Laying a Tile Drain Instruction from Farm and Home
A step by step guide to building a tile drain with practical tools. It covers scoops spades edge trimming and bottom leveling, plus methods to handle obstructions and ensure a solid final trough. Groundwork includes using a two inch reinforced strip and careful final sizing for a precise drain bed.
Fight the Rodents In Orchards During Winter
Winter orchard care warned as mice burrow under crusted snow to attack tree roots. Owners should inspect regularly to save trees, especially in grassy, not clean cultivated plots where mice flourish.
Tackle for Lifting Barrels Use in Barn Handling Heavy Loads
A Prairie Farmer correspondent describes a simple tackle to lift four heavy or empty barrels between floors or from wagons to a second floor. The method uses two hooks on a parrel chime and a short rope connected to a tackle rope for convenient hoisting.
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Fragments on Cellar Temperature and Potatoes
Disjointed text references keeping a cellar cool and effects of higher temperatures on potatoes. Mentions roofs, evaporation, and shrinks but lacks coherent facts or names. Unable to extract a clear news event or report.
Worn Out Women Find Encouragement by Mrs Merritt’s Advice
Mrs W L Merritt of Anoka Minnesota writes that after a harsh winter she suffered kidney back and hip pain and dizziness. She found relief after using Deans Kidney Pills and recommends them to others. The product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box.
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What Becomes of the Coke
A playful classroom exchange explains how coal yields gas and coke while noting natural gas from drilling. A student asks if the fires in the bad place produce the coke and what Satan does with the leftover coke, prompting the teacher to remain silent.
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Do You Eat Pie
Advertisement urges buying Our Pie mixes for lemon chocolate and custard pies. If grocer stock is lacking, suggest finding a supplier. Quotation cries to act today and includes a health note for Garfield Tea as a laxative and purifier. Ends with a flippant question about a man who flatters his wife.
The Reason for Marrying Jests on Wealth and Reason
A Harvard Lampoon joke questions motives in marriage noting a spouse’s money and the man’s loss of reason when wealth vanishes. The quip plays on social expectations and financial stakes in marriage.
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Salzer Seed Co promotional notice for farm cereals
An advertisement touts Moravian Barley and Speltz as leading cereals for Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and beyond, claiming improved hog and cattle fattening. It promotes Salzer seeds including 12 ton hay-wonder and other seeds, urging readers to mail 10 cents for a big catalog from John A. Salzer Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
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What a Man Thinks About a Woman Revealed
A brief note discusses perceptions of a man and a woman, exploring knowledge and misperception between genders. It emphasizes how a man believes about a woman, and how the woman’s awareness contrasts with his assumptions.
Piles Treatment Promised in Sixteen Days Guarantee
An advertisement claims Pazoomint cures itching bleeding and other piles in six to fourteen days or refunds money. The offer emphasizes a guaranteed cure within a short period with a full money back promise.
Longfellow Quote on Good and Evil Persisting Faith
A concise reflection notes that despite appearances, no evil thing is truly successful and no good thing ends in failure, attributed to Samuel Longfellow.
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Samuel Longfellow
Commissioner Smith vs The Standard Oil Co Historic transport rates debated
The piece defends Standard Oil Indiana against Commissioner Smith and attacks President Moffett’s tariff arguments. It questions filings for a six cent rate from Whiting to East St Louis and the 18 cent rate as a class rate, argues the Dalton filing concealed origin, criticizes the grand jury evidence handling, and concludes the oil firm was fined for a filing error rather than actual discrimination.
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