Alberta Wheat Yields Reported Across Wide Areas
An Alberta farming scene recounts exceptionally high wheat yields with reports of 63 to 68 bushels per acre from several farms near Warner, Milk River and eastward. An American observer notes vast crops across three provinces and farmers paying debts with bank accounts in good order as harvests appear extraordinary.
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Alberta
Coech
Warner
Milk River
Peterson
Roland
Bugier
Carr
Western Canada
Saskatoon
Regina
Moose Jaw
Solomon's Wit and the Queen of Sheba Ruse
A humorous take suggests Solomon built his legend by deceiving many with a platonic air toward the Queen of Sheba. The joke links a wine metaphor to a famed biblical ruse, noting the cunning needed to sway many.
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Solomon
Sheba
Soap and Ointment Ad Promises Cure for Eczema and Rashes
An advertisement touts Cuticura soap and ointment as cleaners and healers for eczema and rashes with relief, test, and sleep benefits. It offers free samples by mail from Boston and notes widespread sale. A separate joke panel ends with a quip about fortune and ambition.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Fall planting outperforms spring for orchard trees
Missouri agricultural tests show Jonathan apples planted in fall grow nearly twice as well as those set in spring. Cherry trees fall transplanted in 1913 all survived, while only a third of spring 1914 plantings did. fall trees also show greater terminal growth. Fall planting favored for peach and hardier trees in the region, with best results in early November before ground freezes.
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Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Jonathan
Réés
Missouri
Caring for blighted trees by cutting, burning, and sterilizing tools
The article prescribes removing blighted pear, apple, and quince twigs and burning them. It advises sterilizing cutting tools after each cut with a corrosive sublimate solution and coating healthy wounds with protective paint to prevent decay.
Handheld Fruit Gathering Bag Patent Shown in Wenatchee
Wenatchee Washington scene features invention of a fruit gathering bag with a rigid frame and attached bag for filled fruit. Shoulder straps and a clip with a leather piece secure the bag to the picker, enabling descent from a ladder to empty contents. Hand-picked apples fetch 26 cents each for hotels worldwide.
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Wenatchee, Wash
Wenatchee
Rust Attacks Blackberries in Orchard News
Rust is a troublesome disease attacking blackberries and hard to eradicate. If roots are dug out and the affected plants removed, the disease can be held in check to a great extent.
Build a dual-box desk and a miniature Japanese garden
Instructions detail constructing a desk with two identical grocery boxes forming a desk and a safe, including hinged drop leaf, corner uprights, castors, and finish. followed by steps for a Japanese garden using a baking pan, sand, pebbles, bird seed, a cardboard house, arched bridge from a basket handle, lamps, a bird house, cork ducks, and paper roof details.
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Pig. TV
Castoria advertisement and dubious patent medicine claims
An OCR fragment shows an advertising pitch for a safety drug and a supposed sample offer. It references Dr Kilmer and a private remedy claimed to cure quickly, urging readers to buy for $1 or test with ten cents. It also mentions Fletcher's Castoria and stage anecdotes, with garbled quotes about a car purchase and price.
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Kilmér
Dr. Jimer & Co
Binghamton
N.Y
Bazaar Benefit for the Unemployed Cited
Quote recalls a proposed upstart bazaar to aid the unemployed. Acknowledges willingness to help but notes the intended beneficiaries have more time than they know and questions the plan’s usefulness.
Humiliating pay raise talk and a playful postman game
A chauffeur demands five dollars extra weekly pay to avoid driving an old car and the employer questions the need. A boy James plays postman by delivering old letters around the street, claiming others enjoyed it.
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Feild James
Antaetas Healy
Supper Versus Dinner Through Time in Oxford and London
The piece traces meal timing shifts from early dinner to supper, noting Oxford college allocations favoring supper, and cites Harrison’s England description. It contrasts noble, gentry, and student practices with merchants and husbandmen, then ends with a domestic anecdote about a mistress and a maid's exchange on a black suitor.
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Oxford
William Harrison
England
Sleven
London
London Chronicle
Ambiguous exchange hints at attempted loan request
Fragmentary dialogue notes a person named Bigtow seeking ten dollars as a loan and mentioning strength of credit. The text shows uncertainty about the speaker and context and lacks dates or location.
Muddled Quotes on War and Romance Echoing Dizzy Talk
Fragmentary chatter references disease in British trenches labeled terrible and dismissive talk about alimony and marriage. A speaker named Williams critiques optimism and dignity when finances fail, hinting at wartime slang and social pressures without a clear event or outcome.
Cow Kills Child by Fright In Window Incident
Investigation by Dr. H Albert Mc Murray coroner of Westmoreland County into the death of three year old James Henry Pershing of Grapeville found the child frightened to death after a cow at pasture looked in an open window. The cow mooed loudly causing the boy to scream and collapse then die twelve hours later.
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H. Albert McMurray
Westmoreland County
James Henry Pershing
Lawrence .Pershing
Grapeville
Greensburg
Philadelphia
Odd Sayings and Quips from a Rural Exchange
A rustic exchange features a kitchen fire offer turned down by a traveler who jokes about dues in the Kindling Splitters' union. A wry aphorism follows about pessimists and optimists, and a final quip likens a henpecked husband to a has-been rooster.
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Wayfarer
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Shisee
Sian
LEG & Sones
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