Tricks in Smuggling Watches in Wedding Cake
A gleeful informant details how smugglers hide dutiable goods in mail parcels including watches in cakes and half corsets. Post office staff describe catching clever tricks like gloves sent separately and fruit harvestors using scissor-like devices to pick fruit without damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
United States
Custom House
England
Germany
Fritz
America
Europe
New Work Tribune
Money in Truck Farming Shows $18 000 on Thirty-Two Acres
Francis Lestier of Des Moines Iowa has built an $18 000 record of permanent improvements on a 32 acre truck farm in seven years funded by soil yields. His operation yields $300 to $400 per acre with a yearly $2 500 from lettuce and 750 bushels of tomatoes per acre using 3000 vines per acre. He replaced poor pay in stonecutting with farming success featuring an $8 000 house, cold storage, a water pumping plant, and eight greenhouses.
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Francis Lestier
Des Moines
Francis Sestier
State Capitol
Golden Dome
Statehouse
Francis
Mississippi River
East
Iowa
Apple Grower Uses Bordeaux Mix For Pests
One of Ohio’s top apple growers reports spraying arsenate of lead in Bordeaux mixture to combat fungi and codling moth. His recipe includes three pounds copper sulfate, five pounds lime, and fifty gallons of water, applied at least four times after bloom.
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Ohio
Fertilizer tips from Rogsts and poultry manure uses
An agricultural column reviews storing poultry fertilizer to retain ammonia, recommending gypsum sand plaster ka init and acid phosphate with sawdust as absorbents. It cites Bulletin 98 Maine station and gives practical mixes for hens, top dressing, and rough economic compares. It also covers barrel slings, prime potato varieties, and feeding green bone to improve egg yield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Morse
New Hampshire Experiment Station
Bulletin 98
Maine Experiment Station
Fur Dept advertisement offering wild animal traps calendar
An old catalog style ad titled How to Trap Wild Animals offers a 40 page trap book with 46 illustrated wild animals, fur calendar, gun and trap, and hides prices. It promotes postpaid delivery for 10c stamps and free offer to buyers sending their order to Fur Dept Ride & Fur Co Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fur
Ride & Fur Co
Minneapolis
Modesty and Money in Humor and Court Dwarfs
Duncan M. Smith humor column notes money and modesty in society and literature. It contrasts wealth with virtue, and laments pretension while highlighting practical jokes of daily life. It references court dwarfs from Poland to England, noting their heights and ages.
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Geneva
N. Y
Sim
Ontario Agricultural College
Empire State
Dempsey
New Yorker
Burpee
By Duncan M. Smith
Fife
Bebe
Stanislaus
Poland
Paris
Julia
Augustus
Henrietta Maria
Lucius
Coppernin
Princess of Wales
George III
Kennedy
Dr. Shoop
Ealers i
LaFollett’s Paper
U. S
R. M. LaFollette
Washburn
Bayfield County
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