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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
2
A collage of quips on culture travel and society. Jokes about divorce weary actresses, drowning versus airship deaths, summer romance, grandparents and potatoes as money, fast motor boats, French playwrights, Saratoga chips as change, and odd notices from Waterbury to Colorado. A breezy, satirical mix of light commentary.
A mix of whims and vignettes touches on polo ponies ignored in victory praise, a New York woman hiring a Filipino servant, a Tennessee man forgetting his identity, hat laws in New Jersey, a Connecticut man’s sudden death from joy, and columnist musings on meals, comets, diving society women, ex Shah's travel bid, and ship wireless weather reports.
An agricultural column urges farmers to protect lambs during hot months by early weaning, separating ewes and lambs, and giving lambs fresh pasture or salvage feed to prevent stunted growth. Proper summer care determines whether lambs become healthy ewes or wethers by Christmas.
The farm horse is the primary motive power and a key to farm success alongside improved machinery. Costs vary by farm, but average horse labor costs about eight and a half cents per hour, roughly 85 cents per ten-hour day or $1.70 for a team, underscoring the need for careful records and efficient management.
In Kent England growers fix wires to 12 foot poles by using long stilts strapped to their legs. The stilts let workers reach seven feet or more above ground as they stretch the wires along the hop fields arranged in rows four to five feet apart.
A farmer should adopt a minor rotation by fencing small ground near the barn for hog pastures and seed crops. Hogs fed grain with mixed pastures gain faster and cheaper. rape pasture yields as much as 56 bushels of corn per acre in growth. Rape-fed hogs show stronger health and better gains after stopping rape.
Feeding sows warm rich slop or milk-producing feeds soon after farrowing drives a strong milk flow. Newborn piglets receive too much milk and develop diarrhoea, a condition that often proves fatal.
A short note notes that young turkeys choose to roost in the large tree in the yard and that observers should let them enjoy the spot.
The piece counsels on simplifying life by living in the day and embracing appetite. It urges balanced meals, varied foods, and proper sauces to aid digestion. Advice targets middle aged readers to eat less, drink more, worry less, and enjoy meals with an attentive audience.
A how to on canning and preserving tomatoes with recipes for catsup preserves chili sauce and pickling. It covers best varieties such as the small yellow tomato and notes on avoiding overripe fruit, proper sealing and storage for long keeping. It also suggests quantities for a family and details on making spiced chili sauce from ripe tomatoes peppers onions salt sugar and vinegar.
A line from Shakespeare on how leisure and revenge dull ears to true decisions. The passage contrasts the listener's deafness with the vitality of justice and choice, highlighting the poet’s critique of biased or stalled deliberation.
Practical guidance on transforming scraps into tasty dishes. Uses include repurposing vegetables in potato salad with care to balance colors, converting cold meats into sandwich fillings, and crafting a sponge cake pudding with dates and custard. Also covers dessert sauces, celery relishes, and a bread crumb walnut loaf bake.
A New York inventor has developed a machine that prints and cuts wallpaper borders in one operation. The device follows the design lines such as vines or leaves, creating a decorative bottom border that complements plain walls.
A guide offers thrift tips for daily living including safe dress adjustments with sleeves and aprons, salvaging carpet wear with quilts, curtain placement to exaggerate window height, reviving frozen plants with cold water and darkness, chilling soup fat with ice, zinc-covered tables to save scrubbing, polishing stoves with paper bags, using washing soda to clean granite dishes, surgeon's plaster for callouses, repurposing old ribbons for dress trims, converting lingerie into corset covers, and using water per pound of meat in soup.
The term dog days refers to the heated period linked to Sirius rising before the sun, lasting about 40 days. Although the expression survives as the hottest season, the timing no longer coincides with Sirius’s heliacal rising due to the procession of the equinoxes.
A historical note concludes coffee best relieves fatigue, after trials by the British army testing various decoctions. It asserts coffee has no superior or equal effect for reducing tiredness among clerks and shoppers alike.
An 1911 Sunday School lesson on Daniel 3 discusses Nebuchadnezzar's grand image at Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refusing to bow, their fiery furnace test, and their miraculous deliverance proving God’s power. It notes the empire’s diverse peoples and the king’s reaction, with the three men restored to favor.
The world famous health authority Professor James M. Munyon draws dozens of callers daily to Munyon Laboratories at 53d and Jefferson Streets in Philadelphia. His free medical advice contrasts with paid remedies, as testimonials praise the Uric Acid Course for rheumatism while Munyon notes cures come from his
A brief obituary line notes a dog named Rover is finally appreciated after death, with a wry quote about the disparity between his life and his posthumous esteem. The remark suggests a reflective, ironic tone typical of the column.
James Glencairn Thomson, grandson of Robert Burns and son of Betty Burns, died in Glasgow in his eighty fourth year. A lifelong suburb resident and bachelor, he was known for singing Burns songs at social gatherings and held a small civil list pension.
A Florodora girl recalls Mill Yans refusing to let her shoot him in the leg for publicity. The remark highlights the theater world’s cunning with publicity stunts and personal edges in show business.
In a humorous exchange a speaker notes that the father is “an awful strain on the pocketbooks of my relations” prompting laughter about family finances and ties. The remark reflects light domestic humor and fiscal frictions among relatives.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe, strengthening laxative suitable for ladies and children. It highlights cold and digestion relief, warns against counterfeit limits, and urges buying only from the California Fig Syrup Co with price set at 50 cents per bottle.
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