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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
7
An OCR fragment advertises Kinnan & Marvin druggists in Toledo offering a bottle of 10 quinine tablets with a promise of a refund if it fails. The text is partially garbled but mentions smooth inner surfaces and free samples. A Dallas reference appears in a separate line.
The article argues against X-fashion stake layout as it offers weak support on soft ground. It proposes a method using a single upright stake braced by shorter side stakes spiked to the upright. Rails are held by plain wire binding, creating a sturdy fence that resists settlement, displacement, and pulling apart.
The article recounts Edwin Bevins suggestions from the American Bee Journal to manage laying worker colonies. One method unites a hive with a fertile queen over a strong colony behind a perforated newspaper to foster brood and queen replacement. A second method builds a nucleus with transferred brood and a released queen, slowly moving frames to the nucleus until a functioning hive forms beside the original laying-worker hive. It then notes spring sanitization and stock impacts on hive cleanliness.
The article describes placing iron or stone tubing two feet in diameter into a spring with the lower edge below water, using clay puddling on the outside and banked rocks to secure and protect the setup. This method aims to yield a reliable, clean water source and prevent damage when stock is watered.
The article urges preserving healthy apple trees as long as the trunk remains productive for profits. It notes many old trees are beyond saving and yet cut for firewood, despite apple wood’s heat and potash rich ash. The wood is tough and knots can enhance usefulness for manufacturing.
The factories will bargain hard with farmers yet solid apple wood cut into proper shapes can be far more valuable than firewood. Farmers holding such wood should recognize this distinction and act accordingly.
The article notes two years without a full apple crop and a large 1896 cider vinegar output. It warns against using mineral acids to flavor vinegar, cites legal bans in states, and explains malic acid from apples as ideal. It also mentions maple sap as a safe vinegar source and methods to increase sourness through fermentation and sugar addition.
Practical guidance on parturition feeding for cows and horses, rolling stubble to protect crops, hay quality and albuminoid content, clover and timothy feeding, and poultry nutrition. Includes home feeding devices, seasonal care, and cost estimates for keeping a fowl per year.
An advertisement urges use of pure durable Alabastine for interior walls in schools and other surfaces. It warns buyers to avoid mislabelled four pound packages sold as five pounds and promotes easy application by children while claiming durability and no rub or scale. The ad invites readers to request the Alabastine Era from the Grand Rapids company.
A young man asks a plutocratic father for his daughter but is unable to express himself, prompting a mocked reply. The father dismisses the plea, noting the suitor can walk since he has nothing but what he expects to earn.
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a world famous laxative remedy from the California Fig Syrup Co. It claims superior, lasting benefits and urges trials for constipation, over feeding, colds, headaches, and kidney liver and bowel inactions. It warns against imitations and cites the company’s select newspaper placements.
The article touts Kipling's forthcoming story as a highly valued work after illness and compares its anticipated price to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It notes the Bitters as a universal spring remedy for digestion, constipation, biliousness, and nervousness. It also reports a Pulaski minister fired for preaching that the rainbow existed before the flood.
A St Paul woman who died recently left enough money in her will to pay taxes on certain personal property not returned to the assessor. St Jacobs Oil is advertised as curing rheumatism neuralgia lumbago sciatica sprains bruises soreness stiffness backache muscular aches. A local quip notes much mutton now trying to appear like wolf.
Letters from Mrs A W Sara of Biddeford Maine and others describe long lasting female ailments including back pain fatigue and weakness. They credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid relief and renewed ability to work and manage daily tasks after months or years of suffering.
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