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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1906
Page
8
Healthy horses need no medicine but many worms threaten. A few seeds of sulphur in spring help young horses, and many horsemen apply worm remedies. Some medicines are harmless to healthy colts, but use only if necessary and truly harmless. never give stimulating medicines without veterinary advice.
Gladstone, famed admirer of Sir Henry Irving, rose suddenly in the House to deliver a fiery impassioned speech as Irving watched from under the gallery. The scene shocked MPs who whispered of a political ploy until a friend of Irving revealed Gladstone had spoken in praise of the actor and quipped that he made the speech for him.
The article describes a method for skinning a sable with no body incision, keeping feet and tail attached to the fur. It cites varying measurements, legal restriction on salle in Weary VIII, and prices from £400 to £800 for a coatined with gables, plus sable tulls valued around £50.
A Philadelphia Press item notes snails move at up to five and a half feet per hour and that their motion pauses. A playful exchange with a grocer over fresh eggs echoes smaller humor about saying only what is safe to claim while sourcing humor from daily life.
Heartrending dialogue frames a terrible accident as six men are blown to atoms by nitro glycerin. The undertaker laments that not enough remains for a funeral, while the clergyman offers sympathy in a mournful exchange from a New York Weekly page.
A farmer explains that different grains need different soils and timing. He stresses planning before planting and addressing waste quickly to prevent deeper harm. Scott's Emulsion is praised as the quick nourishment for loss of flesh when ordinary foods fail.
A collection of short notices mentions J Lathrop Allen the nine year old inventor living in New York, Calniel William Cody named as administrator to Royal Engineers’ base companies at Aldershot, Ireland. William Osler linked with Johns Hopkins, Oxford delegates named, a Norwegian magnate gifting an estate in Orkadalen, and Trince Yamashima funding a meteorological station near Mount Tsukaba, Japan. Obituaries include Nahbant Mier Schadowicz, the Jewish Dumas, and Colonel Samuel Adams Drake. Sigmund Neumann writes a play. John Bassett Moore praised for diplomacy writings. Garner discussed monkey language research with Burton and Haeckel cited.
Notes on Hulls pawnshops multiplying in Honolulu for the first time, a Canadian military school mandating mustaches, a push to name new Indian Territory state Lincoln, oil portraits of Duncan and Altgeld shown in Chicago, diamond values rising with loss in cutting, a Spurgeon library bought for William Jewell College rich in Puritan literature.
A compact circular of quips from multiple papers lampoons reform talk in Cuba and Panama. It notes habit, crime, schooling, spelling errors, and fashion as social foils. The items reflect press tone and wit on public issues and daily life from various papers.
A London auction saw a twelvepence 1851 Canada imperforate stamp fetch $200. Bermuday images a 545 foot cock among notable stamps. Victoria’s falls inspire a new Ithodesia stamp set. New South Wales notes fifty years of the adhesive square fivepence green stamp.
A compact two family house design with a wide cellar, modern improvements, and separate entryways for each unit. The plan uses hemlock framing, cedar shingles, and whitewood trim, suitable for city or suburban building with a total projected cost around 4000 to 4200 dollars.
The California section at the World’s Fair St Louis impressed visitors with a Spanish mission inspired revival. Southern California architecture features tile roofs buff plaster walls arched doorways and arcades. Modern mission homes use wood with plaster overlays, often around palm filled courts.
In a quip from the Chicago Tribune a miner recalls MFladger arriving twenty five years ago with the world on his back. Now his wife and six daughters carry the load, easing the as the man notes the change as the burden shifts to his family behind him.
February 20th and March 6th and 20th offer unusually low one way and round trip railroad fares. If your nearest agent cannot provide the rates, write for particulars.
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