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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1909
Page
5
The piece presents two approaches to a cold: ignore it until it risks pneumonia or bronchitis, or consult a doctor who may prescribe Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. If the doctor endorses it, follow the recommendation.
The article notes that when bowels are constipated toxic substances enter the bloodstream rather than exiting daily. It emphasizes physician concern over bowel health and mentions Ayer's Pills from Ayer Co. Lowell as an advertised remedy.
A collage of quoted remarks from papers including Washington Star and New York American on the Codex Sinaiticus discovery, jokes about language embarrassment in Europe, stationery misfires at Crow Bend, and humorous exchanges from various magazines. The items mix slang, wit, and trivia in a vintage clipping style.
An article claims coughing bursts blood vessels are common and that simple, vague home remedies and patent cough medicines cure in hours. It mocks reliance on whiskey and laxatives, proposing a home mixture and frequent dosing, then shifts to unrelated quotes about disasters and a joke about listening to a wife.
In lighthearted banter, friends ask when Nan and Jack will wed. Fans say not yet, but expect a proposal. Separately, the Nova Scotia government appoints a commission to study old-age pension feasibility for workers.
The article blends lyrical notes on haying and corn bounty with practical guidance from experiment stations. It covers planting timing and row spacing for corn, manure use, and the relative yields under various practices. It also gives horse hoof care, milk hygiene, and low cost cream cooling solutions for farms.
A crude scraper made from a piece of trough or steel is proposed to clean barnyards efficiently. It can be placed four feet from the horse to allow load and keep feet clear. The device lifts sand by the handles and repeats to move manure, enabling rapid, several-load cleanups from a large yard.
A stockman reports calves aged eight to four years fall ill and die from indigestion, treated by pepsins in warm milk. Giving a teaspoon twice daily at birth for a few days may prevent it. Also cautions that lack of water reduces milk and cows must have readily drinkable water at a suitable temperature.
Writers debate safe pasture intervals but experiments show sheep stay parasite free with tar turpentine and salt. A farmer used pine log salt holes smeared with tar to make sheep tar their noses while eating salt, teaching them to ingest tar. A rancher mixes tar with turpentine and salt. about one half pint turpentine per peck of salt is advised.
Willam Low of Beotland plans a large scale electric agriculture experiment spanning about twenty three acres. The project includes multiple fields with a control plot, a 16 foot wire network, and poles spaced 200 by 300 feet. Transformers will supply a network voltage rated to 100,009.
A garbled OCR snippet compiles quotes from multiple era publications. It references Mothers, Winslow's Soothing, Shih of Porwla pension talk, Mrs Gould, rheumatism remedies, letters between spouses, Allen's Foot-Kova, and a barber chair gag, conveying a collage of period snippets without a single cohesive story.
An odd clipped exchange mocks domestic life and rent worries while promoting Pettit's Eye Salve from Howard Bros. Buffalo. The dialogue blends humor with a product pitch as a narrator complains of work and meals, ending with a quip about correction and a taunting nod to a person named Taft.
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