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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1915
Page
3
An advertisement promotes Hay's Hair Health claiming to restore natural color and gloss, remove dandruff, and revitalize scalp health. It targets both men and women with reports of successful use and offers 2c, 50c, and $1.00 bottles via drug stores or mail order with price refund if unsatisfied.
A garbled feature blends a moral verse with rabbit recipes and sandwich ideas. It covers larded rabbit and Hasenpfeffer style dishes with instructions on browning, milk basters, and gravy, plus chicken sandwiches with ham and olives as flavor mix.
A vintage style recipe passage describes venison steak stuffed with mashed chestnuts and roasted, chicken served in pieces with veal broth and savory rice, and Burbank sausage stuffed potatoes. It also extols polite tea hosting with simpleYet elegant service ideas and equipment tips for a hospitable afternoon gathering.
A collection of elegant recipes including Chestnut Puree for peppers with butter pimento onion and milk, filled peppers served with steak or meat. Cardinal Pears with currant jelly and whipped cream. Apple Date and Celery Salad with lemon dressing. and Scotch Short Bread creamed butter brown sugar and flour with caraway and citron for garnish.
An electric crane at a New Jersey iron works successfully handles bar-iron rods by wiring the bars into bundles of a dozen or more before shipment. Lifting loose rods proved impractical as many would cling by one end. bundling enables the crane to lift a clean, multi-bundle load, reducing manual unloading.
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes Miss Callowhill and Miss Winebiddle debating a need for salt in discussion of Mr. Gee. Both women describe him as exceptionally fresh and compelled to take his remarks with a grain of salt.
Dentists sent to the trenches to treat toothache faced taunting crowds of five hundred soldiers who cried out and pretended to suffer while teeth were extracted. The ruse mocked real pain, often provoking laughter from the patient and observers. A brief theater quip ends with a husband asking if the curtain is rising.
Farmers differ on sow breeding age from ten months to two years. Select sows with sturdy heads, avoid nervy pigs, and feed growing pigs a little grain. In the South some hogs roam swamps seasonally. monitor sows with young litters and supplement with milk if needed. Separate penned piglets from mothers, ensure sun and ventilation, and avoid fermented feed. Use clean, protein-balanced feeds like skim milk, oats, clover, and oil meal. Separate young boars, and never keep boars with sows around young pigs. Growers should rate brood sows by quality, not pig count, and retain productive sows.
Fowls require protein and beef scraps provide this. Beef scraps should be 50 to 60 percent and well aired and clean. Regular feeding and careful attention to stock comfort and health are essential to successful stock feeding.
Partial paralysis in hogs is linked to phosphate deficiency. Affected hogs show no pain, normal appetite, often fed raw potatoes. Treatment advised includes cod liver oil, phosphate of lime, and small amounts of cantharides mixture mixed with food twice daily.
Advice on keeping hens productive in winter by active feeding and varied grain mixes. Suggests using chaff or straw bedding, diverse grains like wheat oats corn barley and buckwheat, greens such as clover cabbage carrots and mangel wurtels, and regular meat and skim milk additions. Emphasizes constant water and grit access and notes separating breeding hogs from fattening hogs and separating large from small hogs.
The value of milk butterfat and butter depends heavily on quality which producers can influence by proper care. Keep poultry houses dry and clean by visiting at night to ensure clean air and that chickens are not harmed by their own exhalations.
An advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a ready to use tonic that darkens gray hair naturally and evenly. It claims dandruff disappears and hair stops falling after regular use with a sponge or brush.
A cluster of Gnats argues with a Beetle about cityhood and progress. The Gnats insist a city is a device to intensify discontent and call the Beetle ignorant for not understanding what progress means.
Under a special act of Congress agricultural land in the U S Forest reserve of Arkansas may be homesteaded up to 160 acres per person free of cost. One million acres offer free pasturage for cattle hogs and sheep eight months yearly. No overflow lands. Healthy well watered country with running streams. We locate applicants on lands and send a state map for 25 cents to A V Alexander locating Engineer Little Rock Ark.
A man plans a wedding cake and notes the shopgirl lists cake types for various callings. He reveals he is a pianist, and the clerk replies he will want a pound cake. The humorous exchange plays on punny misunderstandings about cake names.
A humorous exchange contrasts rain fairness with the idea that the unjust man often gets the just man’s umbrella. The line plays on justice and misfortune in a concise, witty framing.
The stage manager directs the heroine to embody deep grief while the leading actor vows to sell the audience on the sadness of the play. A reflection on theater costs and audience investment surfaces in the dialogue.
Important to Mothers examine carefully every bottle Castoria a safe and sure remedy for infants and children see that it bears the familiar Castoria label and sign of the promoter confinement of dosage and usage.
Improved ovens that collected by products saved the U S coke industry 16 070 000 last year by preventing waste under older methods of manufacture.
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