The House Fly as a National Menace and Remedy
An extended treatise argues the house fly Musca domestica spreads typhoid and other illnesses, detailing its breeding in horse manure, disease transmission via contaminated food, and the need for public health measures. It urges manure management, abolished outhouses, food protection, and urban sanitation to curb the pest and safeguard health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel D. Jackson
American Civic Association
National Municipal League
Jackson
W. M. Eaton
C. J. Mason
Pandora’s Box
G. N. Kober
White House
Ike
Inquirer
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
New York City
Maddox
Simmonds
New York
Cians
Packard
Howard
East Side
West Side
Upper Broadway
Piggery at The Cedars Promotes Sanitation and Winter Comfort
W H Fisher describes a new Cedars piggery in Franklin County Ohio designed for top sanitation. The 48 by 21 foot, four-pen building features sun exposure, tilting troughs, heated steam fed by a 200 barrel cistern, and a self contained system with a 1200 dollar total cost including labor and teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedars
W. H. Fisher
Franklin County
Oho
Breeders’ Gazette
Rations for Many Seasons
A. J. Legg discusses balancing farm rations across seasons. He explains that summer grazing can offset winter needs, while maintenance rations offer no profit. He notes carbonaceous feeds require balancing with concentrates and rates nutritive ratios for corn, wheat, oats, buckwheat, horses, cows, and hogs. He emphasizes mineral content and highlights digester tankage, wheat bran, cottonseed meal, and oil meal as rich protein and minerals for growth and maintenance.
Child’s Idea of Goodness Sets High Standard
A grandmother recalls a playful exchange with a journalist’s child about being good to earn a circus trip. The child asks how good one must be, and the boy answers, as good as God, as his innocent measure of virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
Comradship
Getting Friendly. Tom Seeks Millyan’s Hand and Father’s Fate
In a light exchange, Tom questions progress in courting Miss Millyan while Dick recalls her father’s prior rebuffs. Dick notes improvement as he jokes that settling family matters by tending his kin may ease social strains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Feed Young Girls Right Food While Growing
Healthful diet during the critical period of maturation shapes sturdy character and long term well being. A young woman shares relief from coffee and tea by using Postum, noting reduced headaches nervousness and improved clarity, crediting Postum for overall health improvement per the Peetum Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Peetum Company
Battle Creek
Mich
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Yrigky & ON Pub Co
Ding Flace
Tongue
C—Foot
E—Eagg
Ohio
Jack Frost
Vyaare
PEN
Peery
Yar Tote
A. J. Legg
Pottus
Eve
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