Ned Barton Saves Flag in Civil War Horse Rescue
The tale recounts Ned Barton, at 17, forming the Zouave Cadets in Hoodville, training recruits, and earning praise after he leaped to clear six frightened girls from a charging horse. Later in battle, Sergt. Watkins falls with the company flag atop his riderless horse, but Barton sees the flag still carried by the fallen sergeant’s horse and holds it aloft to preserve the emblem.
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Ned Barton
Ned
Hoodville
Hardee
Ellsworth
Zouave
Chicago Daily News
Rocket
Sergt. Watkins
King
Watkins
Wisconsin dairyman Patent Separates Cream From Skim Milk
An apparatus in Wisconsin uses a settled reservoir and a bottom suction pump with a float hose to skim cream without steam power. The setup delivers skimmed milk via a stopcock discharge, avoiding expensive machinery.
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Wisconsin
Water the Milk and the Cow's Water Needs
The dairy cow requires ample water for digestion and milk production. Water power drives the dairy machinery and most feed must be in solution. Cows drink many gallons daily, with higher intake on dry rations. succulent grass reduces thirst and roots help in winter. silage is often less juicy than other rations.
Nine O Clock Tales in a Brief Conversation
A brief dialogue features two young men discussing Bessie Warr as a clever talker despite not enjoying calling on her. They refer to her father, a former army bugler, who plays taps at nine each night, prompting a quizzical remark from one speaker.
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Bessie Warr
Dairy practices improve butter quality and milk profits
The text urges clean barns with building paper, pure water, and thorough washing of cows’ teats. It notes good milk and cheese markets when odors are controlled, and explains how milk scales motivate workers to link milk weight variations to feed, weather, and care, improving dairy outcomes.
Woman of nerve outsmarts tricks in bold test
A dramatic test scene shows a fearless woman unmoved by a mock earthquake and a liberated mouse, then collapsing when a detective hints at her hair being mussed. An auto cleaning and maintenance recipe is given, followed by a note recommending midrange cars like Buseck to Queen priced $750 to $2,000 for country road touring.
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Tripoli
Up Hill
Down Hill
Maxwell
Mitchell
Reo
Knox
Franklin
Queen
Cure for skin eruption via Cuticura remedies
Claude N Johnson of Maple Grove Farm Walnut Kan writes that skin eruption causing constant itching was cured after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills following a doctor’s failure. He bought the products after reading an advertisement and notes two years of suffering before the cure. Date given June 15 1905.
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Claude N. Johnson
Maple Grove Farm
Walnut
Kan
Ruskin Quote on Labour and Human Achievement
The passage extols labor as the finest human actions and intellectual feats achieved through effort, while noting that defects and toil are the negative counterweights to every achievement. It emphasizes that we are measured by the toil we perish in.
European Neatness Noted Across Europe
An observer reports in a thousand miles of Europe only one rubbish heap at Carlsruhe, with everywhere else showing cleanliness and absence of roadside defacement or litter, highlighting careful public spaces and orderly behavior.
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Europe
Carlsruhe
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