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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1904
Page
3
A Chicago woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after years of weakness and womb trouble. She says three bottles rebuilt her strength, improved sleep, and rid her body of disease, urging others to seek Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
The Overland Route builders completed a bridge and track cut off across Great Salt Lake between Ogden Utah and Lucia Nevada, shortening the transcontinental line. The 102 mile route includes 72 miles on trestle and fill, eliminating steep grades and saving days of operation, with opening celebrated on Thanksgiving Day by Harriman Lines leaders.
Mississippis legislature pages recount a string of sessions from January 13 to 21 with brief adjournments for inaugurations. Key items include bills on highway work, education, pensions for ex Confederates, Jim Crow rail car segregation, and a push for a five judge Supreme Court and longer terms.
Design outlines a compact poultry house for about 100 fowls, block plan to hold 20 per pen, with attached yards 150 feet long for confinement and cleanliness. An alleyway of about three and one half feet provides access. note care and space recommendations for efficient farm use.
A detailed guide from Farm and Home outlines a southerly oriented, well drained chicken house with sound lumber, double siding, and building paper. Foundations may be stone brick piers or posts, with six light casement windows, a heated shutter, a raised earth floor, roosts above a litter preventing platform, and nests near the partition for easy gathering. Estimated cost ranges from 210 to 3 per run, depending on materials and labor.
Brice Haynes in Poultry Success advises cautious medicine for flocks and promotes ordinary plastering lime as a versatile, cheap remedy. It disinfects, masks odors, dries wet areas, boosts laying, and may stop cholera threats while acting passively overnight. Lime supports dust boxes, nest corners, and garden pest control, with broad quoted usefulness.
The article describes a simple ditch grading tool made from a 16 foot board with a rising end to create a three eighths inch grade. It explains using a carpenter level and adjusting until the bubble shows level, applicable for surveying irrigation ditches on a ranch. It also touches on foul brood microbes in honey and a apianist note on storing honey to prevent bee keeping issues.
Advertorial letter promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as the great kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims powerful cures for kidney trouble with testimonials and an offer of free samples and an information book. The note urges readers to send for a sample bottle and coupon.
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