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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1916
Page
7
A Denison Texas woman recounts relief from debilitating female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with curing daily chills hot flashes dizziness and near collapse and urges others to start treatment promptly.
A sharp quip notes the only way to challenge a will is to let the undertaker finish his part and then hire a lawyer. The line uses dark humor to imply legal action follows death and probate.
Mrs. C P Buckley of Baldwin praises Benzomint from Milburn Pharmacy Co. for three years as effective for sore throat and tonsillitis in children and notes it often cures without a doctor. She keeps a bottle at home and recommends it via Ady urging patrons to ask their local druggist.
A dialogue shows a man blocked by her thoughts on marriage for money. He asks why she doesn’t marry for money while hinting the girl in the case entertained similar thoughts.
This advertising notice promotes fragrant, creamy emollients for skin, scalp, and hands, claiming cleanliness and economy. It offers free samples by mail with a Book Address postcard to Cuticura Dept. L in Boston and notes the product is sold everywhere for nursery and toilet use.
A newly patented holder adapts safety razor blades for tailors and dressmakers to rip seams. It enables controlled cutting with familiar blade edge and handling, expanding use beyond shaving. The invention targets garment construction and alteration tasks requiring quick seam opening.
Advertisement claims meat forms uric acid that overworks kidneys. Recommends four ounces of Jad Salts daily in water before breakfast to neutralize acids, flush waste, and improve kidney and bladder health. Describes symptoms of dull kidney pain, backache, indigestion, and rheumatic twinges and promotes Jad Salts as harmless and inexpensive.
A traveler from New York tells the Minot North Carolina hotel keeper his name, prompting the host to note a man with the same name in Butte Montana. The exchange underlines how tiny the world can be for a lone traveler.
A New York World quip features a patient asking for cold relief and a companion suggesting quinine while the other hopes for rock and rye. The brief humorous dialogue reflects vintage newspaper snappiness.
An advertisement urges readers to take Laxa Tio 3 Brom Quininh when a cold is near claiming it removes the cause of colds and grip. The box shows Groves signature. A closing note hints at a cautious dignified man with limited knowledge.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a laxative that cleanses the stomach and bowels overnight. It claims the product removes sour food and bile, relieves constipation, and costs 10 cents a box. The ad also notes General von Hindenburg as a chess expert.
Geese remain a profitable venture with Toulouse and Emden as dominant breeds. Emden offers rapid early meat, while Toulouse supplies Christmas markets though grows slowly. Goslings show high hardiness but need green food, dry housing, and non wooden floors to prevent leg weakness.
Finely screened coal ashes provide the best dust bath by penetrating feathers and suffocating parasites. Wood ashes are finer but lime harms plumage. Coal ashes on poultry floors help destroy mites and odors, with birds ingesting useful minerals. Dust from road debris aids dust boxes. farms should stock for winter use.
Many deaths among poultry arise from moldy feed and litter in houses. Mold causes a fatal disease called lungers, with drowsy birds, drooping wings, rapid breathing and white diarrhea. Prevention relies on sanitary chickenhouses and spring cleaning to avoid such illnesses.
The old method of carrying fowls by the feet heads down is cruel and rarely seen on a practical farm today. The proper method places the bird's body on the arm while the feet are firmly held with the hand.
The article notes that feeding grain at night supports poultry comfort during freezing temperatures and that the season allows more corn to be utilized to advantage. It emphasizes the benefits of a full crop at night for birds.
The article explains that a pullet is a female under one year, a hen after maturity. A cockerel is a male under one year, with breeding cockerels arriving after one year. It cautions that pullets stay under eighteen months, and cockerels should not breed before one year. A pullet may lay at six months and be bred at nine.
The article notes buttermilk and skim milk are highly useful on farms not mainly for food energy but for digestion and overall vitality. It reports that added milk increases consumption of other foods and boosts growth, with pronounced gains when skim milk is fed. buttermilk aids laying hens, especially in winter, and can be fed in mash or drinking water.
The dust bath is essential for fowls health and proper care. Provide facilities and a liberal supply of ashes. If lice or mites are feared, mix pulverized sulfur into the bath for added effectiveness.
The egg eating habit is usually prevented by trap nests. The hen acts as a machine for making eggs and flesh from raw material.
Sir Thomas White outlines war revenue plans taxing profits above seven percent for incorporated firms and ten percent for unincorporated ones, with a quarter of excess profits due. Exemptions include life insurers, small capital, and agricultural ventures. Affects big firms. farmers largely shielded. minor customs increases proposed. Then a humorous note about a noisy baby follows.
Advertises True Mustarine from Begg Medicine Co. Rochester NY as a cheap asthma aid. Claims to ease breath, stop wheezing, and provide chest application from throat to stomach. Also touts relief for rheumatism lumbago and neuralgia. Readily available through druggists.
Marine Eye Remedy Co of Chicago offers a salve style eye product claiming exposure relief. The ad asserts Marine after Exposure in Cold Winds and Dust restores refreshes and promotes eye health and invites requests for an eye book.
Statisticians report Pennsylvania had 7,000 woman farmers last year. In Georgia the female farming population more than doubled over three years. Most women focus on hogs cattle and crops while men handle cotton planting.
Mrs. Anna Sellers of Lock Haven Pennsylvania says Father John's Medicine saved her boy's life from birth and that the product is safe for children and adults since it contains no opiates or dangerous drugs. She urges others to begin taking it today for strength and health.
A Chicago inventor has patented an attachment allowing a phonograph to function as a burglar alarm. A new table fan with horizontal blades and a dish on top for flowers or fruit is introduced.
Eminent physicians warn that digested food putrifies in the intestines and is absorbed into the blood, poisoning the system. Self poisoning causes kidney and blood illnesses, chronic heart disease, and other ailments. Dr David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy is advertised as a tested solution to cleanse the bowels and restore digestion and kidney function.
A missionary named Kamel transported camellias from Japan to France. The note places the botanical transfer within a historical missionary travel context.
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