Villa Soragna Romance in an Italian Amidst Alpine Solitude
A signora seeks Villa Soragna in the Alpine foothills near Milan and, after a private tour guided by the count in disguise, learns the villa’s owner desires a buyer who will become Countess Soragna. The match unfolds as the count asks for marriage to seal the sale, and the signora agrees to return tomorrow with her decision.
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Ting
Evenig
Soragna Villa
Milan
Soragna
Signora
Villa Soragna
Villa
Excellen
Gignora
Titian
Pitt
Ahe
Pisani
Soragnas
Count Soragna
N. Y. Sun
Fever Blisters Treatment Mentioned by Good Housekeeping
A snippet notes fever blisters on lips and throat are dried up by alcohol magically, attributed to Good Housekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babe
Good Housekeeping
Girls Who Trod the Deck in Nelson Era Navy
A Smith’s Weekly recount notes women in the British fleet who served undercover aboard ships during wartime. It details Poll Wells of the Marlborough, Actaeon disguises, and other escapes from flogging and harsher fates, illustrating secrecy, courage, and the costs of sea life for female sailors.
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Poll Wells
England
Poll
Marlborough
Plymouth
Actaeon
The Instinct of Animals in Winter Forecasts
A Baltimore American discussion on whether fur bearing animals sense approaching cold and deepen their coats and dwellings. It weighs folklore against observed cases, noting both successful forecasts and failures, and questions if such instincts reflect nature’s provisions rather than intelligence.
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New York
Baltimore American
Mound Builders as Miners in Ancient mica mines
The Chicago Tribune suggests ancient mound builders in North Carolina mined mica on a large scale. Veins were worked down to the water level with no metal tools, producing coarse granite like dikes. Mica blocks weighed tons and sheets spanned feet in diameter, illustrating substantial prehistoric quarrying.
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North Carolina
Chicago Tribune
Hair Lock Fortune Teller Promises Past and Future
A Chicago Daily News item notes a fortune teller who claims to read past present and future from a lock of hair. The exchange jokes about whether she needs different hair shades for the reading.
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Chicago Daily News
Milkman and customer clash over fish in milk report
A humorous exchange from Pearson's Weekly depicts a customer finding a live fish in milk and a milkman replying that cows drink from a trout stream. The vignette showcases witty provincial dialogue and farcical misunderstanding.
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Pearson's Weekly
Dairy Feed Experiments Favor Vetch and Soy Beans Over Wheat Bran
Alabama experiment station reports on feeding tests with hay from dairy vetch cowpeas and soybeans. Vetch hay equals wheat bran in value, reducing butter cost per pound by 25 percent and saving about 22.20 monthly per herd of 20 cows. Cowpea hay offers 86 percent of wheat bran value. soybeans boost butter yield by eight percent with corn hearts.
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Alabama Experiment Station
Jersey
Which Kind Do You Keep In Your Dairy Herd
Prof R M Washburn of Missouri Agricultural College cites farmers paying five cents an hour and questions why they keep dairy cows that barely earn. He contrasts two cow types, the Money Losing Cow producing butter at 13.8 cents per pound with food only, and the Money Making Cow yielding butter at 4.27 cents per pound with substantial net yearly profit. The latter could earn about nine dollars a day in labor value.
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R. M. Washburn
Missouri Agricultural College
Back Aches Vanish After Dean's Kidney Pills Use
H B McCarver of Portland Oregon, reviewing months of back pain tied to a cold, reports Doan's Kidney Pills cured his trouble. He says the issue settled in his kidneys and has not recurred since usage. Pills available from all dealers at 60 cents per box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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H. B. McCarver
Cherry, St
Portland
Ore
Trans-Continental Co
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Portrait Painter Declines Oil as Standard Guys Float News
A humorous exchange features a portrait painter denying oil painting as the Standard guys float something new. Uncle Hiram dons a cork vest and stays away, prompting Mr. Parkham’s admiration and the painter’s quip about being done in oil.
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Mr. Parkham
Hiram
Puck
One Night Treatment With Cuticura Soap and Ointment
An advertisement touts soaking hands or feet in a hot creamy lather of Cuticura Soap with nightly application of Cuticura Ointment. It promises relief from red rough chapped hands, dry fissures, itching palms, and sore nails, claiming speedy, permanent, economical cure.
Hothouse Buds Outshine Spring Flowers In Price War
In Birmingham the Age-Herald notes cut flowers from hothouse buds command high prices, dwarfing the humble spring blooms. The piece contrasts mass-market spring flowers with expensive cultivated varieties.
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Hothouse
Birmingham Age-Herald
Allen's Foot-Hage Shoe Healer Advertisement
Cured painful swollen smarting sweating feet and makes new shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. Do not accept substitutes. Sample free at A. 8 Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Language ignorance sign in a newspaper quote
A quotation from the N. O. Times-Democrat notes that the clearest sign of a man's ignorance of a language is his habit of interrupting ordinary speech with unnecessary depressions from that language.
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N. O. Times- Democrat
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Italy
Island OF
Porto Rico
Naval Reservation
San Juan
Culebra Island
St. Jacobs Oil
Cura
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