Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A health remedy claim extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard cure for female ills. The testimony from Mrs. Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri describes long suffering, multiple doctors, and eventual recovery after following Mrs Pinkham's advice. The piece stresses hope for other women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bertha Muff
N.C. St
Louisiana
Mrs. Pinkham
Muff
Light Gate For Barn Doorway Improves Ventilation
A simple light gate hung on the rolling barn door keeps horses from entering the buggy room while allowing ventilation. The design uses pine strips and fence picket uprights, swinging out of the way when not in use. Also discussed is the colony plan for poultry to prevent crowding and boost health and egg production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Farmer
Brace posts with a long square-ended pole wedge
A cheap brace method uses a nine or ten foot four to five inch pole square ends fixed halfway up the post and secured with wire to a stone end. A short stick twists wires tight to form a brace that aligns with the fence to prevent sideways slipping. Corn stover notes cover shredded versus unshredded feed and weather saving benefits.
Hogs From Texas and Oklahoma Target Cuban and Mexican Markets
Coast country farmers visiting Galveston note ships carrying hogs from Texas and Oklahoma to Cuba and Mexico and back. They conclude North Texas and Oklahoma farmers could profit by raising hogs for these markets, suggesting regional support for a similar trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Texas
Oklahoma
Cuba
Mexico
Galveston News
Man Tries to Drag Brick on Cord Outside Chichester
A man who once backed himself for a large sum attempted to move a brick attached to two miles of cord along a level road near Chichester. He failed to move the brick and observers estimate friction increased the weight of the load significantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chichester
Design for a four by four foot double brooding coop
The drawing shows a four feet square coop four feet high at the rear and three feet high at the front. It can be built from tongue and groove boards or straight-edge planks one-half to three-fourths inch thick. Hinged lids need two cleats each for firmness. The front features a one-inch mesh wire, with edge strips of three quarter by one and a half inches.
Double brood coop design and hog selection notes
The passage describes building a double brood coop with a four inch deep nest and a lift front door for easy access. It also notes that a well built hog has a strong heart and chest, essential traits for health and vigor.
Fertilizer Industry Values in the United States and Nashville
The United States produces about 4,000,000 tons of fertilizer each year, valued at over $60,000,000. Nashville, Tennessee, is estimated to have $3,000,000 invested in the fertilizer business.
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United States
Nashville, Tenn
Farm Notes on Agriculture and Livestock Trends
Alfalfa seed sells for 10 to 12 cents a pound across the West. Egypt irrigated districts cover 5.84 million acres supporting 10 million people. Drought halves India's wheat lands from 9 to 5 million acres. Rabbits could yield 1.5 million descendants in four years. a doe may produce seven families yearly. Louisiana marsh drainage projects aim to create a major agricultural region. A Lafayette dairy train covered 500 miles and educated 4,000 listeners. Iowa cattle shippers seek railroad charge damages totaling about a half million dollars. Britain imports 9 million bushels of apples yearly, half from the U S. Australia supplies most remaining apples. Ozark Missouri hosts a planned animal breeding station with approval from Secretary Wilson and Dr. Melvin. Utah wool and mutton receipts reach about $6 million. wool at shearing stations averages 21 cents per pound, with scab nearly eradicated due to growers’ actions.
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Louisiana
Lafayette
Ind
Iowa
Chicago
Ozark
Missouri
Wilson
Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Utah
Chocolate Custard with Peanut Topping
Melt chocolate with water, add sugar and boil. Stir into boiling milk with cornstarch and vanilla. Beat four egg yolks and fold in as custard cools. Serve in glass cups and top with finely chopped peanuts.
Shortcake with Banana Orange Cream Filling
Bake a cream of tartar biscuit shortcake in a shallow round tin. Slice bananas in the proportion of three to one orange, grate orange rind, and mix with one cupful sugar. Split the cake, fill with the prepared fruit, and add four spoonfuls of sweet cream beaten stiff. Fold in the white of an egg beaten with the cream and flavor to taste.
East Indian Preserves Recipe Summary
Eight hard green pears chopped and sugar used with green ginger root seven pounds total. water and lemon rind are boiled and added. Combine ingredients and simmer for three hours or more to make preserves.
Half Pound Butter Sugar Egg Yolk Brandy Pie Filling
Instructions describe creaming one half pound butter with one pound sugar, beating in yolks of six eggs, lemon juice and rind, grated nutmeg, and two tablespoons of brandy. Fold in whipped egg whites and bake in small open shells with optional lattice pastry topping.
Sugar Diamond Nib Cakes Recipe From Old Manual
Four ounces refined sugar finely beaten with two grains of musk and a pennyweight of orm’s root powder. Make a fine paste, roll very thin, cut into diamond shapes with a jagged roller, dry in a stove, and store. Keep for future use.
Boy Lights Up 20th Floor Window Delays Fire Rescue
Dramatic Boston blaze draws hundreds as a brave firefighter climbs to a twentieth story window. A lone boy waves from the height and after a tense exchange decides to wait for rescue. He is brought to ground unharmed and identified as from Boston.
Politician recalls a heckler and a mistaken insult
Gov Hughes at a New York dinner recounted a tale of a man in the front row who bayed like a dog during a speech. The man, Harry Loff, challenged a line about a watchdog and later struck a small man, realizing only after a brief clash that the reference was to a long dead poet, not the individual present.
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Gov. Hughes
New York
Harry Loff
Loff
Family Skin Troubles Cured by Cuticura Remedies
A Iowa City couple testifies that Cuticura Soap and Ointment cleared the wife’s long standing eczema on the face for four years and helped a baby’s heat rash and hair growth, noting quick relief and improved scalp condition after using the products at home.
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H. B. Springmire
Capitol Street
Iowa City
Sponge Pudding and Spicy Tomato Rice Recipe
A two part recipe describes a sponge pudding using milk flour sugar baking powder three eggs and a rich sauce. It then gives a fried rice dish with olive oil browning rice tomatoes salt and chili pepper pulp simmered in water until soft.
Bananas with Lemon Butter Sauce and Cooking Tips
Directions for a dessert sauce with sugar water lemon juice and butter to serve over bananas or with lamb or cake. Then a note on carving shears from Popular Mechanics and a rice with milk dessert recipe ending with jelly and cream.
Traditional Deep Dish Custard and Crullers Recipe Steps
A kitchen guide lists procedures for custard style batter with butter yolks milk and sherry plus mashed banana then whipped egg whites baked in a dish. It also details a sugar and egg mixture with lemon or vanilla, folded flour, and a second bake. A separate crullers recipe uses lard molasses brown sugar spices and buttermilk with flour and frying lard.
Frying fish or potatoes in iron or steel pans
Advice warns to use iron or steel saucepans for deep frying to avoid tin lining melting and to ease cleaning since tin-lined utensils can become rough inside when exposed to high heat.
Cyclopedias Do Not Suit The Colonel's Mule Riders
A book agent offers a cyclopaedia to a Texan colonel whose boys ride mules. The colonel replies that the sons are the finest in the county and in Texas and that he buys them what they need, not what they want. The exchange ends with the agent realizing cyclopedias won’t help mule riders.
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Texas
Almost a Miracle Miracle Kidney Pills Cure Case
Marion Kentucky resident C W L Nesbitt writes of chronic kidney trouble with thick secretions swollen limbs and near paralysis who, after using Deans Kidney Pills for three months, recovered and returned to work. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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C. W. L. Nesbitt
Depot Street
Marion
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Dialogue Fragment from Lippincott's
A brief exchange reveals curiosity about danger with reassurance that nothing serious is implied. The snippet presents two voices labeled He and She discussing fear and necessity.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement claims relief for foot pain
In a pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease a powder you shake into shoes. It soothes feet cures corns bunions swelling sore hot callous aching sweaty feet and ingrowing nails. Helps new or tight shoes fit. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c sample mailed free Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy N Y
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Hasn't he an odd way of putting woes
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a golfer's odd manner of handling woes with golf balls as the punchline.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pie mix ad from D Zerta Food Co Rochester NY
A grocery brand promotes OUR PIE Preparation lemon chocolate or custard pie mix sold for 10 cents. Distributed by D Zerta Food Co Rochester New York, the ad urges easy pie making with the product.
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D-Zerta Food Co
Rochester
N. Y
Finish Parliament batches bills on marriage reform and more
Nineteen women members of the Finish Parliament have introduced twenty six bills covering reform of marriage laws illegitimate children protections for minors public education liquor question and related social issues.
Boy Highlights Lesson From Grocer Adverts
A stories says a sugarbag fly was swept away by a careful grocer while showing a message boy how to be careful. The boy noted the paradox and argued that his example was bad because the sugar remained with bits on its feet.
Sloan's Liniment Eases Neuralgia and Sciatica
A Marietta South Carolina resident, J. P. Hubbard, reports immediate relief from neuralgia after using Sloan's Liniment. He credits the twenty five cent bottle with curing his neuralgia and praises its use for insect bites and sore throat, promising to keep a bottle in his home.
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Sloan
J. P. Hubbard
Marietta
S. C
Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonial and patent remedy ad
Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co. offers one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured or not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Gleason certifies the oath dated December 6, 1886. Advertisement notes the medicine taken internally, with claims of blood and mucous surface impact. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and druggists sell the cure at 75 cents.
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A. W. Gleason
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mass
Truth and Quality Laxative Endorsement
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs and Vlixir of Senna as a natural laxative that cleanses and relieves internal organs without debilitation. It claims physician approval and urges buying only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Sore Eyes and Anesthetic Reception Remark in Town Topics
A Town Topics quip notes Mrs. Climber takes an anesthetic before each reception to avoid feeling cuts. The ad promotes Pettit's Eye Salve for sore eyes and lists Howard Bros Buffalo New York druggists as distributors.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
Quest for Cadlemas Candle Carrying Origin
Biblical students scour every quarter seeking the source of the Cadlemas procession candle carrying custom but find no record documenting its origin.
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Nature
LYDMA
Pinkham
Medicinal Lite
London
BORAX
Pacific Coast Borax CO
KODAK
Milwaukee
Milwaukee St
Milwaukes
Wis
Garfield
Garfield Tea CO
Brooklyn
Newlaw
John W. Morris
the Exchange Brokerage Co
Kansas City
Fry’s Magazine
A. M. Soule
Virginia Station
Statistical Bureau of the
Union Pacific Passenger Department
Mississippi
Farmers
Corn Stover
West
Egypt
India
Great Britain
Canada
Australia
Earth
Bobhemian
Crullers
Varn
Bey
Desuias
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Boug
Brockton
CZ Silutsu
Germany
North Sea
Baltic
Ed Nee
Western Canada
Saskatch
Alberta
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
T. O. Currie
Callahan Block
Ruth
Paxtine
ANE
Watu
Sterling Remedy Company
Mrs. Climber
Putnam
ROE Drug CO
Quincy
Illinois
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