Successful attempt to grow cotton in southern Illinois
J. E. Whitchurch reports that in 1911 Illinois agricultural tests grew cotton on Unionville field in Massac county. Seedings, weed control, and thinning followed by several pickings yielded 1288 pounds of seed cotton and 179 pounds of lint per acre, with potential for expansion in Pulaski and Alexander counties.
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Illinois
Ilinoia
Unionville
Massae County
Tennessee
Virginia
Pulaski
Ill
Georgia
Pulask
Alexander County
Silinoia
How to care for horse shoulders and healing methods
A 1900s farming guide explains why young horses suffer shoulder sores from ill fitting collars. It describes swelling with yellow fluid, treatment by opening with a knife, draining, applying zinc chloride solution, and repeated care every few days until healing occurs over several weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Mintosh
University of Inels
Petond
Canada’s Western lands lure American settlers in 1911
Report of the House Committee highlights a three year homestead on gold land with lenient rules and biannual leave. Letters from settlers praise Southern Alberta’s moisture, soil, water, and climate, comparing it favorably to Dakota and Wisconsin. Canadian agents provide literature and low rate certificates. excursions run daily.
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House Committee
Washington
Canada
Warner
Alberta
Dakota
Minnesota
Iewa
Wisconsin
Western Canada
Genuine Charity Drives Effort for Unemployed
De Roads asks what charity does for the unemployed as De Barns questions the help available. De Roads says he tries daily to avoid getting work, highlighting a look at support efforts amid hard times.
Great Scott Maria Daring Dress Sparks Court Quip
A witty courtroom aside turns on a bold costume comment as a judge urges sticking closer to fact. The exchange highlights the era's sharp banter and style sensibilities.
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Scott
Maria
Allen's Foot-En-Ses Ths Powder Story
A fragmented note touts Allen's Foot-Ense antiseptic powder for tired tender and swollen feet. The text contains garbled branding and stray phrases, mentioning Allen & Olmsted and a vague claim of distant delivery and a peculiar conversation quote.
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Allen
Deel Se Ak
Walog
Marea Allen & Olmsted
Marie Tempest Nose Joke Sparks Lenten Music Hall Chat
A Walldorf Astoria Lenten musicale audience recalls a quip about Marie Tempest’s nose during a tea gathering. A matron recounts Tempest’s self joking remark on her own nose, noting the creator’s choice of nose for her. Paxtine Antiseptic promotes dental hygiene in a brief product plug.
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Marie Tempest
Waldorf-Astoria
Misa Tempest
The New Wife
A humorous exchange about domestic tasks between a husband and his new wife, joking that she married a typewriter rather than a sewing machine and implying the wife should handle the button with humor.
Kindergarten Teacher Surprised by Compliment on Skirt
A Cambridge kindergarten teacher, at her desk in a close-fitting skirt, notices a pupil fixating on her attire and the boy blurts out a compliment about the skirt. The scene, recounted by the Boston Post, ends with the boy’s bold remark.
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Cambridge
Tommy
Boston Post
Gentle warnings and patent medicine urges in a fragment
A fragmented OCR passage urges gentleness and mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims to soothe gums and reduce inflammation. It also references a proverb about lending without security and a dubious tonic Garfield Ton for blood remedies, ending with a vague remark about a girl seeking a man's love.
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J. E. Whitchurch
University of Minois
Uilinois
Acta Guickly
Ieee Eerie
Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Maes
Garfield Tes
Iver
Munyon
B3d
Jefferson Sts
Earth
Galera
W.f.young
P.D
Castoria
Astoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Rumfeet
Dantelion
Albert W. Kahl
Buffalo
Gustave “A. Eisengrasber
Paul
Mint
B. J. Dennis
St. Louis
8. A. Buchanan
Philadelphia
J. B. Simpson
R. E. Eskildeon
Omaha
Neb
L. R. Robinson
Kansas City
Edwin F. Pardee
New York City
N. B. Sizer
Brooklyn
N. Y
Putnam
Quincy
Aban
Cole
Black River Falls
Wis
Moe
Garfield Ton
Tutt
N.U
Sola
Cpe
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