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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1908
Page
8
The American Ostrich Fever and Its Hat Trade
A quirky look at ostrich farming and the hat feather trade, detailing how American ranches in California, Arizona, Arkansas, and Florida produce plumes for hats. The piece covers breeding, nesting, feather value, plucking, and financial prospects, highlighting the big figures in eggs, feathers, and incomes per ostrich.
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California
Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
Poultry Advice Promises Savings and Better Breeding
Don’t spend money on patent medicines. Consult a reputable poultryman and send a stamp for advice. Keep a breeding chart to align pedigrees, study your needs before disposing of breeders, hold extras for accidents, and avoid excess slaked lime. Cull wisely and ensure ample feed for all birds. Consider biring it yourself and observe results.
Birds on Hats and Hymns in May Church Choir
A nostalgic verse recalls a robin in May, and the church choir as birds symbolically sing. It contrasts wild birds leaving forests with stylish hats worn by good women at prayer, hinting at a moral about beauty and devotion.
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Cc. M. B
Heaviest egg breed queries answered in poultry column
Inquiries cover egg weight by breed and age, feeding practices, and fowl care. Light Brahma hens lay about 28 ounces per dozen, pullets 23.4. Leghorns vary by line. Damaged grain and castor oil for sick birds. Fattening Leghorns requires semidark housing. Minorca tinted eggs linked to prior crossbreeding. Ducks with leg paralysis tied to heat, dry bedding and normal care needed.
Birds and Beasts in a Rural Poultry Vision in England
A colonial style column discusses a House of Lords bill to protect birds, contrasts with Audubon society aims, praises alfalfa as prime feed for cattle and poultry, notes honey bee yields in Yakima valley, hawk deterrents from Took Mountain NJ, and criticizes poultry show cheats. It also cites chicken thefts, Petaluma poultry prospects, turkey and cabbage beliefs, a Pittsburg case over pigeons, Pekin duck shipping to Chicago, and sowing wheat in duck yards.
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House of Lords
England
Audubon Society
West
Yakima Valley
Washington
Took Mountain
New Jersey
Johnny Bull
Petaluma
Leghorn
California
Pittsburg
Stowe Township
Treatment of Croup in Home Care
Croup, usually worsening at night, is a mucus buildup from a cold causing a hard dry cough and breathing difficulty. Home care includes hot applications, vapor inhalation, and sugar of ipecac if not relieved, with urgent physician contact for severe cases.
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Washington Star
How to keep cut fruit fresh for later meals
When a fruit like watermelon pineapple or cucumber is too large for one meal, cut only what you will use and stand the remainder on the cut end. Do not peel first. Place the fruit flat on a china plate or enameled dish large enough to seal out air. Never use a tin dish.
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Arizona
Keeping Food at Its Best Through Proper Storage
The guide advises immediate refrigeration of green vegetables on delivery and storing salad greens in water or wrapped in damp cloth then newspaper if not used right away. It recommends airtight storage for cereals, coffee, and olive oil, and a dry place for salt soap and cheese to prevent spoilage and pests.
How to Make Linoleum from Old Brussels Carpet
A practical guide to creating linoleum by laying the carpet face down on the floor, applying many coats of paint with a finish in the desired color, reapplying fresh coats as wear appears, and dotting the last coat with varied paint colors to imitate mosaic tiles.
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Brussels
How to Bake Fruit Pies
A practical tip to prevent juice boil over while baking fruit pies. Wet a clean mussin strip about an inch wide with cold water and place it around the edge of the pie. This lightweight edge barrier keeps the filling from boiling over and improves the pie.
How to Cure a Boil From An Old Household Remedy
A dated home remedy describes melting beeswax worth five cents then mixing a tablespoon of sugar and laundry soap, adding a tablespoon of cold sweet cream. The mixture is spread on cloth and applied to the boil each morning until the core is drawn out.
Conference on Sailors Opens in New Institute
Delegates from forty five foreign stations and Britain gather in New York for an international conference at the Institute for Seamen. The meet will seek sailor reading material, legislation, and improved port shipping methods. The 825000 dollar building will be opened tomorrow, the largest institute of its kind.
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New York
New Institute For Seamen
American Seaman’s Friend Society
Great Britain
Dynamite Used to Stop Ebensburg Fire
A blaze in Ebensburg Pennsylvania on October 6 threatened the town and forced guests to flee from two hotels before dynamite detonation and aid from nearby towns saved it. Loss is about 75000 dollars. The fire began in a grocery and spread to the Central hotel Blair House and six homes, all destroyed.
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Ebensburg
Blair House
Nimrod Harry Steele Foes Bears Near South Bend
Harry Steele, famed for four of six bears he shot near South Bend, again proves his marksmanship when stranded in the woods near the high school Duding he faced three bears. He killed two and fatally wounded the third, adding to his hunting reputation.
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South Bend
Wash
Harry Steele
Jie
He Was Needed at Home in Indiana Pardoned Youth
Muncie Indiana October 6 Arlie Wright twenty years old was needed at home to support his aged mother who was in want and that is the reason he returned from the Jeffersonville reformatory from which Governor Hanly had pardoned him.
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Muncie
Ind
Arlie Wright
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Hanly
Old World wit on Philadelphia names and breakfast dish
A returning Englishman jokes about Philadelphia naming habits. He notes nearly all locals called Scrapple and references a breakfast dish they call biddle, delivered in a humorous Saturday Evening Post voice.
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America
Philadelphia
Scrapple
Saturday Evening Post
Land Rush Starts in Tripp County South Dakota
In Dallas and Gregory registrations began at 9 am with notaries signing applications the moment the day opened Judge Witten warned applicants must intend to make homes on the land or face government contempt for fraud Lottery-style draws followed a light rain on the Rosebud as residents rushed to file and not miss time.
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Dallas
S. D
Tripp County
Judge Witten
Gregory
Notable mimicry of medical study debunked in Harpers Weekly
In a quoted exchange from Harper's Weekly, Willie Vanfeller is humorously described as studying medicine and getting on famously. The dialogue highlights a light, mock-serious tone about appearances and plans, capturing the period’s social banter.
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Willie Vanfeller
Harper’s Weekly
The Queen’s coachman Declines Royal Parking Duties
A 1887 jubilee anecdote shows the queen's coachman politely refusing to drive royal guests, saying he only serves the queen and not the riffraff, underscoring dignity and duty.
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Queen Victoria
Buckingham Palace
House Work House Work
A fragmented protest style passage urges recognition of women in home labor. It highlights daily sacrifices, duties to keep homes neat and children dressed, and the silent suffering from pains and aches without help. The piece addresses need for support and relief.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
Mayville New York and Beaver Falls Pennsylvania users report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They praise restored strength to perform daily work and urge other sick women to try the remedy. Mrs Pinkham invites letters seeking advice from readers nationwide.
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F. Ellsworth
Mayville
N. Y
W. P. Boyd
Beaver Falls
Lydia E. Pinkham
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