Planting Street Trees and Their Best Selections
The article discusses spacing trees along streets, recommending wider gaps on broad streets and between walks and curbs, with four-row avenues in some cases. It highlights elm limitations, praises sugar and soft maples, and notes sycamore as a top street tree in many areas, plus occasional use of honey locust, oaks, pines, spruces, and palms as street trees.
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America
Washington
Magnificent Avenue
Capitol
Massachusetts
New York
United States
Kentucky
Department of Agriculture
Temple Square
Salt Lake City
trans-Mississippi States
Royal Palm Avenue
Havana
Cuba
Orange Judd Farmer
Cooling the Milk For Faster Safe Dairy Cooling
F W Mossman in Farmers Advocate advises rapid milk cooling to prevent fermentation and keep cream evenly mixed. Use a rear ice water tank, tin cans in ice, and a galvanised dasher for agitation to speed cooling. This simple method outperforms elaborate systems and reduces germ content compared with air spray or sheets.
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F. W. Mossman
Farmers’ Advocate
Proper Dairy Care for Higher Butter Yields
A Farm Journal piece urges careful management of dairy cattle, noting rich milkers need close watch and balanced rations. It warns against relying on carbohydrates alone and recommends daily salt of about two ounces per cow to boost butter production and digestion.
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Farm Journal
Practical heater for stock water used with oil stove
An illustrated method to warm cattle water using a raised trough with a bottom opening sealed by white lead and galvanized iron, a small oil stove inside a box, and small ventilation holes, enabling warm water with minimal cost. Also notes officials pursuing diseased meat brands and San Jose scale findings, plus milk quality versus quantity for butter makers.
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Orange Judd Farmer
European scientist claims brain stimulating apparatus
A European scientist asserts a new device to stimulate the brain using an electric band tested on schoolboys. The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a natural tonic, claiming fifty years of use for dyspepsia stomach troubles and overall system vigor.
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Hostetter
Protection at Both Ends
A nervous drummer in Shasta county keeps a coil of rope as a personal fire escape. He shows the rope to the hotel landlord who approves the idea but notes guests with fire escapes must pay in advance.
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Shasta County
San F'Rancisco Jave
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with testimonials
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle. It cites endorsements by Toledo druggists West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. A joke about a national holiday for football games is included.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Tourist car service offers new courier feature to California
A Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway tourist car departs Fridays at 10 35 p m from Chicago Union Station via Omaha Colorado Springs Salt Lake City to Colorado Utah Nevada and California. A courteous courier attends to passengers including children with sleeping berths at 6 00 per person for two. Contact Geo Heatford for more details. London Answers joke follows.
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Los Angeles
California
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pauleee Union Pait
Chicago
Omaha
Colorado Springs
Salt Lake City
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Heatford
Lil
Hoxsie Croup Cure Ad Promises Safe Pneumonia Remedy
An 1860s style advertisement touts Hoxsie's Croup Cure as the only safe cure for croup and pneumonia with no opium or ipecac, priced at 50 cents from A P Hoxsie Buffalo NY. The note adds a reflective Iowa Topics slogan about sifting ashes when one has money to burn.
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Hoxsie
A. P. Hoxsie
Buffalo, N
Iowa
Old Fashioned Patent Medicine Snippets
A collage of 19th century testimonial blurbs and ad style lines. Mentions drugs like Grrove's Taste Less WilL Tonic and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, with city papers Chicago Daily News and Chicago Dispatch cited. Includes quotes about success, confession, and gossip.
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Grrove
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N. Y. Journal
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Ralph Erieg
Williamsport, Pa
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Indianapolis
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Steatti
Ua Neue ‘ Yi Teas
Mammoth Mail Order
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W. L Douglas
W. L. Nouglas Shoe CO
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Mass
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
Winchester Avenue, New Haven, A
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Cleveland
Detroit
Demorest
Demorest's Magazine
Art Department
Fifth Avenue, New York City
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A. N. Kib
Pleune
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