Wife's People Coming Highlight Prince Albert District Appeal
A Manitoba to Saskatchewan immigration letter praises the Prince Albert District in 1895. J D Head describes building logs, fencing, hay harvests, and mild winter temperatures with little snow. He notes his wife will join, nearby rail progress, and urges U S readers to relocate for productive land and favorable climate.
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Canada
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Birch Hills
Sask
Can
Chicago
Can. Nor. Ry
R. R
Prince Albert
O. K
Old Chicago
U. S
J. D. Head
Trade and Traffic: Global Commerce Highlights
Germany ships more borax to Mexico than the U S. Switzerland issued 6907 licenses to foreign travelers in 1904. Japan runs two commercial museums allowing free display of goods to foreigners. Austria Hungary exported 4 700 000 metric hundredweights of sugar last year, 1 000 000 hundredweights less than 1903. Oil production concentrated 53 percent west of the Mississippi. western states plus California Texas Louisiana Kansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Colorado Wyoming yield about 63 000 000 barrels annually.
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Germany
Mexico
United States
Switzerland
Japan
Austria-Hungary
Mississippi
California
Texas
Louisiana
Kansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Elkins Law Targets Rebates Across Railroads
The Elkins act imposes fines from one thousand to twenty thousand dollars on railroads that pay rebates or shippers who accept them and bars shipping below published tariffs. The Interstate Commerce Commission enforces the law, with President Knapp noting rebate payments have become rare since its passage.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Knapp
Commission
Stray Stories asks about fort versus fortress in jest
A witty exchange questions the difference between a fort and a fortress. The speaker muses aloud that a fortress might be harder to silence, in a brief Stray Stories moment of humor and wordplay.
Health booklet offers cures and tonics from Dr Pusheck
A Chicago doctor sends a free booklet titled Good Health and how to obtain it. The pamphlet promotes Pusheck’s Kuro as a cure where others fail, especially for rheumatism pains weakness and stomach trouble, claiming it as the best blood and nerve tonic.
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Pusheck
Chicago
C. Pusheck
Washington St
Pugheck
French fashion rule nudges women toward trousers
A Boston Globe note says French law allows women to wear trousers for ten dollars a year. As a result, many women refrain from wearing them, a habit possibly benefitting Americans who follow French styles.
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France
Boston Globe
Cheap Farm Greenhouse Tips From Rural New Yorker Correspondent
A farmer describes starting with a 70 by 70 feet greenhouse on his father's land and expanding to 1 percent acre. He shares heat methods from hot air to steam, notes high costs for small houses, and suggests building with hotbed sash and gas pipe posts. A south slope aids warmth and wind protection, with heat needs and coal use quantified.
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New Yorker
Soaps as Insecticides Fresh from New York Station
The New York experiment station reports whale oil and fish oil soaps as inexpensive safe contact insecticides when high quality. Tests show wide variation between samples. best contains four times the soap of the poorest. Home-made soap is simple and cheap, costing about three cents per pound, and can control plant lice and scales with one pound per seven gallons of water.
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New York Experiment Station
Control Borers in Trees With Inspection and Whitewash
The Farmers Review advises inspecting trees during this season and digging out borers with a stiff wire. Scrape loose bark and whitewash trunks to reveal borers and deter future entry, improving tree health.
Securing Summer Feed for Cows on Dry Season Farms
A plan proposes adding a summer feed to every farm to help dairy cows endure the dry season without reducing milk output. The aim is to maintain herd productivity and stabilize farm income during forage shortages.
Lard From Bubbly Creek and Chicago Stockyards
An Success Magazine piece by Samuel Merwin details the Bubbly Creek cess pool in Chicago’s stockyards and a German process turning its scum into fancy grade lard. The article describes cholera outbreaks in hogs sent to yards and the disposal of diseased carcasses via stock cars toward Globe Indiana, where rendering tanks produce grease and fertilizer, implying extensive lard production.
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Stockyards
Chicago
Samuel Merwin
Success Magazine
Indiana Line
Globe
Grip of the King Snake Lets Real Snake Bind Photographer
E. R. Sanborn, photographer for the Zoological Society, handles a large king snake in a reptile house. He describes the snake's tight grip and its ability to coil around clothing, noting it can kill a rattlesnake by striking and breaking its back. Sanborn refuses to test a clash with diamondbacks.
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E. R. Sanborn
Zoological Society
New York Sun
Mr. Sanborn
Radioro Alloy Promises Radical Metal Change
London News reports a new alloy called Radioro or radium gold with gold like brilliance, non tarnishing surface, easy melting, and extreme hardness and ductility. Inventor cited as Ugo Travaglini, claiming it can be produced cheaper than copper.
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Ugo ‘Travaglini
London News
The Markets in Four Cities on April 19 1905
New York reports steady flour demand with no cattle trading and sheep around 5 to 6 dollars per head. Cleveland shows strong wheat and hay values while Toledo lists cash wheat at 1.09 and corn at 48 1/2 cents. East Buffalo notes prime steers around 6 1/2 dollars and hogs at 5 3/4 dollars per hundredweight.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
Toledo
East Buffalo
Catching an Amazon in a Kansas City Trial
A Kansas City court session featured Mr Bartholdi from Missouri as counsel. A diminutive witness and his Amazonian wife faced cross examination with the wife asserting she could not be caught, while Bartholdi reassured them with a polite bow and calm remark.
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Kansas City
Bartholdt
Missouri
Congress
Bartholdi
New York Herald
Mr. Bartholdi
Costly Difference Between Lunch and Luncheon
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune quip ponders the gap between lunch and a luncheon. A father explains to his boy that the difference is about a dollar and a quarter, illustrating pricing curiosity with a light domestic joke.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Wonderful Cure Claim Spurs Bright's Disease Stir
Broadland North Dakota March 28 A sensational story from G W Gray claims a three month treatment saved him from Bright's Disease a condition long deemed incurable He attributes recovery to Dodd's Kidney Pills noting his wife urged the trial and praising the remedy as life saving The note ends with an endorsement from Puck.
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Broadland
Dak
G. W. Gray
Bright
Mr. Gray
Brigit
Dodd
Cuticara Remedies Promoted For Infant Skin Ailments
An advertisement extols Cuticara Ointment and Cuticara Soap as cures for infantile skin conditions and scalp issues. It claims relief for milk crust eczema and rashes, asserting rapid, permanent results when other treatments fail, and notes a testimonial from the Washington Star about a wealthy individual.
Pusheck’s Kuro Tonic Claims Cure All Ailments
An old advertisement touts Pusheck's Kuro as the best tonic for blood and nerves. It alleges it can cure indigestion misuse and heart and kidney troubles, warning that nervous prostration and fatigue signal deep-seated trouble needing correction.
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Pusheck
The Average Man’s Mania For Posing As Hero
The quotation from Chicago Daily Tribune notes the common urge to present oneself as a hero. It suggests social vanity and the allure of self creation in public perception.
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Chicago
Daly News
Painful Periods and Lydia Pinkham Remedy Endorsements
The ad proclaims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a safe remedy for painful irregular menstruation. It features testimonials from Nellie Holmes of Buffalo and Tillie Hart of Larimore praising relief, regularity, and improved health, urging women to write Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Nellie Holmes
N. Davision Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Pinkham
East
E. Pinkham
Tillie Hart
Larimore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Western
Trade and Traffic
Carters
Istle
Seruse
UTES
Packing Cesspool
Puck
Washington Star
St. Jacobs Oil
Lumbago
Sciatica
Slicker
A. J. A. J. Tower ‘A CO
Boston, U.S.A
Tower Canadian Company, Limited
Toronto, Canada
Bi. M. Williams
Law Bldg
Ohio
Panhandle
American Pastoral Company
P. O. Box
Denver
Colo
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Tennessee
J. FB. Merry
Dubuque
Iowa
Lbs Leatth Fertitta
A. Paxton Company
Boston
Mase
Gray
SA. S. Olmsted
le Roy
ASE
Tompkins
Mill St
Middletown
N.Y
K. Washington
A.N. K.C
S Kuro
Busheck
Ae Ey
Vneck’a
P.O
Koc
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