How Tuberculosis and Kindred Ailments May Be Cured
The article argues tuberculosis can be suppressed by natural living outdoors, fresh air, cold baths, exercise, and proper food. It cites tramps from Chicago and urban youth as victims of modern life and extols country living and outdoor lodging as vital to recovery. Stories describe winter outdoor experiments in New York and New Jersey demonstrating hardening and outdoor sleeping without injury.
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Chicago
New York
New Jersey
How Do You Eat Modern Cookery Hurts Health
The article laments spicy foods and stimulants that create thirst and encourage alcohol and cigarette use. It warns that taste driven meals may lack essential nutrients needed to repair tissue and brain, lowering vitality and resistance, making people susceptible to microbes.
Tent Life Cures Consumption And Condiments Debate
A Denver doctor conducted experiments with consumption in a tent colony where patients improved after extreme cold returned appetite. The piece argues 20 degrees below zero aided recovery and claims condiments create false appetite, citing mustard pepper and spices as health enemies. Professor Huxley is quoted on air quality and disease risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Swedish Doctor’s Cold Water Cure For Tuberculosis
A Swedish doctor, about fourteen or fifteen years ago, used a crude method to treat terminal tuberculosis patients. He rubbed them three times daily with a towel soaked in very cold water, then placed them in a 60 degree tub and vigorously rubbed for a minute. As tolerance increased, patients were plunged into ice water. Many consumptives reportedly recovered.
A National Error in Population and Health
Dr Gould argues that half the population now lives in towns and cities. He condemns locking people in houses and sedentary work, saying ample land and opportunity could provide livelihoods for all. With hygienic living and proper lung development, he asserts tuberculosis could be prevented.
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Gould
Homes for consumptives in city and outdoors
In New York a trend gathers as consumptives build huts atop houses to recover. Outside the city, tent colonies near Boston and other centers offer outdoor living for tubercular patients, with calls for urban camps where people can live and improve as city air indoors is poor.
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New York City
New York
Boston
Don'ts About Dress For Cold Weather Wear
Advice on winter dress cautions against heavy neck wrappings and moist skin, warns against wearing rubbers indoors or outdoors unless needed, explains evaporation cooling causes sore throat or nasal catarrh, and suggests drying rubbers and changing to dry shoes to keep feet warm.
Wholesome Recipes Green Pea Soup Hoecake and More
A collection of home cooking guidance including a green pea soup with peas coconut butter and water, a hoecake recipe using cornmeal flour sugar and salt, milk and eggs, and a vegetable salad with potatoes celery onions eggs lemon juice and olive oil. Also includes a five cup apple and protose mince pie with prune marmalade walnuts malt honey and raisins cooked long and stored in jars.
Butter Producing Cows and National Averages
The article argues Holland’s dairy average of 400 pounds butter per cow is likely overstated, notes most countries have lower yields, and urges culling poor cows while improving stock. It links higher butter fat to profitability, cream demand in western cities, and better overall national wealth through increased dairy efficiency.
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Holland
Foreign Cheeses Made in America
A discussion on foreign cheeses produced in the United States notes that while many satisfy expectations, Wisconsin made varieties differ from European ones. Major Alvord argued cheese from Wisconsin uses cow milk, while European cheese relies on goat milk, challenging claims of identical taste.
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America
Atlantic Ocean
Wisconsin
Alvord
Europe
Major Alvord
Rash statements on alfalfa value at stock meeting
John Evans of Delaware County Pa critiques a stock meeting claim that alfalfa is no better than oat straw for feeding. He notes large alfalfa stacks west fed to thousands of beef cattle with cotton seed meal, arguing one pound bran plus one and a half pounds chopped alfalfa equals the same feeding effect.
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John Evans
Delaware County
Pure Milk Campaign Calls for Humanitarian Focus
Julia Smith from Cook County Illinois commends Farmers' Review for standing firm on pure milk and urges stricter protection as inspectors are too few. She cites a Canadian report of watered milk with excessive preservative and stresses farmer involvement to safeguard public health.
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Farmers’ Review
Cook County
Julia Smith
Ottawa milk inspector trains to protect city supply
The article argues city health boards must understand milk production to keep supplies clean. It cites Ottawa's approach, sending its milk inspector to the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph for a course in milk production and care. The author asserts trained inspectors are far more effective than inexperienced staff.
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Board of Health
City Boards of Health
Ottawa
Ontario Agricultural School
Guelph
Be Mulching Trees With Grass
Orchardists debate mulching with sod and grass. Feeding grass as hay returns more value than rotting. mowed grass can feed stock and manure returns nutrients. Emphasis on soil porosity, drainage, and fertility for plum trees. avoid heavy clay pitfalls and surface puddling to allow root access and proper aeration.
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Timothy
Muollar
Sprouts on Pear Trees Debate Reader Opinion
A grower advocates letting sprouts grow on pear trees claiming better yields, while another argues pruning to prevent wood. The letter questions whether sprouts deserve special treatment and invites reader opinions on pruning practices.
Preparing the Orchard Area and Roadside Trees
Advice on soil preparation for orchard trees recommends plowing to root depth for uniform surface and drainage. Also urges beautifying country roads and village streets with trees.
Humorous Exchange Fragments From Various Newspapers
Miscellaneous gags and snippets from Hartford Courant Yonkers Statesman Town Topics Cleveland Leader Washington Star New York Weekly Philadelphia Inquirer and Catholic Standard and Times. The items feature quips on manners class speech and a satirical zinger about a university professor and animal feed.
Dyspepsia in School Children Warns of Growth Impact
A public notice explains that indigestion in pupils weakens growth and causes paled cheeks. It attributes this to poor or rapid lunches and urges correcting the cause while restoring stomach and bowel health with Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. The product, a laxative, is sold by druggists for 50 cents or a dollar with money back if it fails.
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Caldwell
Grass giant seeds a Wisconsin firm brings hay boom
A La Crosse based seed company introduced a remarkable grass three years ago that became the country’s leading quick hay producer. The firm, John A Salter Seed Co, has turned into a major supplier, with town districts and farmers discussing its impact on feed crops.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
America
Bass
Dean’s Kidney Pills Claim Relief for Back Pain
J B Corton of Deppe North Carolina testifies that Dean’s Kidney Pills cured years of back pain and allowed him to lift heavy objects again. He says his back is strong, he can walk or ride long distances, and he has shared the remedy with neighbors. Free trial offered, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Price 60 cents.
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J. B. Corton
Deppe
N.C
Dean
Lberty
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
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