Peculiar Personalities From Notable Figures
A string of brief likenesses and quotes covers Filanimarion the French astronomer who shaves rarely, Miss Helen Gould and her Raleigh flag keeps a prized memento, Sir Henry Thompson’s cremation advocacy, Rear Admiral Robly Hans at a Hudson River League game, Sarah Grand on American women compared to British, Justice Harlan still active at age 70, and Mrs Andrew Carnegie’s modest jewelry taste and Skibo hostess gifts.
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Filanimarion
Helen Gould
Raleigh
Lyndhurnt
Sir Henry Thompson
Robly D. Hans
Andrew Carnegie
Skibo Castle
Quotable Quips From Historic Papers
A collage of humorous lines from early 20th century U S newspapers. The quotes touch on opportunity worth, taxation, marriage, mirrors invention, wealth relative value, and seating etiquette. The collection showcases wit across Houston Chicago Somerville and Washington outlets.
Wisdom and Wit Parade in Verbal Whimsy
A quirky collection of aphorisms and humorous quips. The text riffs on gullibility gentleness truth and odd comparisons. It blends playful dialogue from Mr Cumroz and a dachshund and fox terrier in a sausage mill metaphor.
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Willie
Mr. Cumroz
RACE DONE Not a Bit of It Prominent recovery tale with Grape Nuts
A man near death from grip and stomach failure credits Grape Nuts and cream with restoring health and vigor. He claims to work fifteen hours daily after three months, moved from Albany to San Francisco, and feels younger than his years. The ad cites Postum Co. and promotes a booklet "The Road to Wolfville."
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Albany
San Francisco
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wolfville
An Idea for Beekeepers Sketch of a Hand Crank Uncapper
The note describes a bee hive uncapper apparatus with a comb box on the right and an uncapping can on the left. It explains placing two combs in the extractor, starting the crank by hand, then using a treadle while other frames are unsealed and swapped, outlining a streamlined operation.
Bimple Honey Extractor From A B E White Note
A. B. White describes a simple two frame novice honey extractor operable without stooping. Details include treadle size one by two and a half by three inches, use of broom wire on the crank, and manual turning option. He also explains making a brush from a nine inch rope fragment, rope strand layout, and nail spacing to create a sturdy hive frame.
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Crow
A. B. White
Dangers of Kerosene Use on Poultry
A poultry writer warns kerosene mixed with lard kills many young turkeys and chicks. The remedy is to use sweet oil or apply light oil with a brush to insect sites. A successful turkey raiser inspects chicks daily, destroying infested birds or treating them with sweet oil, preserving most of his hatch.
Milk Based Poultry Feed From Sour Milk Curds
A Woman's Magazine note recommends sour milk curd as a cheap poultry feed. Heat, separate whey, dry to a powdery mass for hens, using curd from two pans to feed about five hens. Advises ample water and warns against excessive liquid milk feeding due to laxative effects.
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Woman's Magazine
Poultry Health Advice and a Porter’s Panic
A Canadian Farmers’ Gazette excerpt warns poultry keepers to watch for signs of illness from yellow excrement to crop binding and bone weakness, with drastic advice. The tale shifts to a bustling scene aboard a Pennsylvania depot train where a demanding, loud passenger tries to buy favors, paying two dollars as the train car empties.
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Farmers’ Gazette
Canada
Boxes for chicken coops water and survival test
A farmer recalls a comparison between an A coop and a dry goods box for brooding hens. After two hens hatched ten chicks each, he moved all chicks to a bottomless A coop. Rain flooded the area and half the chicks died, leading him to abandon the old coop.
Coop Made Of Large Box For Chick Rearing
A simple chicken coop built from a dry goods box three to four feet square uses a removed side, nailed cleats for a door, and a bottom board left on to hold chicks for five to six days. A top hatch with feather hinges allows daytime ventilation, with a nailed front latch to confine the hen. The design accommodates 2 to 30 chicks per hen and serves as a pullet roost after weaning until frost.
Poultry Notes On Brooding And Egg Hatching
Dry sawdust makes a good coop bottom and should be cleaned weekly with fresh shavings. Do not rush chicks to roosts to avoid crooked breasts. Overfeeding speeds growth but avoid moldy or damaged feed as disease risk. Buff Orpingtons rival Plymouth Rocks for meat while Leghorns excel in egg production. Do not incubate Asiatic and Mediterranean eggs together due to shell moisture needs.
Dressing Fowls for Market
Practical guide from Rural Home on dressing fowls for market. Details scalding for ducks and geese equal to chickens but longer soaking, plus methods to wrap in a blanket for steaming. Warns risks of over steaming during picking and partial cooking of flesh. Also notes final 12 second scalding to plump flesh.
Playing Golf in the South and a Justice of the Peace Note
A mixed slice from Country Life in America praises golf caddies while stereotyping Black workers, followed by a Wisconsin justice of the peace ruling that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best Kidney medicine, citing back pain as a kidney disease symptom and a testimonial of recovery.
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America
Ohe
Devides
Breed
Wis
Chas. Y. Peterson
Oconto Co
United States
Dodd
Peterson
Bright
Cave
Very Low Rates to Boston and Return via Lake Shore & Michigan
An assortment of notices and anecdotes drawn from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper. Items include railway fare promotions to Boston with via Lake Shore & Michigan routes, a courtroom or public notice fragment, and short anecdotes about thrift, marriage life, and health remedies. Also contains ads for Foot-Ease and Dr Kline remedies, plus miscellaneous quips and fictional lines.
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Boston
Lake Shore
Michigan
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Houston
Tex
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Tribune
Somerville Journal
Washington Post
Doult
Peter
Sam
St. Louis
Pth Pl
Ted
Kansas
Mount Vernon
Indianapolis Journal
York
Vosburah
Iine
Bhs
Chicago
GF Daly
G.P. A
Madgely
Boston G
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Kline
Arch St
Phila
Thor. Robbine
Norwich
Chicago Journal
Alice M. Smith
Minneapolis, Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean Mas
B. Pinkham
Miss Adox M. Surra
Third Ave
South
Minneapolis Study Club
C. Kleinschrodt
Morrison, Ill
Dean
Prxxnam
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia i. Pinkham
Candy Cathartic
the Times
Brooklyn
Tm Jega
N. Y
Castoria
Sipatin
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co
Meanepin Ave
Minnespolis
Sinrzin
Witzgerald &Co
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