In Praise of the Country
The piece extols rural life as a path to independence and permanence. It argues that owning land and productive livestock builds real capital, enabling families to increase wealth year by year and leave a tangible inheritance for children while enjoying cultural benefits similar to city life.
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Columbia
Itching Torture Relieved by Cuticura Cure
Seventy seven year old Mt Kisco man suffered six months of eczema from head to foot with intense itching and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept that first night and was completely cured within a month. February 3 1908 Mt Kisco New York. Potter Drug and Chemical Corp Boston.
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W. Harrison Smith
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Prodigal Son and Colonel Exchange Highland Texas Country Talk
A humorous exchange from Everybody's Magazine features a colonel boasting of Texas deer and a servant correcting him with mock politeness. The dialogue recalls generous land, forest gaps, and wide antlers, ending with the colonel asserting the deer's business.
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Texas
Everybody's Magazine
Location of Promotion
Bizena a four year old in kindergarten recalls vaccination as a new school rite. After reassurance, she adjusts to school life and later asks whether promotion will be on her arm or leg, revealing childlike curiosity about the process.
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Bizena
Not Drugs Food Did It
After years of chronic constipation treated with laxatives and cathartics a patient found relief using Grape-Nuts. The digestible food reportedly improved bowel function within days, ending long-term reliance on medicines and delivering a seeming cure.
Beggar chief built Samuel Huston College in Austin
The article recounts how Samuel Huston College in Austin Texas began in 1898 under President Lovinggood later called the Booker Washington of the southwest. It details initial harsh conditions a bare roofless building, contributions from local Black and white residents, and the steady growth to a debt-free campus with buildings and programs including printing, agriculture, and teacher training. It emphasizes the motto Strive always to treat others better than they treat you and the aim to educate both races toward a peaceful shared future.
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Austin
Tex
Lovinggood
Booker Washington
Southwest
Low- Won
Richard Woods
Samuel Huston
Good
Texas
Sam Houston
Great Southwest
Marengo
Loving Good
Burrowes Hall
State Capitol
Schpol
Colored College
Samuel Huston College
Texas Cotton Belt
Sayinggood
Simple paint test detects impurity in white lead
A mass readership notice explains a simple chemical test to detect adulterated white lead. National Lead Company offers free House owner's Painting Outfit No 49 from the Trinity Building New York, including color schemes and specifications. The Dutch Boy Painter trademark guarantees purity, and readers are advised to contact National Lead Company if their dealer lacks the product.
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National Lead Company
Trinity
New York
Brusher the Adder Hunter and His Fat Snare
A historical note recalls the adder hunter known as Brusher in the New Forest era. Mille earning, black eyes, and various ailments were said to be cured by adder fat sold by Brusher, who used a stick and forceps to pin snakes and harvest the fat for medicinal use.
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C. J. Commis
New Forest
Bruaher
Never Say Die in Doctor and Patient Comic Exchange
A skit-like dialogue between Mrs. Tooter and a doctor centers on a joke about curing her to end his lucrative medical billing. The physician plans to present a bill yet treat her for nervous prostration.
Prescription for nervous men and women mythic remedy
A dubious patent medicine recipe promises to treat nervousness sleeplessness dread and anxiety. The text describes mixing syrups and tonics into a half pint bottle with ingredients like sarsaparilla balmwort cardiol and cadomen compound to be taken as a tea spoonful after meals and at bedtime.
Fish Hatcheries Output Reaches Record in 1908
Special hatchery efforts yield 2 871 456 280 total fish and eggs for 1908. Of this, 2 418 809 225 are young fish for stocking waters and 457 647 055 are eggs shipped to state and foreign hatcheries. Young fish output exceeds previous yearly maximum by 376 000 000.
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National Bureau
Oath Testimony in Catarah Case Cited in Firm Records
A sworn statement by senior partner Omar Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cumney & Co. references a catarah case not curable by Bay's Catanne Cone. Notary A. W. Gleason records the oath on December 5, 158. Also mention of Hall's Family Pills for constipation appears in the damaged text.
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Caner
F. J. Cumney & Co
Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Gleason
Notany Pussic
Fattest French Soldier Found at Corbeil
A Paris journal reveals the heaviest French recruit found in Corbeil. The record holder is M. Leverdit, son of a local merchant, who weighs 268 pounds avoirdupois, about 19 stone.
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Paris
Corbeil
M. Leverdit
Thrilling Experiences and Odd Anecdotes Across Times
A fragmentary excerpt recounts vivid escapes and odd moments from past lives. It mentions a judge in a baby show and a confrontation involving violence, alongside unrelated notes about a vanilla venue and Prussia’s brick yards employing thousands of women.
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Omar
Wen
Hall
Souders
Fig Fog Enerase
Prussia