Corn Kernel Chemistry Explained in Illinois Bulletin
The Illinois Experiment Station Bulletin 53 explains corn kernel chemistry by separating the kernel into four parts: hull, gluten layer, germ, and starchy matter. It notes the germ is about 12 percent of the kernel with high mineral, oil, and protein content, while the hull and starches are rich in carbohydrates. Variations in composition occur among corn varieties and even among ears from the same field.
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Ultmois Experiment Station
Flechig
Burr
Hints for Stockmen From the Wester Plowman
The Wester Plowman offers practical advice for livestock care and feeding. It stresses dry bedding for swine, avoiding diseased hogs, using ground grain, routing hogs that bunch, avoiding hot manure for horses, water intake affecting digestion, value of well broken colts, selling fat hogs, using corn for food, cautious use of soft coal, cooking food to save feed, risks of winter fattening on dry feed, and recommended components like roots and ensilage.
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Wester Plowman
The Pope's Court and Other Early 20th Century Notices
A collection of brief items: a detailed count of Papal court personnel under Pope Leo XIII, Greece's government wage cuts and school closures, Spitzbergen post office serving summer excursionists, sharp quips about social manners, and several light exchanges and jokes from various papers. The notes mix institutional detail with satirical lines from Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, and New York publications.
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Arctic
Spitzbergen
Norway
Cincinnati Enquirer
McSgratters and McSwitters Stir Mouthy Exchange
The dialogue shows McSgratters mocking a man with a big mouth and McSwitters calling it a mouth that gives him earache to smile. Up-to-Date notes the sharp repartee and public amusement at the exchange.
Wealth, wit, and oddities from a bygone era in brief
A parade of curious anecdotes features W W Bouton with a life sized portrait of Maj Andre in London and guests at J Pierpont Morgan’s Corsair launch with fortunes over 300 million. It notes Oregon Senator Simon’s small stature beside historic giants, Civil War wound tales, Holman Hunt funding by Ruskin, and Carnegie’s anti soft coal stance in New York.
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A. W.W. Bouton
New York
London
Maj. Andre
J. Pierpont Morgan
Simon
Oregon
Dolph
William B. Smallridge
Jackson County
John Ruskin
Holman Hunt
Hunt
Ruskin
Mitchell
Wisconsin
Senate
Mary Washington Hospital
Fredericksburg
George Washington Smith
Washington
George Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Fifth Avenue
Carnegie Hall
Double Crop Apple Tree Draws Farmer Interest
On a Long Island farm a tree bore two crops in the past year attracting farmer attention. The article also praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestive and blood disorders, claiming it cures chronic cases where a cure is possible.
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Long Island
Hostetter
Small Realization Phrase Sparks Lingering Question
The somber man muses that among all life expectations only one has proven true that she would not realize the others. His rueful remark hints at unfulfilled hopes and a moment of existential doubt. The fragment suggests a reflective, literary tone.
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N. Y. Press
Medical and humorous clippings from old papers
A collage of vintage ad text and quips notes a physicians claim Lane's Family Medicine relieves daily bowels. Quotation humor about dreams and marriage entertains readers. Advertisements promote Take Tamative Bromo Quinine and free dropsy treatment by H H Green's Sons of Atlanta. Various jokes quote newspapers Chicago Daily Record Brooklyn Life Town Topics.
Cough Remedies and Quips in 19th Century Ads
An assortment of vintage advertisements and quips. Kemp’s Balsam promises to end coughing with a free sample bottle and small bottle pricing. Hale’s Honey of Horehound touted for coughs while Pike’s Toothache Drops claim relief in one minute. A joke about marriage and keeping a daughter underscores social humor of the era.
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Ohio
Democratic Party
Columbus
Foraker
Vornker
N. ¥. Journal
Hale
Pike
Piso’s Cue for Consumption in Early Medicines
Fragmentary notice from Springfield dated October 1 1804 mentions Piso and a medicinal claim. Reads like a quirky, unreliable ad or early medical blurb with names Jennie Prickard and B A Buletin. Content appears garbled but suggests a claim about a remedy for coughs and consumption.
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Jennie Prickard
Springfield
Ith
Women praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Two letters from Mrs. Lizz Bevenny of Lowell Massachusetts and Mrs. Amos Trombleau of Ellenburgh Center New York extol the benefits of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for gynecologic troubles and postnatal recovery. Each woman credits the remedies with restoring health after severe suffering and medical treatments failed.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ellenburgh Ctr
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Ulinois Experiment Station
Fropeine
Leo XIII
Greece
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Chicago Post
Deadlie Benson
Ruth
Percy Mighlife
Freddy
Puck
Tootumao
Woolly
The
Howler
Deegan
Duggan
N. Y
McSgratters
Sr. Louis
Lens Hurley
Port Mess
Kansas
ST. Jacobs
Lane
Price
Tam
Brooklyn
H. H. Green
Chicago Daily Record
Atchison Globe
Atory
B. A. W. Buletin
GU ‘Ensax
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
Winchester Ave
New Haver
Cohn
Blould
Krausers
Allen
St. Paul
Minn
Drugg
Buckingham’s News
Hall & Co
Nashua
New Yorke Exchange
Brockman & Co
St. Louis
A. N. EB
Whiting
Adtertiaerd
Star Plug L. & M
Bigghtt & Mve
RS Tobacco
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