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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
3
A state college agriculturist argues farming success requires both intellect and muscle. He contrasts crude clod crushers built from rough planks with a rational, well‑constructed drag using multiple boards, bolts, and seats. The piece emphasizes efficiency, form, and material choices for effective soil leveling.
The text outlines four drag board setups A to D describing how slanted boards interact with clods when dragged from different directions. It explains which sections ride over, press, or smooth the surface to achieve a flat field.
J G Allshouse explains multiple drag constructions using four inch and six inch boards, with widths from three feet to about nine feet. Designs include beveling edges, cleats, a mower seat, and a folding slab float made from nine foot slabs. Features hinge joins, old wagon poles for tongues, and adaptability to uneven ground.
The article lists corn derivatives and by products such as glucose in three kinds and crystal glucose in four, grape sugar, anhydrous sugar, pearl and powdered starch, refined grits, flourine, four kinds of dextrine, corn oil and corn oil cake, gluten meal, and rich feeds for cattle. It notes uses across breweries, bakeries, leather, jelly making, fruit preserving, textiles, papermaking, and adhesives. It mentions gum substitutes like British gum and granulated gum as alternatives to gum arabic.
Rural World urges humane care for flocks with tips on parasite control water quality and shelter. It stresses grazing on warm dry nights with pure drinking water, strong fences, and shade, noting hills as ideal sheep pastures and many unused ranges.
The article argues that breaking a colt when a few days old makes harnessing easier and stresses that early care and feeding determine the animal's future usefulness. It emphasizes that good nutrition in the first two years, especially the first year, yields a better horse.
The young lineman confesses his nerves and says he is short circuited while proposing to Millie. She responds with a warm affirmative, jokes about love’s current, and romance resumes along a rose-embowered path.
A Kiowa county settlement story from New Hampshire natives shows terse humor as two men greet with minimal words and exchange jokes about horses and bets. A later anecdote notes a kitchen maid Serena with recurring hay fever, as told in the Chicago Tribune.
Markets across cities show varied quotes for grains cattle hogs and dairy. Notable figures include flour prices in New York and Cleveland with patent and winter wheats. livestock prices for cattle veals sheep and hogs in multiple districts. oats corn butter cheese and potatoes also listed with range quotes.
The Chicago Tribune Herald notes a dream where a woman, paralyzed and unable to move, imagines a speeding horseless carriage bearing down with blazing lamps like eyes. A man interrupts, saying the horseless carriage has arrived, linking the dream to a premature arrival of a new era.
A Memphis father writes that his child was badly burned by hot soup last June, but Palmer's Lotion provided instant relief and rapid healing with no scars. He notes the product’s effectiveness and offers a pamphlet and lotion sample from Solon Palmer in New York.
A collection of stray quotes and brief ads from early 20th century newspapers. Items include health remedies such as Laxative Bromo Quinine and Piso's Cure, product plugs for Carter's Ink and Purnam dyes, and witticisms on manners and speech. The tone mimics syndicated filler and consumer notices.
Letters from Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Cons. E. Johnson of Rumford Center Maine praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relieving female ailments. Dates span November 1897 to June 1899, noting irregular menses bloating back pain and improved health after using multiple bottles.
Low-rate excursions on Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route offer half-price round trips plus $2.00 to the West Southwest and Southeast. Tickets on sale Tuesdays Sept 4 and 18 Oct 2 and 16 Nov 6 and 20 and Dec 4 and 18 1900. For full information contact agents or H C Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Mo.
In this Detroit Journal reflection a credulous man is defined as one who believes every motion of a baseball pitcher is essential. The piece questions the necessity of a pitcher's every action and mocks overthinking in sport.
Comfortable and inexpensive railroad tour leaves each Wednesday from Chicago and St Louis, converges at Denver, visits Salt Lake City, Ogden, and the California coast. A special agent leads each party. sleeping cars are clean and comfortable. Send 6 cents for a 72 page illustrated book. F. E. Bell, City Passenger Agent, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway, 211 Clark Street, Chicago.
A quoted exchange about a chaperone features a war correspondent praising her absence of press censorship, reflecting a light, satirical tone from Puck.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement promotes health and describes gentle effects on the liver and kidneys. It lists price points at 25 and 50 cents and mentions relief from sick headache.
Dialogue excerpt shows Newrich accusing Struckoyle in Paris influenced by Parisians while Puck questions if he is calling him a robber. The exchange hints at mistaken theft allegations amid social mimicry and cultural setting.
An advertisement landscape features Ayer's Hair Vigor and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral alongside Ayer's Comatone, showcasing the family of medicines marketed by the patent medicine firm and their health claims to readers.
A brief notice touts Burnham's Hasty Jellycan dissolvable in hot water for quick jelly. It promises pure gelatine sugar and fruit flavors lemon orange raspberry strawberry wild cherry peach and an unflavored calf’s foot variety for wine and coffee jelly available at grocers.
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