Winter Wheat Crop Yields Reported in Canada and Alberta
A Coaldale Alberta letter details 328 acres with 197 spring wheat 152 oats, averaging 38 bushels per acre and 74 bushels. Wheat fetched 1.00 per bushel, oats 0.50, hay 13 per ton, potatoes 60c per bushel. Best wheat yield 107 acres at 41.00 per acre. 47 acres oats 96 bpa at 8c per bushel. Also notes summer breakage and 19,000 bushels total value about 12,000. W J Pawson Jr signs. A Warner Alberta report adds 25 acres yielding 2515 bushels winter wheat. Spring wheat 30bpa oats 50-80bpa. land settling. official reach advised.
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Coaldale
Alla
Can
Bir
W. J. Pawson, JR
Castoria and Safe Remedies in Historical Ad Snippet
An OCR fragment discusses Castoria as a trusted remedy for infants and children, noting long-standing use and the familiar branding. It includes stray dialogue about poker and bets, plus garbled lines suggesting cures and remedies with unclear context and source.
Truth and Qualityful Laxative Assurance from Syrup of Figs
The article extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative, claiming it cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or increasing doses. It argues physicians approve its natural, pleasant action and absence of objectionable substances, stressing honesty and reliability in family health.
Last Resort for His Case in a Leap Year Tale
Robert Barr, Anglo American novelist and editor, tells a long anecdote about love. A philosopher proposes astronomy as a cure, but the lover still longs for the beloved. An alchemist offers a deadly cure, yet the yokel advises marriage as the simple remedy.
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Robert Barr
Gaxing
Ape
Mrs Mary E Ronse Credits Kidney Pills For Cure
In Cambridge New York Mrs Mary E Ronse recounts a five year long kidney ailment following a fall. She suffered back and hip pains loss of flesh and weakness before using Dosa's Kidney Pills. She credits quick relief and complete recovery to the pills and urges readers to buy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mary E. Ronse
Cambridge, N. Y
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Lampe
Merry Widow Gems
Kong Mita
Merry Widow
Jerome H. Remick & CO
West 41St St
New York
J. Bennett
el Paso
New Lam
Svory
Job as a patient man debated by Brother Dickey
In a speaker note from the Atlanta Constitution, Brother Dickey jokes that Job was not truly patient. He recalls Job growling at misfortunes, noting the devil’s trials, including boils and a ruined house, asserting Job would bargain for bites but not a hurricane.
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Dickey
Brother Dickey
Job
Atlanta
Cure for Eczema Claims from Cuticura Remedies
Mme Napoleon Duceppe of Montreal says Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured her three children of a severe eczema with itching eruptions on the backs of their heads and a bleeding neck fold in a plump baby, after several uses. She states the relief appeared after one night and attributes the cure to the Cuticura products. May 21, 1907.
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Mme
Napoleon Duceppe
Duluth
Montreal
Que
Alexandra
London
Molly
Harper's Weekly
Deafness and hearing aid claims spark sales pitch satire
A scrambled page mixes ad copy and jokes. It mocks ear health ads by Inca and Dr Cheney Co while threading cartoon quips about love letters, a ship deck scene, a detective and Garfield Tea. It concludes with a Jamaica field yield note and a Red Cross Ball Blue plug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Cheney & CO
Excellent for Colds Mixed Whiskey Remedy and Pine Oil
An old recipe touts glycerine and whiskey with pine oil as a cold remedy, noting true pine oil from Globe Pharmaceutical Co Dayton Ohio. Also includes anecdotes and ad snippets on modesty and gifts, along with quips on fashion, pies, and a sermon joke.
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Globe Pharmaceutical Co
Dayton
Exiles' Life in Siberia Describes Hard Labor and Suffering
A 1907 letter from Amir Hieh Road notes 126 exiles sent to build a wheel road under Cossack guard from Irkutek. They endure brutal days, subzero tents, rain, and knee-deep mire with six to eight hours of work, while disease and rheumatism rise as winter nears. Emma Werner, 17, of Coronia saves a drowning boy, Robert Pick, after leaping into Prog Pond and guiding him to shore with help from bystanders.
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Siberia
Amir Hieh
Kolessnava
Irkutek
Pashkova
Amir
Emma Werner
Corona
L. 1
Robert Pick
Rowert
Randall Avenue
Miss Verac
Miss Werner
Youngest Midshipman at Annapolis Alfred Wolfe
Alfred Shepard Wolfe of New Orleans is noted as the youngest midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland He was born March 5 1591 and joined the academy July 6 1907 after passing mental and physical exams The minimum age for entry is 16 Wolfe was appointed by Hon Robert C Davey from Louisiana's Second district He completed his schooling in New Orleans public schools before entering the academy.
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Louisiana
United States Naval Academy
Annapolia
Alfred Shepard Wolfe
New Orleans
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Robert C. Davey
Alfred Wolfe
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India
Lauraxius Ceyotiertournal
Suupe
Cunee Merosemans Ee
Yokel
Biiss
Heima Lee
Hardy Porte
Garfield
Sain
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
mRomo Quixtsi
Ergeres
Singer
Jamaica
Beavneds
Doria Co
Rochester
Lewis
Peoria
Lydia E. Pinkcham
Sallie French
Pancaiila
Ind
Ter
Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkham
Bell
N. Y
Kansas City
Fo Ames
Mandy Lee
Mol Keele
GE A Lee
Crakalbom
Tribune
Heagiete
Steere
Thompson's
Putnam
Monroe Drug Company
Quincy
Hlinots
Ane
Vue Syibe
Maxim's
OLDS
U. S
Goth
Ngine
United States
Siur
Sbeas St
Olds Gas Power CO. Hom
Seger St
Lancing
Boston
Washington St
Sen Francisce
Jessie Ng Ecker
State St. Chesebrough Mfg. CO
New York City
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