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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
7
Elizabeth Van Benthuysen explains bulb culture in simple terms. Novices can succeed without a greenhouse or expert knowledge as long as bulbs are selected by weight and given proper conditions. Maintain 74 to 60 degrees, keep darkness at start, and store ripened bulbs dry and airy for autumn planting.
A colonial era rant extols careful digging to protect earth worms noting their value in rich soil. The piece contrasts Chinese labor with Darwinian ideas and asserts worms signal nutrient land and enhance fertility.
A Cleveland bank detects a counterfeit $20. follow clues from a shoe dealer to a dentist and a missing grocer, then to a Pittsburgh house rent payer and a traveling oculist. The trail finally points to Perkins, a small grocer, as a key link in an organized counterfeiting ring. In Philadelphia, Monroe head certificates lead to engravers in town, with Taylor and Bredell identified as likely culprits after undercover work.
Government experts propose home efficiency as a public aim. The article notes Uncle Sam’s foray into domestic science, urging homes be viewed as factories for comfort with tools and furnishings chosen for beauty, utility, and economy to aid wives and families.
The administration announced a grayfish preparation policy via Secretary Redfield. The recipe calls for one can gray fish, one pint boiled potatoes, one teaspoon butter with salt and pepper. Flake, mix, fry in buttered pan, heat through, brown bottom, then plate brown side up.
An advertisement claims kidneys filter toxins from blood and that drinking pure water plus Anuric can delay aging. It touts Anuric as 37 times stronger than lithia and dissolving uric acid, plus a testimonial endorsing Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for womanly trouble with no alcohol or narcotics.
Public health service notes two phases in Philippine sanitation. From 1898 to 1908 epidemic disease elimination. from 1906 onward constructive sanitation with artesian wells improving water supply. Pasig town data show 1914 mortality 64.? per thousand vs 82 in 1908, cholera absent by 1914, sanitation laws enacted improving conditions.
Sir John Jellicoe recalls a bitter Scottish train night with a flask and a Scotsman. A converted tennis frame becomes a campstool. A humorous groans exchange unfolds over a domestic scene. A patent grants a trunk adaptable to a bath tub.
A brief item notes a hicoaster seeking an opportunity to prove themselves and turn a prior setback into progress, inviting support or chances to redeem reputation.
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