Inexpensive Sulphur Baths At Home
Simple home remedy articles discuss dissolving Hancock's Sulphur Compound in hot baths to absorb sulfur through the skin for blood purification and skin relief. It notes dosages for adults and infants and advertises the product priced 60 cents per bottle from Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co. Baltimore. The second item is a humorous domestic vignette about the McTavish family and a dog during dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co
Baltimore
Mosquitoes and Medicine In Funny Ad Fragments
A jumble of vintage trivia and ads includes SIX-SIXTY-SIX malaria cure claims, parish social chatter about church belles, a Jeremiah of Joppa quip, a DR PORTER antiséptic healing oil insect repellent pitch, and a quip about men needing cash while others’ thoughts make noise like a boiler shop.
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
Swarthmore Pennsylvania a woman reports relief after fifteen years of suffering from the Change of Life and long hemorrhages after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Baltimore Maryland a mother who lost a child says the remedy saved her from surgery and let her work again. The notice claims all testimonials published are genuine and suggests the product can help other women with similar troubles.
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Swarthmore
Penn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Emily Summersgill
Baltimore, Md
J. R. Picking
Sargent St
Modern Fence Enclosures For Poultry On The Farm
Ample room may be provided with modern wire fencing and few posts to separate fowls from the rest of the farm. Keep birds from scratching vegetables and fouling steps and machinery. Consider the colony plan or fenced yard, with careful egg and fowl sales to boost profits.
Feeder Coop for Leghorn Squabs Described
Mrs Almo of Chaves County New Mexico describes a satisfactory coop for fattening Leghorn squabs. The design uses 100 feet of flooring two pieces of wire netting 3 by 4 feet inch mesh front, a feed drawer from store boxes hinges door transom and roofing paint. A dry feed mix from a local store includes cracked corn millet wheat bran alfalfa meal and meat meal. Milk curd fed twice a week and the drawer filled twice weekly. Chicks go into the coop as soon as they leave the brooder, yielding more weight with less feed.
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Almo
Chaves County
N. M
Farmers Mail
Breeze
Methods of Feeding Fowls in Daily Routines
Guidelines advise empty crops in the morning and not full until roost time. For first feed grain should be scattered early after birds leave roosts to encourage exercise. Midday should be a warm moistened mash eaten in 15 to 20 minutes. Nightly feed includes liberal scattered grain in litter about an hour before roosting.
Hens Need Exercise and Scratching Space
An article stresses hens require exercise and a good scratching area. It notes a method to force activity by hanging sunflowers or heads of grain just above their reach, prompting jumps to obtain food.
Marketable Eggs Breed Guidelines
Advice on selecting a hen breed that reliably yields large eggs near 24 ounces per dozen, and on culling birds that lay undersized or weak shelled eggs to maintain profitability and quality in egg production.
Practical Fashions Pattern 6269 for Girl Suit
A guide to a new loose short coat suit with drop shoulder belt sleeve wide collar and breast closing tab. The three gore skirt closes at the front side and drapes one side. Materials like crepe silk ratine linen serge suit sizes 14 16 18 years require 3% yards of 44 inch fabric. Send 10 cents to Pattern Dent with name address size and pattern number.
Lady's Waist Pattern and Burmese Manners Reflections
The notice describes a blouse in the nove coat waist pattern with peplum extensions, V neckline, and wide collar, offered in sizes 34 to 42 inches bust. It also critiques universal meddling in others' affairs, contrasting Burmese politeness with Western "philanthropy" and coercion, reflecting on manners and intervention.
German Doctor Invents Telescope Spectacles for Nearsighted
A German physician has created a revolutionary telescope spectacle to correct poor vision. The device uses a convex objective with a concave eyepiece and must be carefully fitted to each individual, enabling wearers to bring distant objects into focus and see clearly.
Carrel argues condemned men could aid society by experiments
Dr Alexis Carrel of New York, Nobel laureate, declares he can only operate on animal hearts lungs and arteries. He criticizes American anti-cr visection societies and questions why electrocution is used instead of using condemned men's bodies for his experiments claiming the condemned will not suffer and will render a last service to society.
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Paris
Alexis Carrel
New York
Freedom in Burma traits of Burmese tolerance and personal autonomy
London notes a remarkable Burmese character trait: a strong unwillingness to interfere in others affairs. Burmans value individual freedom within limits and tolerate neighbors' ways, accepting foreigners living by their own customs without judgment or pressure to conform.
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London
Death of Cincinnati businessman follows chloroform act
C. H. Bishop, president of the C. H. Bishop Flour Co., reportedly euthanized a cat with chloroform two weeks earlier and later killed himself at his home at 1006 Windsor Street. In a note to his wife he cited mounting business reverses and infirmities as reasons, calling it the only way out.
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la Cleopatra
Cincinnati
C. H. Bishop
C. H. Bishop Flour Company
Bishop
Windsor Street
Berlin a Comfortable City of Parks and Vistas
Berlin is described as Europe’s most comfortable city to reside in year round. The text highlights Greater Berlin as a brilliant area of villas in a park setting with curved streets, inviting vistas, and abundant flowers. It notes Charlottenburg as central, with Unter den Linden remaining tourist heart due to hotels, shopping, and major monuments. The article praises Tiergarten, Tiergarten entrances, and avenues like Charlottenburg Chaussee and Berliner Strasse, admiring German architectural variety and the blend of modern and Baroque styles, despite critiquing some churches as ugly.
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Berlin
Europe
Paris
Vienna
Berlin West
Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg Chaussee
Charottenburg Bridge
Berlinerstrasse
Knie
Bismarckstrasse
Frederick II
Luisenplatz
Tiergarten
Hardenbergstrasse
Emperor William
Steinplatz
Thirteen Lines of Jam Bomb Hoax Unveiled as Jam
Judge Thompson finds an oblong pasteboard box containing two metal cylinders and calls police. Detective Ward soaks the item in water then discovers the bomb is only two jars of strawberry jam. The scare unsettled officers and bystanders before the truth emerged.
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New York
Judge Thompson
Brooklyn
Ward
Seaford Storm Strikes High School Steeple and Injures Man
A severe storm with lightning raged through lower Delaware. A bolt struck Seaford High School causing its steeple to shatter. Lightning hit a Pine Street home, stunning J Milton Barnes solicitor for Diamond State Telephone Co. He recovered with no lasting injuries as outbuildings and livestock were destroyed across rural areas.
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Seaford
Del
Lower Delaware
Seaford High School
Pine Street
J. Milton Barnes
Diamond State Telephone Company
Barnes
Teething Syrup and Humorous Quips from a 19th Century Page
A jumble of ad copy and cartoons references: Mrs Winslow's Boothing Syrup promises teething relief and gum soothing, Hicks Capucine touted for summer headaches, and a railroads joke about nerve travel. Also includes social satire lines about youth marriage and wealth.
Why Druggists Go Insane
A joke in which Lola's mother sends her to a corner drug store with three pennies for a stamped envelope. The druggist asks what he can do, and Lola replies that her mamma wants three cents’ worth of stamped antelope.
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Lola
English Butler Leaves after Quick Read of Desk Life
A humorous tale recalls Jeems and the Nuritches proud of their English butler Parker who resigns after a month. He explains he expected sports grass and champagne, but found cab bage carrots and beer, saying the atmosphere is not suited to a sensitive person.
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Nuritches
Parker
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Young’s Magazine
Jeremiah of
Joppa
Porter
Carter
Irters
John
Hompson's Eye Water
Ompson
N. Y. Charlotte
Pattern Department
Freedom IN
Burma
Unter den Linden
Bolt
Smeeee Pua
Brenton Libby
M¢Neill
Peete
Broadway
N.Y
Femsonabig
Caseraw
Gilacheston
Fader
Puck
Post
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