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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
3
Harold, a senior, habitually asks his father for extra money. The father, frustrated, notes Harold receives more than he ever did and questions why Harold should be satisfied with less. Harold challenges his father’s prior generosity and presses the point.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble without suspecting it. Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root claims to restore kidney health and ease back head ache and nervousness. Sample bottles offered by mail for ten cents with additional sizes sold at drug stores.
A vintage ad extols Boschee’s Syrup as a safe remedy for coughs bronchitis colds and throat irritation. It claims a restful night and easy morning expectoration, notes long use in America and homes worldwide, and invites purchase everywhere.
Cactus Joe notes marriage changes a man's life and habits while Three Finger Sam agrees, saying it often means quitting poker to play bulge whist. The exchange frames a rural humor about domestic life redefining leisure and routines.
The note asks if there are time blocks between Monday morning and Saturday night to accomplish the week’s tasks, suggesting a plan to fit work within the Sabbath period. It emphasizes the need for adequate hours to complete weekly duties.
The passage shares several era bake notes and cake recipes. Orange Cake uses orange juice and rind with custard icing. Cranberry Cake folds in cranberries and colored icing. Chocolate Potato Cake blends shortening, chocolate, mashed potatoes, raisins and nuts. Egglets Fruit Cake mixes brown sugar sour milk raisins and flour for a slow bake.
A period voice column offers practical recipes for convalescents. Egg Soup, Baked Apple, Tomato Toast, Pineapple Pudding, Rice Pudding, and Torune Whip are described with steps and ingredients to aid digestion and recovery.
United States Department of Agriculture specialists describe the compost pile as a valuable source of plant nutrients. The guide outlines building steps including a clay foundation, layered organic matter, manure, rock phosphate, and moisture management for a year long rotting process.
The document lists trees suitable for fuel and beneficial removal to improve the remaining stand. It includes sound and dead trees both standing and down, diseased or insect-injured trees, and those prone to injury such as chestnut in blight regions or birch in gypsy moth areas. It also covers fire scarred, crooked, tall crown short bole trees crowding others, overtopped trees, and slow growing species crowding faster valued ones.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that some months exceed half the national crop harvest. June nearly reaches half for strawberries, while July sees 52 to 58 percent in barley oats and raspberries and 72 to 74 percent for rye and timothy hay. September dominates with several crops above half. October shows 56 percent for sugar beets.
A market visit by the grower helps repay expenses by aligning the producer with distributors, selecting a reliable representative, and understanding the labor and problems faced by car lot receivers. It emphasizes gaining market perspective and direct contact to resolve difficulties.
The United States Department highlights a key benefit of cattle farming. Cattle digest roughage and waste feeds, transporting nutrients to market in concentrated form. This reduces farmer labor in marketing bulky products and keeps fertility on the farm.
Officials in every stock-raising county urged to census the sires in their areas to drive systematic elimination of scrub sires. The suggestion arises from concerns raised by various high grade stock interests amid an agitation for better sires spurred by the U S department of agriculture.
The keeping of farm animals fur nnlihes profitable work during the winter when other work g less pressing and when they require most care. This distributes remunerative labor throughout the year more evenly than otherwise would be posable.
The department urges prevention steps including pasteurized milk for hogs from dairies, feeding hogs only after cattle pass tuberculin tests, and thorough cooking of garbage and carcasses before feeding to hogs.
A brief discussion notes that ornamental government bureaus are decorated, with one speaker guessing the typical adornment being large mols. The exchange hints at a humorous or satirical tone regarding official styling.
Bayer promotes genuine Aspirin tablets in a Bayer package with directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The name Bayer means genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacet ic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
United States Public Health Service investigators report discovery of a new bacterium named bac terium tularense linked to a plague like rodent disease and to a human illness called deer fly fever in rural Utah. Doctor Edward Francis details its bite related infection and long febrile course lasting three to six weeks.
In a heated exchange a speaker blames Bolshevists as insane and calls for turning them over to an alienist. Senator Sorgum counters with a reply proposing an expert enemy alienist with wide authority to evaluate.
Amherst College authorities recovered the Audubon North American birds collection from an Appleton cabinet. The display includes over 800 bird type specimens, with fifty labeled by Audubon dated 1834. The estate originally sold the collection for $600 to Ward’s Natural Science, then to H. H. Farnum before its Amherst donation four decades ago.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt features Mr. Cobbles turning his vehicle to avoid a dust cloud as a big car passes and warns of a ramshackle bridge on the road. The scene ends with a quip about the unaware driver and a wedding scene where the officiating minister offers sincere congratulations.
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