Solid Comfort With Elegance In Modern Home Design
A feature on a large residence by William A Radford detailing its brick front veranda, expansive living room with a grand fireplace, and wide dormers. The article praises solid construction from footings to ridge boards, emphasizing lighted living spaces and utility adorned for beauty, with Radford offering free home-building advice by mail.
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William A Radford
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Farm in a Cave Plan Takes Root in Ozarks
Robert Smith of St. Louis chooses a cave in the Ozark mountains as a site for a novel farm. He acquires a 2acre tract with a cave running underneath and plans to grow mushrooms, spreading soil and manure after clearing stalagmites. He builds a boat for access via a river inside the cave.
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Ozark Mountains
St. Louis
Robert Smith
France
Honor for Fallen Heroes Under Bavarian Command
The king of Bavaria decrees that if a standard bearer dies with the flag in hand a silver plate bearing his name and a brief note on the circumstances shall be affixed to the standard. The act honors fallen heroes and preserves the memory of their deeds.
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Bavaria
Deep Plowing Techniques Boost Water Storage
Deep plowing marks the first step in storing water with subsoiler use. Proper depth avoids over-loosening subsoil while maintaining capillary flow. Disking prior to plowing fills furrow interstices with pulverized dirt to balance compactness and porosity aiding moisture movement.
Making an Ideal Seed Bed by Prof Am Ten Eyck
Seed bed is tilled soil depth adjustable from three to eighteen inches with wabsoil or stirring plows. For feeding wheat and other seeds the bed should be loose but only slightly deeper than planting depth. Pulverize below sowing depth while keeping a firm settled root zone. Mulch depth two to three inches preserves soil moisture. Surface cultivation before seeding should be shallow.
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AM. Ten Eyck
Soil drift prevention and winter horse feeding
Article discusses preventing soil erosion by keeping soil with roots through grasses and alfalfa, adding organic matter, and using manure. mentions windbreaks with shingles and the impact of broken bands. Also covers winter feeding for horses after the busy season, advising reduced but adequate forage to keep horses ready for spring work.
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W. Palmer
Building Poultry House For Large Pen Rooms
In constructing a poultry house aim for the largest pen room at the lowest cost. For heavy fowls provide ladders eight feet high to reach the roosts. A board with cleats nailed across at intervals is adequate.
Cascarets Promote Clean Bowels and Health
An old style advertisement extols Cascarets for cleansing the stomach liver and bowels while promising a headache free morning. It claims ten cent boxes work overnight with no griping or sickness and cites widespread use by men and women. A separate notice jokes about a woman burglar losing teeth and a columnist quips about justice.
Wise Girl and the Neighborly Nonsense at Hand
A dialogue labeled Wise Girl plays with flirtation and social snobbery. Characters tease Tom about kissing and calling his mother while remarking on neighbors and money. A judge contemplates the young bride’s role in life as a crewdriver.
Evidences of Bravery and Local Color in a Drawing Room Tale
A Belgian relief committee meeting is interrupted by a ragged woman with a baby seeking food. Mrs Twobble dismisses it as the woman leaves, while others comment on the scene as evidence of bravery and the theater of local color. A western hotel keeper explains that locals are paid to provide authentic scenes for travelers and photographers.
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Mrs. Twobble
Yeaterday
Fatheir
Louisyville Times
Hair Care Ads Tout Cuticura for Dandruff Relief
An advertisement extols Cuticura products for scalp health claiming Cuticura Soap and Ointment clear dandruff soothe irritation and promote hair growth. Offers free samples by mail from Boston and notes products sold widely.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Adr
Our National Disease Caused by Coffee
An Arkansas doctor and a Illinois case endorse Postum as a cure for coffee related dyspepsia. The doctor reports weight gain and improved health after switching to Postum, while a young woman also gains weight and recovers vitality. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum from Postum Co. Battle Creek MI, with pricing and preparation notes.
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Arkansas
Tlinois
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Mutual respect noted between Hodge-thonson couple
The couple appears to share a playful rapport with each other, each praising the other’s view. He praises football talk while she favors fashion discourse, reflecting a lighthearted domestic dynamic.
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Hodge—thonson
Dodge
Office Regulations and Unread Letters Humor
A dialogue notes a collector pressuring a debtor over a bill with twelve letters. The country editor jokes that such communications are discarded unread, illustrating office regulation humor from Stray Stories.
A Clock Reform In Italy Sparks Mock Alarm
The column notes that Italy started numbering clocks from one to twenty four beginning at one o clock, prompting mock worry at home about friends staying out late as if a football injury might occur. A playful exchange highlights era slang and moralizing attitudes.
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Clara
Italy
Dora
Arthur
Gus
New York Weekly
An Annoyance in a Quoted Exchange
A fragment from a periodical includes a sharp exchange where a reforming prison is praised yet the speaker derides the warden as uncultured. The excerpt also references a romantic aside and misquote laden dialogue from a Boston Evening Transcript.
Not So Easily Caught by Miss Thirty-Eight
A coy exchange with Miss Thirty-Eight and Mr. Jones centers on a dream of marriage and a wedding tour. The dialogue features light humor as Miss Thirty-Eight reveals a strange dream and Mr. Jones dismisses it, noting his longer absence of nightmare.
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Miss Thirty-Eight
Mr. Jones
Raising the Cash
Dialogue touches on a sudden medical operation debated by a doctor and emotional pressure from a wife. The fragment hints at financial strain and ethical tension surrounding urgent treatment.
Lost Business This Year in Europe War Declared
The piece notes a loss of travel and tourism in Europe during wartime. It estimates about 40 million potential tourists have abandoned plans for trips abroad due to the conflict.
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Europe
Mirror in Window Draws Attention Says Shopkeeper
A quip about retail advice suggests a shopkeeper urges keeping a good mirror in the window to attract customers. The exchange frames a simple, practical tip for storefront display.
Extradi tion treaties and actors in Kansas City Journal tone
A fragmented quote scene notes extradi tion treaties with the United States, asking where criminals can seek safety. A reply mentions New York and a remark on actresses growing self important due to press agents.
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New York
Greach
Kansas City Journal
Domestic strife stirs as husband detained abroad
Citizens debate the Henpeck couple with Mrs Henpeck in hysterics and Mr Henpeck away. A local agitator is described as a limited irritant whose influence remains within his own territory while broader fighting rages elsewhere.
Peruna Endorsed As Grip Remedy In Era Ad
Letters from Mrs. Gentry Gates of Fant Lake Alabama and Mr. George B. Law of Brazil Indiana praise Peruna as a cure and endorsement for grip. The ad highlights Feruna as a safe tonic with laxative qualities to counteract poisons from grip bacil.
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Feruna
Gentry Gates
First Ave
Fant Lake
Ala
Peruna
George B. Law
N. Franklin St
Brazil
Ind
Won Out Donation Party Confusion Reveals Cash Loss
A garbled record reports a dispute over gambling and a donation party ending with a net loss of about a hundred units. The fragment mentions being a donor and leaving with unspecified funds cited as a result.
Sage Tea and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Darkening
An old-time advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a simple brew to restore natural hair color and gloss. It claims rapid results, covering gray hair in one or two applications and improving scalp health, with a testimonial from a druggist and a light quip about bald prospects.
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Wyeth
Adv
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Jani
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