Picking and Packing of the Grape Crop
The Concord grape harvest in our area begins around September 25 with women doing most picking. Prices range from one to one and a half cents per eight pound basket, three to four cents per 40 pound crate. A day yields 125 to 175 baskets, some reach 200. The process uses field packing with numbered baskets and tallying by drivers. The grape association manages loads, payments, and marketing with agents in Chicago Pittsburgh and New York. Loaded cars carry 3,000 to 3,500 baskets iced by four tons of ice. A North East factory plans to be built with 500000 dollars capital to expand shipments and domestic market.
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Concord
Chicago
Pittsburg
New York
North East
United States
A Child’s Tale Of A Lost Tooth And Brave Resolve
A child recalls a missing front tooth and the fear of pulling it. Family laughter and a caution from relatives frame the scene as the child preserves the tooth in a box with marbles and keeps trusting patience. A second piece describes a red haired man sneezing with hay fever and a stranger’s odd cure idea.
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Kachoo
Cow Peas Great Crop and Forage Value Explains Varieties
Various cow pea types differ in growth habit pod color and shape. Maturity ranges 60 days to 3-4 months. Planting between rows after corn yields fine pasture or hay with 1.5 to 2 tons per acre. Green hay richer than red clover. hogs thrive in green manuring timing. First seed cost dominates but seed saved afterward.
Invitation gone wrong at the banquet for Mr Munneysax
A dignified stranger enters the private office of the plutocrat and presents a document before leaping out a window. Attendants seize the intruder and recover the paper, while the chairman of the committee ends up as guest of honor at the banquet.
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Munneysax
Couldn't Fool Her
A humorous exchange between Miss Brown and an austere chaperon about kissing, with Miss Brown teasing the question and asserting confidence in her experience and wit.
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Miss Brown
Freed at Last From Kidney Disease Dean's Pills Advert
Mrs. Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending fifteen years of kidney trouble two years of immobility and constant back pain. She says she can work like an average woman at nearly eighty and urges readers to remember the Dean's name. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Rachel Ivie
Henrietta
Texas
Dean
Dean’s
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
When to Send Children to Europe
A humorous discussion on the right age for sending children to Europe. Various views favor four to five years as ideal, arguing for exposure to England France and Italy before the child reaches school age and departs for home in time for the opera.
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Europe
Paris
England
France
Italy
Judge’s
True Representative of Race Bearded German Chancellor Claim
The piece discusses Bethmann Hollweg as possibly the first German chancellor to wear a beard. It recalls Bismarck shaving to maintain diplomacy, noting rivals shaved by habit, and contrasts Bethmann Hollweg as gaunt and pan Germanic in appearance.
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Bethmann-Hollweg
Bismarck
Caprivi
Hohenlohe
Bulow
Poverty and Consumption in German Statistics
German statistics show higher consumption deaths among the poor. Of 10,009 well-to-do, 40 die annually from consumption. moderately well-to-do 66. really poor 77. paupers 97. John Kes notes 0 percent of consumptives in Lakeen receive charitable relief at home.
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John Kes
Lakeen
Food Question Settled with Perfect Satisfaction by a Dyspeptic
An Illinois wife recounts how her husband's stomach trouble improved after starting Grape-Nuts. He regained appetite, worked steadily, and the family began relying on the cereal, with daily inquiries of Have you any Grape-Nuts. The letter ends noting the book The Road to Wellville and a slogan There’s a reason.
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Illinois
Wellville
Reaching Life's Goal: Assert Individuality Toward Honor
The text urges individuals to assert their uniqueness in the proper direction to reach a personal goal of honor and to serve as an example for others. It emphasizes deciding what to do and committing with statements like I must do it and I will do it and persisting until completion.
The American Cat-Tail and Its Uses
The cat-tail of the American swamps closely resembles the Egyptian bulrush. No longer used for papermaking, its root yields an astringent medicine while dried stems are suitable for mats and chair-bottoms.
Death by Sting of Poisonous Flies in Marseilles
Echo de Pais reports three deaths in Marseilles after stings from poisonous flies. City streets are infested as the insects are said to have arrived with a South American wool cargo.
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Marseilles
Echo de Pais
His Feelings Bessie
Harold questions if a will from a deceased person proves mental unsoundness and whether inheritance is justified. The dialogue centers on evaluating the testator's sanity in the face of a fortune.
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Bessie
Harold
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsement
An advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for distressing female illnesses urging women not to doubt its ability to restore health.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Pennsylvania
L. G. Youngs
Samaritan
Qoeep
Witsur
D.nespit
Lhim
Glee Club
Carters
Iver Pills
Peete
Parker
B. Morgan
Hippodrome Bldg
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Minn
John G. Moldan
Second St.North
West
Butte Valley
California
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
E. L. Lomax
Union Pacific R. R
Omaha, Neb
Omi
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Indiana
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