Farm History and California Travel Notes From 1884
In Eliot Maine a nine generation family home traces two centuries of residence and lineage, while a California travelogue from San Diego to the coast describes climate, irrigation, and port potential. The piece discusses the bay’s value, railroad politics, and local farming with irrigation via wind pumps and cement piping beneath fields.
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Eliot
California
R. R
San Bernardino
Harbisch
San Diego Bay
South America
Cape Horn
San Francisco
Southern Pacific Railroad
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atlantic
California Southern
U. P. Railroad
Union
Agassiz
Bay of San Diego
Cabrillo
Philip the II
Spain
San Diego
Sweetwater River
Otay Creek
Los Angeles
Make and Save Money with Farmers' Friend Premiums
A 19th century promotional note invites farmers to subscribe to the Farmers' Friend at 50 cents yearly with 8 large pages and 48 columns. Premiums include 50 special presents such as a Studebaker Wagon and plows, awarded March 9, 1884, for the largest clubs. Clubs begin November 1, 1883, with agents earning money canvassing.
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Studebaker
Casady
Oliver
Marwins’ Freexp Punchshine Co
South Bend
Ind
Revered Jasper Sermon Inspires Debate On Mind And Truth
In Richmond Virginia a sermon on John Jasper’s belief that the sun moves explores the preacher’s forceful oratory and possible limits of education. Dr. Ludlow praises Jasper as a rare historical figure among old time colored preachers. The sermon ends with a humorous challenge about judgment and truth.
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Richmond
John Jasper
Ludlow
South
Jasper
Wells
John
Dick Wells
The Eyes of Potatoes Three Crops In One
A Country Gentleman correspondent explains that potatoes yield early middle and late crops. Eyes at one end ripen earlier. remove eyes near the root end and surrounding eyes to avoid small watery potatoes. The root end waste feeds hogs while other scraps feed cattle or hogs.
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State Drainage Association
Des Moines
United States Court Room
J. J. W. Billingsley
Indianapolis
Drainage Farm Journal
Gue
Knapp
Iowa
Story County
College Farm
Country Gentleman
Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry Cited as Lung Cure
An advertisement extols Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry as the best remedy from current drug knowledge for colds coughs asthma bronchitis and lung diseases It claims cures for consumption where others failed and that a spoonful cures ordinary coughs or colds and relieves asthma with soothing healing and fortifying effects for throat and lungs.
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Wistar
Cleaning poultry houses requires burning old nests
The advice warns that cleaning is useless without burning old nests as they harbor poultry parasites. A whitewash brush cannot exterminate the pests hidden in nest debris.
Spring Renewal With Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
It promotes a rejuvenated complexion and renewed vitality by cleansing the system as spring awakens nature. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is advised to invigorate one’s powers.
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Ayer
Piles Remedy Promises Cure with Bosanko Medicine
Describes piles with back and abdominal weight, indigestion, and night itching. Claims Dr Bosanko's Pile remedy absorbs tumors relieves itching and cures when others fail. Advises prompt use before systemic damage. Price 50 cents prepaid from The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Sold by Wm Burks.
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Bosan
Excursion Rates to Florida by Ohio and Mississippi
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway offers reduced excursion round trip tickets to Jacksonville Savannah Charleston Thomasville and other southern points. Tickets are valid fifteen days after sale and usable for return any time before June 1 1884. See C and M agents for rates and routes.
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Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Jacksonville
Savannah
Charleston
Thomasville
Want of Faith and Free Cough Syrup Offer by Burks
William H. Burks the druggist promises to give a bottle of Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup free to anyone needing a remedy for coughs colds consumption and lung affections if his own effort does not succeed.
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Wm. H. Burks
Dust bath for hens and lice control advice
Instructions describe making a sunlit four board dust bath without a bottom, filled with dry loam or road dust, plus extra supply. A barrel of dust ready for use. add wood ashes if lice are heavy. The text promotes Wilder's Stomach Spitters as a tonic.
Ayer's Hair Vigor Praised by McArthur Enquirer Owner
J W Bowes, proprietor of the McArthur Enquirer in Ohio, endorses Ayer's Hair Vigor as an excellent hair preparation. He asserts it promotes new hair growth, makes hair glossy and soft, cures dandruff, and has always given satisfaction based on his experience.
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Mr. C. P. Briener
Wirby
Bali
Ayers Halr
J.W. Bowes
The
McArthur (Ohio) Enquirer
Ayer
Angus Fairbairn
O. A. Prescott
St. Charlestown
Mass
Watch Cases Hinde and the James Boss Gold Case Growth
In 1875 thirteen workers made James Boss Gold Watch Cases. Now five hundred are employed as demand grows. The design uses gold in wear areas with stronger metal elsewhere for strength and elasticity, delivering a superior case at lower cost. Over 200,000 sold. endorsements from jewellers nationwide.
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James Boss
James Ross
Lepineron
Micn
E.W. Marsh
The
Democrat
Wat. J. Cushway
Keystone Watch Case
Philaddelphia
Dames Boss
Keystone
The Sun Promises Truthful News and Honest Government
The Sun boasts a vast past year's circulation and claims to tell the truth without fear, presenting world news concisely for readers. It asserts support for Republican defeat in the coming year, urging new readers to join in the sunshine of its reporting.
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Printing House Square
Mount Copernicus
Sun
Indiana
Sentinel
Treniens
Observer
NEW York Observer
Park Rew
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the Times
J.C. Bartlett
MqHoNe Building
Washingon and Main Streets
St. Nicholas
Guy Jack Frost
Hai —St. Nicholas
Mhall
Cassius M. Clay
Kentucky
Guysett
Sandell
TIMES
San Dino
Cal
Ohio
Illinois
de Sun de Moye
Florida
Pan
Wilder
New Worsky
the Sun
Agricultural Department
J. W. England
Idney Thesun
N. Y. City
S Mngy
Nicholas
Mary Mapes Dodge
New York Tribune
Louisa M. Alcott
J.T. Trowbridge
Captain Mayne Reid
Hjwlmar Ifjorth Boyesen
Maurice Thompson
Erink R. Stockton
Charles Dudley Warner
Joaquin Miller
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A D‘t Whitney
Julian Hawthorne
Colin Thaxter
Lieut Frederick Schwatka
Ftose I Hawthorne Lathrop
Els. Brooker
George W. Cable
Century CO
New York
N.Y
State Sentinel
Weekly Sentinel
Sunday Sentinel
M Daily
Maeenens
Indianapolis Sentinel Co
Dr. Sevier
New Orleans
Robert Grant
New-York
Christian League of Connecticut
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hawthorn
George Eliot
Cable
Ulysses
Mediterranean
Garfield
England
Europe
Silverado
Robert Louis Stevenson
John Burroughs
Dante
Alphonse Daudet
Century
Harris
Morris Remedy Co
St.Louis
Irenwins
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