Shipping Tactics Drive Growth in Chicago and Omaha Sheep Trade
W C Coffey explains how Chicago and Omaha became central sheep markets as western production and feeding stations stabilize supplies. He notes 1887 Chicago receipts 1,260,862 rising to 4,218,115 in 1907, driven by switched western flocks to mutton and wool, and by organized grading and controlled shipments reducing price volatility.
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United States
Missinalypi River
Rocky Mountain
Pacific
Chicago
Omaha
Great Central
Comnussion
Umeamura
Fale
Meee
Breeding Insect Resistant Plants Proposed by Forbes
Dr Forbes proposes selecting seed from the best stalks in insect infested fields to gradually breed varieties immune to insect attack. He suggests growing corn from such seed and notes parallels with wheat breeding. The article also discusses nitrate of soda as a quick nitrogen source and alternative gardener-friendly methods using cow peas, clover, and well rotted manure.
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A. Forbes
Illinois
Madison
Wis
Forbes
National Lead paint outfit offers home painting guidance
The National Lead Company advertises Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49 with free specifications, a color booklet for interior and exterior painting, and simple instruments to detect adulteration. It promises guidance on paint type, surface condition, and interims, highlighting the Dutch Boy Painter trademark as purity and quality assurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Trinity Tuilding
New York
Warning to all concerned Langworths lived in corner house
The Langworth family faced daily disturbance from passersby seeking other residents on their block. Frustrated, the son Harold hung a sign and printed “dust five worts” claiming no one else lived there. The house became a target of neighborly pestering.
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Nrd
Riddles
Hansons
Mra. Langworth
Harold
Eczema Cure Highlighted by Remarkable Recovery
A reader recounts a boy plagued by a widespread crusted eczema for months with over a score of doctors failing. After using Cuticura remedies the child improved within two months and fully recovered, noted by George F. Lambert of Mahanoy City, Pa, in 1907.
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George F. Lambert
West Centre St. Mahanoy City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Bole Mrops
Boston
New Strength for Old Backs and Other Selections
A collage of vintage ads and excerpts includes a backache remedy pitch for Dean's Kidney Pro and a testimonial. It also presents a quip about a lifelong learning chain, a tale of a Deaf cancer patient, a fashioning of a church hymn anecdote, and a Murine eye remedy promotion.
Important to Mothers Castoria Ad Promotes Safe Remedy
A garbled ad style notice highlights Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children. It mentions signatures and boasts about self control, plus references to constipation and liver and kidney discharge. The text implies multiple uses and tips, with insistence on care and time savings.
Miscellany of home tips and curiosities from a bygone era
The column offers tips on laundry starch for fabric stiffness and shine, mentions salt-stabilized diamond mining tales, and recounts a South African anecdote. It lists pest control products like Rough on Rats and Rough on Moths, plus home decor with vases in autos and Japanese porcelain hanging vases popular in stylish possibly era-borne households.
Fragmented Sorrowful Scribbles Poem and Odd Ad Snippet
A garbled OCR fragment blends a modern poem line, stray aphorisms, and assorted product blurbs. It mentions Kill the Flies, a Daisy Fly Killer kit, an address in Brooklyn, and various quasi advertisements with antiquated phrases and nonsensical marketing bits.
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de Kall Ave
Brooklyn
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Cuticura
Elsie
Este
Mamma
Sorghum
Lewis
Mia
Joannich Biran
North Broadway
Canton
Dean
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Er—Fortiunata
Vfamiliar
Tve
Efe
Eme
Toledo
Iai
Pia
Mr. Spicer
Emedy Co
Ben
Indy
Howard DuBois
South Africa
Jersey City
Fenoven
Jingleton
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
God
Dodds
Guers
Cascarets
Chas
Ei Halpera
N. Uy
Wichita
Oltretts
Gromers
Bona
SPOHN
Svoha Medical Co
Snd Becterishegists
Goshen
Ind
U.S.A
Elwes
Gemiing
California
Vrap Co
Carters
Western
Canada
Quana
Crawford
Winth Street
Konees City
Mismserl
W.l.dongins
Arizzly
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