Peck's Bad Boy With The Circus Riotous Animal Tales
The excerpt follows Pa, the Bearded Lady, the Living Skeleton, and the fat woman in a circus crew as they navigate a chaotic day. Pa admonishes excess, while the circus staff quell a panic sparked by a love triangle and an ulcerated boa tooth extraction.
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Animal Society
Amalgamated
Association of Working Bears
Uncle Ephriam
Royal Bengal Tigers
House for fowls standard poultry house design
An Indiana writer details a 12 by 24 foot poultry house built to separate old fowls from young, with stone corners, clay fill, and a slanted roof. It includes a dust room, roosts 11 feet long, a droppings box, and movable nesting and laying areas to keep flocks apart.
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Indiana
Points for Duck Raisers Advice From H. V. Hawkins
Practical guidance for duck raisers covering handling, nutrition, housing, and breeding. Avoid leg catches, use neck restraint, moisten nests, provide oyster-shell calcium, sand and charcoal for laying, keep ducks from the brook at night, and favor healthy egg production over show stock. Recommends raw onion mash for illnesses and warns against mixing ducks with fowls to reduce disease risk.
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H. V. Hawkins
Close Study of Breeds for Profit at Poultry Shows
The article urges private growers to study fowl breeds and build familiarity with their stock. It suggests fairs and poultry shows as ideal times and places for hands on observation and learning about breeds and their traits.
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Michigan
Troughs and methods for pig rearing and livestock care
A guide on pig feeding with a self feeding trough inaccessible to the dam and other hogs to aid early weaning. Notes a remedy for scaly legs using sulphur and melted lard weekly. Advises rapid growth of young sheep to reach good size.
Dr Williams Pink Pills Offer New Tonic Mail Order Cure
Mrs L O Law of Horton Kansas credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing long standing indigestion debility and breathless distress after meals. She describes rapid improvement after three boxes and urges purchase by mail from the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY at 50 cents a box or six for 2 50.
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L.O. Law
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Not a Lightweight
An indignant man confronts an editor in the editorial sanctum claiming he was misidentified as "the well known lightweight champion" from a recent athletic match. He insists he is a coal merchant and demands correction.
Spider as omen myth debunked by Kiowa story
A Kiowa source notes a subscriber found a spider in his newspaper and asks if it portends bad luck. The tale counters superstition, suggesting the spider just scanned ads to find a quiet path to spin its web and avoid disturbance.
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Kiowa
Ian
Epitaph for Our Father in Mem of a Hospital Exit
Wry verse notes a father joining a string of body parts removed by a hospital surgeon seeking the experience. The obituary style epigraph riffs on medical losses and final departures with dark humor.
Hoxsie’s Croup Cure Promises Pneumonia and Diphtheria Prevention
Advertisement for Hoxsie’s Croup Cure from Buffalo New York claims it prevents pneumonia and diphtheria. It states no opium or nau sea and prices at 50 cents.
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Hoxsie
A. P. Hoxsie
Buffalo, N. Y
Mrs. Austins Pancakes Sold By Grocers
A note praises Mrs Austins Pancakes as superior and advises readers to ask their grocer for the product. The dialogue hints at a humorous endorsement through a stray stories caption.
Quotations and Advertisements Circulate in 1900
A pasted collage of quotes and ads includes lines about publishing delays, a cough remedy praised by J W O'Brien, a Minnesotan address, social dining costs, and a St Joseph Gazette reflection on youth and knowledge.
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Toronto, Can
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Knoxville
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