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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
5
A Camden New Jersey testimonial promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ills including headaches backaches irregularities and nervous prostration. Recipients describe relief and renewed health after using the remedy.
A boy rushes in from school to tell his mother that the teacher sent him back to warm his jacket. The brief scene captures a child’s urgent obedience and a parent curbing the chilly domestic moment.
Wagner faced critics in London during 1855 events after a harpionic concert. He conducted a Beethoven symphony without a score, drawing reproach. At the second concert he used a partition on his desk and consulted it, pleasing the audience. The critics noted marked improvement while Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia inspired the score.
A humorous column recalls a woman terrified by mice in her hair after crumbs attract them and a country estate owner who, after hearing a vivid description from an agent, decides not to sell. The anecdotal pieces reflect light domestic curiosities and mid century talk.
A young woman credits her mother in law with introducing Postum, reporting improved digestion, clearer complexion, and absence of coffee headaches after switching from coffee. She notes her grandmother also found relief and regained mobility after four years using Postum.
A narrator recalls a late night misadventure in a shabby all night eatery as a restless patron, Brady, recounts a comic escape from a nurse and a home invasion. The tale follows a moonlit escape from a house with a wobbly plan, a sign on the door, and a theft of chance. The lively ramble blends mischief, pickup lines, and a near catch inside a bedroom as a curious pair navigates danger with humor.
A narrator recalls working in a beanery with danger from smallpox patients. The dialogue notes how wages are decent yet risks are fierce, admitting the speaker survived but bears a striking stare. The scene highlights a risky, low paying job with a wary tone about safety and money.
Sir Algernon West notes a bygone etiquette in his reminiscences, recalling that youth avoided using Christian names with elders and that even letters began with formal salutations. He cites dinners with Lady Jer and mentions Lady Charlotte and the Duke of Portland, highlighting strict forms once common.
The article compares the King ventilation system with EB Fuller’s diffusion method for barns. It advocates three square feet of light and two of muslin per cow, using framed muslin over windows or gaps in wooden barns, prioritizing south-facing openings, and warns against placing hay near ventilated air. It also details sash modifications to reduce drafts while increasing airflow and notes benefits like drier barns, stable temperatures, and healthier cows.
A Canadian dairyman who marketed 97 240 pounds of milk at 2 5 per cent from his herd of Volstein cows describes his feeding regimen. Cows are milked every morning, then roots and meal are fed, followed by straw or hay with water before them. At noon a feed of corn is given, and in the evening meal and roots are fed again with straw or chat. By early March hay replaces straw. The mix for meal includes barley and oats, bran when needed, and stronger additions like low grade flour or ground wheat to reach similar weight. Cows receive about a gallon of this feed twice daily. He notes that even young cows are not fed to full capacity, as noon meals boost milk output.
The note discusses keeping cows comfortable at night. A cryptic line follows mentioning a person or term Sodeha He ein ws colt fae wel, aka yutada, with unclear meaning.
The article urges farmers to grow stock sugar beets for winter green feed, noting beets are easy to grow, heavily yielding, palatable to dairy cattle, and non tainting to milk. It advises storing in frost proof rooms, planning now for next winter, and highlights beets as a key supplement to dry winter rations.
The article describes a simple feed rack for cattle using four fence posts and boards forming a box. Each side can be 40 feet wide by five feet high, with bottom boards raised two inches above ground. Oblique boards may be spaced to suit horned cattle. The rack holds four cattle, minimizes waste, and can be moved easily within the feed lot.
Dairy notes advise sealing the pail after each calf feeding and keeping feeding vessels clean to reduce troubles with young animals. It recommends letting calves out for a romp each day to aid health and proper excretion.
Peruna Drug Mfg Co of Columbus Ohio receives reader letters praising the medicine. Periena MA and Martel Ohio residents claim complete relief after months or years of catarrh and related symptoms. The letters urge others with catarrh to try Peruna and note a lasting cure. An offer for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1969 is included.
A brief, fragmented dialogue shows a misheard “penny” task and a cryptic “C-o-4” exchange. The line “That ain't fish” hints at a puzzling, nonsensical street market or street corner dialogue.
London, once famed as a quiet safe capital, is now noisier than Paris and more dangerous than New York. Approximately 800 people die yearly in street accidents and many more escape with their lives, as Outlook notes.
A pamphlet by Prof Irederie Goujon at Du Mavier & Civ, 720 Lexington Ave, New Orleans, urges readers to learn causes of dandruff gray and thinning hair and to seek remedies. It promotes knowledge as key to treating hair conditions and urges tenants to seek guidance from the noted expert.
A brief exchange quotes authors discussing why they describe northern landscapes. The line asks why scenes of the stories are set far north, answered that others know less about the country.
The phrase The New Way. He Darling, all is over between us. She Oh, George, this is so Abruauh Punch.
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