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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
4
A summary of M. O. Eldridge's bulletin from the Department of Agriculture stressing the free use of the roller on earth roads. Proper rolling compacts plastic soil, reduces water absorption, prevents washouts, and minimizes future maintenance as vehicles travel, yielding better road conditions in all seasons.
Farm Journal excerpts discuss dairy nutrition and forage choices. Clover preferred to timothy for cows, uniform cream ripening key to butter, cottonseed meal in small doses helps but excess harms butter, salt essential for cows, high costs of neglecting proper supply. Sweet potatoes should be cured dry and wrapped, stored cool and frost-free, for winter to spring use.
A cinnamon bearded man asks a druggist about Epworth salts after recalling a Methodist group named for John Wesley's home. The exchange reveals a brief moment of perplexity and recognition in a Chicago Tribune clipping.
A Kansas editor quotes a controversial saying about hunting and Indians and adds a remark about girls being reg ba Indians. The piece reflects crude stereotypes and social attitudes of the era.
The Frisco System offers handsome Observation Cafe Cars on trains from Saint Louis and Kansas City. Managed by Fred Harvey, the cars feature a large library observation room, easy chairs, writing materials, fast newspapers, electric lights and fans. Trains depart daily from Saint Louis and Kansas City.
Advertisement notes Missouri Kansas Indian Territory and Texas markets and living conditions with James Barker M K T Ry agent offering information from St. Louis. Quoted lines from Chicago Post and Chicago Daily News appear as filler. All creameries use butter color and June-Thrt Butter Color suggested.
Case 18 977. David M Bye of Midland Michigan says three months of hip back and leg pain from sciatic rheumatism ended after taking Doan’s Kidney Pills. He reports rapid relief not by pain deadening but by curing the cause and offers to answer inquiries. Free trial offer and ad copy follow.
Dr August Koenig's Hamburg Drops are praised as a blood purifier and restorative for stomach liver and kidney troubles. The ad notes the product is longstanding, over sixty years old, and claims it leads similar medicines in sales and public confidence among the German population. Lincoln called the martyr president due to his sacrifices, per a reader’s Q&A in Jamie’s stories.
A dated advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets at 25 cents price. It quotes Longfellow and includes a real estate line about Town Farms at 4 dollars per acre with cash balance details. It also mentions a Moscow asylum for children said to be funded by a Russian playing card tax and cites endorsements from F Boyer in 1900.
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