Relentless Tobacco Devotion Across Histories and Arts
A compact survey notes famed personalities' high daily tobacco use including Prince Bismarck Edison Mario Grun Herr Grunn Edwin Booth and others. It cites Bismarck claiming fifty years and 100000 cigars while Edison reportedly smokes ten a day or more during deep work. It also mentions Grunn in Berlin with six pipes cigars and cigarettes daily and Booth in wings with twenty five cigars daily.
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Prince Bismarck
Edison
Mario
Berlin
Herr Grunn
Edwin Booth
After the Honeymoon Ring Weather Folklore
Town Topics notes a ring around the moon signals stormy weather and quips that a ring around a girl’s finger often means the same, reflecting a lighthearted superstition from the era.
Grape-Nuts Powering Brain Work, Writer Says
A brain worker credits Grape-Nuts with clear thinking and sustained output. He claims the bulk of ordinary meals hampered mental work and that Grape-Nuts supplies essential nourishment for the brain and nervous system. Read the little book The Road to Wellville.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Windmill Water Supply Advice From Ontario Farmer
A Grey county Ontario farmer recommends an eight foot windmill built over the well with one inch galvanized piping to buildings and a force pump. He notes the cost varies with mill pump piping and tank and claims three years of satisfactory service. A check valve allows tapping the line to water other buildings or stock.
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Farmer's Advocate of
Canada
Grey County
Ontario
California Fig Syrup Co
Agriculture Developing Into a Technical profession
Reports from leading agricultural colleges show rising attendance and more college trained farmers. The piece argues agriculture is developing with broader career prospects, shifting view from hands to head, expanding the profession's impact on national prosperity.
Growing Alfalfa in Ottawa Central Experiment Station Bulletin
J H Gris dale of the central experiment farm Ottawa outlines alfalfa growing tips. Key points include sowing sufficient and good germinable seed on fertile land, avoiding nurse crops, preparing the seedbed, applying first year treatments, ensuring surface soil plant food, and choosing well drained ground down to at least two feet.
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J. H. Grisdale
Central Experiment Farm
Ottawa
The Young Fruit Trees Winter Injury Risks
Winter injury to young fruit trees comes from sun-scald rabbits and mice. Protect trunks with wire cloth or wood veneer, raise protection two to three feet for rabbits, and prune carefully to avoid excessive top loss. Maintain ground free of grass and weeds to deter vermin and trap mice by snow management.
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Bailey
Ohio
Bagworm cocoons threaten fruit and cedar trees
Bagworm cocoons hang from branches and produce many eggs that hatch in spring. If left on trees they strip leaves by summer. Cedar trees are especially affected. Remove and destroy cocoons promptly to prevent damage.
Dreamer Was a Ripper in Nighttime Shop Talk
A family-memory tale from Lippincott's describes two young merchants sharing a room above a store. One partner, absorbed in business dreams, wakes to a nightmare moment where a imagined customer demand ends with a nightshirt r-i-p as the partner murmurs two yards madam.
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Lippincott’s
Praise for Dodd's Kidney Pills from Dayton resident
In Dayton Tennessee Tec 11th special a prominent local, Mr N R Roberts, extols Dodd's Kidney Pills. He recounts prior severe kidney trouble, back pain, and inability to straighten easily. Since using the pills, he reports complete relief with no relapse and a renewed, pain free back.
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Dayton
Tenn
Tec
Dodd
Mrr
N.R. Roberts
Fencegate Quip Sparks Diplomatic Teasing
Miss De Playne repeats a remark about her face causing a man to climb a fence. The diplomatic figure clarifies the line was joking, saying he meant the man would cross to the other side of the fence. The exchange airs in a Chicago Journal item.
Nickel Plate Road Offers Through Trains to East
Nickel Plate Road markets lowest rates and eastern connections to New England states with three daily through trains to Cleveland Buffalo New York and Boston. Dining Cars priced 3 cents to 1.00 and a la carte service. Luxurious Sleeping Cars on all trains. No excess fare. For details contact J Calahan General Agent Chicago. Local quote from Uncle Eben humorous aside in Washington Star.
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Nickel Plate Road
New England
Cleveland
Buffalo
New York
Boston
Calahan
Adams St
Chicago, Il
Laundering Baby Clothes With Ivory Soap Emphasized
Eleanor R. Parker urges mothers to supervise washing of infants garments to avoid chafing from strong alkalis in common soaps and recommends only Ivory Soap for baby laundry. The note also criticizes excessive ornamental education.
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Eleanor R. Parker
Bald Heads Covered by Cuticura Cure
An advertisement touts Cuticura as a complete external and internal hair and skin treatment. It claims to halt hair loss, remove crusts and dandruff, destroy parasites, soothe itching, and promote hair growth on a healthy scalp with soap, ointment, and pills priced at $1.00. It cites a testimonial and offers other aphorisms.
Ailing Women Learn True Cause of Back Aches Cure
Mrs W G Davis of Groesbeck Texas testifies to relief from back pain dizziness and sick headaches after using Deans Kidney Pills. She reports passing several kidney stones and lasting recovery. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster MIlburn Co Buffalo NY.
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W. G. Davis
Groesbeck
Texas
Dean
Foster-Alilburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Washington 2D. C. references top the 48 page book
A fragment noting Washington D C and a 48 page book with high references appears in the text. Not enough detail to identify title author or publication date.
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Washington
2D. C
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Balsam
Carters
Dreamer
Ripper
Drygoods
Tor
Tennessee Praise
Uncle Eben
Washington Star
Puck
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Fitzgerald & CO
Desire
Desirey
HICH
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