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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
2
The piece notes how fashion drives anxiety in buying clothes and accessories and extends to social changes. It argues that while trends in music, books, and social behavior shift regularly, beliefs and opinions should not be forced to chase every fad.
A Jackson Michigan nurse known as Nurse Baker credits Dean's Kidney Pills for relief from backache and weakness, urging readers to remember the name and to buy the 30 cent boxes from FosterMilburn Co. Also includes a humorous magazine editor anecdote about a finely riveted porcelain platter and a showman’s cage joke in brief snippets.
A Memphis wife recounts her husband’s illness improving after stopping coffee for Postum. The doctor suspected coffee harmed his stomach and heart, and after a year on Postum he gained 35 pounds and recovered. The letter promotes Postum and mentions The Road to Wellville.
A Breeder's Gazette correspondent shares a six by six hog house plan with hinged roof doors for easy sun exposure and entrance. The note also covers storing mature pumpkins from harvest, then a warning to dairymen about possible oleomargarine law amendments and a German goat farming experiment showing goats supplying milk for workers and families.
A Kansas Farmer editorial argues that farm land values stay high as long as farm product prices rise and labor remains well paid. It asserts no imminent industrial shift, good markets will persist, and land yielding 60 to 100 bushels of no cent corn per acre is worth about 150 dollars or more, with value rising through productivity.
A consular report on Trieste notes the hilly territory is covered with pointed stones that prevent any cultivation and hamper agricultural efforts in the district.
The Society Agraria offered prizes to peasants who cleared waste land for meadows. A commission measures the area each autumn and sets the prize, then in spring visits to award if earned. This year sixty six peasants improved forty four acres and received 1040 dollars.
A concrete beehive creation draws interest for women workers as a profitable hobby with small space needs and low cost. The piece notes new concrete hive methods, suggests home mold production, and warns to study cement and bee habits before starting. It also touches on pullet egg production and the importance of stock quality for winter laying. Sunshine as a dairy aid is cited, with tuberculosis rising in northern dairy herds and the need for sun to kill germs and keep health.
A corny Farm and Home column suggests a simple two-pulley rope system to suspend a lantern in barns. Attach the lantern to one end, pull up to a chosen height, and fasten the rope end to a wall cleat. Central placement yields better light than moving the lantern.
The passage notes that bees were new to Native Americans and arrived after the Pilgrims. It states that modern beekeeping began long after initial European settlement in New England, with the movable frame hive invented by Langstroth in 1852.
An experienced horseman notes mixing corn and oats provides essential fat bone and muscle growth for colts. He adds bran or linseed meal to help bowel regularity and reduce disease risk by preventing constipation.
Editorial argues President Taft is pursuing reform of sugar trust frauds with Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary MacVeagh, claiming civil service suspensions to aid investigations and criticizing Judge Holt on statute of limitations. It singles out alleged widespread sugar trust plunder and restitution potential.
The Warrensburg Standard-Herald argues that free trade would lower living costs but also depress farm and factory prices, noting that high wages and low living costs do not coexist. It recalls 1892 to 1896 lessons when prosperity required broad well being and warns current free traders face a tougher sell.
The Wells Fargo Express Company earned 48 percent on capital stock and plans to triple capitalization, dropping earnings to just over 19 percent. The Illinois railroad and warehouse commission is probing express rates. officials say claims of annual losses under old rates are false and overcharging occurred. The commission should set maximum rates to ensure reasonable profits.
The passage argues that opponents of tariff reform cite the cost of living, noting that the United States has not risen faster than free trade nations. It claims revision downward advocates focus on price levels without considering relative changes.
The article portrays Mr. Aldrich visiting the West as a student of finance not a teacher, focusing on monetary reform rather than tariff, waterways, or irrigation. He aims to educate the public and influence national money legislation anticipated in Congress next year. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes his broad educational campaign across major papers.
An official UK report shows large price advances in food since 1907 with Austria and Germany following. Lard and butter rise 17 to 20 percent, flour 50 percent, meat 60 percent, veal 121 percent, and pork 10 percent. Prague restaurants up 10 percent in October amid a general global price surge.
A directory canvasser debates with Mrs O Hoolihan over her husband's job. She confesses he is a shovel engineer on a railroad, then admits he is likely a civil engineer while noting he shovels coal into the engine. A joke about mercury freezing and Dr Cook completes the snippet with a polar temperature quip.
The Pick-Me-Up notes that young girls ask only who he is while young widows want his position and older widows demand where he is, illustrating a humorous take on dating priorities.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt notes a woman claims to be taking a rest cure by waiting three hours daily in the anteroom of a fashionable physician. The line hints at social expectations and medical fashion of the era.
In a Boston Herald pickup from Preserves from the Woods Uncle Henry Butterworth jokes about preserves and canned huckleberries. The playful dialogue contrasts reins and holders with a nod to practical thrift noted by Kansas City Times.
An old physician’s remedy claims to break a cold in a day and cure coughs using whiskey glycerine and Concentrated pine compound. Instructions prescribe mixing half pint whiskey with two ounces glycerine and half ounce pine compound in a labeled airtight bottle and dosing every four hours by teaspoon to tablespoon.
A reader recalls Lionel’s interest in circus era performers and mentions Sir Henry Irving as a great actor now deceased. The item also includes an old pest control ad for Rough on Rats and a cheeky domestic scene about candlelight during hard times, featuring Evangeline and a partner.
An advertisement touts Trall's Catarrh Cure as a cure for deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube, offering one hundred dollars for any uncured case, with a note to send for free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and Pierce's Pills with brief product claims.
The dialogue imagines a chemist at Standard Oil finding a process to replace India rubber as the world’s supply runs dry. It frames a petroleum based substitute as providential and essential for future industry.
A young traveler recalls a Berkshire old world auction where bidding begins with a lit candle and ends as the candle burns down. The practice, described as slow yet charming, contrasts with faster bidding cries like going going gone.
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