suvve
TaventoraUulde
Columbus
Tex
W.N. U
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