The Milliner and the Rich Marriage Plot
Theo Bertram’s restless pursuit of Miss Hilda Eversley, a shop girl at Norton’s milliner, ends with a bold letter delivered in Parker’s shop. A dinner gathering reveals mutual affection and a plan for a wealth tied match, amid witty misunderstandings and social tension.
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Ker
Hilda
Mr. Wilding
Bertram
Bonner
Mifliner
Theo
Mrs. Bertram
Jack
Eversley
Mrs. Smith
Theodore
Hilda Eversley
Dinger
Parker
Tavabe
Handy Bag Holder Revealed For Easy Grain Filling
A Homestead writer explains a simple farm device to hold bags during filling. Build a vertical post with a durable top, add two wooden arms with screw hooks for bag buttonholes, and use a cord to lift the bag front. The project uses common farm materials and attaches beside the grain bin for convenience.
Building Good Roads in Missouri and Beyond
The good roads issue gains wide attention with proposals to fund highways from dram shop license revenue or automobile license income. Convict labor is urged as a fast, economical method, already common in southern states, to speed road improvement and raise adjacent farmland values, bringing country residents closer to urban advantages.
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Missouri
Fulk
Farm Notes On Disease Prevention And Hog Breeds
Farm notes emphasize prevention over treatment with clean dry quarters and pure water to stop tuberculosis. The piece praises Cheshire hogs for early maturity, solid pork texture, and strong bacon quality, noting their value for crossing. It urges farmers to treat each farm as an experiment station, study local conditions, and be patient and observant in results.
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P. P. Southworth
Minnesota
Cheshire
Grass on the farm boosts hay and pasture use
Randolph county correspondent notes grass crops like timothy red top clover and blue grass form a major farm asset with 15 percent hay and 18 percent pasture use. He laments low farmer attention to grass, mentions limited uptake of alfalfa and orchard grass, and urges more livestock and richer manure to better utilize feed produced.
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Randolph County
Farmer’s Review
Wildly absurd vintage humor and innuendo bits page
A collage of quips, jokes, and cartoon captions from a vintage gossip page. Includes risqué banter, workplace gags, and a travel allusion, with lines about elopement, a coachman, and a hotel bar, plus a string of witty one liners and captioned cartoons. Primary figures include various newspaper punchlines and anonymous comedians.
Not In the Smart Set Brief Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue shows a judge debating social prominence and loyalty. Julia is described as intelligent yet not socially progressive, while remarks note her long marriage of twenty years. The exchange hints at concerns over perception and personal conduct within a clear community setting.
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Julia
Mercy
Needless Alarm Inside The Cable Car
A shrill voice cries for time to undress as a passenger complains while a man struggles with a hamper of his mother's washing. The scene unfolds with strap-holders turning to watch an awkward moment on the car. Groucho reference adds a distant remark about manners.
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Jader
Contrivance to Even Silage Packing in Silo
A described device for a silo blower aims to even out silage distribution to prevent center overpacking or wall loss. The Montreal Herald notes that despite effort uneven settling persists, with one or two extreme packing zones typical. The proposed device directs silage flow to the center as it falls, reducing extremes.
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Montreal Herald
Estimating a dairy herd value against cheap cows
An old dairy economics note argues replacing culled cows with cheaper ones lowers average productivity. It compares milk output and costs for cows yielding one to two gallons, showing higher-producer cows can be more profitable despite higher upfront costs, urging elimination of low-earning stock.
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Tom Masson
Successful Dairying Requires Careful Method and Fat Testing
The article urges careful thought and intelligent effort in dairying, highlighting the Babcock test as essential to valuing milk by fat content. It warns against guessing, stresses rinsing with clean hot water, avoiding old cream, preventing odors, and cooling cream to match the mixture, and warns not to mix cold and warm cream.
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Babcock
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Par
Anon
Chicago Daily News
Old Chapple
London Tatler
Ts Bunkerton
Chicago Record-Herald
Porter
File
Gende Blaetter
Museum
Rlcage Daily News
Stella
Milwaukee
Sentinel
Diggs
Mrs Weeds
Biggs
Ate
Houston Post
Egllowly
Groucho
Jedge
Silo
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