Tea Rose Varieties and Their Good Points Highlighted
An article reviews hybrid tea roses including Augusta Victoria, La France, Meteor, and Mme Schwaller, noting growth, bloom size, petal counts, hardiness with protection, and fragrance. It shares care tips for wintering roses in a cellar from October to February and preserving blooms for use as cut flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Victoria
Alfred Colomb
France
Mme. Schwaller
Duchesse de Brabant
N. Y
Fashions of Long Ago The Style of Clothes for Women
The article recalls early century women’s dress, noting limited wardrobes and a preference for simplicity. It describes white Indian muslin gowns, Empire styles, short skirts, and bare ankles with colored silk stockings. Gowns of silk were uncommon for unmarried young women, while home wear featured flowered chintz and heavy fabrics in cold weather. Driving gowns used dark crimson broadcloth with fur edging, long crimson pelisses, martén fur trims, and white ostrich plumes on crimson velvet horns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michel
Ewan
Helen Kvertasy
Beith
Young
Old Friend Not Here In Dust and Heat of Life Road
A reflective verse fragment lamenting the absence of an old friend. The speaker drags through a sunlit road, eyes bleared with tears, missing the familiar voice and kindly face as the pilgrim friend wanders far away under endless skies. The scene shifts to a gate where loved ones await, hinting at a journey unfinished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapius
Chio
Miracle Faith Draws Agnostic to Church Seen in Voice
Kennedy, a liberal telegraphist and agnostic, walks the rural line to a small parish church. A miraculous soprano voice moves him to seek belief, but the surprise reveal is that the singer is the section foreman’s redheaded boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
O. Salutaris
Salutaris
Christ
Tfer
the Redeemer
Foreman
Chicago
Dowry Talk Strikes Bargain in Fractured Verse
A wry exchange from Fiiezende Blaetter frames a suitor and father negotiating a marriage dowry. The father offers a yearly age based sum, proposing one thousand for each year, leading to the suitor’s quip that thirty eight is more than he can bear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiiezende Blaetter
Fragmentary Argument Between Brown and Chips Over Treatment
A partial dialogue shows Brown and Chips debating care for animals, with Brown expressing frustration and questions about how far he would go to help them. The fragment hints at emotional strain over comparable treatment.
Must Be Destroyed Root and Branch in Weed Fight
A farmer notes the common weed Geum vernum or avens, describing its hooked seed styles, creeping basal spread, and tall sprawling stems. The article urges thorough cultivation to kill roots over large patches, citing April to June flowering and preference for shady old orchard corners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarriet Mason
Ohle
Preparing Brine for Batter
To brine butter, mix a strong brine of salt to water. Pour brine into churn, seal, and agitate then rest. Lift butter to drain, press out moisture, then dry salt by draining and working until cohesive. Salt amounts per pound vary from one-quarter to three-fourths ounce, applied gradually and rolled to finish.
Copper sulphate touted as winter spray by Prof Taft
Prof Taft of the Michigan experiment station endorses copper sulphate as a winter spray for fungous growths. A strong solution, about three years in use on bare branches before buds open, is highly effective. Used at one pound per 15 to 25 gallons, it destroys mycelium and prevents spore germination but kills foliage, so not for later use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Michigan Experiment Station
Man and God and Jewish thought in faith and medicine
A mosaic of quotes on religion and ethics notes how modern thought challenges and supports faith. It cites Rev W F Smailey, Rabbi Voorsanger, and secular claims about Judaism and Christianity, followed by ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and No-To-Bac and a biographical quip on virtue and duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
W. F. Smailey
Presbyterian
Holmesborp
Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus
Rabbi Voorsanger
San Francisco
Cal
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Troy
Taalee Bounds & Jarvis, Publishers
Illinois
Carl Srath
Telegraphers’ Labor Union
Michael Doolan
Forsmin
Cara
Brown
Mae
Farming World
Hood
Feputlic
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Con
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheasy & Co
Milwaukee Journal
Ad. Sterling Remedy Co
New York
Byntam
St. Jacobs
IS Wan
Dr. Pierce
Wiestonso D. Jameson
Dunbarton
Merrimbche
StuaNe
Pers
Po Avail Wey Rs Inc
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