Walter Baker and Co. Chocolate mark of quality
The Walter Baker Company, founded in 1780 on the Neponset River in Dorchester near Boston, is celebrated for cocoa and chocolate. The firm emphasizes top quality at fair prices, denounces fraudulent substitutes, and urges housekeepers to check products for the La Belle Chocolatiere label and Dorchester manufacture. A free cookbook offer is extended to households sending their name and address.
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Walter Baker & Co
Neponset River
Dorchester
Boston
Walter Baker Company
la Belle Chocolatiere
Mass
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
State Street
Free Foot-Ease Sample Offer from Allen S Olmated
An ad offers a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for chilblains sweating damp or swollen feet and for easing tight shoes. It claims to cure corns bunions and similar foot issues and lists druggists and shoe stores as sellers. The notice also includes humorous quotes from newspapers and mentions Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar and Pike's Toothache Drops.
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Allen S. Olmated
Leroy
Allen
Hale
Pike
Little Facts of Interest from Historical Notes
A cord of wood weighs about 21 tons on average. Ireland ships 237000 tons of meat annually to England while producing 10 tons of honey valued at £12000 yearly. The world’s oceans total nearly 324000000 cubic miles. An English convict receives ten pounds of bread weekly, with seven pounds paid. Electric tramway competition is noted in English railway half-yearly reports as affecting short-distance travel. Alvert I, emperor of Germany, had one car after a loss in cavalry action, hid the shortage by lengthening his hair.
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Ireland
England
Alvert I
Germany
Miracle Cure Story From Missouri Woman
Mrs M A Goss of Bryant Missouri attributes her recovery from sciatica and rheumatism to Dodd's Kidney Pills. After months of pain and unsuccessful treatments she improved within a week and could sit up, then walked a quarter mile. She claims sixteen boxes cured her and that the pills saved her life. People travel to hear her tale.
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Dodd
Mra. M
Sunday School Lesson on Pentecost in Acts
Prepared by H C Lenington the lesson text from Acts 2 1 11 outlines Pentecost events the gift of the Spirit and its effects on Jerusalem residents and visitors Peter's sermon the call to repentance baptism of about 3000 and the start of the Christian church with signs and wonders performed by the apostles
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H.C. Lenington
Jerusalem
Mesopotamia
Giten
Cappadocia
Pontus
Sin
Phrygia
Pamphylia
Egypt
Libya
Cyrene
Rome
Peter
Jesus the Christ
Mount Sinai
Christ
Earth
Peters
Jesus
Plan for hog pasture and pasture rotation
A detailed farm note by Arthur Seebach in Breeder's Gazette outlines a rotating pasture system. It recommends Seed Clover and grasses for permanent pasture and separate clover for summer and winter grazing. It advises corn fodder pasture, seed rates, and annual clover corn rotation to enrich soils and boost hog yields. It emphasizes a cement feeding floor with sun exposure, dry sleeping quarters, and a water barrel with automatic fountain for hog welfare.
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Arthur Seebach
Breeder’s Gazette
Balanced Ration Keys to Healthy Dairying
A balanced ration prevents dyspepsia in animals and humans. Overemphasis on corn, timothy, or clover harms dairy quality and risks indigestion or bloat. The dairy farmer should combine foods and study feed options to tailor a well balanced ration.
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Corn
Horses Scarcity Presses Army Buyers Across West
Government buyers in the west and northwest report growing difficulty securing horses for army service with cavalry and heavier animals in high demand. Western ranges are seen as short of good stock, pushing farmers to raise work horses and some to sell when possible, per Orange Judd Farmer.
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West
Northwest
Arclery
Orange Judd
Assiniboia Appeal Promotes Western Canada Settlement
An open letter from Yorkton, Assiniboia urges readers to move west. It touts Saskatchewan districts opening this summer at low prices and claims favorable farming prospects. The piece cites Mr Thomas Fitzpatrick and notes government agents can provide details for settlers.
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Yorkton
St. Paul
Minnesota
Western Canada
Assiniboia
John
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Saskatchewan
Dominion of Canada
Parper
Woman's health letters warn of menstrual pain cures
A 1898 1900 correspondence from Brooklyn women describes chronic menstrual pain and womb displacement. Readers report relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, with testimonials praising cures and urging others to seek her free advice from Lynn Mass.
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Dmarn
Emma Kurun
Lynn
Mass
Lydia
E. Pinkham
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Philadephia Press
Atchison Globe
Minnesota Farmers’ Institute
New York
Corron
Falents
Calica
Kansas City
New Orleans
Louisville
Dean Mas. Priewamn
Aeb
Emma Kvent
Trautman St
Brooklyn
Richmond
Ming Mangiz Polnaed
4Th St
Ema
Prisset
National City Bank of
Lydia E. Pon
Standard. Oil Co
Poomnga
Rm Ney
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