Spacious roof space used in Splendia style house plan
The design highlights a roof space converted from storage into living areas for a large family. Features include a roof cellar foundation, a wide front porch, an open archway between parlor and dining room, a space saving china cupboard, a cozy library at the hall rear, and multiple dormer windows to light upper rooms.
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Tom Mikel
Keep Butter During Winter on Farms
A practical guide to preserving butter through winter in farm cellars. It covers cellar cleaning and fumigation, preventing dampness and mustiness, proper cream ripening, washing and salting steps, and storage in cold, clean jars with parchment and salt. Emphasizes cooling cellar temps and avoiding additives or lardy jars.
Profit From Guernsey Cow Records Show Strong Yields
More than three thousand yearly Guernsey cow records were completed with an average milk yield of 544 pounds and 426 pounds of butterfat. Over one third were first calves, 564 cows produced 10 000 to 19 000 pounds milk and 500 to 1000 pounds butterfat, while 55 top cows averaged 14 597 pounds milk and 771 pounds butterfat. Guernsey records show over 2 pounds butterfat per day and 2 361 pounds in 30 days, indicating production not yet reached its limit.
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Guernsey
Hard to Educate Cow
A quoted lesson notes that a cow educated for three or four years cannot be made into the cow it would have been from the start, by any care or feeding. The remark underscores the inefficiency of attempting late learning on livestock and stresses early acquisition.
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Sloan
Lane
Making Friends With Heifers for Herd Reinforcement
Advice emphasizes gentle handling of young heifers to gain their cooperation. Proper care builds a trusty herd foundation as the animals mature and contribute to future stock strength.
Cascarets and Castor Oil Advertised Remedies
An old newspaper ad promotes Cascarets as a gentle bowel cleanser to regulate the stomach and remove poisons, claiming they work overnight with no gripe and cost 19 cents a box. It mentions other laxatives like salts, castor oil, and purgatives, and references related cough drops and humorous notes about daily life.
Fragmentary note on Waris nickname and Hosve origins
Partial OCR reads about Waris and a nickname Real ons en dintew linked to Hosve. The readable text hints at identifying a nickname or place connection but is too garbled to confirm specifics, dates, or events.
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Wits
Sweets and Salads From a Home Cook Book Page
A jumble of recipes and kitchen tips describes preparations for celery salads, chicken with corn, Chantilly potatoes, fruit desserts, German salad with herring, corn and rice salad, Mexican tomato salad, cucumber substitutions, and various desserts like Bird's Nest Pudding and Chocolate Blanc Mange. The piece closes with a Daily Thought about personal influence.
Kidney Blues and Salts Cure Claims
Digest promotes Jad Salts as a cure for kidney and bladder issues from a meat heavy diet. It urges a daily dose of five ounces in water before breakfast to flush toxins, says the salts date from grape acid and lemon juice with lithia, and touts it as harmless and popular for decades. The text shifts to a Europe relief dialogue contrasting charity with personal debt repayment.
More Good Things From A Home Kitchen Menu
A vintage recipe collection offers Prune Pie with a meringue topping and a variety of dishes. Prune Pie-Line a pie with rich pastry, prunes, lemon and orange flavors, then bake with browned meringue. Includes Celery and Pineapple Salad, Broiled Halibut, Tomato and Peanut Salad, Fricasseed Potatoes, and Fruit Bread Sponge with cream.
Danderine hair remedy promises beauty and growth
In an old style ad, Danderine is urged for women to beautify hair and soothe scalps. It claims cleansing action against dust oil and dandruff plus eventual hair growth. The copy promotes a 25 cent bottle from Knowlton's Danderine and references a humorous dialogue about Miss Angular.
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Knowlton
Edison’s camp coffee machine recipe revealed in old note
A Swede advised Thomas Edison on a portable coffee maker for camping or hunting trips. The plan involved a pine knot fire on the Flambeau River, a coffee pot with one quart water and two handfuls of coffee, and sitting on a cover to prevent boil over, with coffee ready when the cover settled.
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Thomas Edison
von Vay
Tak
Flambeau River
First Turkey Purchases Surprise Young Bride
A Louisville Courier Journal item recounts a young wife buying her first turkey and her surprise that no instruction book accompanied it. The dealer notes she was greatly surprised by the missing guide.
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Louisville
Journel
Pope's DiPepSin praised as fastest stomach regulator
An advertisement touts Pope's DiPepSin as the quick cure for dyspepsia and indigestion with claims of vanishing distress after contact with the stomach. It promises satisfaction and urges households to keep the remedy handy for upset stomachs day or night. A courtroom exchange about accusations follows in the next item.
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Pape
Papa
Pope
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Kidney Trouble Linked to Overwork Says Oakley Man
James McDuniel of Oakley Kentucky says overwork caused kidney and bladder disease with burning and soreness in the region, broken sleep, fatigue, nervousness, swollen eyes, shortness of breath and rheumatic pains. After ten months of futile medical care he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and reports a permanent cure. Boxed at Buffalo based Dodd's Medicine Co. Also offers household hints music and recipes.
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James McDuniel
Oakley, Ky
Mackace
J. McDaniel
Dodd
Dodd's Medicine Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Circumstances Alter Cases in Courtroom Exchange
A lawyer argues the evidence against a defendant is overwhelming and acquittal unlikely. The dialogue contrasts the assistant’s confidence with the defendant Pim’s guilt claim and the lawyer’s assessment of the chances for freedom.
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