Singer Sewing Machine at Paris Exposition Grand Prize
Singer Manufacturing Company of 149 Broadway New York displays at Paris Exposition Group XIII Class 70. Grand Prize awarded for design and efficiency, confirming prior Chicago World's fair success with numerous awards. Readers urged to visit Singer salesrooms across the United States.
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Singer Manufacturing Comepany
Broadway
New York
Singer
Singer Sewing Machines
Paris
Chicago
United States
Amusing Anecdotes From A Railroader Turned Magnate
A humorous reminiscence from a New Yorker now powerful in the same railroad circle contrasts past frugality with current prominence. He recalls courting, small finances, a violet bouquet, an oyster stew mishap, and a sugar ruined supper story, shared with colleagues and friends.
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F. B. Bagley
Brittany
France
Australia
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Savage Bachelor Delivers Witty Matrimony Banter
A fragment from a 19th century scene features a sharp exchange on marriage. A young woman teases a bachelor about attending a Browns gold en wedding, while he defends single life and jokes about rules of matrimony.
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Browns
How to Make a Cider Press on a Farm
A farm equipment note explains constructing a cider press for three to four dollars using common materials. It details a 2x12 plank frame, hoops and staves for a cheese crib, a barrel grinder, and a hardwood support block. The article notes apples and imperfect fruit can be pressed into cider any time after harvest, reducing waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Me.Pherson
Ohio
Poultry Business Prospects and Pitfalls
In a moderate, properly managed system poultry can profit a small farm, but business-like success is rare. Crowded flocks face disease, depredation, and management struggles, as strong birds outcompete the weak, demanding strict order and careful feeding to avoid loss. Farm and Fireside.
Dakota Woman Runs South Dakota Orchard Empire
Laura A. Alderman, noted as the largest orchardist in South Dakota, owns 150 acres near Hartey in Turner County with 8,000 trees. Eight thousand trees include two acres of plums, plus 1,000 currant bushes, 1,000 gooseberry bushes, 500 grapevines, and three scores of strawberries, per W. N. Irvin of the Washington Department of Agriculture.
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Dakota
Laura A. Alderman
South Dakota
W. N. Irvin
Division of Pomology
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Hartey
Turner County
California's splendid showing at the Paris Exposition
An excerpt from Wm. H. Mills of California describes California's exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900. He details the panorama of Mariposa Grove, praise from French fruit growers, irrigation arguments, and California as the world’s prospective orchard, aided by forest panoramas and large fruit displays that impressed French officials.
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California
Wm. H. Mills
Paris
Southern Pacific Company
Mariposa Grove
France
Republic
Germany
Vaca Valley
Funeral Meeting and a Doctor's Doom Foretell a Death
A funeral gathering prompts a man with a pale frightened face to declare his prior words about cheering the widow. The doctor warns he is doomed to die, while a separate ad extols Grain-O as a coffee substitute. A clerk processes a stamped letter order for an automobile, showing small city life snippets.
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Indianapolis
Heat for the Bowels
An old health alert promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure for a wide range of ailments by cleaning the bowels. It emphasizes natural, easy movements and urges starting at 10 cents. The ad warns against imitations and notes each tablet bears C. ec. stamp.
Delia Miller Named in a Hissing Debate
A jumble of vintage quips and ads shows a rejected lover threatening with a hissing name at Delia Miller, juxtaposed with witty lines from newspapers, Jell-O promotions, barber humor, and brief notices. The clippings reflect light, humorous strokes and product pitches of their era, with named personalities and brands scattered through the collage.
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Delia Miller
Chicago Tribune
Business Openings Along the Chicago Great Western Ry
Opportunities appear on the Chicago Great Western line in Iowa Missouri Minnesota and Ohio. First class openings in growing towns for many businesses and for manufacturing. List includes Blacksmiths Doctors Dressmakers Furniture Grain and Live Stock Buyers General Merchandise Hardware Harness Tailors Cold Storage Creameries and canning factories. Address W. J. Reed Industrial Agent C.G.W. 601 Endicott Bld St. Paul Minn.
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Chicago Great Western Ry
Oliioie
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
W. J. Reed
C.G.W. By
Gratitude and Humorous Dialogues in 1900 Seaside Scene
A reader recalls saving a stranger at the seaside last summer and exchanges thanks for fabric and ribbons at a dry goods shop. The column then cites endorsements and quips from newspaper snippets: Piso's Cure for Consumption, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, Keeman's Pepsin Gum, and Halls Cata rhus Cure, with brief jokes about love, marriage, and misrepresentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Boston Journal
Congressman Goodwyn Advocates Peruna Remedy Letter
Ex congressman A T Goodwyn of Alabama endorses Peruna medicine from Columbus Ohio as an undoubted catarrh remedy. He claims rapid improvement after two doses and urges public figures to support the remedy. Hartman of Columbus is cited as the physician and free books on catarrh are offered.
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A. T. Goodwyn
Alabama
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Harteman
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Lear
Louisvill
Philadelphia
Denxertt
Country
Loston Post
Indianapolis Press
Aes Putnam
L. A. W. Bulletin
Carter
Jaf Ial Porary
Oklahoma
Morgan
al Abovo
Dick T. Morgan
PERRY
A.N.K
Advertisera Presss
Thor
Maple Street
Norwich
Bixby
Grove
Uno
Keeman
Philadelphia Record
Atchison Globe
Bears
Waltham Watches
American Waltham Watch Company
Waltham, Mass
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
Winchester Avenue
New Haven
Conn
Schuh
Elie Borla
Calre
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