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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
12
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a nightly cleanse for sluggish bowels promising a clear head and improved stomach by morning. It claims a 10 cent box provides lasting relief from headaches, biliousness, indigestion, sour stomach, and foul gases, with children also benefiting from its gentle action.
An old advertorial fragment promotes Cuticura soap and ointment for surface healing with immediate relief and home use tips. A Garfield Tea claim, a 106 pound watermelon by Joe Arnold of Weatherford Texas, a 10 cent offer for a kidney cure trial package, and a November rubber export figure from Brazil appear as miscellaneous items in the clipping.
Mr George L Barr of Tuwa owns seven Saskatchewan land sections, fenced and rented for pasture or cultivation. He notes home land near Town valued at 150 per acre, yet typical returns run 2 to 3 percent. A quarter section yield in 1914 15 16 showed high profits from wheat and later Red Wire, with costs and seed, leaving substantial net gains. Barr cites Iowa transplants like Geo H Kerton and Charles Haight who prospered as tenants and in wheat sales, urging farming and livestock grazing as a path to wealth.
A note describes small pockets for valuables sewn into Indies' shoe linings. The inventor says the pockets sit high so wearers need not reach far inside. Patrice calls the idea convenient and practical.
An advertising notice urges reducing meat consumption for health and expense reasons and promotes Skinner Mackintosh’s Cook Book from Cotonnilia Neb. with a promise of 100 tasty, inexpensive preparations using macaroni and spaghetti.
A mother recounts a comical medical moment as her baby chews pages from an old dictionary. The doctor questions care and curiosity as the infant resists spoken language while two dictionary pages are damaged. The lighthearted exchange ends with the doctor noting the playful mishap.
An old advertisement touts Danderine claiming dandruff disappears within ten minutes of application and hair becomes new, fine and growing after weeks. It urges using a 25 cent bottle from any store to restore softness, luster, and abundance to dull or damaged hair.
Cultivation should create a lasting mulch and begin in workable spring soil, ending by mid July. Pruning remains essential, with annual dormant cuts, early guidance on opening the top to sun and air, and careful handling of spur and fruiting wood for apples, pears, peaches, plums, quince, grapes, raspberries, currants, and gooseberries.
There is debate on when to prune raspberry canes to favor new roots. Some suggest early spring, others advocate removing thick old canes in autumn after the harvest. Early removal helps young plants start and reduces disease spores, while cutting in autumn eases removal since old canes are dead and dry.
Winter berries hanging on trees and bushes provide essential food during scarcity as birds wintering there spend time hunting hibernating insects. Farmers who shoot birds lose income as surely as if they wasted crops.
Ridgway Pennsylvanians praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for backache and "female trouble" after unsatisfactory doctor visits. Mrs O M Raines says it restored her health enabling full housework and care of a young child. Mrs Lindsey in Tennille Ga credits it with lifting eight years of illness and ulceration, returning her to domestic life and garden work. Letters from readers encouraged by the medicine are solicited by the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A fragmented quote discusses the forehand of an intellectual man and notes a case involving Robert Witzsingmans. It mentions his studious nature and references a line about courting a tender woman in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
An actress shares a simple gray hair darkening formula using half a pint of water, 1 oz Bay Rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine. Instructions, list of ingredients, and usage directions are available with Barbo Compound boxes or can be prepared at home at low cost.
The text explains uric acid is present in everyone and excess results from heavy meat intake. It links weak kidneys to uric acid buildup causing backache fatigue and related symptoms. It promotes Anuric by Dr. Pierce as a remedy to tonify kidneys and dissolve uric acid and claims it is more powerful than lithia.
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