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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
7
A Rochester reader testifies to relief from 61 leg ulcers after using Petersons Ointment. The Buffalo scientist endorses it and offers a money back guarantee. The ad promotes a large box for five cents and claims effectiveness on boils, burns, sunburn, eczema, itching and piles.
Green's August Flower proclaims fifty eight years of excellence for nervous dyspepsia sour stomach constipation indigestion torpid liver and related digestive issues. It claims global wide use in millions of homes and popularity in medicine shops with bottles priced at 90 cents and one dollar.
Indiana frogs supply in winter and fall. Frogs legs fetch 40 cents a dozen in market now, possibly 15 cents later. Suppy comes from Maine New York state, with largest legs from Indiana and Middle West. Cuticura ad promotes ointment and soap for dandruff itching and clear skin.
An editorial reflection on propriety as an essential companion to grace. It argues that dignified behavior underpins genuine refinement and social harmony, urging individuals to cultivate self restraint, courtesy, and honest bearing in all public and private dealings.
A real estate transaction underscores the primacy of deed transfers over verbal assurances. The deal centers on a property sale where title transfer and recorded instruments confirm ownership, shaping expected outcomes for buyer and seller.
The article describes an orchard plan using 40 foot permanent trees with 20 foot fillers, creating 25 percent permanent, 25 percent semi permanent, and 50 percent filler trees. Fillers yield earlier crops, help cover costs, and remain 12 to 15 years before removal, leaving permanents 40 feet apart after 25 to 30 years.
Leaf spot infection of cherry trees will kill trees over time if unmanaged. Control steps include plowing fallen leaves in fall and spraying lime sulphur next spring and about two weeks later, with possible follow up after harvest. weaker solution for sweet cherries due to higher susceptibility. use five quarts lime sulphur per fifty gallons for sour cherries, four quarts for sweets.
The phrase sow wild cats means youth excesses or dissipation with implied reform later. Originated among country folk in England, from wild cats a tall weed in grain fields. Dating to the Sixteenth century, it shifted from sowing worthless seed to a moral warning about wasted youth and wasted days.
An advertisement warns buyers that genuine Bayer Aspirin is only assured when the Bayer name appears on the package or tablets. The notice urges saying Bayer when purchasing and cautions that substitutes may be dangerous, claiming the product has been proven safe by millions and prescribed for 23 years.
The article explains ostracism from the Greek term ostrakon meaning a potsherd. Citizens named suspects on shells, placed them in an urn, and the council banished the person with the most votes, needing six thousand. The practice ended around 300 B C. Additionally an advertisement promotes Cole's Carbelisalve for skin burns and itching.
In New Jersey the Morris canal now drained reveals a dry bed thick with coal lumps from old barges. Small mounds of anthracite lie along the route, with Hackettstown and Port Murray residents collecting it as winter stock.
The note argues that population growth continues globally and links rising sin to social shifts. It questions whether mental firmness stems from truth or from prejudice, echoing a Detroit News perspective on moral and demographic trends.
The article urges orderly spray planning for spring and preplant seed potato treatment. It stresses pruning as core to orchard success, favoring one strong branch over two weak ones, and notes that proper tree cutting reduces yearly pruning needs. It also advises storing decaying produce, keeping roots and squash dry, and using fall plowing and cover crops to deter next year’s insect damage.
Argentina creates a national department of hygiene to teach health with lectures posters and modern methods. Railroad cars equipped with radio instruments moving-picture machines first aid disinfectants and health supplies tour rural districts. A child welfare division has been established.
Excavations at Baia Italy uncover two Bacchus and Cupid busts and a vessel virgin statue. Large water pipes bear inscriptions from the Septimus Severus era. Red alabaster African marbles feature Graeco Roman bas reliefs. Prejudice opposes progress.
Unmarried Mexican women carried a doll to signal a search for a husband, a remnant of the tradition that sparked the postwar doll craze felt across Europe and the United States, the report states.
A witty remark notes that a woman may resort to a headache as a universal excuse when other explanations fail. The line suggests the trope of blaming illness for avoidance or evasion. It reflects social humor of unspecified provenance.
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