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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
9
A reader notes various farm hints and quips about kidney pills, sheep care, fencing, and weather, interspersed with quirky anecdotes. The piece mixes advertisements, medical remembrances, and farming advice from a bygone rural column.
The article outlines dense woolly breed traits for endurance and thrift, long legs for range foraging, and crossbreeding aims to improve meat and fiber. It then extols frequent soil cultivation, plow design, and the soil’s chemical nourishment, citing ancient practice and modern plows for various soils, plus notes on weeds, crop nourishment, and plant growth.
Professor F B Linfeld of the Montana Experiment Station discusses farm size for irrigated land to support a family and education. He estimates wages around $500 to $1,000 yearly per worker country towns. A forty acre farm could yield about $800 to $1,400 annually from various crops and livestock, with income increasing if multiple crops and dairy stock are pursued.
Maude Forgie of Leesburg writes that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her months of feminine illnesses. The ad touts the remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous exhaustion and invites other sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
The garbled text presents a fragmented assorted message with phrases about a cabby and a hemorrhage and odd dialogue. Characters named Cubby and Tandon Giolw appear amid nonsensical terms and misordered sentences. No clear event or date can be established from the legible fragments.
Fragmentary text mentions a catalog item from Hide & Fur Co of Minneapolis and a Polar Setuds. A couple discusses a wedding and travel to a distant country, with hopeful vows and plans amid unclearplace details and stray phrases about gifts and journey.
An unclear clipping mentions Scott and a poet in a reflective digression about truth and illusion. It references phrases about the Lady of the Lake and a Tribune, with scattered, garbled names and places suggesting a mid‑page literary column or editorial aside from a newspaper.
A steer helped free a fowl confined in a coop on the Marlborough as the ship endured heavy fire. The vessel was dismasted and captains injured. the surviving crew cheered the crowing bird, lifting morale amid carnage and delaying surrender until reinforcements saved them.
Mrs L Dowell of St Louis writes her six year old niece suffered severe eczema all over her body. She credits Cutlenea Leap and Cutlenia Clatynt with curing the child in three months after doctors failed to help. May 2 and 20, 197.
An obscure fragment mentions hotels in Europe, labels, and travel imagery. References to places like London and Paris appear amid stray phrases about ownership, theft, and social comment. The text lacks clear events or identities beyond generic locations and items.
A scene in a theater shows an usher demanding removal of a garment. A woman refuses angrily, flinging the item aside and exiting as the curtain rises. A nearby spectator thanks the usher, and the audience settles in for the performance.
An appeal promotes trusted remedies as healthy and value laden. It highlights Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical physician approved laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by leading druggists.
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