Profits of the Packers and the Beef Trust Debate
A discussion of Garfields report showing packing industry profits around two percent of business. Census 1900 figures contrast with flour mills margins of seven percent, noting low gross profit for packers. Authors suggest the agitation may prove unfounded and use a pig shearing analogy.
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Beef Trust
America
Illinois
Iinois
United States
Photograph Capture Shows Mrs Lapsling at Work
Mrs Lapsling displays her latest photograph praised for capturing the exact physiological moment by the artist. The Chicago Tribune quotes her noting the image reveals her best expression as she models in front of an audience.
Modern Terms Knicker and Jones Children Question
A New York Sun snippet asks about the whereabouts of the Jones children as Mrs Knicker discusses wartime internment. The terse exchange touches on the broader home front climate during the war era.
Bridegroom Wonders Time In Tunnel Joke
Brief courtroom quip as a judge jokes about tunnel length while the bridegroom asks how long before the ceremony. The exchange ends with the bride’s absent minded response four hugs.
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Bride
Monthly Trial of Pink Pills for Women Recalls Cure Tale
A Carmel Maine woman recounts relief after years of sick headache fainting and pain from menstrual irregularities. After five doctors and many remedies she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring health gaining flesh and spirit. The ad notes the pills address anemia chlorosis and irregular periods and are sold by druggists.
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C. H. Davis
Carmel
Maine
Good Home Made Brooder By G G Tillinghast
A simple successful home made brooder described by Farm and Home. Designed by G G Tillinghast of Connecticut, a noted poultry keeper and fruit grower. Cost not to exceed 2.50 with all new material. Built as a three by three by one foot frame with a sliding door.
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G. G. Tillinghast
Connecticut
Inexpensive and Satisfactory Brooder Design Described
A compact brooder built from galvanized iron and wood uses a two-quart tin pan radiating drum with punched holes for heat escape. The hover measures two feet by six inches with felt edges, and a vented lamp assembly sits beneath, able to run two to three days per fill and used with two lamps in cold weather.
GO SLOW ON SQUABS PRAIRIE FARMER ADVICE
Slow growth on the squab trade is urged as exaggerated. The article notes many dealers lack true mating pairs and sexing pigeons is difficult. Beginners should buy known pairs or raise their own stock, watch birds as they mate, and seek experienced breeders guidance.
The Poultry Yard Lesson for Farmers
The article urges delivering poultry products fresh and warns against holding stock for price gains. It promotes practical farming over showy points, favors pure bred hens kept near standard utility, and stresses workers’ active care to maximize egg and meat production.
Size of hive sparks debate at Ontario bee convention
Beekeepers clash over hive frame counts with talks of eight frame, 12 frame and 36 frame hives. Practitioners praise deep hives for airflow and brood space while others warn larger hives may hinder ripe honey yields and affect swarming dynamics. Opinions hinge on colony size and local conditions.
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Ontario
Ventilated Bottomboard for Bee Hives
J Gray describes an inexpensive ventilation method for English hives using a removable bottom board and wire cloth to form a ventilator. The design allows adjustable opening size and aims to reduce bees escaping when sun warms the hive door. Editorial notes caution wire cloth can clog with propolis and debris. Hershiser’s side cloth plan may offer better control.
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J. Gray
Hershiser
Oil deal insight sparks fresh speculation
Josh reports gaining new light on the subject of speculating that he previously lacked, reflecting a clearer view on an energy deal discussion. The Detroit Free Press citation marks the source of this exchange.
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Josh
Detroit Free Press
Question of national symbols sparks poppy debate
The exchange notes a hypothetical choice for a national flower as the poppy, following a quip about making the stork the national bird. The judge endorses the poppy as the obvious pick.
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Banks
Kansan Reader Riffs On Shortlist Of Top Pychamic Works
A Kansan voice proclaims pride in the six best pycamic eclave pieces in the nation, praising them as premier works from New York and beyond. The fragment hints at a literary roundup and regional pride in distinctive creative forms.
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Eclave
N. Y. UN
Cure of Rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney Pills Claimed
Mrs Betsey A Clawson of Middlesex New York says she suffered five years from inflammatory rheumatism and later gout. After taking two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills within two weeks she could care for herself and work at home again. She attributes the cure to the medicine and explains its effect on uric acid in the blood.
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Middlesex
Betsey A. Clawson
Dodd
Mull's Grape Tonic: A Hot Weather Health Pill
The ad promotes Mull's Grape Tonic as essential for heat health, claiming it cleanses impurities, contains about 50 percent grape, and acts as a reliable stomach and bowel tonic. It asserts prevention of heat debility, heat prostration, and summer ailments, including constipation.
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Mull
Wonderful Courage and Health Cure Advertisements
An ad montage urges Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a universal cure for chronic ailments including constipation biliousness neuralgia headaches and stomach trouble. It sells for 50e and 1.00 with money back if it fails. Another ad promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder to cure tired feet and ease tight shoes with a free trial package offered in Le Roy.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
Turn of Life and Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
An article on the dangers of the Change of Life for women and the promoted use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to strengthen the nervous system and ease symptoms. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Hyland and Mrs. Hinkle and invites readers to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Annie EK
G. Hyland
Chesterstown
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lizzie Hinkle
Salem
Ind
Hyland
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