Gracia Chooses Wealth Over Love in Postgrad Tale
After graduation Gracia faces two in love suitors David and Paul who propose in the same moment. She confesses she values wealth over romance and proposes a five year test with the richer spouse to win her hand. Paul builds wealth fast while David climbs in insurance, until both rise and Gracia ends with Paul and a $50,000 wedding gift. The tale contrasts ambition and affection across a town’s fortunes.
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Gracia
Realife
And
David
Paul
Luebneas
Mammon
Toalgat
Imperial Insurance Company
Easlly
Imperial
Imperial the Street Railway Company
Street Railway Company
Paul Rider
Riverside
Dave
Haviin
South End
Snally
Insurance Company
The
Pan
Jacobs
Looting of a Smuggler and Confederate Aid Schemes
A Confederate veteran recalls aiding besieged fighters by using a Helena boat to smuggle clothing and provisions. The plan failed when soldiers seized the cargo, but the pair escaped at three a.m., reflecting on wartime ethics. A second anecdote features General Fitzhugh Lee and a neighbor’s plea about meeting Jubal Early at heaven’s gate.
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Helena
Ark
New Orleana Times- Democrat
Price
Mississippi
Mer
Chant
Lee
Binet
Why He Weighed More Amy Inspector The Idea of Your Waiting
A witty exchange about a pension and weight contrasts from the Philadelphia Record. A veteran remarks that weight varied with time in service, prompting a playful comment about lead and duty.
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Amy
Patrick
Philadelphia
Boy in battle recalls Chickamauga fight memories
A 13 year old Union infantryman describes marching toward Chattanooga and the Chickamauga battle. He recounts ambush at Jay's Mill, heavy losses, and a forehead wound from a spent ball as he carried a message to Gen. King. It is 40 years later and he still recalls the scene.
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Chickamauga
Johan ©. White
Sixteenth
United States Infantry
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Mr. White
Rousseau
Fourteenth Corps
Chattanooga
Crawfish Springs
Maj. Cool- Idee
Lieut. Hotsiokellar
Murfreesboro
Jay's Mill
Brannan
Forrest
Wilson
Ector
Baird
Gen. King
Dubbs Notes On Animals And Holes In Text
Dubbs explains that no animal can earst on noth while noting words about holes. The item is presented in a humorous or wordplay style from the W. Y. Herald.
Winter Bee Feeding and Simple Horizontal Feeder
Colonies need 20 to 30 pounds of feed for wintering with extra amounts allowed. Use liquid honey or sugar syrup if sealed combs are scarce, and prefer the best granulated sugar. Warm weather feeding yields thinner syrup. cool weather requires thicker syrup. A home made feeder using a jar, cheese cloth, and a plate provides a slow drip so bees can sip without robbing.
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F. G. Herman
Controlling Turkeys for the Farm Yard
George W. Brown notes turkeys roam by instinct and must be allowed field range. Teach them to return home at night and use wire fencing to confine flocks. An anti flyer device fixed to wings helps prevent flying over fences, with birds kept on low perches in open sheds for easy handling and fattening for market.
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Turkey
George W. Brown
Ohio
Moles and Seed Corn Remedy Reported in Epitoist
A note from Mrs. H. C. Campbell in Epitomist describes a method to protect seed corn from moles. Melt grease over corn then dust Paris green lightly so it sticks to the grease. This treatment reportedly yields a good stand of corn without injuring the grain.
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H. C. Campbell
How to Fight Gapes in Chickens
The article explains gape causes from a small white worm in the windpipe and dirty water or yards. Prevention includes dry, fresh ranges, clean coops, lime-dusted floors, and avoiding contaminated feed. Remedies include carbolic acid in drinking water, tar tincture water, garlic or onion greens in feed, powdered athefida, sulphur fumes, kerosene soaked wheat, and inhalation of a pyrethrum camphor mix.
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Lexus
Poultry House Design Advertised for 100 Fowls
An advertisement offers a cheap poultry house for 100 fowls in a 14 by 16 foot, six foot high structure. The floor sits two feet off the ground with a roost platform four and a half feet wide and spanning the full length, the floor two feet above the ground.
Durable Poultry House Description by Orange Judd Farmer
A three part poultry house is described with eight by 12 inch boards edgewise. Chaff under the roosts, ear corn and water vessels in the middle aisle, north entry, nest drawers beside the door, a large window on the south side, two stall windows on the exterior, and a small eastern passage for fowls. Suitable for orchards with ample spring pasture.
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Orange Judd
Poultry Yard Notes and Feeding Advice
The article argues that profit in poultry requires time and care and favors small, well spaced flocks over crowded houses. It notes ongoing debates on eggshell color but insists shell color does not affect quality if birds are fed properly and urges heavy feeding during molting and low egg production to restore laying.
Fattening Fowls and a Faltering Farm
Fattening growing fowls requires strict confinement and rapid feeding of corn meal and milk to avoid bone over fattening. Do not overfeed beyond ten days to prevent nitrogen deficiency and disease. A separate tale notes rust and mildew on equipment showing burdens of debt and poor storage after a harsh season.
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Prtc Pty
Daily Story Fab
Ins. Dubbs
W. Y. Herald
Cheap Poultry House
Durable Poultry House
Poultry Yard Notes
T. J. Capstid
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