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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
7
Fragment from a column shows Zheres hanging a dollar bill as a relic, while other quips touch on a coveted early financial victory and a joke about a summer-hotel escape. The piece also quotes brief snatches about an up-to-date girl, an injunction, and a playful exchange between collectors and debtors.
A curious note discusses a near sighted professor and labels a rug as very beautiful. The fragment mentions Flugende Blaetter, likely part of a caption or decorative title.
A collage of brief items and quips from Washington Star Philadelphia Press and Chicago Record Herald. It includes lines about Ursula Hope and Jack Timmid, a note on a society meeting delay, a humorous bridal remark, and a short philosophic couplet. The passages reflect social gossip and light editorial quips rather than a single story with a clear outcome.
The passage presents garbled dialogue involving Mrs Chatterleigh Fancy and Browns guests. It features quips about love and foolishness with characters exchanging witty lines and early-20th century dialogue styles.
A brief quip from a Philadelphia Press item shows a tender exchange where a man answers a question about dying for his beloved with a witty line about undying love. The moment captures humor and devotion in a social page snippet.
A light quip about unlucky love sparks a pun on flowers and pressing. A second cartoon shows a contractor lamenting a dry artesian well with a Suburb speaker remarking on miscommunication about boring for water and rock.
At a reception Mrs Spin gles draws compliments from Mr Comrox and his wife, who praises her taste. Her husband notes the gown set him back over $600, reflecting the social chatter in Washington.
A playful London Tit-Bits fragment describes a woman preparing potato salad with careful egg slicing onion mincing and a rich mayonnaise. She hopes to please her husband yet at lunch he remarks the potatoes are a little raw leaving her crestfallen.
A collection of quips and literary snippets from various sources. References include Washington Star, Leslie's Weekly, Chicago Post, and Judge. Conversations range from poetry jokes to marital refusals and peacemaker types, all styled as witty social vignettes.
An article details a movable poultry house designed for warm weather use on farms. The 12 by 6 foot structure features wheels, a tarred roof, thatched siding, and a single floor. Front wheels come from a grain binder truck, rear wheels from an old mower, with a wood front axle and iron rear rod axle.
Rhode Island Agriculture Board secretary George A. Stockwell argues honey crops can offset taxes. In Providence, a single bee colony yielded 78 pounds of comb honey worth 1950 and 124 pounds of extracted honey at 20 cents per pound worth 20.80, with other colonies producing 20 to 60 pounds above winter needs. Beekeeping is a joint industry requiring some care, but modern hives allow farmers to focus on poultry, fruit, and gardening while bees work for their benefit.
The article stresses balanced rations for hens to maintain health. It warns against excess carbohydrates causing weakness and bones, while excess nitrogenous matter leads to rheumatism and other troubles. It advocates studying ration composition to prevent fowl illnesses.
The excerpt advises keeping proper accounts to know profit from poultry. It suggests charging for feed and capital, crediting sales and household use, and treating labor costs and flock size. It notes charcoal or charred wood aids in preventing bowel complaints and offers alternatives when variety is lacking.
A poultry writer cautions beginners about feeding chicks with too little or too much. He favors practical variety over heavy single feeds and advises against combining several heavy feeds. Bran is common but not always best for tiny chicks, and safety in feeding is stressed by a noted editor.
A guide outlines making a narrow long box to hold a row of dark nests. It describes a contrivance wide enough for a dark walk along the row, avoiding bulky henhouse furniture and keeping the nest area compact and safe.
A description from the New York Tribune outlines a compact row of dark nests with entrances at one end. Each hen uses the furthest nest, moving through aligned positions in regular order. If a hen must pass another in exiting, no harm occurs, and the plan promises easy construction and efficient space use.
Practical guidance for poultry keeping including feeding scraps for fowls soft soap for scaley ailment cravid hone as feed scalding drinking vessels weekly straw nests to deter pests marking year age for culling or selling eggs stored and dried hens cleaning earth as absorbent and issues from overfeeding heating materials like corn and buckwheat National Rural.
Farmers' Voice argues poultry enterprises can outpace farming profits when integrated with farm work. It notes poultry fit with gleaning, manure returns, and insect control as key benefits, while also highlighting manure on land as a value booster and suggesting careful budgeting for loads to sustain soil beds.
New Jersey farmer Jesse B. Kent of Bloomfield, N J, fought a seven foot long blacksnake that coiled around his leg. His bulldog first alerted him and Kent used a pitchfork to break the snake’s grip and finally killed it with the handle. The bite left his leg bruised and swollen.
A surgical team at Hanover's zoological gardens removed a growth from a elephant's hind foot after deciding amputation was necessary. To render the animal insensible a dose of 600 grains of morphine was administered, inducing a deep sleep. The operation lasted three hours and proceeded without complication.
Superintendent Sloan orders end of the lockstep for prisoners as reformers have long urged. In future inmates will walk two paces apart with heads up and hands by sides. The shift aims to prevent lingering effects of penal gait after release.
New York prices show steady but dull wheat and mixed grain values with hogs firm. Cleveland reports varied grain, dairy, and livestock figures with steers around 4 to 5 dollars and lambs near 5 dollars. Cincinnati notes active hog trade around 4 to 6 dollars and mixed cattle values.
Mowane and Pat exchange a tale about a threepenny piece with a hole that cannot be spent. Mike recounts melting a sixpence to fill the hole, a plan that cured the piece’s issue and allowed it to disappear from use.
A young man and a woman admire an armless performer who can write, thread, whistle, and play piano with his toes. The crowd leans in as the master of ceremonies signals a closer look at the remarkable and instructive act.
A Chicago News item recounts a disturbance at The Modern Hotel where a guest allegedly stole a spoon. the clerk orders police while staff defend the guest as a regular, possibly a kleptomania suspect. The guest reportedly pays five dollars for a dig on the American pi a.
Odd, garbled lines depict a character named Grace in a kneeling moment with a speaker and interrupted replies. The text blends garbled phrases about kneeling, pleads, and a comic misfire including chewing gum and a playful “Miss Grace” aside.
A Droitwich barber finishing a shave jokes about fines for slips at work. He boasts he just won a sovereign, claiming no carelessness will be tolerated by his employer despite penalties.
A Philadelphia Bulletin quote recalls newlyweds, John and his bride, remarking on a spare room and friends who think their marriage is miserable. The banter shows humor in domestic life after keeping house.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy cures corns itching swollen hot callous smarting sore and awenting feet. All druggists and shoe stores sell it 25c sample sent free address Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy New York.
A playful quarrel over a pudding remark ends with a soubrette joking at a dinner in Norwich New York. Mrs Robbins recalls Piso's Cure for Consumption as a life saver, dated February 17, 1900.
A funeral scene recalls a man marked by neighbors for recurring trouble yet described by a friend as having mighty regular habits. The reminiscence reflects a complex portrait of a life spent amid community scrutiny and enduring habits.
Advertiser touts Hoxale sa Croup Cure promising relief from a cold in one hour for 50 cents. The piece repeats the claim and includes a joke about baby breakfast from a Detroit Free Press cartoon caption.
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