Burglar's Curious Mistake Links Jewelry to Police
Jewelry and gold watches worth about £400 were handed to Scotland Yard in a strange mix up on a Paddington to Edgware Road omnibus. A woman carried a brown parcel she believed contained soap but found jewelry inside. The item matched proceeds of a Maida Vale burglary a week earlier, and police think a well dressed man carrying a similar parcel was involved.
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Scotland Yard
Paddington
Edgware Road
Westbourne Grove
Polic
Maida Vale
London Evening Standard
May holiday optimism and long weekends cited by city clerk
A Broad Street clerk praises Memorial Day and May 30 as a mini vacation, noting May 30 and the Fourth of July both fall on Sundays this year and will yield extended breaks. He plans a short shore trip and warns about holiday spending. The Philadelphia Record quotes the remark.
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Broad Street
Washington
Philadelphia Record
Milwaukee ad offers $12 weekly work with brains supplied
An advertisement from Phillips Specialty Co. of Milwaukee announces a paid opportunity offering $12 weekly. The firm provides the necessary brains for 25 cents in silver, inviting readers to visit rooms 309-310 at 207 Grand Avenue.
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Phillips Specialty Co
Grand Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
Hair Lock Gift Asked For A Pair Of Friends
A friend of the late Lord Granville, famed for his baldness and avarice, spoke of a mutual friend about to wed. He sought a gift that was rare but not costly. Granville suggested giving a lock of hair as a memento.
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Lord Granville
Granville
Marine Eye Remedy Co. Advertises Relief for Watery Eyes
Chicago based Marine Eye Remedy Co offers an illustrated Eye Book free with purchase. Product claims include relief for red weak weary watery eyes and soothing eye pain by compounded remedies from experienced physicians.
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Marine Eye Remedy
Marine
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Plank Driven Through Tree in Georgia Tornado Testimony
An Atlanta Georgian report describes a pine tree and a plank driven through the tree by the recent Georgia tornado. The event occurred near S. M. Roberts twelve miles away, with the plank entering the trunk neatly as if fired from a gun, while surrounding boards remained undisturbed. Mr. Roberts posts a notice prohibiting cutting the odd feature.
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S. M. Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad Plants 1,000,000 Trees This Spring
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans to plant over 1,000,000 trees this spring, bringing total plantings to about 3,430,000 in three years. It marks the largest forestry effort by a private company, expanding beyond the Philadelphia Altoona area. 65,000 trees will be set near Metuchen and New Brunswick New Jersey, with 207,000 near Conewango Pennsylvania 186,000 near Van Dyke 334,000 at Lewistown Junction Pomeroy and 205,000 at Denholm to follow.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Altoona
Metuchen
New Brunswick
N. J
Conewago
van Dyke
Lewistown Junction
Pomeroy
den- 101m
Grape-Nuts Proves Life Saver In Food Misery Testimony
A Newburyport veteran credits Grape-Nuts with curing severe illness after dramatic weight loss. He describes near starvation on magnesia and soda, then quick recovery and 15 pound gain in six weeks. The letter promotes The Road to Wellville and the ad slogan There's a Reason.
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Newburyport
Mass
Old Orchard
Wellville
Redeeming a Neglected Garden and Feed Tips
Discouraging as a neglected garden may seem, it can be redeemed with immediate action. Pull weeds and burn them, plow the ground, and replant. The piece contrasts overextension with focused, quality work and ends with tips on feeding cattle and horses using hay, corn, and clover.
Burning Sulphur for Disinfecting Poultry Houses
A methods guide from Agricultural Epitomist explains burning sulphur in a vessel with kerosene soaked wood above to produce a blue flame. It cites using turpentine tar kerosene soaked corncobs to fumigate roosts and cracks in a poultry house, done weekly for a month or more.
Farmers Need Cope Through Local Market Agents
Agricultural Epitomist argues farmers are exploited by middlemen who direct prices. Without farmer representation at market centers, produce like Missouri peaches may rot while Chicago buyers pay pennies. A future system with farmer agents at central points would improve earnings and distribution to consumers or retailers.
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Missouri
Chicago
Passing of Horned Cattle and Hornless Breeds
Horned cattle and sheep are vanishing as cattle bred in the corn belt become hornless. Mountain and plains wild cattle once needed horns for protection, but settlement reduces this need. Breeds now popular include Galloway Angus Red Poll and Polled Shorthorns with Polled Jersey and Polled Hereford rising. Horn growth is prevented in calves by caustic potash.
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Corn Belt
Inter Ocean
King system of Ven tilation diagram details
The diagram shows the King system of Ven tilation with outside wall marked A and an opening for admission.
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King
Pest Becomes Industry in Victoria Rabbit Trade
Australia converts rabbit pest into a commercial industry in Victoria. Over five years 41,428,000 frozen rabbits were exported, mainly to England, and 98,242,000 rabbit skins shipped. US exports of rabbit skins rose from 2754 dollars in 1904 to 248,382 dollars in 1908.
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Australia
Victoria
England
United States
Cows Milk Production Is Nervous Process Says Scientist
John Burrows explains that milk release is involuntary, not voluntary. He notes the udder acts as a blood driven factory and milk flow stops when the cow is excited or distressed by strangers or separation from her calf.
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John Burrows
Home Made Corn Cultivator Described For Farmers
A 5 foot oak frame cultivator for corn uses three inch wide by one and a half inch thick side pieces. Forty 60d spikes form the teeth driven to the heads. An iron ring on the front end and handles from an old plow finish the device. F B Treadway in Farm and Home endorses it as the best he has used.
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Everson
Tave Munyon
Munyon_ bieves
Bright
Munyon
F. B. Treadway
Waste of Timber and Agricultural Potential Noted
The article cites a forty year timber waste estimate of 50 million dollars annually and 2 billion total value. It calls for a national conservation movement and notes Texas could support 80 million people with arable land under cultivation. It adds tips to destroy plant lice on roses and cites honey production related to bees and their 25 million dollar value at wholesale.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Texas
Farmer’s and Drover’s Journal
New York
Buffalo
Farm Gleanings and Animal Husbandry Tips
A compilation of farm notes covers calf pasture, poultry crowding dangers, weather adaptation, and early chicken hatching. It discusses an orchard in Delaware earning about 10000 annually, driveways through barns for cleanliness, and swine grazing as economical. It suggests feed mixes for young stock and methods to improve fruit color with light and potash. Oklahoma mandates agriculture instruction in all country schools including diverse agronomy courses.
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Connecticutt
Oklahoma
Pressed Mock Chicken From Pork Shoulder
Cook fresh pork shoulder until tender then grind and return to the boiling liquor. Thicken with boiled oats, season, and simmer twenty to thirty minutes. Pack in a bowl and chill. Serve sliced on sandwiches or fried in squares for tea or luncheon.
Kentucky Corn Dodgers Bread Recipe
Lift any quantity of the best meal made from white corn. Salt to taste. Mix with cold water into stiff dough and form into round dodgers about 4 to 5 inches long and 1 to 1.4 inches in diameter. Bake on a greased griddle, then in the oven until crisp and rich brown. This bread does not rise.
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Kentucky
Mackerel And Potato Balls Bake In Hot Oven
Soak a mackerel overnight boil four large potatoes in skins. Peel and mash with salt and pepper add one beaten egg and butter. Bone and flake the fish fold into the hot potato mix form balls bake in a greased pan until brown.
Crustless Pumpkin Pie Method for Easy Filling
A crustless pumpkin pie recipe yields a firm filling by adding cornstarch. Butter coats a deep pie plate with flour to prevent sticking, then the filling is poured in and baked as usual for a delicate, tasty result.
Stewed Oyster Plant Recipe Instructions
Scrape the stalks of sal sify and cut into half inch lengths. Drop into cold water, drain, and boil in salted water until tender. Drain and add to a sauce pan with milk thickened with butter and flour. Season with salt and pepper, heat through, and serve.
Cream Salad Dressing From Simple Kitchen Method
Beat yolks with butter sugar milk pepper mustard and vinegar in a saucepan. Boil and stir until thick as rich cream. Serve very cold.
Glass Stoppers That Stick Being Loosened With Oil
An obstinate glass stop resists force and hot cloths. Apply a drop of sweet oil around the stopper rim and let it sit. In ten minutes the top lifts out easily.
Salmon Mold Pudding And Eggless Cookies
One cup boiled salmon minced with one cup stale bread crumbs two eggs milk salt pepper lemon juice and parsley mixed, buttered mold steamed half an hour served with white sauce. Eggless Cookies mix butter and lard sugar cream milk flour baking powder form dough roll cut bake into rounds.
Pumpkin Bread Again Stew a Pumpkin as for Pies
Directions describe simmering a pumpkin like for pies then adding corn meal to thicken. Salt and scald the mixture, remove from heat, sweeten to taste, bake in a thin sheet, and serve hot with butter.
Simple Brown Sauce Mix Steps
Clear sauce recipe combines one cup brown sugar half cup boiling water and one teaspoon cornstarch. Boil until thick then flavor to taste.
Short Household Hints On Cleaning And Cooking
A compact list of domestic tips covers brightening mats with a salt and water solution, scalding sponges, cleaning kid accessories with French chalk, dusting frames weekly, bread mixes for rugs, broom choices, sardine shrimp salads, mayonnaise dressing, and removing potato stains with lemon and powdered pumice.
Fashion Hints on a Summer Silk Ensemble
A pretty design features a soft mull or summer silk bolero and banded overskirt with rib bon laced sleeves matching the sash. The hat shown, a poke, showcases brown pink roses around the crown and fringed black velvet ribbon strings draping over the right side.
Cure Found for Child Rash with Cuticura Remedies
A Yukon Oklahoma family details a two year old boy plagued by an intense itchy rash and bleeds from scratching. After weeks of worsening symptoms leading to rough skin and large blisters, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment were reported to cure him within months. The claim attributes the recovery to these products and notes no symptoms since.
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Cutiura
J. W. Lauck
Yukon
Okla
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
German Shoemaker Escapes Fire After Gas Explosion
A German shoemaker left gas on in his shop and, upon lighting a match next morning, caused a blast that hurled him through the door toward the street. He was helped up by a passerby, said he was not hurt, and noted he got out just in time as his shop burned briskly.
Pettit's Eye Salve Promises Eye Disease Recovery
Pettit's Eye Salve claims to restore normal eye conditions regardless of disease or injury. Available through all druggists or Howard Bros. in Buffalo New York.
Needing Acres and Odds and Ends in Odd Bits
A jumble of items includes a threat fantasy about a boy pulling a dog's tail, a sale ad seeking ten acres near a town with price terms, a Tokio ink restriction note, a cold precedes illness, a tonic claim from Hamlin, and Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup promotion with price.
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P. M. Combes
Tribune
Chicago
Mothers Who Have Daughters in Winchester Ind
Letters from women praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for painful irregular periods backache and related symptoms. The Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Mass says many such letters confirm healing and offers confidential free advice from Mrs Pinkham.
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Winchester
Ind
Mrs
May Deal
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydian Medicine Company
Lynn
Automobile Club of France offers $9000 prize for cheap fuel
The Automobile Club of France announces a $9000 prize for a new fuel that costs less than gasoline yet delivers equal or better performance. Researchers and firms are invited to submit prototypes and test results for evaluation.
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Automobile Club of France
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