An Excellent Trellis for Sweet Peas Demonstrated
J E Morse in Rural New Yorker describes a cheap two by four trellis eight feet high with a netting warp and filling of twine. Posts are set two feet in the ground and sixteen feet apart. top and bottom strips are nailed to the posts. diagonally wound twine secures a sturdy frame. The method yields vigorous pea climbs and easy post winter clearance by trimming and burning the mass of vines and twine.
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J. E. Morse
New Yorker
Watering Practices For Tree Growth
A Farmers' Review excerpt advises careful irrigation to protect roots. It cautions against light surface watering during drought, which drives roots upward. Instead, apply ample water to reach several feet deep, using drains or holes to channel moisture to the root zone.
Buttermilk feeding cautions and poultry advice from 1900s text
The article warns against giving buttermilk in large quantities to nursing sows as it may curdle milk and kill piglets, recommends a limit of 40 pounds per barrel of swill, and advises avoiding acid creamery buttermilk. It also notes selecting good male birds and warns on poultry color and body quality. It ends with an analogy about treating worms on gooseberry and currant bushes to destroy them.
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Theodore Lewis
Era of good roads movement grows across the state
The Watertown Times reports the county board of supervisors backs 35 miles of state aided roads and four miles funded locally, signaling a practical shift from theory to action. Legislation advances include the O’Brien cash road tax plan, a wider tire mandate, and a Fuller law amendment offering towns 50 percent state aid for highway money systems.
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Board of Supervisors
Utica
New York
O’brien
Senate
Clinton
Assemblyman Plank
St. Lawrence County
W. Pierrepont White
Oneida
Watertown
N. Y
Times
Potatoes Covered by Wood Covered Implement
An inventor describes a wooden potato coverer built from 1x10 boards with a fixed tongue and dual-horse operation. Weight on the handles controls depth while scraping surface dirt and forming a harrowed ridge to kill weeds before potato emergence. Sprouts of red raspberries near rows should be hoed or plowed when very young.
Life paid for progress with human lives, a stark ledger
The piece argues that every advance in industry and civilization costs human life. It cites workers killed in mining, construction, transport, and crime of war as a grim tally, noting one death per 640 acres, per two churches, per five miles of tunnel, per 1.5 million tons of coal, per 50 000 miles sailed, per bridge span, and per 500 000 travelers.
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St. Louis Republic
Something for Nothing and the By-Products Boom
The piece riffs on the lure of free gains and shows how modern industry turns waste into value. It cites hog by-products, coal gas, dyes, paper from wood, furniture from weeds, and garbage into fertilizer, arguing that vast by-products potential awaits inventive effort.
Wisconsin plans huge fish stocking and summer fishing drive
Wisconsin Fish Commission allocates fifteen million pike fry and two million muscallonge for distribution in state lakes to boost sport this summer. Chicago & North Western Railway offers favorable excursion rates and special train service from Chicago and Milwaukee to Wisconsin and Northern Michigan resorts to handle a likely record influx of visitors.
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Wisconsin Fish Commission
Wisconsin Lakes
Wisconsin
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Michigan
Chicago
Milwaukee
Gown Incident Sparks Laughs at Graduation Mockery
A Chicago Tribune quip recalls a girl graduate boasting of a dramatic gown choice and her father lamenting a bold essay title about higher standards of thought and expression. The anecdote captures campus humor and generational tension.
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Papa
Chicago Tribune
Allen's Foot-Kase Shoe Cure Ad
Painful feet find relief with Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot Kase. Cures swollen smarting and sweating feet and helps break in new shoes. Sample free. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. Address A S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen's
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Anakesis
Anabesis
Tribune Building
New York
Gout and marriage gibes appear in clipped exchanges
A Chicago Daily News line references a man praising a table and a landlady noting three regular boarders are laid up with gout. A Georgia woman boasts of burying five husbands and jokes about trouble in Heaven if spouses know each other there, reported by the El Paso Times.
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Chicago Daily News
Georgia
el Paso Times
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Ad and Reader Quotes
An old advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a remedy to stop coughs and colds priced at 25 cents. The passage includes testimonial quotes from readers such as Uncle Eben and John F Boyer praising Piso's Cure for Consumption and reflections on aging and leadership.
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John F. Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Bankruptcy relief and the fate of his wife
A lawyer explains that bankruptcy will relieve all financial burdens. The man asks about what happens to his wife, prompting a puzzled exchange centered on the impact of the financial purge on her. The Chicago Post caption hints at a moral or social angle to the encumbrance.
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Unvyse
Chicago Post
Babies From Cabbages
An East Side kindergarten lesson reveals a children's version of the stork tale where an Italian boy and Sicilian girl debate babies born in cabbages. The teacher, torn between belief and disbelief, temporizes to avoid breaking the children's faith.
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East Side
The
New York Tribune
Carlie
Alberto
Ska
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