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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
7
A described ranching technique uses a 16 foot derrick mounted wash system for cattle and hogs. A central barrel feeds five hoses plus a long hand hose to apply dip while animals walk a sloped platform. waste is recycled through a lower barrel and pump system with a cloth strainer to prevent clogging.
Farmers should stagger hatching to avoid dog days. An August second week setting and September hatch time allows rapid growth, keeps birds sturdy through winter, and preserves laying into spring. Late hatches often fare well in winter shows. growers plan to hatch through October 1 if needed.
Farmers prioritize calm feeding regimes to reduce stress and prevent injuries in horses. The approach emphasizes select, high quality feed with minimal bulk while preserving essential strength-building nutrients.
The article surveys scarce taw sill worldwide amid five years of overconsumption. It highlights Kansas mineral wealth with coal zinc and lead values, Pittsburgh as a glass industry hub with major capital and jobs, and a giant tumbler works. It notes Ecuadorian tree bark used for soft blankets, six feet by five feet and rollable.
Ex state auditor Van B Prather in Topeka recalled Dick Stapp known as the James gang witness. Dick Stapp linked to Granby and Granby Mining raid and Otterville train robbery cases. Jesse James visited Stapp in Galena and warned him to stay out of sight. Stapp left mining, later died in California, removing a key witness.
A Scots humor piece notes that a parish schoolmaster candidate was asked to translate Horace Exegi monumentum vere perennias. He began with I have eaten a mountain and the examiner quipped you need not proceed after such a dinner for this parish would be a pair mouthfu' to you.
In India natives wear thin slippers or ride barefoot on bicycles with rubber pedals. Burmese football is popular, with Burmans wearing boots for goals. Sydney cyclists prefer night riding due to a lit track, with fifty five to seventy incandescent lights set along the course. Corean trolley controversy sees deaths and mob violence after tram incidents in Seoul as drought blamed on electric railways.
Purely Personal notes recall Mascagni’s journeyman baker father who died in Leghorn. A Paris artists jury awards Miss Jeanne d Ortzal top European beauty. Julia Ward Howe recalls New York life in childhood. Wilbur F and John Stites of Wichita are 54 and twins who married twin sisters Alice and Carrie Worth and run a business together for 30 years.
Frinttle Field Route and Bi Four lines propose a 33rd G A R encampment journey to Philadelphia in September. The plan uses Chesapeake & Ohio and Big Four trains via Chicago Peoria St Louis, Indianapolis or Cincinnati, then through Virginia and Washington before Pennsylvania Line to Philadelphia. Three fare options exist with varying stopovers and routes. For details, contact J C Tucker G N A 234 Clark St Chicago.
A Kansas printer, hurried at forms, mixed a marriage notice with a grocer's ad. It proclaims John Smith and Ida Quay united in holy sauerkraut with sale by the quarter barrel, while Smith is described as a codfish and the bride as displaying pigs feet.
Allen's Foot-Ease powder helps wear tight or new shoes with less discomfort. It relieves swollen hot feet sweating aching feet and treats ingrown nails corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores 25 cents trial package free by mail Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
A Boston Courier quip has Wife-John warning that continuing his present career will bring payment for indulgences, while Husband replies with pride and thanks for the tribute to his financial probity.
Thousands of men are earning good wages in Minnesota North and South Dakota harvest fields. Room for thousands more workers at half rates via the Great Northern Railway from St. Paul. Write Max Zass 220 South Clark Street Chicago Ill.
A Denver Post correspondent notes diners with the queen feel nervous about praising the pie, unsure whether to credit the queen or the cook for its propriety and taste.
The snippets cite Lane's Family Medicine promising daily bowel movement benefits and liver kidney effects, Grove's Tasteless Chill and Fever remedy, a joke about kitchen dresses, a cabinet ad about Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, and a quip about high ideals versus pessimism.
A letter from Gertrude M Johnson of Jonesboro Texas credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with reversing monthly spine spells and mental decline after childbirth. She notes five bottles used and urges suffering women to try the remedy along with liver pills and sanative wash. Effie Perkins of Pearl Louisiana also praises the remedies after persistent female troubles.
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