An Object Lesson On Macadamized Roads
The illustration shows how food roads demonstrate the advantages of large scale road building. Prof J A Wolves describes a macadam road 12 feet wide nine inches thick with center excavation, four to six inches deep, then rolled. Layers of large stone four inches, crushed stone three inches, and fine screenings two inches are added in sequence and rolled. Average cost including grading and macadamizing runs about $2,000 per mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Wolves
One-Year-Old Apple Trees For Orchards
H E Van Deman argues for selling one-year-old trees due to winter damage. He notes lighter digging, easier setting, and lower pest risk but cites higher handling risk and delayed bearing as concerns. He claims many have succeeded with one-year trees and reports selling thousands to Kansas neighbors.
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San Jose
Kansas
H. E. van Deman
Wastefulness In a Crime
A Montana Fruit Grower article argues farming wastefulness harms land, labor, and economy. It lists waste in fields, inferior stock, overextension, costly imports, and neglect of knowledge avenues as reasons farming fails to pay.
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Montana
Magnificent Woman Praises Peruna Tonic
Mrs Glara Makemer housekeeper for Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission in Chicago writes from 302 Chestnut Street praising Peruna as the best tonic for general debility liver complaint and dyspepsia. She notes use in female irregularities and weak nerves and claims pelvic catarrh can be averted with Peruna. The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio sends health and beauty notices to women.
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Glara Makemer
Clara Makemer
Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission
Chicago
Chestnut Street
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohic
Dewey on Command and a Comical Courtroom Line
A quip about Dewey directing a future Asia station prompts the remark that Spain owns the Philippines, followed by snippets from humor and medical ads and a lawyer’s boast about winning a jury despite no case. The collage preserves light social wit and early 20th century ad copy.
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Dewey
Manila
Hong Kong
Spain
Philippines
Ladices’ Home Journal
Not a Safe Humor in Old Sayings
A collection of short quotations reflects humorous or cautionary lines from 19th or early 20th century papers. The anecdotes cover a hunting incident, five in China lore, language quirks, and a child’s mix up about pills, with terse moral or comic notes in each.
A Curious Island Merken in the Zuyder Zee
The Chicago Chronicle notes Merken as a curious island with unfamiliar crops and customs. Natives know neither horses nor trees nor drunkenness, and women manage the yearly harvest of View hay. The piece riffs on fables like the tortoise and the hare.
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Merken
Sland
Changye
Chicago Chronicle
Syrup of Figs Promotes Health Worldwide Fame and Quality
The piece extols Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Co as an ethical, effective laxative lauded by physicians, with global distribution across Great Britain, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and notes its simple, pleasant taste and absence of after effects. It mentions a related story about revenge and a coffee substitute Grain-O as a sleep-friendly drink.
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Great Britain
Europe
Asia
Attica
California
United States
California Fig Syrup Co
Women urged to seek sympathy and pinkham cure
Letters from Milldale Connecticut and Philadelphia praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for nervousness back pain falling womb and neuralgia. Women claim improved sleep mood and health after using the tonic and urge others to try it and credit the treatment for recovery.
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Pinkham
Anna E. Hatu
Milldale
Conn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Exeen Flanna- Gan
Mountain St
Philadelphia
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Camden
N.C
Lane
North America
Grove
Yonkers Statesman
Ee Cage
AIS
Atchison Globe
New York
Kansas c
Nuy
Louisville
N. S. World
China
Chicago Inter Ocean
Johnny
Brooklyn
Press
Pluy
Pilegduis
Chicago Daily News
Mammoth
IWEST
Madison
O. D
CLGAR
Marchanta
Bmissouri Lamp & Mig. Go
St Louis
LO B. Stevens & CO
Washington
A.N. K.B
Seay
Hubinger
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