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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1910
Page
8
Practical guidance on rose cultivation covering spacing, feeding with manure and bone meal, watering, pruning, and pest control. Instructions for layering cuttings in moist sand, rooting, transplanting, and using glass coverings for protection. Also notes the benefits of low-down wagons for easier loading.
A Farmers' Voice letter by HB Lane argues converting field ditch lines into usable land by building concrete dams. He cites Marshall County examples where ditches have been filled and tilled over, noting many dams fail due to poor construction but a concrete dam costs about one dollar per cubic yard with on hand sand and gravel. Dams, if well built, would quickly repay their cost and improve farming convenience.
Experiments at a New York station show soft mixture for forcing head lettuce has compact texture with sand, clay and silt and is lightly enriched with well rotted horse manure. A heavy stable manure needs no extra chemical fertilizer in such soil. Chemical fertilizers benefit sandy soils, while well rotted stable manure favors clay soils. Fresh sawdust may acidify and injure deficient soils if used heavily, and its liquids are alkaline and neutralize sawdust if well soaked.
An advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for weak kidneys and related pains. It cites a testimonial from Abram Weaver of Georgetown Texas, recounting a back injury and kidney disorder that improved after using the pills. The ad notes availability from Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York at 60 cents per box.
A Chicago mother recalls her five year old son’s severe skin infection and painful bandage dressings before he was treated with Cuticura Ointment. After several applications his sores dried, skin peeled, and he recovered. Also a brief feature notes young Josephine’s lisp and a theater dialogue with Marion about going to the matinee.
Spohn Medical Co offers Spahn's Distemper Cure claiming to cure and prevent distemper in all ages of horses and dogs with over 500,000 bottles sold last year. Bottles cost 60 cents and 1 dollar, with agents wanted and a free hook writer offered. Includes a joke from the Bogton Herald about doctors and beards.
A collage of assorted phrases and claims from old advertisements and writings. It includes a $100 reward notice for a missing person or object, medical product pitches such as Falt's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, a Toledo druggist disclaimer, and scattered quotations from Emerson and Bayne. The text reads like fragmented snippets from a newspaper page.
A fragmenting miscellany quotes Emerson and Carlyle on baby talk and adds remarks from Shakespeare Bacon Dickens Newton Eliot and Hume. It also promotes Castoria for infants and nostalgia about past wisdom and tastes. The text weaves ad copy with literary jests and brand mentions.
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