Nervous Wreck Recovered Health with Pink Pills
Mrs Green of Franklin Georgia recounts three and a half years of weakness and nervousness with stomach trouble. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills her weight rose from 104 to 130 pounds, sleep improved, and energy returned. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Mra
A. Grown
R. E.D. No
Franklin, Ga
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Dock weed control from Country Gentlemen advice
The article explains dock also called yellow dock a troublesome European weed. It covers methods to eradicate it including digging cutting with a mattock applying strong acids and cultivation. It stresses destroying seed heads before July and coordinated neighbor efforts to prevent reinfestation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Rear Step for Wagon Adds Farm Load Helper
A farm wagon rear addition offers a sturdy iron supported step. It eases loading and unloading by reducing strain, giving a resting spot for boxes, baskets, or bags, and allows tipping items over to the wagon with less effort. A single person can lift about half the weight at a time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
PICKINGS Farmers urge spraying and weed control
Farmers buying more spraying outfits. Mow weeds along roadsides and fence rows before they go to seed. Don’t let a weed set seed in the garden. A ton of well cured cowpea hay equals one and a half tons of red clover hay and similar to wheat bran in feeding quality. Small white worms on rose leaves may be controlled by dusting while dew is on with soot and ashes from stove pipe.
The Business Of Farming In Civilized Society
The article traces farming as the foundation of civilization, noting the shift from hard manual labor to modern mechanized farming. It contrasts historical haying and harvest toil with today's efficient methods, highlighting farmers as rational commercial operators and the profession’s rising status. It cites Horace on rural virtue and remarks on price, labor, and modernization.
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Horace
Comic Papers
Handy saw horse and wood holding jig detailed in use
The article describes building a saw horse from two by four or two by three stock with mortised legs and braces, a light iron rod at the center, and a hickory pole stake system to hold timber while cutting. It also notes a preferrable post-and-pin holding method. It adds two brief notes on clay origins and agriculture’s role in civilization and forecasts rapid farming progress.
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Orange Judd
A Man Tells Of Curing Psoriasis With Soap Ointment
W M Chidester of Hutchinson Kansas recalls a 35 year battle with psoriasis in patches over his body. He says three cakes of Cuticura Soap six boxes of Ointment and two bottles of Resolvent cured him in thirty days and he has remained free for about five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Chidester
Hutchinson, Kan
Rhodes and Belt Meet and Coining a Joint Venture
A conversation recounts how Cecil Rhodes and Belt decided to join forces after a dinner meeting. Rhodes impressed Belt with his ambition to control the diamond output before growing older, and the pair agreed to join hands. The tale contrasts Rhodes’s impatience for arithmetic and Belt’s steady effort in business. Education in Sweden is universal, with every child aged seven to fourteen required to attend school unless privately educated. Sweden hosts about twelve thousand common schools with ambulatory programs in sparse areas, shortening terms accordingly. The London docks reveal a first in tea handling as the Huntsman cargo was discharged by electricity via steel rollers in the harbor’s port facilities.
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Rhodes
Belt
Porges
Alfred Bell
Cecil Rhodes
Sweden
America
Port of London
Huntsman
Harison
London Docks
Fragmented ad and note on Allen's Foot-Ease featured in Vintage Misc
A noisy collage of ads and notes: Allen's Foot-Ease powder pitched as a cure for painful feet and growing nails with sales claims and a 25 cent trial offer. Also mentions champion whittier Champion Whittier, B F Clay, a Philadelphia retiree famed for carving a three foot long linked watch chain with a penknife and ice.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Hoy
Champion Whittier
B. F. Clay
Philadelphia
Whittier
Clay
Technical World Magazine
Danish boatman saved 500 from drowning dies at 83
Christian Langer, a Danish boatman from Harboe in Jutland, earned a record by saving five hundred people from drowning over 48 years. He died aged 83 in Harboe.
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Christian Langer
Harboe
Jutland
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