Cupid Aided by Mars in Courtship
New York reports a romance from England that ends in marriage between Gertrude Mary Fletcher and Claud Dewhurst Bingham. The couple, engaged eight years, meet in New York after Fletcher travels from Dover aboard the St Paul to wed he notes the wartime mail dangers. Fletcher is 24, brunette, and insists the romance was their own, not arranged by families.
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New York
England
Gertrude Mary Fletcher
Dover
Claud Dewhurst Bingham
New York City
Herbert F. Bingham
Greytown
Nicaragua
Mr. Bingham
Miss Fletcher
D. P. Bingham
Court advises wife to shoot husband in domestic case
In Kansas City a judge ordered Mrs. J L Reece furnished with new bullets after she fired twice at her husband, who was absent in court. She claimed he came home drunk and abused her, neighbors called police, and the judge urged practice and warned she must avoid missing if violence recurs.
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Kansas City
J. L. Reece
Kiernan
Man Burns Self to Death in Wisconsin Theatre Fire
Chris Kottmeyer a 54 year old janitor at the Adler Opera House in Marshfield Wisconsin was found burned to ashes in the ash pit after he complained of illness. A coroner’s jury ruled death a self inflicted fire under the grate.
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Marshfield
Wis
Chris Kottmeyer
Adler Opera House
Kottmeyer
Jamason
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Quick Liver Relief
An advertisement taunts calomel and touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable remedy. It claims quick action to purge sour bile, improve digestion, and restore energy, with a money back guarantee and claims it is harmless for children.
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Dodson
Amy Drug Store
Woodson
Market Report: Daily Quotations From Local Markets
Prices for wholesale and retail goods listed with corrections as of the previous day. Wheat flour, corn, middlings, bran, rye, hay, butter, eggs, live poultry, potatoes, and cattle scales shown with ranges and units. Cattle, sheep, and lamb quotations noted with general class figures.
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Tees
Choice Creamery
Virginia
The Making of a Famous Medicine
The article details Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound using over 350000 pounds of herbs annually gathered at peak season. It describes cleanliness, percolation, sterilized utensils, pasteurization, clarification, and filtration before bottling to ensure a safe consumer product.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
The Old Nobility and its Decline in Venice and Spain
The piece argues that Venice’s hereditary oligarchy blocked progress by clinging to rigid traditions. It contrasts Spanish hidalgos who clung to nobility’s image long after capability faded, describing the aristocracy as self important, poor, eccentric, and impotent like Don Quixote.
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Venice
Spain
Don Quixote
Entertaining the Carpenter Elsa’s Witty Exchange
Elsa hosts a carpenter and probes his family with a playful query. She learns he has three half brothers and three half sisters, then muses if he is the only whole one there. The exchange heightens into a lighthearted moment of curiosity and humor.
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Elsa
Origin of Yankee Name Traced Through Native and Soldier Speech
The piece traces possible roots of the term Yankee from Indigenous attempts to say English and from soldiers using the phrase Grew Grow them during the forties era. It suggests several phonetic transitions from native pronunciations like Yengzecere to Yankee.
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Qricin
America
Boyle Didn't Tell Alf
Substantial man Barry Boyle in a Western town tells soldiers of a Snake River hike. A ferry ride leads to a casual question about Barry Boyle, who supposedly swam the river. A soldier confirms, noting the river dangers and past shooting while Boyle swam.
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Barry Boyle
Snake River
Farmers urged to hatch more chicks to ease egg shortage
The chief of Kansas State Agricultural College poultry department warns of a hen shortage and calls on farmers to hatch more chicks this season. High feed costs forced sales of breeding hens, contributing to low egg production, and growers are advised to provide shade for chicks with simple cooling structures as shown.
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Ole , Sherwood
Kansas State Agricultural College Poultry Department
Keep hens well fed to boost egg production this year
Reports from Kansas show egg output 20 to 40 percent below last year due to stock shortages and farmer feeding failures. Advice urges governments to trim cold storage less, feed hens grain at night, use cheap grains, hatch savvier chicks by July, and force pullets to mature before cold weather to avoid early molt and preserve autumn egg production.
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Tieiehens
Kansas
Increasing the Egg Supply From Practical Farm Methods
The United States department of agriculture urges farmers to boost marketable eggs by procedures after breeding, including infertile egg production and proper handling and marketing. Removing all male birds from the flock yields infertile eggs without reducing total egg output, while improving keeping qualities and sales.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Market Egg Quality Declines as Waste Rises
The article notes yearly reduction in edible eggs as more perishables become unfit for consumption, signaling economic and supply implications for market vendors and consumers.
Breeds For Small Flock For Home Poultry Use
For families raising poultry for home use these general purpose breeds suit best. Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons provide reliable layers and good table poultry for the average person not aiming for a large poultry business.
The Poultry House Essentials for Small Flocks
The prime essentials for a small poultry house are fresh air dryness sunlight and space enough to keep the birds comfortable. For general breeds about four square feet of floor space should be allowed per bird. Fowls should also have as much outside space as possible to run in.
Fall litters of pigs offer profitable autumn pork
Breeding sows for fall farrowing can raise pork supply. High prices may spur breeding, but cheap feed and pasture reduce costs. Berkshire sows and well fed gilts yield strong fall litter stock, with milder winters south of the fortieth parallel enabling profitable fall pork production.
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Iowa
Sealed Proposals Prompt Daughter For Insight
A short dialogue shows a daughter remarking that her father is advertising sealed proposals and asks if any are for her. The parent questions the relevance while the exchange hints at ambition and self-advocacy.
National flowers as state symbols in the United States
The Philadelphia Ledger notes differences in national and state floral emblems. France uses the fleur de lis, England’s symbol is the rose, and the United States has no official national flower though goldenrod has been proposed. Several states have adopted roses or other flowers as official symbols.
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France
England
Spain
United States
Alabama
Kentucky
Missouri
Nebraska
Georgia
Iowa
North Dakota
New York
Confederate States
Philadelphia Ledger
Hadn't Changed Much
A dialogue compares daily chores to the mythic burden of Sisyphus. The speaker notes washing dishes feels like a taut, endless labor, echoing the myth’s rock that forever rolls downhill. The exchange blends humor with existential overtones.
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Sisyphuus
Sisyphus
Interon
Election Faith Confused by Local Judge Exchange
A judge questions a colored man about church and salvation in a humorous exchange. The man asserts weekly church attendance and membership in a Presbyterian congregation. The judge asks if he believes in election and if the judge is elected, to which the man replies he did not know the judge was a candidate.
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Yessuh
Prespeteeryn
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