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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1909
Page
5
Hood's Sarsaparilla has served thousands of homes for over thirty years as a spring medicine. It claims blood purification, appetite stimulation, and relief from a wide range of ailments, attributing cures to its blend of 20 ingredients and urging use in liquid form or Sarsatabs. A 100 dose bottle costs one dollar.
Excerpts mix nautical mishaps and comic bits from 1920s U S newspapers. A captain explains a ship’s fault with a joke of wrong tack while reporters observe on deck. Jests about bromide tonics, plucky pets, and dental quips mix with light vignettes and radio style quips.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its Exceptional Equipment and chemists work enabling pure plant principles to be blended into Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It warns buyers only the genuine product shows the full company name on the front to avoid imitations and ensure benefits.
A brief note markets a tonic mix for back pain and prescribes a half pint whiskey with sarsaparitis syrup andTorIs compound taken before meals and at night. The piece cites, in mock fashion, that leading specialists endorse it. It quips about modern courtships and jokes that proposals are machine made, perhaps in autos.
Fragmentary OCR item lists specimen prices for metals and materials from a chemist in Leadville Colorado. It mentions Gold Silver Lead and price terms, along with mailing envelopes and full price list sent. The text is garbled with misspellings and incomplete phrases.
An article extols the “new farmer” as key to American agriculture, promising a modern, sanitary home, better roads, telephone service, and consolidated schools. It urges living in harmony with neighbors, valuing the profession, and advancing rural welfare. Also describes cow grooming for better health and a home made brooder with basic components.
Secretary Wilson warns that fresh and strictly fresh eggs must meet the standard. If states like Nebraska Minnesota and Pennsylvania enforce penalties violators may face, while winter demands clear labeling as cold storage expands. Independence day era notes include fruit harvesting aids and nitrogen fixing fertilizers with cyanamide. Incubator chick care stresses timing feed and grit and preserving clean conditions. Horse and pony handling advice emphasizes early training halter harness work and careful selection by government buyers. Milk handling stresses rapid cooling and cleanliness to preserve quality.
A cotton-picking machine with a vacuum-like system on a Widewheel truck is described, enabling 700 pounds of seed cotton per 10 hour day per operator at an estimated cost of $2.45 to $5.10. Also noted are January February manure mulches protecting fruits and vegetables, and a government pea nut trial near Shreveport with 250 acres.
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