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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
8
In Tear son weekly style a country shopper in a northern market town eyed fresh eggs in a grocer shop window. The grocer claimed the eggs could not be beaten, prompting the woman to remark she needed them for Jack's pudding. An aside promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as liver pills. A proverb closes with a quip on good turns and silence.
The Pennsylvania station outlines a spray calendar to control insects and fungous diseases on cherries. It covers a dormant lime sulfur spray, post bloom aphis and leaf spot treatment with lime sulfur and nicotine extract, and additives for curculio slugs and red leaf beetle. Brown rot sprays use lime sulfur plus other materials, with extra measures for fruit fly on lower limbs and postharvest leaf spot precautions. If pests are absent, sprays are omitted.
Rabbits eat mainly vegetables but can damage tree bark when snow hides food. Prevent damage with fences or tubes around trunks, wraps from paper or veneer, and various washes. Poisoning, if used, combines strychnia and borax in a syrup mix applied to tender twigs.
A bacillus causing forage poisoning was isolated by Kentucky experiment station investigators led by Dr. Robert Graham. They identified a related germ to bacillus botulinus, linked to meat poisoning, and developed a serum that protected horses and guinea pigs from the isolated bacteria from oat straw and corn silage.
Hogging corn wastes significant grain when large hog drives roam. Limit area to small, workable patches and scrape clean before moving to a new section. This reduces waste while saving labor and keeps feeding efficient.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a physician’s prescription that cures kidney liver and bladder ailments and urinary troubles. It offers a sample for ten cents and urges readers to start treatment, claiming widespread tested success and benefits for rheumatism.
An old Cuticura soap advertisement promises cleansing and beautifying effects with minimal effort and offers free samples by mail. A clipped humorous dialogue from the City Star mocks superstition and urban talk, featuring a battered brother and a white doctor arriving to fix him up.
A vintage advertisement promises $100 reward for any catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Medicine cannot achieve. It asserts the medicine works systemically through the blood to mucous surfaces, improves general health, and assists nature in healing. Local druggists and testimonials offered. Printed by BP. J. Chenty & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The article states Japan's population around 54 million with about 200000 Christians including Roman and Greek Catholics. Protestant church members total 7850 with 11886 baptized in 1915 1916. It notes the gala was about 14 percent and ends with a clipped remark about hardheaded tramp behavior.
A compact, period voice item noting a figure connected to church and labor groups. The quote suggests questions about loyalty and affiliation within a communal or church context, hinting at social scrutiny without naming individuals or events.
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