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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
3
Immense loads hauled over a correctly macadamized road near Camden North Carolina illustrate the advantages of good roads. Prof J A Hales outlines the standard macadam method with earth base 12 feet wide nine inches thick layers of field stone crushed stone and screenings, rolled in sequence.
A Kansas horticulturist explains the shift toward selling younger trees after severe winter damage. Benefits include less root damage during digging, easier setting, smaller head, and lower cost, with some objections about vulnerability to injury and later bearing.
A Montana Fruit Grower note urges farmers to avoid waste in land, labor, crops, and capital. It cautions against half cultivation, leaving crops in fields, poor animal stock, duplication of effort, and unnecessary purchases. Encourages attending institutes and fairs and reading papers to improve farming.
Mrs. Clara Makemer, housekeeper at Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission in Chicago, proclaims Peruna as the best tonic for general debility and liver complaints. She claims it cures dyspepsia, assists female irregularities, and prevents pelvic catarrh, offering free health and beauty literature to women from The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus, Ohio.
After three years of labor Antoine, a renowned Antwerp lapidary, cut a ring from a single diamond. The ring measures about three quarters of an inch in diameter. The note comes from the N Y Sun.
A collage of short items notes jokes about leaving parts of oneself, a deathbed last wish for an automo bile hearse, warnings about mercury in remedies, and railroad telegraph expansions by the Baltimore and Ohio line detailing new copper wire and quadruplex lines between major cities.
Topeka Capital quotes Dr. Parkhurst arguing man is a gorilla with a conscience. The paper notes that if any truth exists in the claim, many men would be mere gorillas.
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a non stimulating grain drink that tastes like coffee and supports sleep. It targets nervous persons and children and urges buying a package from grocers, with 15 and 25 cent prices. The piece also includes brief quotes from other newspapers and testimonials.
Letters from readers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing nervousness back pain falling of the womb and related ailments. Mrs Anna E Hatt Milldale Conn credits the remedy with recovery after persistent symptoms and urges others to try it. Mrs Ellen Flanna Gan Philadelphia Pa reports full relief from chronic dyspepsia and irritability after seven bottles and offers to be interviewed.
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