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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
5
A collage of old style ads and jokes appears with references to Hood's Sarsaparilla touted for cures, humorous quips about Alexander the Great and Sig Ferrara, and brief demonstrations of penny dreadful medical claims. Teasing anecdotes mix with product pitches and light humor in a dated newspaper fragment.
Practical guide describing hog scalding using barrels or tubs, temperatures 180 to 190 degrees, and continuous motion. Includes hanging techniques, gutting steps, salting at ten pounds per 100 pounds, sugar and saltpeter mix, curing in cool boxes, smoking with hickory or corn cob chips, borax treatment, and storage in clean hay.
Farmers read about silo filling with blowers costing per ton to elevate silage and blower placement issues. The piece covers animal care cures, sheep experiments, feeding horses, and the value of mules and jacks for long term farm economics.
Fragments of humorous age quotes and ragtime style quips bubble through a mash of social chatter. The Chicago Tribune joke sheet riffs on romance, appetite, and vanity with quips about BromO Quinine cures, a bone goblet joke, a weatherman style jab, and light sly barbs about marriage and fortune.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes a bemused exchange on a rural road map. The native explains the route leads to lovers' lane and terminates at a river bend nicknamed the devil's elbow, suggesting a picturesque or symbolic locale.
The California Fig Syrup Co presents a full statement with every package to prove the purity and uniformity of Syrup of Figa and Elixir of Senna. It asserts secret methods of manufacture and plant-derived medicinal principles, urging purchase only of genuine California products.
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