Modern two family flat building offered at 2500 dollars
George A. W. Kintz advertises a two story two unit flat building with five rooms per floor plus bath on each level. Bay windows front parlors and dining rooms. kitchen pantries rear halls. front and rear porches. bluestone underpinning. clapboarded exterior. hot air heating. gas piping. ash and Georgia pine trim. art glass transoms. two incomes potential rent to offset owner occupancy.
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Tioth Flats
George A. W. Kintz
Tyrolese hay baths attract Tyrolean villagers
The article describes hay bath therapy in Tyrol where villagers soak in burning fresh mountain hay under roof. Attendants cover the body except the head while heat and other effects may be intense, with occasional fainting and serious conditions. It notes costs for outsiders and local usage.
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Tyrol
Etschlinders
Sehlern
Voels
Gidein
Meat Cooked by Cold
A Hungarian chemist uses 60 degrees of frost to rapidly freeze meat then seals it in air tight cans. The technique yields meat cooked by cold that can be stored indefinitely and eaten with minimal further prep.
Markex Cannon Shot Whirl
A 32 inch gun tube used on warships has 50 spiral grooves inside causing the shot to spin 75 times a second as it travels through the air.
Marvelous Figures in Nature and Body Structures
A discussion of the human body and animal anatomy highlights vast figures. It notes about 2 000 000 sweat glands with ducts totaling around ten miles, and the bloodstream containing millions of corpuscles. It also cites 30 000 000 retinal rods and 400 000 000 brain cells.
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Meinert
Engagement Announcement Quip Stirs Chicago Tribune
A playful engagement notice from the Chicago Tribune features a lighthearted exchange about announcing an engagement. The dialog hints at a couple eagerly awaiting a public acknowledgment with witty banter between lovers.
Meeting Arrangements Between Mrs Gabb and Mrs Gadd
A brief exchange records plans for a visit this week with a possible rain contingency. The judge suggests alternate day if Thursday rains.
You Have to Pay My Board Regularly
A dialogue from Harlem Life features Mrs. Hashleigh and a young Counter ship with claims about regular board payments. The exchange hints at tension over debts and propriety.
Pleasing Amusements at Daily Cake Walk Breakfast
A Detroit Free Press snippet describes a boarding house offering agreeable amusements with a morning cake walk. The first guest at the table wins the hot dishes, promising a light communal diversion.
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Detroit Free Press
Practical Farm Barn Design for Efficient Stock Care
A detailed description of an orange Judd Farmer illustrated barn plan highlighting convenient feeding alleys for horses cows and sheep. It notes a box stall for calving and lambing and a grain bin mouse proof near the horse stalls. Lofts reachable by ladders and a horse powered track aid handling hay and tools.
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Qorange Judd
Breeding Horses Must Adapt To Modern Times
Spirit of the West argues that horse breeders must modernize practices, selecting a first class stallion and ensuring rapid development of colts. Breeders should match growing and development with breeding quality, acknowledging changing market conditions and advancing standards.
Muslin as Weatherproof Shelter for Poultry Farms
The Farm and Fireside notes muslin can replace glass for chicken coops by admitting heat while resisting water leakage. It is cheap and can be waterproofed with fresh bullock blood and lime or linseed oil. Tight tension lets it shed water. use for covered runs and storm shelter to cut costs.
Alfalfa and Corn for Hogs in the Corn Belt
Homestead suggests using alfalfa as hog feed and cites a pig raised on two thirds alfalfa hay. It notes the fourth alfalfa cutting as optimal for winter hog nutrition, with late fall cutting raked and shocked to preserve succulent leaves. King Corn and Queen Alfalfa are announced to be bred on the author's farm.
Charcoal and Ashes for Hog Health
Prairie Farmer advises using charcoal and wood ashes as hygienic aids for pigs. They act as correctives for digestive issues and should be kept within reach for pigs to sample as needed. Use commercial charcoal sparingly and replace when used. ashes from house fires are also suitable.
Fattening Chicks Techniques for Market Ready Poultry
Practical advice from Western Plowmun on fattening young chickens for market. Keep them confined three to four weeks before slaughter, minimize stress, provide shade and sun, green cover, and comfortable quarters. Feed freely on corn mash whole corn warm potatoes bread crumbs and milk with sugar while avoiding muscle and bone building foods.
Handy feeding box for crowded chicken runs
Report advises using one or more large low dry goods or grocery boxes to separate feeding for large and small chickens in shared runs. Idea is to reduce crowding where bigger birds dominate the food supply.
Opening a Coop for Mixed Broods Suggests Practical Poultry Lettings
A brief note from American Agriculturist describes adjusting a coop opening to allow smaller chicks access. By placing a wire across the top and feeding inside, the younger broods learn to seek their own quarters when the feed dish is presented, promoting orderly separation.
Hints for shepherds cross breeding and care
Instructions from Western Plowman on proper sheep crossing practices emphasize generous exercise for rams, ample water and salt, and the futility of expecting high yearly profits. For injured lambs use warm water and gradual warming, then dry and rub, and shear when weather settles to remove wool promptly.
Sunflowers in Chicken Yards and Forage Mix
Advice on using large Russian sunflowers to shade chicken yards with early plantings in pots and transplanting in clumps for hens. Suggests wire protection and letting birds fertilize and harvest seeds in fall for lay feed. Also discusses seeding timothy with clover and using orchard grass as a reliable companion for mixed pastures.
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M. L. Bell
Sheep feed value estimates from Minnesota station report
The Minnesota station compares rape with timothy hay for sheep feed. Eight sheep split into two groups consumed 387 pounds of hay in 32 days and one fifth acre of rape in the same period. Growth valued at four cents per pound. timothy at six dollars per ton. rate implies an acre of rape worth about eight dollars and ninety cents for late pasturage.
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Minnesota
Nervy story of a perfumery drummer’s nerves and a violent client
A former collecting agency worker recounts impersonating a proprietor to collect blackmail letters. A wiry man with a cane destroyed the shop, smashing fixtures and a chandelier before leaving. She moved to perfumery work to escape the nerve-wracking racket.
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N. QO
Times-Democrat
Alabastine: A Durable Permanent Wall Coating
Alabastine is a permanent wall and ceiling coating that sets with the wall. It forms a stone like cement, is cheaper and easy to apply with a kalsomine brush, using cold or hot water. It is clean healthful and economical and has twenty years of proven durability according to manufacturers claims. It is sold by paint dealers in 5 lb labeled packages.
Patience and Practice in a Busy Medical Practice
A young physician, like many, endures a slow start to build a practice but stays hopeful with motto Nitor in Adversitum. In a bank visit he and a nervous companion face delays, the doctor quipping he fears being "out of patients" as his chronic condition. A colored messenger boy outside is noted with a wry joke about speed.
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Gayely
Warren Hastings
Hibernia Bank
San Francisco News
Lucy Tucker
Versailles
Ind
Dr. Williams
Frank Tucker
F.tucker
Huey Johnson
Justice of the Peace
The
Republican
Steam motor car sets speed record and health remedy praise
A steam motor car designed for railroad use completed a trial run at sixty miles per hour. The piece compares the feat to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the fastest road to health, claiming it cures indigestion constipation nervousness liver and kidney trouble and that the user stays cured.
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Hostetter
Conflicting Emotions in a Jewelers Weekly Note
A quirky line from the Jeweler's Weekly hints at a dramatic mishap where a baby swallows a diamond stud, prompting a call for a surgeon as a bachelor brother-physician faces a hanging threat.
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Joy
John
Lane's Family Medicine Ad Promises Daily Bowel Movement
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine as necessary for health by promoting daily bowel movements. It claims gentle action on the liver and kidneys and relief from sick headaches with prices 25 and 50 cents.
Cool Resorts of the North on Grand Trunk and Lehigh routes
Travel round up notes the Grand Trunk Railway summer route visiting Petoskey Mackinaw Niagara Falls Niagara River Thousand Islands St Lawrence rapids White Mountains Montreal Saguenay Seashore resorts and the Lehigh Valley Vestibule Train Service to Atlantic City Asbury Park and more. Illustrations and rate information available from J H Burgis City Passenger and Ticket Agent 249 Clark St Chicago.
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Grand Trunk Railway
Petoskey
Mackinaw
St. Clair Springs
Muskoks Lakes
Lake of Bays
Highlands
Ontario
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
Rapids
St. Lawrence
White Mountains
Montreal
Saguenay River
North Atlantic
Waitkins Glen
Glen Summit
Atlantic City
Asbury Park
Lehigh Valley
R. R
J. H. Burgis
Clark St
Corners Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Engagement Ring Offered and Cold Greeting Mocked
In a terse chat, He offered an engagement ring to her and she mocked the gesture with an icy response, while Edith jokes that the suitor was met with a polite yet dismissive greeting.
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Ethel
Edith
Puck
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Axrber
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North Pole
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Confidence
Citiczgo Tribune
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Crece Bes
Aleey
Zaoklzy
Timothy Grasa
Timothy
Philadelphia Bulletin
New York
Pete
Bose
Bo Texas
Rougn
Asdeea
Kansas City
Whear
ST. Louis
Texas
Omaha
Dr.Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Lane
Ayer
Economic
Cues Shore
A. J. Smith
Cleveland
F. M. Byron
Western Gent
Clinton Chain Works
South Clinton Street
Westtern Canada
Department OF the Iiinterior
Canada
FT. Currie
Stevens Point
Wis
M. V. McCinnes
Ned Merrill Elk
Detroit
D. L. Caven
James Grieve
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
N. Bantholomew
5Th Street
Des Moines
Joma
Everett & Kantz
Fort. Wayne
Indiana
Carter
Sagres
Buckingham
R.p.hall & Co
Nasha
Jewey
Murat Halstead
Life OF Wanted
FREE
S.C. Miller
Lakewide Bidg
Msua Faris
J. Malball
Siaua City
Jag
Caprictarisen
Lady Canvessers
Dragwists
Mall Soc. Manufacturing Co
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