Farmers Institute at Rising San and Zion Highlights Pressing Farm Practices
The Farmers Institute at Rising San and Zion drew a good turnout despite poor weather. Director Wm. L. Amoss opened with emphasis on local cooperation, nature studies in schools, and practical farm training including grafting, feeding, and orchard management. Speakers H. P. Miller and H. E. VanDeman covered crops, lamb production, dairy calf care, and rural ornamentation with demonstrations and Q&A sessions.
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Farmers’ Institute
Rising San
Zion
Wm. L. Amoss
H. P. Miller
Ohio
Elwood Balderston
Amoss
Institute
VanDeman
Pacific
Electric Bitters Touted As Cure For Grip's Aftermath
A vintage advert promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic and blood purifier to aid recovery after grip. It claims the product strengthens nerves, rebuilds energy, and restores health, with L R Kirk selling the remedy for 50 cents and offering a satisfaction guarantee.
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L. R. Kirk
Trades Recorded for Properties Around Marley Mill and Elkton
Several deeds filed show Thomas Beers acting as executor transferring a 13 acre Marley Mill area farm to John S. Wirt and wife for 900 dollars. Other transfers include Anna A. McNutt to Jonathan Reynolds for Sixth district property at 700 dollars and Annie T. Shallcross to Samuel G. Dunlap for North East holdings at 450 dollars. Additional conveyances cover Hen drick's Choice near Perryville for 400 dollars and a Welsh Point 472 acre farm sale to Dr. John B. Keaggy and William S. Byers for 8,000 dollars. Elkton waterfront share from William Kershaw to William H. Eder at 400 dollars and Elkton Howard street property from William B. Heatzig to Emma C. Heatzig and Laura M. Zolper.
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Thomas Beers
Thos. Beers
John S. Wirt
Marley Mill
Anna A. McNutt
Jonathan Reynolds
R. C. Thackery
Annie T. Shallcross
Shallcross
North East
Samuel Samuel G. Dunlap
J. Nelson Black
John
Alicia Stump
Hendrick
Perryville
Johns. Byers
Greensburg
John B. Keaggy
William S. Byers
Pennsylvania
Welsh Point
Henry T. Benjamin
Victor H. Benjamin
Cecil County
Charles A. Heatzig
George R. Ash
Holly Hall
Elkton
William Kershaw
Germantown
Wm. H. Eder
William B. Heatzig
Emma C. Heatzig
Laura M. Zolper
Howard Street
New Life Pills Claim Great Demand At Local Drug Store
Modern ads tout Dr King's New Life Pills as the best remedy for constipation sick headache biliousness and digestive issues. Sold for 25 cents at Dr Kirk's drug store amid claims of rapid relief and strong consumer demand.
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A. H. Smith
Rising Sun
Pennsylvania Railroad Tour To Mexico And California
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a Personally Conducted Pullman tour to Mexico and California departing New York and Philadelphia on February 11. It spans 14 days in Mexico and 19 in California with a Grand Canyon return. The Mexico California Special includes premium sleeping and dining cars. round trip rates run 575 east of Pittsburg and 570 from Pittsburg, with separate Mexico and California only tours priced at 350 and 375 respectively. For details contact George W. Boyd at Broad Street Station Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Mexico
California
New York
Philadelphia
North America
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
George W. Boyd
Broad Street Station
Bucklen Arnica Salve Proven World Famous Cure
An advertisement extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best and most famous compound for aches and pains. It claims it cures cuts burns bruises inflammation piles boils ulcers felons and skin eruptions with a pay if not cured guarantee and a price of 5 cents at Dr. Kirk's.
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Dr. Kirk
Feminine Intuition on a New York City Car Ride
A well dressed woman on an Amsterdam avenue car secretly helps an old, shabby man by handing him money. Though men doubt her action, the old man accepts and thanks her. As she leaves, every man on the platform removes his hat in respect.
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Amsterdam Avenue
New York Post
Ropes of Hair From St Kilda Sharks Local Folklore
A Hebrides tradition sees young fishermen prize a rope made entirely of a lover’s hair, used to swing from cliffs. The rope combines hemp, sheep wool, horsehair, and human hair, with hair from many relatives accumulated over decades. A collector offered 125 for such a rope, but the offer was refused.
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St. Kilda
Hebrides
Old Fashioned Gum Arabic Cough Syrup Remedy
A home remedy for throat irritation and cough endorsed by several physicians combines gum arabic sugar and lemon juice. Dissolve a quarter pound gum arabic in hot water, add sugar and lemon juice, simmer ten minutes, bottle and seal. Take a teaspoonful diluted with water as needed.
Stuck to His Prisoner During Dallas Skirmish
An old veteran recalls Pat, a Thirty-sixth Indiana Irishman, who seized a Confederate on the Dallas skirmish line. As he moved rearward with the captive, a comrade requested the prisoner for General Gross. Pat refused, saying he left a million back over the hill and told the man to fetch another guard.
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Thirty-sixth
Indiana
Dallas
Pat
Gross
There’s a Sigh In the Heart Song Misunderstood Diagnosis
A young man sends a ballad titled There’s a Sigh In the Heart to a young woman. The paper falls into the father’s hands, a stern physician who dismisses it as unscientific and declares the writer insane, correcting the note with a remark about mis taken diagnosis and sighs tied to lungs and diaphragm.
Her Subterfuge in a Silly Reference Incident
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet shows Mary Ann asking for a reference and another person conceding it, while reframing the praise to avoid anger. The speaker admits calling her Belinda to suggest she stole work, highlighting the passive aggression in the exchange.
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Mary Ann
Belinda
Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Test of Patience and Home Light Verse Medley
A Washington Star verse muses on millennial comforts and long waits, promising flawless conveniences. It shifts to a lyrical reflection on the light of home guiding travelers and the love of family as life ends, cited to Ripley D. Saunders in the New York Weekly.
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Washington Star
Ripley D. Saunders
N. Y
Dr Bull Baby Syrup and Household Tips
An old advertisement promotes Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup for teething relief and stomach ailments. It also advises kerosene treatments to prevent rust on stoves and farm tools. Milwaukee installs cement curbs and gutters, praised as satisfactory.
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Dr. Bull
Price
Milwaukee
Maine
Alexandra
Mary of
Modena
James
Saved Her Childs Life From Pneumonia
Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio recalls a three week decline in her chubby son due to pneumonia and a terrible cough. After using Dr Kings New Discovery his health improved rapidly and the child recovered. The ad claims the medicine is a sure cure for coughs colds and lung diseases with pharmacist L R Kirk guaranteeing satisfaction and offering trial bottles.
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L. R. Kirk
Illogical Units and Population Shifts Cited in Quick Facts
The text catalogs varied measures and forecasts, noting water is 820 times heavier than air, US death rate 17.8 per 1 000, tumbler ten ounces teacup six ounces, six bushels wheat yields 280 pounds flour, a water barrel fills a 2 by 2 feet box 17 1 3 inches deep, Massachusetts Indians rise from 428 in 1892 to 587 in 1900, Georgia entomologists predict over 100 million fruit trees in the Southeast.
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United States
Massachusetts
Georgia
Empire
South
Salvation Oil liniment advertised with various cures
The ad touts Salvation Oil as the best liniment priced 15c for a small bottle and 25c for a large bottle claiming it cures rheumatism neuralgia soreness sprains backache stiffness cuts bruises wounds swellings burns and frost bites and kills pain. It also notes an indestructible artificial worm for fishing and reports 122 cotton mills in operation or under construction in South Carolina valued at about 31 million dollars highlighting cotton manufacturing importance.
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Salvation Oil
South Carolina
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Washington, D. C
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