Engagement by a Cow Tale Echoes Old Washington
A Washington Star column recounts the curious proposal via a Jersey cow between Mr X and Miss Y at a Maryland shore home. The lovers, fond of a pasture milking routine, are said to have become engaged after the elder uncle offers the cow. The piece contrasts stage romance with real life and notes the futility of scripted proposals, urging frank heart in earnest over speechmaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Star
Washington
Eo Bo
Shay
Mr. X
Maryland
Virginis
Virginia
Miss Y
Miss
Mies Y
Sbe
Mian Y
Andeo
Bulwer
Stager
Washington Star
Bray
conRestos
Kentucky
Chicago
Diet and cookery for health from Kellogg lecture
Mrs E E Kellogg of Battle Creek Sanitarium urges diet driven by nutritive value and digestibility. She warns poor cooking harms health and that fats and sugars must be moderated. Emphasizes whole grains and careful preparation as foundations of strong minds and bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Kellogg
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Helen L. Man
J. N. Hall
Harper's Weekly
AK Building for Poultry with Accommodation for Two Hundred Fowls
A descriptive sketch by John H. Caughey of Pennsylvania outlines a simple two hundred bird poultry building. The design covers a center 20 by 35 foot section, twelve pens per wing, and outdoor runs for ten hens and one male per pen. It emphasizes practical, non elaborate construction with nests, roosts, and separate sick fowl coops, all accessible from a central hallway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Caughey
Pennsylvania
Ground plan of poultry house features dividers and zones
A hand drawn plan shows a poultry house with multiple coops enabling separation and treatment of ailing fowls. The layout suggests wing heights between eight and fifteen feet, a central high section up to twenty feet to provide an upper room, and flexible building heights to suit purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry House
Nesting Com Jendant Pigeon Coop For Poultry Use
The device could hold a cot for sleeping and serve as a pigeon coop, offering a profitable and amusing pursuit for farmers. It would let farmers test pigeons as pets while also integrating poultry activity into a single structure.
Fireside Fragments From Household Recipes
A column of vintage home recipes and tips gathered from multiple sources. It includes fizzy coconut cookies, rice pudding, cocoa blancmange, cream crisps, egg fried leeks, and willow furniture cleaning methods drawn from Detroit Free Press Boston Budget Household Monthly Good Housekeeping style columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ipss
Boston
Castile
From Wild to Tangled: A Patchwork of 19th Century Clippings
A collage of notes touches on wild animals in distant regions and remarkable freight feats, detailing 13000 barrel apples sent to England from Portland, large African lions versus Asian varieties, packing paper methods, Suez canal oil transport, and historic banking ledgers from 1817 to 1835. It also mentions a single gold brick shipped to San Francisco, bananas by rail, and emigration statistics for Russian Jews, with anecdotes about a Danville youth coughing up a brass pin and Parma the hippo’s rapid growth in Central Park. The page also cites a satire ad campaign, vintage harness manufacturing, a Burlington quip, and a slice of early reading criticism praising Miss More and classic authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Portland
England
Africa
Asia
Suez Canal
Ford H. Rogers
Detroit
American Fur Company
John Jacob Astor & Son
Eud
San Francisco
Yuma
New Orleans
Russia
Stettin
Bremen
Hamburg
South America
Jouy Harxes
Danville
Parma
Central Park
New York City
Miss Murphy
Hannah More
Kate
John Gilpin
Kate Kate
Scott
Eon Dickens
Miss Austen
Maria Edgeworth
Miss Burney
Evelina
Lord Orville
A Remarkable Letter to the Editor on Warner's Cure
A physician writes to explain a decades old endorsement of Warner's Safe Cure. He defends proprietary medicines, cites Dr. Helland, and asserts success in treating gravel, bladder inflammation, and Bright's disease after other therapies failed. The letter discusses catarrh and promotes Halts Catarrh Cure with a Toledo address and directives for circulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun
Tevesigalio
Warner
J. Holland
Beribner's Monthly
Helland
Bright
New York
Danville Breese
Manntem
F. J
Also Mentioned on This Page
God's Acre
Rom Angel
Acre
Wallaby
Chicago Tribune
Boston Post
Porior
Cookery and Health
Dr. Harter Medicine Co
Pobushe
Binghamton
Burlington
Ebony
Allice
Dr. Jones
N. O. Picayune
Casals
Einta
Mandy
Rose Coghlan
Charles
McVicker’s Theater
Chas
Dick Book
Tapas
Columbus Post
Seo
Hale
Tur
Pike
Prue
N. Y. Prees
Galveston News
Beconam
Isro
Harvard Lampoon
Atchison Globe
Minnesota
Beeves
Burley
Ayrene
John Jsistant Traficson
Topeka
Coca ‘Teacarr
Anoitel
Basie
le Figaro
Rhat
S.S. G
Josie Owen
Swift
Sapolio
Pribes
Mits
Kaifibg Tean
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
82 Tower
MPR
Mats Cateye
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