Church and School Notes From The Times Ledger
A survey of religious life notes a Sudan trip by boys on donkeys to Gordon College in Khartoum. Russia reports 66 780 churches and 833 new consecrations last year. Nagasaki hosts an innately Jewish synagogue built by a Japanese widow. A papal pastoral will trim church music and limit women in choirs. Issaquah Methodists face relocation after wind shift and plan to set foundations with jack screws. Pius X cuts cardinal incomes while offering free residence in papal palaces, provoking discontent among cardinals.
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Gordon College
Khartoum
Russia
Japan
Nagasaki
England
Issaquan
Washington State
Pius X
Venice
Rome
Papal
Coffee to Postum Cure Story From Connellsville Lady
A Connellsville woman resolves long standing sick headaches by abandoning coffee and tea for Postum Food Coffee. She reports headaches vanish, general health improves, and she never returns to coffee. She cites a friend with a similar experience and notes Postum’s taste and benefits.
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Connellsville
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Buying milk for cheese and fat content incentives
Prairie Farmer argues for paying dairy milk by butter fat using the Babcock test. It cites Prof. Farrington to show 2.6 pounds of cheese per 1 pound fat per 100 pounds milk, noting higher fat yields more cheese and improves cheese quality. Paying by fat would motivate better milk and higher milk prices overall.
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Babcock
H. Farrington
Farrington
Prairie Farmer
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Water Drawing Device for Pail Tilt in Wells
A simple expedient to tilt a pail when drawing water from a well or bailing a cistern. Attach a cord to the lip where the handle is fixed, pass it through a loop in the pail rope, and pull to tilt the pail. When full, haul the rope so the two lines join and lift the bucket to the surface, especially useful in small wells.
Cement Trough For Cows From Farm And Home
Charles Edminster describes a cement cow trough with a plank platform and a slanted timber base. The trough and rack top tilt toward the cows a half inch to the left while the gutter sits nearly level with the animals for easier feeding.
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Charles Edminster
The Size of Strawberries Today
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes a grower predicting strawberries ten years hence reaching pineapple size. It questions feasibility and favors improving flavor over size, warning oversized berries would require slicing and noting flavor often declines with larger varieties.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Soured milk harms cream injuriously but timely action helps
A brief note warns soured milk damages cream, urging immediate removal to prevent injury to the product.
Farmers and City Allies Clash Over Road Improvement
The piece argues farmers should consider city allies in road upgrades including machinery makers bicycle and auto enthusiasts and urban investors. It contrasts aid funded by state and national taxes with fears of city meddling and urges farmers to welcome broad support to secure funding.
Convenient Farm Wagon for Crop Cultivation Use
A farm feature describes a low down wagon that saves heavy lifting in handling fertilizers seeds and implements. It explains attaching a front end to a standard wagon axle and bending an iron bar for a low rail setup, with optional rail attachment per use.
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Tiandy
Roger Graham
Grounding Barbed Wire Fences Warns Farmers
A letter from Atchison Kansas reports many livestock deaths this summer as lightning travels along barbed wire fences. Twelve cattle near Farmington died with heads against the wire. Electricians say grounding the wires every 100 feet into the soil can divert electricity away from livestock to prevent such killings.
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Atchison
Kan
Farmington
Peat Fertilizer Plant Opens Near Manito Illinois
North Mason county peat bogs are skimmed and dried then mixed with city sewage to make a fertilizer. A plant near Manito produces four carloads daily with about 20 workers.
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Mason County
Illand
Manito
Reverend Lorimer's Cambridge Anecdote on Beer Power
A Cambridge undergraduate quotes Dr. George C. Lorimer on drinking and strength. Lorimer, famed for Tremont Temple work and Harvard ties, says moderate drinking is perilous and that beer can strengthen, recounting youths moving large kegs after initial struggle.
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George C. Lorimer
Aix
Boston
Tremont Temple
Pass Granted Leads to Frustrated Rail Worker
A railroad employee asked a director for a travel pass to a distant point. The director challenged the request by comparing it to a farmer letting a worker ride his horses to a country spot. The employee replied that a prepared farmer would be unkind to refuse.
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The
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Puts Punk in His Pipe
Fragmentary opinion piece noting recurring dreams versus harsh reality. The author laments shattered hopes while invoking resilience and rebirth, referencing Vermilion and Republican affiliation. The snippet conveys a reflective, poetic turn without specific events or dates.
Nickel Plate Road Offers Daily thru Express Trains East
Rates lower and service equal to the best on the Nickel Plate Road. Three thru express trains daily with modern coaches dining and sleeping cars to Ft. Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and intermediate stations. Dining car meals 35 cents to 1.00, a la carte coffee and sandwiches in seats. Stopovers at Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake. No excess fares. La Salle Street station Chicago. For rates call J Y Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago Illinois.
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Nickel Plate Road
Ft. Wayne
Cleveland
Erie
Buffalo
New York
Boston
There Are Oyster Days In Autumn Water Melancholy
The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes autumn brings oyster days and a lift in mood as water melancholy fades and the season turns to cheer.
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Memphis
Kansas City Southern Special Excursions Planned for 1904
Advertises several low one way and round trip rates for K C S Ry special excursions to Arkansas Indian Territory Louisiana and Texas on September 13 20 27 and October 4 18 1904. Directs readers to write to G G Warner G P T A Kansas City Mo for information. Includes quips not relevant to travel notice as filler.
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Arkansas
Indian Territory
Louisiana
Texas
G. Warner
G.P
T. A
K. Cs. Ry
Kansas City
Mrs Sarah Marine Reports She Believed She Would Die
Mrs Sarah Marine of 428 St Urain Street Colorado Springs recalls a desperate moment when she feared death and narrates how she survived the crisis amid a hospital ordeal.
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Sarah Marine
St. Urain St
Colorado Springs, Colo
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Trabe
Mark
St. Jacobs Oil
Bachache Sciatica
Price
Wisconsin
City Friends of Good Roads
Dr. Lorimer
Kansas City Southern Ry
Povery
N. O. Picayune
J. F. Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Chicago Tribune
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mars
Laura Exxons
Walkerville
Ont
Laura Bertie Cole- Man
Commercial
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia FE. Pinkham
California
Chicago
Sealee
Harvey Meal Service
Santa Fe
J. W. Connell
Adams St
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Doblque
Iowa
J. F. Merry
Putnam
Miomcl Laug CO
Unionville
Missouri
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