Farm and Fireside Notes from an Iowa Farmer
A collection of curious tips and culinary ideas from various sources. Practical farming hints include grape cultivation on elm trees, vinegar in irrigation water, ice prevention on windows, poultry parasite caution, mare paralysis treatment, iodine joint application, yeast versus brewers’ yeast, bread rising time, egg storage, and a barley soup recipe.
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Iowa
Chcago Journal
N. Y
Brigucine
Iereredd Parmer
Aaron
Money and Music Fame The Odds of Hit Songs
The article argues success in song writing hinges on timing and mood, contrasting hit tunes with earnest, noble verse. It citesa Irishman Terry Joininge and others earning large royalties from popular songs while many writers fail, due to luck and market taste rather than talent. It notes profits from songwriting range from thousands of dollars, while stage plays offer varied, often lower, returns.
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Jet
Terry Joinete
Bebs
Nen
Lise 4A
Avery
Tayer
Sinly Dedner
Ube
Approw
Inter
Lara
Artley Campbell
Tucis
Daly
New York
Lis Oki
Dola Stetson
Ava
Ciprintist
Compicrtial-Gazette
The Protit in Farming Now Aims for Richer Returns
A moralizing farming treatise argues longer term soil care boosts future yields. It urges farmers to rotate crops, plow in manure or green cover, and improve land through seasonal plowing and fallow strategies. The author predicts richer, more productive farms after ten years under careful management.
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Scrievtvere
Eadie
St Pitt
Beurre
Yale
Manre
N. FL
Playing Valet to Himself in Curious Self-Service Tale
A fragmented OCR passage describes a person acting as valet to himself with a friend named X. He wakes at seven, dresses, polishes boots, brushes clothes, then lies down again. Around ten he rings a bell and, speaking as if to a servant, issues orders to himself and proceeds to finish dressing and attend to routine chores.
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Hell
John
Advertising Enterprise and Repesea Question
A distressed speaker pleads for a reprint and clearer ad wording from Advertising Enterprise. The text laments altered ads and hints at a past store closing sale, urging fair prices and a new campaign while referencing a husband’s death and funeral costs.
Miscellaneous notes from a late 19th century periodical
A jumble of brief, fragmented items spans eccentric tales and oddities. Notes mention a Maryland man with two teeth, a Georgia train incident, fines in Toronto for bean-counting chances, feather-picking farm tasks, a Kentucky speaker, a Greene County birth, and various oddities about ships, wealth, and local curiosities, all reflecting miscellaneous clipping style.
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Georgis
Toronto
Ont
Kansas City
Hawkinsille
Wiigen
Bivehourn
Kentucky
Fish courtship and nesting behavior observed by naturalist
A naturalist describes a stickleback male building a nest, courting a female, and guarding the eggs. The male drives the female into the nest, then fertilizes and incubates the eggs by fanning them with fins until the fry are ready. A stray line mentions destroying the Boston Globe.
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Shane
Boston Globe
Sealing Hotel Figures
An old lady enters a hotel seeking lodging and breakfast. She questions the price, insists on staying all night, threatens violence if billed, then storms out with bag and steam. The clerk cites two dollars for a room and twelve shillings for bed and meals. DetroIt Free Press.
Pudding at the head table recalled in Wyndham tale
A droll Thanksgiving yarn from Wyndham recalls a lawyer at the head of the table who, amid jokes, spilled pudding and later a cake of hor pudding into his own chair. The piece then shifts to medical ads and a sponsor array noting patent remedies and cures with testimonial language.
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Wyndham
C. B. Lyman
Borhood
Hartford
City of Boston mystery sea voyage and captain's tale
A Boston era mystery surrounding the city’s missing ship the City of Boston. An interview in New York with Captain George Siddons Murray aboard the Alasta of the Guion line recounts the storm and ice that likely led to the vessel’s sinking. The piece blends personal health notes of the captain with reflections on maritime peril and a broader era of transatlantic travel.
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Boston
Harbor
Atlantic Voyager
New Yok
George Siddons Murray
Lowas
Lntwerp
Cantein
Limerick
Murray
Abcela
Williams & Guien
Queen-town
Liverpooo
Hright
Miyself
Anla
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Money
Advertising Enterprise
Moses
Hisuellaneous
Ceorre
Alen
Tennsylvania
Mansflell
Frval
Newport
Maslacawar
Gaepowder
Greene County
Morgan County
Sin
Dale Dawson
Greene
Chiraga Vines
Portland
Trimsriot
Ariellie Ward
Times
Coneration
Ani
Denmark
Rowery
N. F Potca
Liverpool
Warrentown
Itv
St. Louis
T'S
W. &. Swasey
D. A. Willinacon
St. Jacobs Til
Brest
Cours
Swaseys
St. Jacobs Oil
Chicago
Hale
Cousins
Dike
Swift
Brayham
Macon
Brown
Kansas
Cholen Bears
U. S
Captain Murray
Lave
Wells
Alsali
Emarket
Tuditte
A. H
Ralveeny
Vermont
Legion
Troy Times
Ely
Perea Bauce
Ithaca
Yonkers Statesman
United States
Duvang
Washington, D.C
Chicago Journal
Isaac Mhompeon
Messenger of Health
Scott
Pamphist
Frorma
Suwanee River
Washington
Hot Springs
Ark
Jao
Albany
Bertic
Charles A. Voreler
Peters
Baltimore
Waren Mel
Ane Hogell
Jeneiftire
N.Y
Hanes
G. E. Prences & CO
West Fifth Street
Iene Baneas Cit
Coca, Baend Fn
Sega
Tree
Ask Pour Druggefor Avinwe Bi
CW. Scott
Stentens
Adare Tue Times
DR. Horne
Yameeern
Quero Ageris
Svery Town
J. Horne
Nord On
Af Merenty
Thare
Trier
T. L. Massenburg
Monarch
Sebutar
Herve
Scrotuls
Kiegs Evi
Ughy
Bod Dineases
Dupehiemeliaey
Siena Bertens
Nervars
Richmond Mod. CO
Stoutenburg
Chicags
Oemey
Vows
Drogeina
Mall
N “Anson Banoe
Sina
Marty
Labe
Anyabers
Guarat
Mersona
Wand
C—D
Tony Mepreme
Casatium Apattoe
Cleveland, Os
Phillip G Baile
Owas
Fifert
Faery Galloway
Myertown
Maine
Kinney-rort
Eeradine
Lee
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