One Good Merchant in Every Town Seeks Shoe Dealers
A historical ad promotes W L Douglas shoe distribution through a new sales method with retailer reserve system. It promises profitable, permanent business with limited capital, pre paid express shipping, bonded service, exclusive rights, and national advertising to boost dealer profits.
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W.L. Douglas
Douglas
Pouglandeslor
Lathla
le Douglas
Tis
W. J. Douglas
Johan
Brook
W.l.dougina
Critics say tuberculin testing boosts dairy production nationwide
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that tuberculin testing and removal of tuberculous cattle from herds since 1917 increased milk output and consumption. Since 1921 milk cows rose by 341,000, towns adopt testing rules, and readers seek milk from tested herds despite higher prices.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Department of Agriculture
Mistake With Beef Cattle Produces Losses In Industry
The article warns beef cattle operations err by treating cows like dairy herds, risking non profitability. It argues beef production should minimize labor, equipment, and feed costs to achieve substantial profits and notes dairy herds would face similar issues if held to beef standards.
Establishing Color Grades for Extracted Honey
Beekeepers nationwide provide honey samples to the United States Department of Agriculture for color grading. A new spectro photometer will aid the work conducted by agriculturists in the division of grades and standards of the bureau of agricultural economics.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Ecquomlca
Surprise milk contests raise quality in western cities
Milk dealers faced surprise samples under USDA led tests showing sharp drops in bacterial counts and higher scores across Long Beach Riverside Los Angeles Portland and Seattle. As results published locally, better milk quality boosted customer counts even as higher counts deterred business.
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United States Department At Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Long Beach
Oalif
Riverside
Calif
Los Angeles
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Destroy Canada Thistle Through Deep Plowing And Rotation
The Canada thistle is a pervasive weed spread by roots and seed. Eradication begins with preventing seed development and deep plowing after harvest to bring roots to the surface. Early fall disking and late fall plowing expose roots to frost, and a three year rotation of grain, clover, and corn helps prevent regrowth.
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University
Alfalfa Crop Of Many Uses
Alfalfa stands as a versatile forage crop in the United States with high carrying capacity and broad uses. It serves well for silage and grazing, offers soil benefits, and can be cropped with feasible handling, though it lacks unique medicinal properties and may not suit short rotations.
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United States
Birds of the Sea Gannets and Their Ocean Habits
The piece notes gannets are strictly oceanic birds found inland only after storms or migratory errors. It calls them large, as big as a goose, adept fliers that dive aggressively to catch fish. A separate quote from Senator Sorghum reflects on political conferences offering variety and purpose.
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American Forestry Magazine
Dutch schoolboy sparks science note on permanent level
A Batavia high school lesson yields a classroom observation by Van Erpecum on ice melting in a full glass not spilling, prompting Dr. Van Deventer to bring the finding to Amsterdam professors and the Royal Academy as the potential law of the permanent level.
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van Erpecum
Batavia
Dr. van Deventer
van der Walls and
Zeeman
Royal Academy of Amsterdam
Egyptian Amenemmes IV head fetches 10000 pounds at Sotheby’s
The 5000 year old obsidian head of Amenemmes IV, hailed as the finest Egyptian statuary, sold in London for 10000 pounds. Egyptologist Percy B. Newberry calls it a masterpiece unmatched by any sculptor. The piece measures about four and a half inches from head to chin.
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Sotheby's Auction Room
London
Amenemmes IV
Percy B. Newberry
Political Bind Bites Newt Spraddle in Rumpus Ridge
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge says Newt Spraddle is improving physically but deteriorating politically after a prior incident in Hon where he was pulled from a wagon by a cordial handshake. The speaker says Spraddle will vote against the Glorious Old Party even if it kills him, per Kaneos City Star.
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Newt Spraddle
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Hon
Kaneos City
Rambeau on Plans for the Future
Marjorie Rambeau shares a philosophy about life and work, saying she will do what she must and dream about what she would like to do, as quoted in the Boston Transcript.
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Marjorie Rambeau
Boston Transcript
Sweeping Is Right The Long Skirt Returns
A brief exchange notes the long skirt regaining favor and predicts its rapid nationwide adoption as a fashion trend.
A Union of Interest to Women
A plea for homemaker support and relief from female troubles cites Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a helping option. Personal testimonials from Arkansas Louisiana and New Orleans speak of nerves weight gain and renewed ability to work.
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Heppy
Pikie E. Pinkham
Hervous
Horatio
Ark
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jim Rearich
Arkansas
New Orleans
Mrs
T. Forcke Ler
N. Derbigny St
New Oreleans
Gloomy Poet Tales and Church Reading Misreadings
A compilation of quirky quotations and misread Bible verses. The pieces include J Fuller Gloom parodying Alfred Lord Tennyson with a rooftop scene and bull chase a humorous jab at bard egotism. Also recounted are a shy church member’s Scripture reading mishap and a country club joke about exercise.
True Independence and the smallness of wants quote
Cobbett observes that independence comes not from wealth but from minimizing desires, asserting true liberty stems from modest needs rather than grand means. The sentiment links personal autonomy to restraint and self sufficiency.
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Cobbett
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Baker’s Cocoa
Baie Flactor
Distician
Hoepar
Watter Bates & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
Baby Ges G Furniture
Michigan
America
LUC Trike Neigarette
Ieiol Sha
Minerate
Des Moines
Canada Thistle
Seaton
D. No
Gravy Creek
North Carolina
Toan
Sorghum
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford
Mil
Eding
Pinkham
Putnam
Mr. J. Fuller -Gloom
Tennyson
J. Craft
Alfred Lord Tennyson
J. Fuller
Kansas City Star
Mazie
Chicago Tribune
Doc
Louisville Courier-Journal
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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