Land and heirs disputed in Frederick County suit over Caspar Rinker will
In a chancery proceeding in Frederick County Virginia the Cir cuit Court seeks to ascertain H N Clagett life interest as heir of William Clagett and to settle claims against Annie M Clagett and her children. The suit targets debts from 902.32 plus interest, a 2000 deed liability, and a sale of land under court decree to distribute proceeds. The court orders defendants to appear within fifteen days and publishes notice in the Winchester Evening Star.
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Frederick County
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Winchester
N. Clagett
Annie M. Clagett
H. N. ‘Clagett
Annie M
Joseph BE. Clagett
Henry c. Virginia Clagett Shull
Russell Shull
Lada Clagett Shull
Elijah Shull
William
Sarah Rinker
H. No 4Lagett
G. W. Miley
Spcce
T To & Credit
Caspar Rinker
Hhennandoah County
Virginia
MiMborouchi
John M. Weicht
H. N. Clagett
Jos E B. Clagett
Henry C. Clagett
Virginie
Clagett Shull
Russell
Winchester Evening Star
A Weak Woman and Her Cardui Story
Floral Arkansas Mrs Viola Baker says she was weak and nervous but after taking Cardui as directed she regained health. She praises Cardui as a natural vegetable tonic without minerals glycerin or strong drugs. Many other women reportedly share similar benefits from Cardui sold by druggists.
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Ark
Viola Baker
Unclear fragment states reprint restriction
A partial line notes that the matter must not be reprinted without special permission. No further context or entities are readable to determine scope, parties, or location. The readable text provides no dates, names, or organizations beyond the reprint prohibition.
Humor and advice mix in a 19th century rural column
The column blends light moral guidance with practical tips on pests, livestock, and farming. It praises kindness, notes May fire risk if summers dry, and highlights the toad and blue paint as pest controls. It laments mischievous livestock, discusses cow rest periods for optimal milk, and offers mole management suggestions. It also reports hunter naturalist Charles Akeley’s East Africa elephant find and compares Jumbo’s foot size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Akeley
East Africa
Jumbo
Destructive Bluejays Invade Neighborhood Nests
A neighbor reports about a dozen bluejays visiting the area and attacking nests of other birds. The speaker decries bluejays as outlaws and pirates, urging their nests and eggs be destroyed, noting their limited role in insect control compared with robins, catbirds, and sparrows.
Counterintuitive Advice in Grim Rhetoric From A Frightful Quote
A harsh, morbid line of satire advises disposing of a dead fish with practical cruelty, suggesting placing the body outside the back door rather than cooking it. The language reflects dark humor about decay and appealing to avoid a gruesome result.
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Fiy
Peanut Butter Making and Summer Pruning Advice
An article explains roasting and grinding peanuts to make peanut butter with optional oil and salt additions. It also suggests summer pruning for apple trees that yielded no blossoms, detailing July to August limb removal to curb growth and encourage next year’s fruit buds.
Water the cheapest finest beverage from the good Lord
The saying extols plain water as the best and most affordable drink. It claims water does not cause visions of snakes, dull the mind, drain finances, or curse a family.
Poor teeth cause thin pigs stay thin despite feed
The piece notes pigs can stay emaciated from dental issues while ear corn worsens feeding for some hogs. It warns against multitudi nous Skin schemes used by greedy people who fall prey to sharks in the same fraud, and counters fears about silo ensilage spoiling, citing a Wisconsin station experience of five to six years under proper storage.
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Wisconsin
Improvements in Poultry Transport and Postal Crime Crackdown
The article notes changes from past beliefs about separating chicks to modern practice shipping tens of thousands of day old chicks by express. It praises postal authorities for cracking down on mail fraud with fines and prison time and urges continued enforcement. It also describes a rat control method using a cord tied around a rat’s neck to pull wires through underground conduits for laying telecommunication cables.
Supreme Court ruling on federal land reserves powers
The U S Supreme Court recently held that the federal government may set aside vast public lands without state consent and that such reserves are not subject to state fencing laws, signaling far reaching effects on forest conservation and the balance of national and state prerogatives.
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Supreme Court of the
United States
Birds imitate nest building and singing in learning
The text argues that birds largely imitate instinctive behaviors, learning how to nest and sing by watching older birds of their breed and hearing them. It notes that incubator hatched chicks lacking a hen perform far less scratching than those brooded by a hen with scratching behavior as a learned example.
Illinois farmers aim for 200 bushels corn per acre
Sangamon county farmers form a 200 bushels per acre association. They note the average U S yield is about 35 bushels per acre with isolated cases of 160. The group seeks to push yields higher across the corn belt, hoping for more corn in the crib and larger farm savings.
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Sangamon County
Illinois
GraftingStocks and Top Working Fruit Trees
When top working fruit trees, use vigorous hardy stock with growth rate matching the scion variety. A slow top on fast stock creates an ugly form, while a fast top on slow stock risks splitting under fruit load. If vigor is unknown, consult a reliable nurseryman or state horticultural department for guidance.
Modern Galvanized Hencoop Gains Popularity Over Old Coops
The galvanized hencoop is on the market and offers features not found in the traditional A shaped and apple barrel coops of previous generations.
Protecting Orchard Tracts From Grass Fire Risk
The text notes that keeping grass and weeds out of an orchard is worthwhile to prevent spring fires that can mar fine orchards. It cites multiple instances of orchards being damaged by accidental grass and weed fires, underscoring the protective purpose.
Drainage Bulletin Encourages Farmers to Seek Guidance
Those planning tiling should send to their congressional representative or the department of agriculture at Washington for farmers bulletin No. 187 entitled Drainage of Farm Lands. The bulletin treats the subject in an interesting and practical manner.
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Congress
Department of Agrculture
Washington
Inbreeding affects poultry traits and vigor
Inbreeding undoubtedly tends to fix desirable traits in poultry and domestic animals. It may be justifiable to pursue quality, but it almost invariably costs vigor.
Acreage as Hog Pasture Boosts Pork Output
A tract of good land used as a rape pasture for hogs yields 15 to 24 dollars in pork production in a single season with no harvest costs. If moisture is adequate into late June, hog raisers should plant a patch and benefit from moist conditions for maximal yields.
Children safeguard fledglings by watching nests
The article urges boys and girls to monitor nests on premises to prevent cats from killing fledglings as they venture from the nest. It argues tens of thousands of young birds could be saved yearly if youths performed this simple service.
Upper class women urged to walk gardens study birds
A columnist argues that American women of the upper classes would be healthier and happier if they spent less time at bridge and pink teas and more time on cross country walks, bird and flower study, and hands on garden work. The piece stresses practicality over aristocratic status.
Saccharin Tests Hint Health Risks in Food Use
Recent tests on saccharin used in foods show that daily intake above three tenths of a grain can injure digestion. Saccharin, a coal tar distillate, is about 300 times sweeter than sugar. Chemists warn the secretary may place it on a prohibited list as deleterious to health.
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Wilson
Spraying Potatoes Against Blight During Wet Seasons
During heavy rains and humidity the potato crop faces blight risk. Farmers should spray when plants reach seven to eight inches with Bordeaux solution, adding arsenate for lead at one pound per twenty gallons to kill potato bugs. If bad weather continues, apply a second Bordeaux spray after ten to fourteen days.
Back to the land movement rejects easy success in farming
The piece argues that success in agriculture requires hard work and practical wisdom, not magical fixes. It warns against expecting quick distinction from past failed ventures and stresses persistence, intelligence, and disciplined management as the path to success in farming or horticulture.
Maintaining Soil Around New Orchard Trees
The article stresses keeping soil loose and moist within three to four feet of young trees during the growing season, especially in dry summers. If corn or beans share the space in the first year, use a riding cultivator between the trees for most cultivation, and keep all weeds and grass away with hand tools to ensure thorough soil stirring.
Maud S Killed At 35 In Accord With Owner Wish
Maud S the famed trotting queen died at age thirty five following her owner's wish G M Stearns. Her 2 08% mile record was set in Cleveland on July 30 1885. Records fell later to Nancy Hanks and Lou Dillon whose later times surpassed Maud S.
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Maud S
G. M. Stearns
Cleveland
Nancy Hanks
Pest control advice for flies and rats in households
The article advises immediate measures to reduce flies and rats. It recommends killing on sight, screening, and lime their breeding places such as manure piles and cesspools. Use poisoned solutions in saucers, or formalin in water, to cut fly numbers and set cornmeal barytes dough to poison rats. Cage traps with beef or cheese can capture many rats, and soaking inmates in water renders them harmless. Early action is urged to prevent rapid breeding.
The Window Box for City Gardens
A window box suited to urban spaces yields satisfying results with depth of eight inches or more and a width of eight to twelve inches. It should have drainage holes and be filled with rich soil mixed with well rotted manure. Geraniums and marguerites are ideal though ferns petunias feverfew and similar plants also work well. Regular watering is essential due to rapid soil drying, especially in a southern exposure.
Grounding Fence Wires Protects Stock From Lightning
Grounding pasture fence wires is a cheap effective insurance against lightning shocks. By inserting a grounding wire 15 inches deep beside posts every eight to ten feet and ensuring contact with all wires, a strike diverts current into the ground, reducing cattle losses and carcass disposal on the farm.
A Defect and a Remedy in Pear Orchard
A writer recalls a valley pear orchard that bore no fruit for years due to sterile blossoms lacking stamens and pistils. After top grafting with Bartlett scions, blossoms formed and the orchard began bearing fruit, a method applicable to individual trees by grafting two or three perfect blossoming scions.
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Bartlett
Does Harvard Professor Doubt Beans Digestibility
A Harvard college professor recently claimed beans are hard to digest and offer little nourishment. The piece argues that laborers relying on beans, pork and beans with onions and potatoes gain lasting energy for work, contrasting academic views with practical, sunbaked toil.
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Harvard College
For Sale Property at Main and Clifford Streets
For sale a valuable property on the southeast corner of Main and Clifford streets. It includes a shop building on Main Street, a stone and brick residence on the corner, a weather-boarded house on Clifford Street and a large lot on Clifford Street. The shop and houses have rear lots. Terms and parcels to suit purchasers. R. T. Barton, for owners.
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Main and
Clifford Streets
Main St
Clifford St
Krge
R. T. Barton
Public sale of John W. Brown farm near White Post Virginia
Public auction in Berryville Virginia on June 24 1911 at noon for the John W Brown farm of about 134 acres two miles west of White Post along Winchester Pike. Located on a macadamized turnpike near Post Office churches and railroad with bearing orchard and timber. One third cash day of sale balance in one or two annual payments or all cash options. Trustees and special commissioners Jas P Reardon Blackburn Smith Jas B Russell and others oversee. auctioneer J West. Also contains court notices from Clarke County and Winchester references with master commissioner appointment and lien reporting.
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Vepo
Clarke
Reardon
John W. .Brown
White Post
Winchester Pike
R&r
Corporation Court
City of
Winchester
T. R. Cather
Edward Conner
Jas. P. Reardon
RK Cather
Com
Chy. Corporation Court
Jas. P
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G. Waiter, P. A
Fred
S. Boyp
Huyler’s Candies
Eastman’s. Kodaks
Kodak Films Data Etc
Berryville
Clarke County
S. Rexford
New York Life Edg
Kansas City
Hay
Fone
Cardui
Amyl-Kijo Chemical Co
Loudoun
Fanted
Charlotte “Auto-School
Charlotte, N
Charlotte Cotton School
Charlotte
N. C
WL. Keller
Martinsburg
W. Va
Kines _Daughters Hospital
Marguerité
Lmpson
Nancy Noble
West Philadelphia
Robt. Glass
W. H. Willis
Market St
West Water Street
Sibert & Denny
Fairmont
Fairmont Avenue
Washington St
S. J. Swimley
Brucetown
West Water
Sale
G. L. Brawner
Millwood Road
McDonald_Inn
B. S. Bacon
East St
Bath
Foley
Fetrigg
Kansas State Board of Health
Colantha
Joanna
Linden
Tidball
N. W. Grade
Young Orchard
A. T. Jones
Blackburn Smith
Jas
B. Russell
Trustees
Geo. B. Harrison
Robt
M. Ward
J. West
Circuit Court of
Wooung
Smith & Reardon, Trustees
Plaintiffs
N. H. Carpenter
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