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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
3
An Orange Jude Farmer describes a simple two barrel hog waterer using a galvanized float valve and piping. The system, buried to prevent freezing, keeps water level stable and allows hogs access without drowning risks. A second external barrel can be protected by straw or manure and hay.
A New York Tribune correspondent outlines thin sowing for wheat with rows 12 by 6 inches and yields up to 106 bushels per acre, plus examples of oats and rye. It also emphasizes sheep needs for fresh air and exercise and promotes open-field turnout and proper shed ventilation to maintain health.
In a Memphis Scimitar report a suburban wife orders a new servant to dress smartly. The woman arrives in a lavish evening dress with sparklers, claiming she is still the same worker, merely wearing rag-time clothes as requested. The master is astonished by the display.
A Pittsburgh professor known for calm temper challenges a trolley conductor who bans changing cars. He quips that he can change his mind at the station, illustrating a humorous anecdote amid assorted quips on success and women. The Indianapolis Journal compilation ends with witty lines on birth, indolence, and aristocratic airs.
A former commodore captain of a famous trans Atlantic line, usually polite to passengers below, is brusque on deck. A lady asks about fair weather duration and he retorts, Don’t know ma’am don't know, better ask the cook. She replies urging pardon and humor in the exchange reported by Collier's Weekly.
A Brooklyn Eagle recipe describes a coconut custard dessert. It instructs to cook sea moss farina with butter, whisk yolks with milk and add to the farina, then fold in fresh grated coconut and vanilla. After cooling, beat egg whites with sugar to form meringue shapes atop servings.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine promising daily bowel movements and health benefits. It claims gentle action on liver and kidneys, cures headache, with prices 25 and 50 cents. Text includes various quips and other vendor lines from Chicago Dispatch and local notices.
One hundred dollars reward offered for a catarrh cure that fails Hall's Catarrh Cure. J J Cheney & Co Toledo proprietors claim honesty in business. West Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists endorse the remedy. Cure taken internally and priced 75 cents per bottle. Testimonials free. Hall's Pills marketed as best.
In the exchange Clara recalls Mr. Cummings remarking that any man making gloves that wouldn’t button easily should quit. The reply suggests steering away from that business as advised.
Mrs Arch ie Young of West Superior Wisconsin credits 5 Drops with freeing her from five years of neuralgia pain. She says the first dose helped and she plans to spread the word among friends. Sample bottles cost 25 cents, large bottles with 300 doses sell for one dollar from Swan Gon Rheumatic Cure Co Chicago Illinois.
An Atchison man has spent his life under female rule with five daughters and a wife. He endured homeopathic pills over quinine and the Episcopal church over the Baptist until recently he was vaccinated by a woman doctor.
The article describes a heavy cardboard dissected map puzzle asking readers to assemble the United States and answer questions like which state is Panhandle, which is bounded by four straight lines. Send 10 cents to F. H. Lord at Chicago Great Western Railway to obtain the puzzle by mail.
A royal academician at a Rottingdean dinner claimed sugar and sumac are the only English words with su pronounced shu. The remark drew interest and prompted Rudyard Kipling to ask, are you quite sure, at the other end of the table.
The John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin received 6434 orders on February 26 a monster day and plans to double that by mid March. The firm reports strong demand for onions cabbage peas beans and early vegetables with popular items like Early Bird Radish and Lightning Cabbage driving sales.
Brakeman reports a train boy dropped dead in the baggage car moments ago. Conductor doubts natural causes, noting the man had a cigar in his mouth, suggesting a possible self-inflicted or obstructed heart condition.
The Overland Limited departs Chicago daily at 6 30 P M and reaches San Francisco on the third day with no car changes. It offers dining cars buffet smoking and library cars and barber service marketed as the best of everything. The Pacific Express runs nightly at 10 30 P M with through sleepers and first class service. Personal excursions are offered each Thursday, and tickets are sold via Chicago and North Western. For full information contact W B Knuskern at 22 Fifth Ave Chicago HI.
Grain-O marketed as a future coffee substitute made from pure grains with the taste and look of coffee. Claims to calm nerves and aid digestion, promotes health and strength, and urges readers to ask grocers for Grain-O. Also advertises various remedies and products with bold claims and quick cures.
A D A R club conversation recalls Governeur Morris as the financier who funded the government. Prof Sparks at the university spoke on Morris while attendees admit limited prior knowledge, noting Morris reportedly borrowed funds to finance the Revolutionary War era.
The dialogue follows Gilson and Willets as they joke about impressing a date at a French restaurant. One misstep after another leads to a string of dish disasters from soup with a dropped egg to rain omelette and eggs broiled in butter, ending with toothpicks for dessert.
An authority lecturing at a prominent women's club warned that his experiment would release gases that react with bismuth in face powders. He asked ladies using such powders to leave the room, and most of the audience fled, leaving only three sisters.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers round trip tickets at about half rate on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April to Tennessee Alabama Georgia and West Florida from Birmingham and Cincinnati. Contact P Sid Jones or Jackson Smith for details. The item includes a humorous Detroit Iree Press cartoon caption about extravagance.
The John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin touts 51 000 000 in 13 years and lists crops like rape bromus speltz and three care corn as profitable seeds. It offers 10 sample seeds and 10c postage for the game and seed samples.
Working women are urged to write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham for confidential guidance on health issues such as painful periods and backaches. The advertisement extols Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy and claims broad English-speaking recognition and widespread success.
Hon Geo Kersten a Chicago Justice of the Peace says nine years of catarrh were cured after 18 weeks on Peruna. He endorses Peruna as a universal safeguard and urges families to read Dr Hartman’s free book on winter catarrh at the Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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