Desert Gila monster tales of bites and bravery
A cattle rancher in Arizona recounts Gila monster incidents and bites, including a nursemaid-like saloon tale of a bartender’s pet venomous lizard and a life-saving ride for a man named Vale to Pantano after a venomous bite.
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R. C. M. Bruce
Arizona
Desert
San Francisco
Benson
Waltervile
Fev
Vale
Mr. Vale
Pantano
Tucson
Yuma
Gila River
New York Sun
Man sets off bomb to catch trout as dog fetches it
A Biddeford man devised a plan to blast a brook to surface trout. He lit a powerful bomb, tossed it in, and his dog leaped in, seized the device, and disappeared after the blast. The man fled, barely escaping danger as the explosion sent the dog skyward.
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Biddeford
Lewiston
Fuller's Earth Defined and Geological Context
Fuller's earth is a hydrated aluminum silicate used by cloth bleachers to absorb grease during weaving. It is greenish to brown, found in the Jurassic rocks, with deposits up to 400 feet deep, but not commercially mined in the United States.
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Dick Hansen
Exchange
Illinois Central
Washington
Jim Wardner
Fred Evans
Sioux
Sioux City
Iowa
Puller
Courier-Journal
Seasonable Chicken Feed and Timber Land Clearing
Seasonal advice on feeding scraps to poultry and buckwheat usage. Instructions on clearing timber land, plowing with a specialized coulter plow, stump removal, soil improvement, and long term land management for corn and small grains from Farm, Field and Fireside.
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A. Maltby
Coulter
Sheep on Shares and Farm and Garden Notes
A columnist discusses profitable ways for a woman with fifty sheep to profit without land, outlining methods like letting the flock out for a quarter century, leasing for wool or lambs, or sharing duties with a capable owner. The piece also covers farm notes on Jerseys, vineyard value, crop rotation, tomato mulching, and cattle feeding strategies to maximize butter production and herd value.
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Galen Wilson
Pennsylvania
New York Tribune
Women Inspectors of Parks and Public Spaces Proposed
The London County Council proposes to appoint women inspectors for parks, open spaces, ladies rooms, and gymnasia. They will be unpaid guardians against business encroachment on breathing spaces and people’s amenities in parks and playgrounds.
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London County Council
New York World
Kaiulaniti
London
Kaiulani
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Kaiulavi
New York Recorder
The New Bread and Pulse Notes and Fishers Tale
The article discusses a yeast free bread method with a free cookbook offer from Royal Baking Powder Co. It then explains pulse rates across ages and conditions, noting gender differences and how posture or exertion affects beats. A humorous Irish dialect anecdote about Mr Goodson recalls President Cleveland and a Potomac fishing remark from a New York weekly.
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Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
New York
Goodson
Cleveland
Patrick
Potomac
New York Weekly
The Hair Advice and Jests from 19th Century Pages
A collage of health tips on hair care warns against alkali and soap and suggests vaseline for dry hair, followed by humorous exchanges about social visits and quips from Street & Smiths Good News. Interspersed are notices for Brown’s Iron Bitters and Brown’s Bronchial Troches for ailments, with moral aphorisms about forgiveness.
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New York Weekly
Brown
Boxer
OYAL Unfermented Bread Description
A description promotes unfermented bread made without yeast as peptic palatable and most healthful. It claims bread baked without yeast or baking powder avoids flour decomposition and can be eaten warm and fresh without discomfort unlike bread made by other methods.
Royal Baking Powder Potato Loaf Recipe Card
A historic recipe for a quick bread using Royal Baking Powder flour salt sugar potato and water. Mix dry ingredients rub in potato, add water to a smooth stiff batter, pour into a greased 41x8 inch pan, bake hot about 45 minutes, cover top first 15 minutes to prevent crusting, then bake immediately without milk.
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Charles Johnson
Johnson
Albert
Three Sisters Islands
Insane Asylum
Johnsons
Chicago Herald
Wesley Newton
Marquette
Andrew Thompson
Thompson
Red Lodge
Montana
Bright
Nan
Hood’s
Hood
Frederick Barnsted
Chicago
Illinois
Louis Carpenter Street
N. B
We of
Piso
Ousand
August Flower
Lorenzo F. Slefper
Appleton
Maine
Novelty
Atlas Tack Corp'n
Melton
New York Post
Caprivi
Gladstone
Stannard
John Strange Winter
Henry Ponsonby
Arthur Stannard
Directoire
Isaac Thomson
California Fig Syrup CO
Cal
W. Baker & Co
Dorchester
Masa
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Cniegiate
Newark
M. J
Oal
New. York
Masaltioe
Warren
Toxie
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo, C
Hall
R. C. Hausweden
Lake City
Minn
Ptowernes
W. L. Douglas
Chattanooga Bed. CO
Chatanoog
Sui Altiteds
Sundries
Castion
Soa i “Tnstallment Peo
LE Depastaet
LOW Lowry Au
BE. P. Chaltant
No. Street
Atlanta, Ga
Webster’s International Dictionary
Ranhar
Peuacesrueom
Aironlam CO
Sprmscritic
Mags. USA
Sitsuston
Stents
Aceon
Thomson
Montely Sgiocth
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