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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
6
A child eight years old excels in class raffia work paper boat making and astronomy while his parents worry he cannot read write or add. The poem notes his schooling includes physiology botany drawing mythology gravitation and science and ends with a parent’s wish for basic arithmetic skills.
Dayton Tennessee resident N R Roberts credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing his kidney trouble. He says the pills relieved severe back pain and restored mobility, and he would keep them on hand to prevent a relapse. He praises the medicine as unmatched.
A brief boastful ad line proclaims Mrs Austin's Pancakes will help regain lost appetite and notes availability at local grocers. The quotation about sin appears as a decorative motto from David Stare Jordan.
A discussion on how most introduced bills in the Fifty-eighth Congress served private aims rather than public business. It notes 15 576 house bills with only 1 645 public measures and 264 public laws versus 13 896 private laws, highlighting re election motives and river and harbor pork barrelling as key voter tactics. A cited anecdote shows a congressman weeping over stalled pork while admitting personal loss if funding fails.
A literary man testifies that Grape Nuts breakfast cereal improves mental clarity and output by providing easily digested, nutritious sustenance for the brain and nervous system. He notes better work quality and quantity after switching from ordinary foods. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and promotes The Road to Wellville booklet.
An illustrated guide explains safe barn lighting using a wire netting cylinder and tin shield to prevent lantern fires. Included are home remedies for horse wounds with cold water, kerosene application, and a home healing solution of alcohol turpentine glycerine, with emphasis on avoiding bandages over kerosene treated areas.
A short guide on economical coop construction for sick fowls roosters broody hens and meat birds. It suggests placing the coop on the sunny side of the barn with tarred paper roof and wire ventilated ends, three feet wide and any length, a hinged door twenty inches square.
The article advises soaking soiled harness parts to remove stiffness, scrubbing with brushes, drying, and using neatsfoot oil or sweet oil to soften leather. It stresses ensuring moving parts are free and intact. It then notes warmth economizes food, suggesting warm stables reduce feed needs to maintain body warmth.
Instructions describe making a swing gate fastener from a strip of one by four material with two supporting pieces on either side of the gate. The mechanism uses a springlike piece and a cross bar, showing how to fasten the gate so it remains level and drops onto a marked bow after release.
The article discusses feeding methods for poultry and the impact of proper diet on egg production. It notes that dry feeding is common among well known poultrymen and that eye size and hen weight influence profitability and egg yield. It also mentions standards favoring properly sized birds and the role of good roads in local improvements.
Heat canned salmon in hot water for an hour. Boil one cup milk and thicken with cornstarch. Stir in salmon liquor, butter, red pepper, Worcestershire or catsup, salt and a beaten egg. Pour over the whole salmon and serve at once.
A long list of kitchen preparations covers bread soaked in milk for cakes, spice cake with eggs and raisins, pickled vegetable blends with mustard and spices, roasted almonds and salted nuts, a yolk sugar batter for a sheet loaf, cream frosting, pink icing, and a codfish white sauce. It closes with advice that these versatile sauces suit fish, meat, or poultry, and can be finished with ketchup or flavorings like anchovy or capers.
Readable text describes a dish method using mes lancheon terms. It explains cutting and frying cutlets with vegetables and a thick white sauce, then shaping cool portions, breading, and deep frying. Garnish with olives and serve with green buttered pens.
A fragment describes preparing a sour milk and bitter flavor dressing with soda and salt, then a garlic rubbed bowl dressing with salt pepper vinegar and oil. It instructs to blend these components and pour over the salad, giving a casual home kitchen instruction.
Secretary of War Taft submits his annual report showing regular army on Oct 15, 1905 at 3,750 officers and 66,064 enlisted men with a net decrease of 369 over the year. He urges 5,000 more seacoast artillery troops, notes Panama canal work, Alaska telegraph lines, and requests $70,170,714 for the next fiscal year. The report covers Porto Rico and Philippine scouts, fortifications progress, and telegraph services, plus costs and fatalities.
A joint statement from Senate and House appropriations committees outlines fiscal year 1907 estimates totaling $804,200,415, higher than current funding. War Department cuts and sea‑service omissions aside, nearly every department seeks more than last year, with navy and Post Office requests rising by $21,229,038 and $12,187,076 respectively. The committees’ totals exceed Secretary Shaw’s by about $200 million due to a broader post office funding approach.
The heiress Miss Marjorie M Post and Edward B Close married in New York after a gift of 2 000 000 from CL W Post of Battle Creek Michigan. Thanksgiving banquet drew 300 Americans at the Kaiserhof Berlin.
A London Saturday Review writer urges uniting solicitors and barristers as in the United States and Canada. The piece argues solicitors would gain audience rights in courts and potential bench promotion, while American lawyers split into in-office practitioners and courtroom advisers, collaborating for client benefit.
Mrs W G Davis of Groesbeck Texas testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured her back pain dizziness and irregular kidney action after she passed gravel stones. She reports sustained relief and improved general health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A humorous dialogue shows a boy resisting literature despite a gift of Ruskin. The item lists Nickel Plate Road excursion rates for Christmas and New Year, with tickets on sale December 23 24 25 30 31 1905 and January 1 1906. Returns good January 8. Contact agent C A Melin T P A Ft Wayne Ind.
Puck riffs on a millionaire bragging about ancestry while his daughter elopes with the coachman and his two grandsons seek the gold cure. The spoof highlights social pretensions and a tangled lineage.
Tickets sold for all trains of Dee through December 20th with good return options through December 23rd. Don’t miss the Big Live Stock Show. For full information contact agent C. A. Melin, T. P. A., Ft Wayne, Indiana.
After a parish council session in a New England town the chairman condemned the delaying tactics and late hours. He warned the town drains are pushed into public drains at night, causing friction and a barefaced failure to hold water, per Slarper's Weekly.
An old advertisement claims a one hundred dollar reward for c cured catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous membrane remedy. It features endorsements from Wal ding Kinnan and Marvin druggists in Toledo and mentions free testimonials and price per bottle.
Sixth annual live stock show tickets go on sale December 16, 17, 18 and 19. Good returning December 24. Full information from agent or address C. A. Metin, T. P. A., Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes the minister received the money after a wedding joke. The line playfully asks who to congratulate while riffing on the wedding finances and social ceremony.
Druggists offer refunds if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding and protruding hemorrhoids in 6 to 14 days. The 30 cent ointment promises relief and satisfaction.
The ad notes that deafness is likelier in cold climates and claims rapid relief for lameness rheumatism and backache with Dr Bayer's V Pene treating Oil priced at 25 cents a bottle. It also touts Piso's Cure for Consumption for asthma from W L Wood of Farmersburg Indiana in 1901. It mentions Fairfax’s large dry fish packing house covering 45 000 square feet.
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