Cricket's Cheering Song Echoes Through Storm Lullaby
The excerpt blends poems and tales from old papers, featuring a cricket’s cheer as clouds roil, a childlike scene of morning gutters, and a reflective piece on courage and kindness. It shifts to The Old Settler tale with Peleg, a toothache, school talk, and a myth about William Tell, weaving dialogue on education and folklore.
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Cricket
George Cooper
Peleg
Bill Simmons
Alyear
Sotler
Polog
MecGonigle Run
Sugar Swamp
Bever
Switzerland
Gran'pop
Sonny
Bettler
Bill
Ron ‘Tell
William Tell
Tell
William
Potiphar
Patty Beeler
Patty
Ben Beeler
Ben
Bel
Big Turf Winners Show More Even Honors This Year
The piece notes a shift in turf racing power as Duke of Portland drops from the top owners list after three strong seasons. Noel Fenwick leads with £20,519, Col North close at £20,118, followed by HL Milner £13,811, Blundell Maple £12,640, Sir F. Johnstone £11,710, W. A. Merry £11,545, and Duke of Westminster £10,931.
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Duke of Portland
Noel Fenwick
Col North
HL Milner
Blundell Maple
F. Johnstone
W. A. Merry
Duke of Westminster
Pall Mall
Farm and Garden Devices Cut Labor With Simple Fastenings
A page from Ohio Farmer details practical farm improvements. It describes door fastenings using a brace board and slide system to secure double doors, a harrow evener guard with care irons to prevent chafing, and a gate open holder that uses a slotted board and a ground hole.
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Fie. & Sinch
Ohio
Fireside Fragments And Home Cookery Notes
A survey of household tips and recipes from Harper's Bazar and the New York Tribune offers guidance on tempering earthenware, washing stockings, and drying hose, plus recipes for Gold and Silver Cake and fricassee pigeons. It also includes health reflections on energy, heredity, and longevity with quotes from The British American Journal and Youth's Companion, and a Missouri anecdote about misplaced charity involving a widow and her daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Bazar
Fifthavenue
N. Y. Tribune
Boston Herald
N. Y. World
Gladstone
Holmes
Dr. Holmes
NON-FREEZING PAN A POULTRY HANDY CONTRIVANCE
A simple sheet-iron pan design prevents water from freezing in fountains for poultry. The 12 inch diameter, 6 inch deep pan includes a 2 inch diameter chimney soldered through its bottom, with a small lamp inside to heat the pan and keep water liquid. The illustration labels A the pan and D the chimney while C denotes the lamp.
Patterning and farming notes blend in rural advice
A compilation of farm and home tips and rural science excerpts discusses water pan designs for poultry, copying versus original methods, and an expert view on the udder. It emphasizes observing neighbors' methods, the risks of over-copying, and the cow udder as a complex gland system with fine capillary vessels.
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Henry Stewart
Western wheat grows strong as Manitoba yields shine
The New York Sun notes stunted eastern fields and reports strong harvests in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Farmers answering a government circular show yields over 50 bushels per acre in rare cases, with many around 40 and 30 for wheat, plus heavy oats and barley. Rich soil and grasses support mixed farming, explaining the high returns.
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New York Sun
East
Northwest
Lake Superior
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
The
Land offers lure settlers and railways aid westward
Provincial authorities welcome newcomers by offering free land with no color line, while railways issue free tickets to purchasers. The spring is expected to bring many settlers. Other notes include Mrs. Aeror owning $2,000,000 in jewelry, a bride’s sable set as fashionable, medieval building mirrors, cider prices held high by merchants, and the claim that the largest farm in Louisiana spans 1,600,000 acres at 50,000 dollars for fencing.
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William Aeror
Iis Commission
Sugar River
Louisiana
Made well by Pierce's Favorite Prescription Cure
An old time tonic advertised as a guaranteed remedy for nervous and weak women. It promises relief from functional derangements and bearing-down sensations and touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as mild, effective liver and bowel regulators. The ad emphasizes satisfaction or money back and highlights a simple pill form.
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J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Deafness cure claims and travel ads from an old newspaper
The text promotes a supposed cure for deafness via constitutional remedies and inflamed Eustachian tube treatment, offering a hundred dollar reward for proven cases of deafness caused by catarrh. It also extolls California’s climate and western travel, advertising railroad routes from Chicago to Pacific destinations with comfortable Pullman service and lodging/circulation details through John J. Bras in Chicago.
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F. J. Curensy & Co
Toledo
Toc
California
United States
Atchison,Topeka & Banta Fe
Chicago
Earough
San Fraoncisco
Acne
San Diego
John J. Bras
Rialto
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Old Settler
Wes
Bet Be
Meade
Potiphar Jump
Kentry
Bern
Puttin
Ed Mott
N. Y. Sun
Gill
Boston Globe
Helen L. Manning
Ruskin
Ione
Turner
Maurice ‘Thompson
Missouri
Lou
Tribune
Baevik
Wester
Lautern Siam
Fatenis
Ms. Ny
LoLeary
Heaven
Hell
ERMAN
Bae Ench
F. Soc
Cooper Fe
Boston Post
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Verk Consumer Pee
Avery Purchata
Ps Farrel
Yau Buren
Amd Wades
Petrol VV
Iovaase
Wany Deaiar
Chesebrouch M
Ae Ander
aNu
Te ‘Sr Malisticats
Wsers
Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
Aleemts
Iimil Ton
Deen Winkipeg
Addeb Oe
Fufpix, Omi
Unibacuertse Pree
Tomach
Beneaf
Finssa
Toa Warter Medicine CO
East India
W.h.dreen & Co
Uae
Em Oc
Hazeltine
Warres
N. K
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