A New Year Poem by Charles H Allen
A reflective verse from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly contemplates the dying year and the arrival of the new year. It muses on fading joys, changing times, and the uncertain path from sorrow to consolation as life moves forward. Charles H Allen is credited in the piece.
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Charles H Allen
Frank Leslie
Popwar Monthly
Assiboa
Saskatchewan
Canada
Ottawa
St. Fast
M Williams
Bachelor Jack Walworth Seeks New Year Hope on Prairie
On a remote prairie sod house the 25 year old bachelor Jack Walworth plans a festive New Year. He longs for a mother’s holiday dish and resolves to change his life while cooking a makeshift mince pie with improvised ingredients.
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Jack Walworth
Jack
Nellie Rogers
New England
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meiYack
Bachelor Jack Finds Love and Sets New Year Wedding
In the prairie tale, Jack Walworth, unable to win Nellie by marrying without a home, returns to his farm after Nellie rejects his proposal. A New Year rescue brings Nellie and her Uncle Ben to his cabin, and their wedding breakfast with neighbors seals a lively start to the couple’s life together.
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Nellie
Jack Walworth
Ben
Uncle Ben
Nelsie
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Winter trough cover saves feed and meat for hogs
Frederick O. Sibley explains a winter trough cover device adapted from a NY Tribune piece. A wide board trough, leather hinges, a hasp, staple, and a peg keep feed from freezing and debris out, reducing waste and labor by simplifying daily feeding.
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Frederick O. Sibley
N.Y
Winter care for eggs and fowl roosting ideas
Wintering fowls demands proper light, warm drafts free roosts, a sunny scratch bed, and absorbent litter. Use straw or cut fodder, keep birds busy with scratching, clean the house often, spread air slaked lime, and oil perches weekly. Build a three board swinging roost and balance with a No 9 wire.
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Roosta
Early Fatting of Hogs Proves Most Profitable in Warm Weather
G W Clark argues in Prairie Farmer that initiating hog fattening with the new corn crop in warm or moderate weather yields greater gains than late autumn or winter feeding. Green stalks and ears aid growth, while cold exposure increases feed needs. Early pork sale commands higher prices for farmers.
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G. W. Clark
Prairie Farmer
Pasturing the Hogs and Hog House Layout
L Morris describes a hog feeding system with a hog house near the corn house, connected to five hog lots 4 by 16 rods, and a water well supplying cattle and hogs. Hogs rotate through two pasture lots sown with rye, clover, and barley to ensure steady growth and fattening across spring and summer.
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L. Morris
Farming Rotation Theory Guides Profitable Cropping
The article stresses crop rotation as essential to farm profits and soil health. It urges fitting rotations to roots and pests, balancing manures, and following crops to control insects and maintain productivity through seasons.
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Laos
Hess
Doctors Prescribe Peruna for Catarrh and Female Disorders
A series of testimonials from physicians including Geo Havener L S Smith and Mary Smith extol Peruna medicine. They claim benefits for chronic catarrh lungs and bronchial tubes, and for ovarian trouble and heavy menstruation. Readers are urged to write to Dr Hartman for advice.
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Anacostia
D.C
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
L. S. Smith
Williston, Fla
Peruna
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Winfield
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Fortune teller predicts marriages in Chelsea gossip
Chelsea Gazette reports on two women, Clara and Ethel, lamenting love and money after a fortune teller claims Ethel will marry twice and Edna three times as the town discusses fate and weddings.
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Clara
Ethel
Edna
Chelsea
Mass
Pie business remark from alleged philosopher
The quote from the Kuffalo Express features an alleged philosopher warning against tackling a pie made with the aid of a cookbook and asserting that a woman needing a book to assist her in baking should not be in the pie business.
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Kuffalo Express
Those Feminine Critica Observation Sparks Debate
A fragmented quote from a scene shows two girls discussing a wedding moment with irony. The blue clad girl notes the bride being led to the altar, while the gray girl mocks the notion of needing anyone to guide her, declaring she walked unaided.
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Ted
Michigan Banker Flees With Depositors’ Surplus
The Chicago Record-Herald reports a Michigan banker vanished leaving a surplus for depositors. It suggests the other missing bankers likely concluded he is insane.
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Michigan
Chicago Record-Herald
Message to momma voiced by Wederly in Chicago Daily News
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News records a brief exchange where Mrs Wederly asks for a note to her mother and Wederly suggests sending regards while cautioning how he is viewed by her.
Quip on a Filuncee and a Streetcar Seat Joke
A Baltimore American quips that a young man does not boast but notes “she always gets a seat on the street car” while Harlem Life jests a dime museum man tolerating a skeleton in a closet if it is alive.
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Dime Museum
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