Neighbor Chickens Fooled By Night Egg Trick Tale
A column fragment reports a neighbor dispute over chickens and a trick with placing eggs in grass at night. It also includes an old testimonial claiming Cuban itch and skin disease cure by Cuticura Remedies, describing dramatic infant symptoms and recovery after ointment and soap use.
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Alli Arena
Zana Miller
Union City
RFD
Branch Co
Alan Berry
Stubst
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
New York City
Col Ware Pension Gift Aids Young Laura Ramsey Education
Col Eugene F. Ware a former pension commissioner and Kansas lawyer transfers his pension to Laura Mary Ramsey a 15 year old neighbor girl to finance her education. Ramsey aims to use the funds for schooling at Topeka schools and later higher institutions as a banked nest egg for her studies.
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Eugene F. Ware
Kansas
The
National Tribune
Eugene G. Ware
Wilson's Creek
Ware
Laura Mary Ramsey
Ing
Philippines
Hhis
Scott
Weet Point
Ninth
United States Infantry
Laura
Topeka
Carpenter’s Civil War Tales From Missouri
In Chicago I meet Col Seymour Carpenter a veteran surgeon who served through the Civil War and now publishes a history of the Carpenter family. His Missouri episodes recount Fayetteville and Prairie Grove clashes and a dramatic cavalry fight where Maj Ezra Pitch led a bold defense, leaving the field with decisive Union success.
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Adam
Chicago
Zearing
Seymour
Carpenter
Department of the Missouri
America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Republic
Missouri
Mixsourt
Confederacy
Washington
Fitch
Mr. Carpenter
Hur
Flanders
Hart
Seritch
Floating Workshop on H. M. S Cyclops repair ship
A peculiar vessel named H. M. S Cyclons general repair ship the fleet houses a plant capable of casting two ton pieces and lathes handling castings up to 15 feet long. It is equipped to repair anything from a broken bolt to a 60 ton gun with electro driven machines.
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H. M. &. Cyclons
Cyclops Fe
Century-Old Patent Cure Ad with Monetary Reward
An old style advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for proof of a cure, promoting a patent medicine claimed to “destroy the disease,” with references to medical fraternity and cures. It includes dubious claims, a postal address, and a note about monthly payments and a fatigue remedy.
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Thie Vaner
Tournhag
Theresul
Yaka Ball
Furlough Folly and a Civil War Misunderstanding
In Maj. Hamilton's Southern Historical Papers a Civil War anecdote recounts orders denying leave for deaths in the family. English soldier Dalgetty seeks time off for his grandmother’s death, misreads the colonel’s questions, and after a comic exchange is sent back. He later sustains a leg wound, joking that his 30 days leave came with no family death exception.
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Hamilton
Dalgetty
Dallgetty
Not & Promising Field
During the Spanish American War era a robust young man, selling ferns, visited a female Lewistown Journal contributor. She remarked on his need to join the army and he quipped that ferns were not desired by soldiers, implying his enlistment prospects.
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Lewistown
Clocked clocks strike eighteen at one at Worsley estate
Two clocks on Lord Ellesmere's Worsley estate are set to strike eighteen at one. One sits above the new entrance to Worsley Hall serving workers at the nearby duke of Bridgewater works. The clocking pattern allegedly arose because workers complained of hearing issues.
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Worsley
Lord Ellesmere
Worsley Hall
Worsley Village
Duke of Bridgewater
Cow Barn and Mil k House Plan for 40 Cattle
A detailed floor plan proposes a 34 by 80 feet cow-stable forming the head of a T with a stem over the driveway. The design includes a concrete foundation three feet below the feeding floor rising 27 feet to support a water tank. A sheltered stave silo and adjacent structures like a manure shed and a powerhouse with a single shaft aim to power feed cutter, grinder, and potential refrigeration. The article discusses optimizing waste roughage, bedding, and composting to increase manure value and farm efficiency for a 40-cow operation.
Milk preservatives dangers and safer butter production
The notice warns against using milk preservatives like formaldehyde salicylic or boric acid as dangerous and illegal. It argues clean methods are better and claims beating butterfat with proper corn yields cheaper production than unsafe additives.
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Jess
Proverb Snippet Reflects Caution in Speech
Read fragment from Harper's Weekly noting a man should think twice before he speaks and a woman three times before she sings. The line warns that urging a girl to sing may leave a man wishing he hadn’t.
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Harper's Weekly
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Metropolis
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Wien
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Knickerbocker Club
L'Oignon
Metropolia
A. Indy
H. Kljne
Sree Sitadelpha
Pat
Brown
Piles Cuiard
Peteenine Lima Nisettaor
Eno Haungs
Castori
PacSisuile
Beach
Castoria
Bears
Dodds
Ea Rae
Guat
Parker
Rontuire
SR Usteaer
Bustaous
Thompson's Eye
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Trrz
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