Why Women Write Letters About Lydia E Pinkham
Readers ask if Pinkham letters are genuine. The company states it never publishes fictitious or untruthful letters and uses letters with full consent. The Vegetable Compound is said to relieve displacements inflammation irregularities nervousness and other female ills, restoring health and happiness to many women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lydia E. Pinkham
Not a Friend to Be Sought
A fragment warns to beware of a self serving person who constantly touts his good deeds. It contrasts sincere charity with praise driven acts and cautions against those who seek to influence or manipulate others for selfish gain.
Freckles Mow and Wartime Banter Across London
An ad promises a guaranteed removal for freckles using ethine double strength with an ounce usually enough for a clear complexion. The clipping shifts to a London Mail note where young clubmen discuss war and aid to soldiers, joking about toasting their health at a gathering.
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London Mail
To Fortify the System Against Summer Heat
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic advertised as a standard remedy to fortify the system against the depressing effects of summer heat. Claims stronger people withstand heat better. price five cents.
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Grove
Catboat Origins Told In Nautical Banter
A humorous exchange wonders why a certain small sailing craft is called a catboat. The witticism suggests one should possess nine lives to sail such a vessel.
Leopard Moth Destroys Trees and How to Fight It
The leopard moth is a dangerous tree pest along the Atlantic coast and Hudson Valley. Effective control includes injecting carbon bisulphide into burrows, pruning and burning infested wood, wax sealing of openings, and destroying severely damaged trees while strengthening healthy ones.
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Massachusetts
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Hudson River Valley
Tke Carpenter
Humus Content Key to Fertile Soil Says Farmer
A farmer explains that soil fertility hinges on humus, the decayed organic matter, and notes that humus content can be controlled to boost crop yields. He stresses nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash as essential plant foods.
Gapes In Young Chicks Attributed To Windpipe Parasite
The text explains gapes in young chicks are caused by a windpipe parasite, a reddish worm larva of an insect on the skin. It lists remedies including mercurial ointment and turpentine, cautions about dangerous methods, and describes extracting the parasite with horsehair loops.
Ash supply fuels rapid bone growth in young chicks
A rapid growth chick needs ash for bone development and must receive lime and phosphates. Sources include shell and grit, beef scrap, and granulated bone, with bone providing the bulk of required minerals. Beef scrap should be limited to avoid excess.
Incubator Hatches Stronger Healthier Chicks
An article argues incubator hatched chicks can be as healthy and profitable as hen hatched. It notes incubators provide ideal conditions for robust development and may yield more resilient birds, stressing value of a quality incubator.
Plowing to Turn Organic Matter into Soil
The passage describes incorporating organic matter into soil by plowing or mixing it so it decays readily. It emphasizes preparing soil so added matter breaks down efficiently to enrich soil health.
Roosters Eat Too Much Feed
Twelve roosters will consume twice as much feed as twelve hens without becoming overfat. The note contrasts poultry feeding rates and limits.
Weaning Pigs Needs Extra Feed and Care
Guidance for farmers stresses that young pigs require additional feed and attentive management during the weaning period to support health and growth.
Homemade Milk Cooler Promises Low-Cost Refrigeration
Instructions for building an iceless refrigerator or milk cooler with a screen frame 3 1/2 feet high by 12 by 15 inches. It uses a water pan, movable shelves, enamel coating, and a canton flannel cover to keep milk cool in a shady, well-ventilated spot. Cleveland Leader.
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Cleveland Leader
Flank Roast Pocket Bake With Bread Dressing
A flank roast is prepared by cutting a pocket for a dressing. Use stale bread, milk or water, celery salt, onions, parsley, melted butter, salt, and pepper. Fill pocket loosely, seal openings, bake in moderate oven, baste often. Gravy made after roasting. tender flank takes about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Pea Soup With Ham Bone From Ladies World
Wash one pint of split peas and drain. Add an onion quartered with three cloves in each quarter and a small sprig of parsley celery and a bay leaf. Simmer three or four hours with ham bone until peas tender, press through colander, season and serve with croutons.
Mutton Stew With Apple Biscuits Bake Time
Take two or three pounds of mutton and simmer until tender with salt. Make biscuit dough and line the baking dish sides. Prepare a dozen sour apples, core and quarter. Layer mutton and apples with the pan liquid, add sugar and spices, top with biscuit dough, and bake one hour in a moderate oven.
Omelette Aux Fines Herbes Described In Classic French Way
The article details an omelette herb mix used in remote French inns. Parsley thyme and marjoram are rubbed for flavor. A jardiniere omelette uses parsley onion chives shallots sorrel and chervil folded into beaten eggs for frying with extra butter.
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France
Rice with Tomato and Pepper Stew
Chop a large tomato and a green pepper with an onion. Salt lightly. Melt lard, heat dry rice, then add water and vegetables. Cook until rice is tender, adding water as needed.
Iowa Woman Notices Grand Canyon Sunset
A cautious Iowa woman spent hours on the Grand canyon rim and described the sunset as highly gratifying. She observed turquoise and purple haze as shadows stretched across the plateaus before nightfall and spoke with restrained enthusiasm about the scene.
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Dexter
Grand Canyon
Iowa
C. E. van Loan
Saturday Evening Post
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promotes Bright Laundry Result
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as superior to cheaper blueing that can turn fabrics greenish yellow. It emphasizes large packages priced at five cents and notes availability at all good grocers.
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Spohn’s
Spohn Medical Co
Goshen, Ind
Weather Sign on a Steeple Paradox
A humorous exchange about a human paradox asks why placing a weather sign on a steeple is such a paradox. The reply notes only a vane tempt could succeed in this odd task.
Free Book on Rheumatism and Cure by Jesse A Case
An advertisement offering a free booklet titled Rheumatism Its Change and Cure by Jesse A Case of Brockton Massachusetts. The notice promises relief for rheumatism or neuritis, urging readers to write for the no cost publication.
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Jesse A. Case
Dept. C. W
Brockton
Mass
Adv
Urban Etiquette and the Perils of Modern Manners
A witty trio of observations on changing social norms. A man dining on tough fowl loses respect for age. A young woman hears the auto horn and discounts old composers. A man’s friends drift after his first overseas journey.
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