Western Canada Grain Boom Draws Americans
A Canada wheat boom spreads across western provinces as 1909 harvest yields high. Reports cite 30 to 40 bushel per acre wheat, 40 to 60 bushel oats, and strong barley output. Immigrants from Dakota to Iowa find better health and finances, with thousands joining rail towns to farm on free grant land and homesteads.
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Canada
United States
Western Canada
Moose Jaw
Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Nebraska
Calgary
Nanton
High River
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Free Press
Saskatchewan River
Battleford
Old Town
George Truscott
South Battleford
Canadian Northern Railway
Dauphin
Rious
Rouleau
Puzzle Party Reveals Engagement Through Picture Games
A hostess hosted a puzzle themed engagement reveal for a guest of honor. Six tables formed teams to solve picture puzzles revealing Maine and Ohio, Yale and Vassar, a White Star liner, the California Limited, a park scene, and a bride and groom with their initials. Prizes and a shower of gifts followed amid food and decorations.
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Maine
Ohio
Yale
Vassar
California
Thimble Club Hosts Monthly Sewing Party
Ten members run a thimble club invite guests to form a party of twenty. The hostess sets five sewing stunts including most buttons, most stitches on fabric, best buttonhole in five minutes, best patch square, and neatest hem on cheesecloth. Prizes are needle books and spool cases.
Farewell Envelope Shower for Girl Going Abroad
Friends hosted an envelope shower for a girl headed to Europe. Guests brought items in envelopes to save space, and the event carried a playful denim envelope among the gifts. The group embraced the idea and made the sendoff memorable.
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Europe
Marking Silver for a Bride in 1909 Custom
A 1909 column notes an old yet revived practice of marking wedding silver with the bride and groom initials. It cites an eastern jewelers’ habit of engraving J and A BE 8 for John Smith and Anna Edgar, and observes brides preferring to claim their lifelong initials on gifts, including bridal linen.
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John Smith
Anna Edgar
Madame Merri
In Vogue This Fall Fashion Notes and Fabrics
The rose-pink color returns in vogue, veiled with net or lace. New dancing frocks for girls feature puffed marines over satin slips. Irish crochet buttons trim crepe-like tissues. raffia parasols match pongee and linen dresses. Shirt waist and one-piece morning frocks gain prominence with self collars. Old blue linen with white mull accents appears in current models. Printed materials rise with foulard trend as military coats appear in tailored suits belted and bloused.
Fall Painting Suggests Timely Exterior Coats
An article advises that fall offers dry surfaces and no frost for painting. It promotes using pure white lead mixed with linseed oil as a winter coat against winter weather. National Lead Company of New York offers a complete painter outfit on request, for exterior or interior decorating.
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National Lead Company
Trinity Bldg
New York City
Trinity Building
New York
Notable Visit Yields Fresh Fruit Tales From Country
Aunt-Well remarks on Johnny's country visit as he describes plentiful apples peaches watermelons and other fruit though the sojourn items were not yet ripe.
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Johnny
Itching Piles Cured by Resinol Ointment Claim
A reader from Carrollton Kentucky reports relief from itching piles after three weeks using a sample jar of Resinol with warm baths. The user says the itching stopped in a few days and believes the condition is permanently cured.
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W. W. Evans
Carrollton, Ky
Dodging Work at the Brown Family Cottage
A humorous Washington Star exchange shows a wife reluctant to housework and a husband preferring a trip to the Browns summer cottage. He remarks an automobile helps forget not chores but other troubles, hinting at personal issues behind the joke.
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Mr. Chuggins
Washington Star
Dainty Candle Shades Adorn Tables With Painted Flowers
A guide to crafting decorative candle shades with water color designs on pink silk. Instructions cover tracing on paper, color choices for stems leaves and petals, mounting over silk, and assembling tabs A B C for joining. Ready made shades priced at 50 cents with silk outside and mica lining. matching silk linings cost 15 cents.
Marlton Woman Credits Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Mrs. George Jorpy of Marlton New Jersey reports ten years of chronic female disorders including inflammation ulceration irregularities and nervous distress ended by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Failing doctors gave up on her yet she recovered and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts and try the remedy The ad highlights roots and berries and claims many cures of female diseases with free confidential advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Marlton
N.J
Lydia FE. Pinkham
George Jorpy
Box 40
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Big Assets Big Assets CASCARETS Ad Claims Vast Demand
An advertisement touts CASCARETS as the world’s biggest asset with claims of 910 boxes per week and a million boxes per month. It portrays 400000 nightly users rising each morning and praising the product, framing it as essential to life and blessings.
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Central Canada
Lethbridge
Saskatchewan
North Battleford
Middle-West
Central
Unique Thimble Party
Decatur, Ilinois
Cleveland
Spohn Medical CO
Bacterisisgists
Goshen
Ind
U.S. A
Lyman CO Buffalo
DYOLA
Dy-O-La Burlington, Vt
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
General Land Office
Washington
le Beau
Aberdeen
S. Oak
Iowa Central Ry
Minneapolis
Iowa Central
Minneapolis & St. Louis RE. R
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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