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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
7
The Indianapolis News notes Mrs. Flannigan displays geraniums in front of her home wrapped in red white and blue paper with green ribbons signaling loyalty to both her native and adopted land. The article blends affection for patriotic decor with a digression on dew and plant vitality.
A sympathetic visitor quotes a line about stone walls and iron bars, while the convict retorts that confinement would prove the point. The exchange casts the limits of liberty in stark metaphor during a moment of dialogue.
Poultry experts advise cleaning and spraying coops and runs, treating birds with a kerosene lard mixture, greasing combs and wattles, and wetting yards with saltwater to prevent stick tight fleas. Fleas breed in cracks and dry refuse, thrive in dry ground, and can kill chicks or injure old fowls.
New York experiment station findings show oyster shells supply lime to help fowls lay more eggs. A pound provides enough lime for about seven dozen eggs, and birds balance their ration when given shell, ground bone, meat scraps, grit, and dry mash in front of them.
To control chicken lice, provide fowls ample dusting materials and space. Use dust, air slaked lime, ashes, or other light dusty substances and keep fresh damp earth available for scratching and dusting.
Many insist turkeys are difficult to raise and yield few eggs set. The main cause is poults becoming chilled or damp in the first weeks. After six weeks they are hardy, but early conditions determine success.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn remover costing a few cents. It claims quick relief by applying a drop on corns and calluses with no pain or irritation, marketed by druggists. The rest discusses wildlife tolls in India and a note on domestic storms in marriages.
Diners at a city restaurant enjoy a comical warning behind the counter stating Not responsible for Wearing Apears or pacages. The piece spoofs menu prices and patron remarks about the costly meals.
This advertisement claims catarrhal deafness arises from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local remedies. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as the constitutional cure that works through the blood and offers one hundred dollars for any uncured case, with The Chicago listing F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as suppliers.
A playfully framed quip exchange teases self importance and costliness. The Boston Transcript quotes a sweet line about life with a witty reply, reflecting humorous social banter. The brief remark contrasts sentiment with practicality.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming extensive testimonials and a money sample offer. It notes uric acid relief and rheumatic benefits with sample bottles by parcel post from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York and bottles sold in drug stores.
A witty exchange about a loan and a scrap of paper implying an unpaid obligation. The speaker notes Sponeleigh borrowed $20, then reveals the scribbled amount as a reminder that a scrap of paper may symbolize a debt never paid.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Bilups refusing Willie, who cries after losing part of his engine. Billups refuses to lend his false teeth for a cowcatcher provoking further yelling.
A witty exchange defines ripeness as musical merit and a loafer as a man without a bank account. The dialogue contrasts ambition with idle behavior in a compact moral note.
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