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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
2
A flood of grateful letters from women like Mrs Inse of Wisconsin praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for health recovery. The notices claim the remedy has helped many and invites sick readers to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A column extols hot water as a preventive in digestion and pain relief. It suggests drinking and short head or eye baths can ward off indigestion headaches and eye strain, with caution to avoid cold exposure after bath.
An item from Buffalo New York references Pettits Eye Salve or similar preparations marketed by Meade, Loretta, or Howard Bros as remedies for eye irritation. The fragment notes eggists or Howar ros and lists Buffalo as the location.
A recorder pressures a woman to mete out a sentence to her husband. she falters then declares a string of months, tears begin, they embrace, and leave rejoicing. Lazarus jokes that if they return he will give them six months each.
In a bid for damages, McLouse sues a sanitarium claiming it alienated his affections from alcohol after his wife urged treatment. He contends the institution’s program and its influence led to his perceived loss of passion and companionship due to sobriety.
A Fond du Lac woman recounts indigestion and heart palpitations improving after replacing coffee with Grape-Nuts and Postum. She reports relief within a week and full health in a month, gaining weight and clearer skin while praising the products and their flavor. She notes reading The Road to Wellville and claims the letters are genuine.
The Minneapolis Journal argues President Taft, seasoned by Philippine Cuban and Panama experience, is best suited to shape Porto Rico policy. It endorses his message to Congress for limited self government and continued American rule until Porto Ricans gain education in liberty and autonomy.
A leading Michigan lumber producer warns that any tariff change would harm all Michigan lumber makers. He notes current operations double the 8,000 feet shipped abroad and fears influx of Ontario pine at $11–$12 per unit would undercut domestic supply, driving out low grade lumber and harming the home industry.
The Des Moines Capital notes that states push divergent tariff aims from free hides to protected shoes and peanuts. It argues a compromise is needed to fund government and protect American industry, hoping a lasting measure akin to the Dingley tariff emerges in Washington.
The piece critiques free trade supporters claiming broad female representation against gloves and hosiery duties in the Payne bill. It argues local women’s councils, mainly composed of club delegates, push sensational protests to Congress, exaggerating a few voices into a claim of thousands.
A Washington Star quote notes Uncle Eben saying that in most cases a man who pauses to think before he speaks may keep thinking. The remark highlights caution in speech and prudence as a virtue.
Secretary MacVeagh lauds Taft’s proposed balanced budget as the key to rational spending. The plan links expenditures to revenues, with cabinet review and Senate committee oversight shaping fiscal policy, marking a shift from historic haphazard budgeting. Wheat duties are defended as local safeguards, not broad policy, to curb price manipulation.
The article contrasts Edward era court ceremonies with Victorian times noting night events with music and buffet meals. It describes how men and women interact during presentations with quicker, less ceremonial procedure and practical viewing positions in side corridors. It adds kissing hands applies to English subjects on official posts. About 1,200,000 people are afloat at sea globally.
The article explains 100 pounds of average milk breakdown into water fat sugar casein and mineral matter, noting Jersey Guernsey Durhm Ayrshire and Holstein varieties and their fat content. It then warns about sore shoulders in horses during spring work, collar fit, and harness maintenance. It describes a nose bag feed system to reduce feed loss by delivering grain directly to the horse.
Farm Journal notes corrective measures that persist through recurring requirements, emphasizing reliability and long term effect. The piece frames practical steps and ongoing support for farmers seeking durable solutions.
When confined or worked, horses need a strengthening yet lean diet. Grass alone is natural but insufficient in barn conditions. Proper feeding supplies heat and muscle without excess fat. The amount of food should be carefully measured to balance energy and nutrition.
A Missouri farmer D. W. King promotes split log drags as a leveler to smooth rough road surfaces and pack soil. The plan, shown in illustration, aims to improve clay roads and can benefit sandy soils though it cannot create a hard roadbed.
The text describes building a barrel coop by driving nails through hoops on each stave, clinching inside, halving the barrel by cutting through hoops and bottom, and securing with ground stakes. It mentions using long side sticks to keep the open end accessible and notes the right door could use the barrel head or a solid substitute.
Farmers are urged to tend orchards now with oil and arsenic against Codling worm, as neglect leads to wormy fruit and dying trees. Strong demand for good apples will rise, so pruning and spraying pay off. stay by trees with care.
A description compares a Pennsylvania farmer who averages at most one ton of marketing per two horses with two-horse carts driven by one man. English and Scotch farmers use two tons on a single horse cart, with two carts managed by one driver. The foreign method carries out the work with one man and two horses, while Americans require four men and eight horses.
The guidance advises delaying disposal of a good sow until age seven or eight to maximize profitability. It emphasizes thrifty growth, keeping a clean feeding area stocked with charcoal salt and sulphur, and allowing sows to self-serve as part of their routine.
The article discusses feeding grains to cats and horses, noting corn and oats, crushed forms aid digestion and muscle growth. It advises using rich protein hay when oats are scarce, balancing high corn with bran and clover or pea-vine hay to protect digestion and maintain nerves and endurance. It warns corn and timothy hay are heating and hard on digestion, and stresses cautious green fodder feeding.
The article notes avoid feeding too much corn to sheep. During fattening, mix clover hay and corn in equal parts by weight. otherwise, avoid corn. Corn is about 60 percent starch and 6 percent oil, both digestible, with heat from starch and fat from oil. Lacking protein, corn requires additional fodder such as clover or alfalfa.
A Western stock breeder urges farmers to improve existing stock rather than purchase pure-bred cattle. He argues pure-bred herds cost too much for farmers who sell to packers or butchers. He notes good pure-bred cows fetch high prices, but a pure-bred bull can, in a few years, establish a high grade herd capable of marketing beeves at better prices.
Strawberries should be cultivated as soon as land is in order with 100 pounds nitrate of soda 400 pounds acid phosphate and 400 pounds muriate of potash per acre spread beside rows and worked in. Mulch next month with pine tags hay or clean trash to keep berries clean and moist. The Bureau of Chemistry says cheese not cheese when it is soaked curd, a fraudulent practice called pseudo cheese.
The text provides step by step making notes for a syrup and a quick brown bread. It lists ingredients like brown sugar, molasses, coffee, wine, butter, soda, flour, baking powder, and salt. Methods include boiling a syrup, dipping fruit, shaping a dough, and steaming the Boston brown bread in a tin for four hours.
An old fashioned soap recipe combines three pounds of yellow soap with one ounce camphor and one ounce lavender water. The mixture is pounded to a thick paste, rolled on a marble slab into a ball, then placed on a warm dry cupboard to harden.
Heat milk to scalding in double boiler then melt butter and sugar with salt. Cool and dissolve yeast in lukewarm water. Mix with flour to form kneadable dough, cover and let rise. Shape into rolls, place in buttered pan, rise again, then bake.
Prepare two quarts water with coarse salt to form a brine that lifts an egg. Boil brine, add washed potatoes with skins intact. Cook until tender then test with a fine skewer. Serve hot with jackets on.
A simple rhubarb sherbert recipe instructs cooking unpeeled rhubarb with ample sugar, adding orange juice and gelatine per three cups sherbet. Strain, fold in one beaten egg white per two cups, then freeze and serve in glasses with a candied kumquat garnish.
A recipe instructs mixing thick sour cream with sugar then adding eggs, baking soda, nutmeg, and flour to reach fryable dough. Test a sample in hot fat and adjust with more flour if too soft before frying.
Soak a corned beef tongue overnight, boil until tender. Remove skin and roots. Coat with fine cracker crumbs and brown sugar and bake thirty minutes in a slow oven. Garnish with mashed potato forced through a pastry tube and lightly browned.
To refine beeswax place comb in a coarse muflin bag and add a small stone for weight. Boil in a kettle with water. wax rises to the top while sediment remains at the bottom. Remove the wax after it cools.
A new instruction warns that china plates cups and saucers should not be stacked while hot. They must cool before packing to prevent glaze cracking.
A Tid-Bits note recalls a man named Burst in a Midland town whose misfortune drew attention because his two children are Annie May and Ernest Will. The brief item highlights the curious naming choice as a human-interest aside.
Two parts chopped lean rare beef mixed with one part finely minced celery salt pepper and a touch of mustard. Spoon onto lettuce leaf and place between thin slices of bread and butter.
The Chinese encase eggs to be kept in mud pies and allow them to dry. The result is said to be more satisfactory than cold storage.
A steak that is tough may be made tender by rubbing it on both sides with a mixture of vinegar and oil. Let the meat stand for two hours before cooking.
A New York widow with four children earns about 30 dollars weekly as a visiting housekeeper. She cleans, mends, and manages homes for business women, paying her helper, and notes the trust built as clients prefer her reliable, home-like service.
A British general Sir William Butler plans a book on Napoleon's military career. William Dean Howells announces a spring novel now postponed, with a two-poem volume replacing it. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman argues for marriage as a desirable goal and endorses reform of marriage laws if needed. Disraeli dubbed Mme. Novikoff the MP from Russia, and Stead’s edition collects her letters revealing a London salon circle. Emerson Hough defends historical license in Fifty-Four Forty or Fight while affirming overall historical framing.
A newspaper remark describes a young woman who has been promised to three different suitors, likening her romantic life to a top bureau drawer in disarray and suggesting social judgment of her.
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