Fortnightly club meets with Miss Alice Rownd Monday
The Fortnightly club afternoon section in the literary department will meet with Miss Alice Rownd on Monday afternoon. The Girls Missionary circle of the First United Presbyterian church held a comfort knotting event last evening at the home of Misses Blanche and Jessie Stewart on West Second Street.
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Fortnightly Club
Alice Rownd
First United Presbyterian Church
Blanche
Jessie Stewart
West Second Street
A Baby Elephant Trick for Amusing Party Guests
Philadelphia Ledger describes a simple prank to evoke laughter at a party. Two or three volunteers drape a gray shawl to resemble an elephant, add ears eyes tusks and trunk with paper and fabric, pair up as the animal and a keeper to enhance the reveal.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Spirit of the Woods Tale of Ancient Harvest Gift
Two Indian youths feast with a forest spirit who appears as a beautiful woman. She rewards their kindness a year later: corn grows where her right arm rested, wheat where her left arm rested, and tobacco where she sat. The youths return after twelve moons and find bounty waiting.
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Ming
Tiny Diamond Device Writes Lord’s Prayer Tiny
A London inventor Mr Webb created a machine that scripts the entire Lord’s Prayer on glass using a diamond point in a space of 294 by 440 of an inch. An expert could fit 5,566,480 letters of the Bible eight times in one square inch, with clear legible letters when photographed.
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Mr. Webb
London
Webb
Chicago News
Riddle Verse About Plants and People
A playful set of questions links plants to everyday items. It says Black Eyed Susan uses a cockscomb to keep hair in order, hops as entertainment, nettle rash as a disease, wandering Jew resting on toadstools, Johnny jump up from his poppy, and a yew tree that always used the second personal pronoun.
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Johnny
Unwilling Guest Inspires Tea Party to End
In a playful excerpt from Youth's Companion, Teddy and Tabby attend tea with Lucille Eva Baby Polly and narrator. Tabby’s unruly antics cause chaos as a doll topples from a chair provoking a scolding. Polly is dressed in her best bib for the occasion.
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Teddy
Tabby
Lucille
Eva
Polly
Evening meeting of literature department hosted by Miss Porter
The department of literature evening section meets next Monday evening with Miss Porter. Mrs. J W Bishop hosted the Ladies League of Lie Baptist church yesterday at the home in north Washington where the ladies brought their work and spent the afternoon sewing.
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J. W. Bishop
Ladies’ League of Lie Baptist Church
North
Washington
Mrs Lucey and Miss Meacham Host Breakfast for Rev Young
The Misses Lucey and Lottie Meacham entertained the Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Young and Miss Molly McElroy at a one o'clock breakfast today at their East Washington street home. A three course meal was served with table decor of violets and apple blossoms and tulip place cards.
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Lucey
Lottie Meacham
East Main Street entertainments for Miss Blanche Nicola
Misses Dora Clapper and Dessa Wabnitz hosted a social at the former’s East Main Street home honoring Miss Blanche Nicola a May bride. Music provided the main entertainment with a two course luncheon served by Hattie Chilcote and Accie Clapper. Twelve guests dined at three small tables with violet centerpieces and violet favors, the violet color scheme echoed in the menu and heart shaped refreshments.
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Dora Clapper
Dessa Wabnitz
East Main Street
Blanche Nicola
Hattie Chilcote
Accie Clapper
Whiting Hosts Social Evening for Rev and Mrs Young
Mr and Mrs W A Whiting entertained about fifteen guests at their North Iowa avenue home last evening in honor of the Rev and Mrs L D Young. The gathering featured social games and light refreshments, concluding with an enjoyable evening.
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W. A. Whiting
Iowa Avenue
Cyclone Hits Nashville. Brother Reported Injured
Samuel Forman received a telegram from his brother Alvin Forman in Nashville Tennessee reporting that Alvin lost all his possessions in a cyclone and was slightly injured. The message was brief and lacked further storm details.
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Samuel Forman
Alvin Forman
Nashville
Tenn
Trinity Episcopal Church Tuesday Services Announced
There will be a Tuesday evening preaching service at 7 30 at Trinity Episcopal Church with a sermon by Rev R G Jones of Burlington. A communion service is set for Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at Trinity Church.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
R. G. Jones
Burlington
Trinity Church
Presbyterians Call Congregational Meeting After Morning Service
Notice announces a congregational meeting next Sabbath after morning service to appoint a pulpit committee and elect a secretary of the congregation. Win Smouse, Pres.
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Win Smouse
Favorite Prescription for Nursing Mothers and Women
Nursing Mothers and over-burdened women are urged to use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a potent restorative and sustaining aid for mother and child. The ad praises its glyceric extract, alcohol-free formula, plain-English ingredients, and invites readers to request a free booklet from Dr. R V Pierce in Buffalo New York.
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Dr. Pierce
Nurs
Pierce
Affaio
N. Y
A Comfortable Cat That Is Adapted to All Seasons
Describes hog housing design at Michigan Experiment Station focusing on ventilated hog cots for sows and young stock. Notes advantages of wide air flow, summer cooling, warm winter quarters, and mobility on skids. Includes detailed materials and construction time, plus cautions on furrowing sows and cost concerns.
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Sila
Michigan Experiment Station
Beef Breeds and Silage in Beef Production
The article reviews Shorthorn, Hereford, and Aberdeen Angus cattle as beef types, noting Shorthorns’ rapid gains, Herefords’ grazing prowess, and Angus popularity in show rings. It then discusses silage benefits for beef cattle, citing A. M. Soule, with grain savings and better finish, plus corn stover options and advantages of shredded fodder for storage, handling, and feed efficiency.
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Tubago International
A. M. Soule
Virginia
Wisdom and wit from a restless mind on work and worth
The text offers pithy maxims on work, fairness, and self delusion. It argues money shapes judgment, warns against self interest, and mocks the idea that general knowledge guarantees expertise. It noted a social circle dependent on payroll and the charge that conformity replaces true intelligence.
Distance For Planting Corn From Soil and Planter
An authority notes that planting distance should match soil and planter to avoid missing hills and lower yields. Thick planting wastes seed and thinning is impractical in large fields. With 97 percent germination and proper technique, stands stay near ideal unless adverse weather requires replanting.
Covering For a Cut Surface
The text notes many waxes paints and washes have been tried to protect a cut surface. Any non corrosive or growth harming material that shields heartwood from rat spores is satisfactory. Substances cited include white lead yellow ocher coal tar and grafting wax.
Spring Oats and Millets Varieties Yield Comparison
Virginia Experiment Station tests show spring oats leading varieties are Silvermine, Texas Rust Proof, and New White Sensation with yields of 27.18, 26.53, and 25.98 bushels per acre. Millet varieties German, Japanese, and Hungarian average 3.85, 2.80, and 2.42 tons per acre in 1905–1906.
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Virginia Experiment Station
Texas
Plum Culture Parallels Peach Growth Techniques
Plum culture closely mirrors peach culture in its main features. Peach growers can expand into plum culture intelligently and with understanding, as most points of conduct are already prepared.
Can You Be Gay and Cheerful Amid Daily Strife
A humorous verse explores whether cheerfulness holds through poverty and pressure. It contrasts easy gaiety with hardship from a sewer backup and a visit from a mother in law. The piece ends with a sharp jab at reliance on charity and stereotypes of class.
Jersey Lambs Profit Idea From Local Breeders
Professor Minckler of New Jersey State College urges farmers to choose stock from their own flocks rather than western stock. He cites profits: one farmer sold forty lambs at 7.85 dollars each, another averaged 10.06 dollars per lamb from twenty four ewes, highlighting careful selection and potential gains for Jersey breeders.
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Professor Minckler
New Jersey State College
Timely Shearing Guide for Spring Market Lambs
Farmers are advised to shear sheep or lambs scheduled for spring market by April 1 if shelter is available. After clipping, thirty days of feeding yields better gains than forty days with wool remaining.
Getting Rid of Undesirables
A brief dialogue centers on teaching a son merchantlike instincts. One speaker urges the parent to make a merchant of the boy, noting business sense. The other questions motive, recalling seeing the boy with another youth in an alley and overheard attempts to trade parents.
Saving Him
A brief exchange features a woman mentioning a man as her tailor and a request to introduce them, revealing that the tailor already has troubles of his own.
Frantic Women and Nervous System Remedies
A fragment discusses organic disturbances of the feminine system acting like a firebrand on nerves, causing frantic irritation. It claims such conditions can be overcome by taking a remedy, noting the negative impact on women and those around them.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Tested by Letters
Letters from Mrs Mary Wood of Christiana Tennessee and Mrs Wallace Wilson of Thompsonville Connecticut praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing severe female troubles and nervousness. The ad touts decades of use, claims thousands cured, invites letters for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mary Wood
Christiana
Tenn
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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