All-Year Newspaper Promise and Health Remedies Ad
An 1912 promotional note extols The Register and Leader daily delivery for a year and urges subscriptions with promises of unbiased news. It also includes brief endorsements for Chamberlain’s remedies for croup and stomach issues, plus Foley’s Honey and Tar for lagrippe, and a local monument contractor advertisement with pricing.
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Register and Leader
Towa
Daily By Mail
Vindicator
Republican
Practical lesson in wheat flour for girls in the home
Iowa State College extension notes explain gluten and starch roles in bread making. It covers testing flour for gluten, then presents two recipes Muffins and Baking Powder Biscuit with step by step method, ingredients, and baking tips.
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Lfe
Victor the Iowa steer dominates Chicago show honors
Victor A Great, a two year old beef steer bred near Newton and raised by W. J. Miller, won top honors at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. The judge called him the world’s greatest beef animal, with a selling price of 90 cents a pound totaling 1,449 dollars, marking Iowa State College’s strong showing with seven Armour scholarships.
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Victor
State of Iowa
Iowa
W. J. Miller
Newton
Iowa State College
Chicago
Towa
Armour
Ames
Biscuit Making Tests for Puff and Color
The note describes damp conditions causing gas formation and loss of leavening in baking powder. It then lists three tests for biscuits: browning on all sides, rising to about three times initial height, and a soft interior without doughiness.
Broom Corn as an Iowa Crop Prof Hughes analyzes viability
Professor H D Hughes of Iowa State College weighs broom corn profitability for Iowa farmers. He notes price volatility from 250 275 per ton in shortages to 60 100 per ton at normal times, with high startup costs and labor needs. Yield varies, climate matters, soil type matters, and proper preparation plus spacing affect quality and return.
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Iowa
H. D. Hughes
Farm Crops Department
Iowa State College
Professor Hughes
Kansas
Hughes
Select Seed Potatoes Now For Higher Yields
The article warns Iowa farmers to select seed potatoes promptly to avoid planting culls in spring. It notes indifference cost Iowa millions and explains that careful seed choice, along with soil, drainage, and fertilization, raises yields from 83 to 150 200 bushels per acre. An experiment by W G Meissner of Reinbeck Iowa reported to the Iowa Experiment Sta
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Jowa
Iowa
Maine
W.G. Meissner
Reinbeck
Potatoes Show Seed Quality Affects Yields In Iowa Trials
Four plots tested seed quality with totals from 1 to 9 acres. Plot 1 yielded 85 bushels per acre from culls. Plot 2 produced 72 bushels from seed stored poorly. Plot 3 gave 120 bushels from better stock free of scab. Plot 4 reached 124 bushels from well-selected seed. Poor storage and careless selection reduced yields. good seed matters for food supply.
Alfalfa For Hog Pastures Recommended By Iowa Station
The Iowa Experiment Station finds alfalfa to be an ideal all round pasture for pigs including brood sows fattening hogs and shoots. It begins with blue grass in spring stays green when mowed two or three times annually and remains until frost. The Minnesota farmer is urged to sow an acre or two for trial.
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Iowa Experiment Station
Band of long legged steers make a short bank
A vivid regional note describes a herd of tall cattle and a quick financial mishap, framing a rural tale of livestock and money in concise terms.
Louisa Alcott's Runaway Childhood Tale
A diary excerpt recalls Louisa May Alcott recounting her early mischief of running away to play with Irish children and watch a lamp lighter. She describes sharing potatoes and crust with them, resting on a dog's back, and being found by her distressed parents as dawn broke. The tale ends with her being led to the sofa to repent the next day.
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Louisa May Alcott
Albans
Bedford Street
Meritol Kidney and Baul achy Villa Endorsed by Drug Association
Members of the American Drug and Press Association tour the country and praise Meritol Kidney and Baul achy Villa as the best remedy for kidney disorders. The ad urges sending money to Decorah laboratories for a trial package, promising surprising results and public health benefits.
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American Drug and Press Association
Sot
Meritol
Baulachy Villa
Algeunta
Decorah
Nail
Vanadium Adds Strength and Ductility to Steel
Elixir of life for steel found in vanadium in small proportions. Adds tensile strength, elasticity, and toughness, reducing crystallization and increasing endurance to daily burdens. Merito Kidney and Backache Pills advertised by Press Association, Decorah, Iowa for sluggish kidneys or back pain.
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Ufe
Renatus
Press Association
Dcorab
Iowa
Lov o at Second Sight Judge Delivers Witty Line
A humorous exchange in court features a judge quipping about love at first sight versus second sight. The remark pivots on a man failing to recognize a woman as an heiress during their first encounter.
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Judge
Medicines that aid nature in cough remedy claim
Medicines that aid nature are al wave most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts on this plan. It allays the cough, relieves the lungs, opens the secretions and aids nature in restoring the aystem to a healthy condition. Thousands have testified to its superior excellence. Sold by B. 8. Shadle & Co. If you have any magazines for binding bring them to the Vindicator and Republican bindery. First class work guaranteed.
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B. 8. Shadle & Co
Vindicator
Republican
Fortune speaks at Chicago banquet by well known drummer
Mise Ivy Brayton Hodge, famed western woman drummer, told a commercial travelers' banquet in Chicago that a woman's fortune is her face and a girl's fortune is her cheek. An American Drug Aid Association ad promises a trial package of Meritul Kidney and Backache Pills from Decorah Iowa for fifty cents with back money back if unsatisfied.
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Mise Ivy Brayton Hodge
Chicago
American Drug Aid Press Association
Meritul
Decorah
Iowa
Corner stone of fortune in a bold business tale
Two Chicago men discussed a third man's luck. He bought 10,000 dozen at a low figure, stored them cold, and sold at a profit exceeding 300 percent. The remark framed his success as the corner stone of his fortune in a terse local exchange.
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Chicago
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Albert H. Nash
Grant Blork
Efagle Clothing
Ai, E. Wilson
Physican
Taylor's Hardware
E. W. Bachman, M. DD
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el Paso
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Foley
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Knowles
OWA
DR. King
H. Williams
D. D. IL
F.S. Shadle & Co
Louisa Alcott
Bright
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