Experiments With Feed For Fattening Cattle at Purdue
The Purdue University Animal Husbandry department reports three years of tests on cattle fattening focusing on age, ration, and silage. Calves finish cheaper and gain faster with silage plus corn and cotton-seed meal, compared with clover hay. Two-year-olds show higher finish and value with other rations. Results suggest nitrogen concentrates improve profit under current prices, with Lot 6 feeding (shelled corn and clover hay) delivering notable advantages.
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Purdue University
Indiana
W. A. Cochet
Farmers
Lawrence County
Chicago
Indianapolis
Purdue
Guard Against Forest Fires Warned by Massachusetts Office
A Massachusetts forester's bulletin warns forests could be devastated by fires in 62 years without prevention and repainting. It cites smokers and unknown causes as leading fire sources, with incendiary and malicious fires totaling 11 percent and lightning fires as the only unavoidable. It also notes eggs remain a steady money source amid neglect.
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Massachusetts Forester’s Office
Hatlready
Under a Dark Moon boat rivalry in a playful scene
A playful exchange contrasts a motor boat and a canoe with a chaperon present. Lolly praises the motor boat while Dick agrees. The line about the chug ehug joke suggests a noisy scene that hides a smacked remark in humor.
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Lolly
Procter Cuticura Heals Severe Eczema Home Testimony
A Vermont woman reports long failed treatments before Cuticura Soap and Ointment healed an awful eczema that started atop the ear and spread to the face and neck. She describes raw skin, constant itching, and oozing requiring medicated cotton, then notes complete recovery within three months. Dec 19, 1907. Potter Ding & Chem Corp Boston.
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Ann Pearsons
Northfield
Potter Ding & Chem. Gorp
Sole Props
Boston
Important to Mothers Castoria advertisement claim
A vintage ad urges mothers to examine Castoria bottles and notes the remedy has been trusted for over 30 years. It emphasizes the familiar branding and claims Brain benefits and stimulant effects associated with fish imagery in the copy.
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Castqoria
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement and Cromwell Cartoon
An 19th century ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen feet and new shoes. sold by druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer. A Life of the Protector feature notes Cromwell wished to be painted with the wart, prompting a quip about a warthog.
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Allen
Tse
Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Cromwell
Chamberlain Co Advertises Pure Extracts and Baking Powder
An advertisement proclaims Chamberlain Co. pure extracts and Mam mu phosphate baking powder as pure and unadulterated, endorsed by the U.S. government. The notice lists St. Louis as the maker and includes a quotation from Afterglow about love and headache.
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Chamberlain
U.S
Atall Grovera
B. Chamberlain CO
St. Louis
Equipped for Fast Travel Sorrow and the Evil with Many Feet
Fragmentary notes cite Posidippus on sorrow as a many footed evil and a cigar ad praising Lewis' Single Binder straight 5¢ cigar. A quip about wisdom claims a wise man avoids arguing with a woman.
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Posidippus
Defiance Starch Promises Woollike Finish For Home Laundering
A 19th century advertisement riff urges readers to use Defiance Starch to stiffen fabrics with less thickness, claiming stronger starch allows thin application for brighter, longer lasting wash goods. It links early rising habits to wealth, cites Jacob Astor, and ends with a joke about a Fortunate Lady and an engaged couple amid light banter.
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America
Jacob Astor
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Eczema
Cuticura
Martha
Miss
France
Yas
Church
Gotham
Tiffany
Omaha
Peahe
United States
W. K. Kellogg
Kellogg's
Holden
Iowa State College
Neb
National Corn Association
Omaha, Neb
Tk Kellogg Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake CO
Battle Creel, Mich
Ogg
Putnam
Amignaoe Brug
George
Jimmie
Patience
Peggy
Patrice
Cheyennea River
General Land Office
le Beau
Aberdeen
S.D
Iowa Central
Minneapolis and St. Louis Road
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis, Minn
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore, MD
Geo. A. Laney
Montreal
Canada
Iphioga
Viera Naweeapag Unos
Huawei
Chicasee
Frompson
N. U
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