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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
8
A yearly inspection of 57 million animals found 533000 infected with tuberculosis and hog cholera. Cattle tick caused losses estimated between 100 million and 150 million dollars in a single year. Also notes on Castoria and a wedding quip from Browning Magazine.
A bonfire was lit at Simonsville gypsy camp to burn all of Tryphéna McNeill much of her personal effects including a $250 fur coat and other valuables, following her death in a local hospital. Mrs McNeill, wife of King Samuel, was famed as a seeress attracting many wealthy clients.
The Royal Artillery Band, one of the world’s renowned ensembles, traces its origins to 1762, predating the Philharmonic Society by five decades. Its history features notable musicians like Sims Reeves, and its double-handed ability to perform on strings or winds has allowed it to function as a full orchestra when needed.
Melbourne dispatch reports Australian safety matches facing shortages as blockades and wartime controls curb supplies. Prices have surged about 139 percent on wholesale markets. Merchants advocate frugal use to avoid actual scarcities, noting English regulation that forces lighting bans near the Thames estuary reduces output to a third of normal.
An elderly woman asks if any friends visit Ge on visiting day. No. 777,444 replies that none visit because they are all here with wpe.
Camille Saint-Saens, famed French composer and first head of the Franco American commission, lands in New York. The eighty-year-old musician looks forward to revisiting the United States and will be hosted by French societies in numerous cities during his three month stay.
A Carnegie Institute nutrition study by Benedict and Eames found men require about five to six percent more nourishment than women. The difference stems from women having less active tissue and more inactive material. The report notes women generate about 4,355 heat units daily versus 4,688 for men, about two percent more per pound of body weight, and men show roughly 12 percent higher heat production when matched for height and weight.
The spring seeding across Western Canada has largely completed by early May with barley and oats following wheat. A rise in forage crops like fodder corn and alfalfa is noted across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Prospects include improved yields five to nine tons per acre and a push to develop seed corn varieties. government lands and low-cost offers attract settlers and farmers expanding holdings.
A Farm Life fragment presents a dialogue about choosing between two dinner invitations. One invites a young lady recently returned from a piano conservatory, the other features a five year old boy with many recitations. The speaker is torn between accepting or refusing each invitation.
An old ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder used by German and Allied troops at the front to soothe hot twisted feet, relieve corns and bunions, and ease walking. It claims instant relief and universal use with a price of six dollars per box.
Mrs Ham of Shamrock Missouri describes severe health pains from female weakness nervous spells and sleepless nights. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier she reports full recovery including energy improved sleep and restored home life. She urges others to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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