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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1910
Page
12
Rose grafting demands precise technique from stock selection to final union. English manetti stocks graft onto rooted scions with sharp tools, cool storage, and careful watering, then tying with raffia to ensure smooth, strong unions.
A farmer recounts learning a lesson from a woman neighbor who sorted apples by quality and packed them in labeled boxes and barrels. She sold the prime fruit at higher prices, earning a net profit of 11.50 on one load, and inspired a broader practice of better packaging for eggs butter and produce to gain higher market prices.
An Allegan Michigan woman testifies that Deans Kidney Pills cured her Brights disease and nightly kidney voids, praising Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo. The ad nudges readers to buy at 60 cents a box. Also includes Murine eye remedy promo and a humor brief about wedding ring date engraving in New York.
A Philadelphia reader named Rush Davenport extols Resinol Ointment as indispensable, likening it to matches and citing its quick relief for bruises, chafing, cuts, burns, and inflammation in children. The letter also includes a playful aside about buttermilk extending life and a humorous exchange with Miss Plumper.
A jumble of old advertisements and stray lines including Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonials and prices, shoe inserts, and various quips. The fragment mentions F J Cheney and Toledo druggists, Allen S Olmsted, and sample offers, with generic sales pitches and humorous asides. The readable portions are fragmented product pitches and one liner jokes.
A man enters a business office with a leather bag and demands $25 or else. He claims dynamite inside will blow up the room, but the businessman stays calm and asks what is inside. The would be bomber reveals he is married and quietly departs, leaving the scene without violence.
A seventy year old man describes severe hand sores that bled and burned for over a year. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment his hands fully healed in one week and have remained clear. He credits the remedies with relief for a neighbor child as well. March 1909 note from John W. Hasty of Ingham New Hampshire.
Walter notes that most items on the bill of fare are struck out and explains the new manager, formerly an editor, influences the menu.
Letters extol Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for female troubles with testimonials from Mrs S J Barner of Scott and Mrs Grongk May of Paterson praising dramatic improvements after use. The notices claim tumors removed, neuralgia relief, and restored health, urging others to try the remedy based on long experience and advised use.
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