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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1914
Page
8
In editorials from the Louisville Herald the writer argues for freeing inmates to make room in prisons and to punish new crooks profiting from wartime shortages. The piece condemns price gouging in beef and sugar, hunger among children, and crowded tenements as motives to release old offenders.
In hay shortages farmers use kaffir corn fodder to roughen forage for work horses. It reduces stall waste and saves hay, though it adds mess. Mixing in some hay maintains palate. cutting heads improves grain roughness balance. Cane fodder is similar but seeds and juice sour in damp weather. better for cattle. Corn fodder is less favored by horses. Cold weather boosts fodder use to bridge hay shortages.
Rye does not draw excessive plant food from soil but pulls from existing natural reserves. It thrives on poorer soils and only depletes a lean nutrient stock. It does not demand richer soil or heavy manure more than other crops.
The silo is the only effective method to preserve feeding elements in corn plants, though it adds no nutrients. Fermentation causes slight losses but increases palatability, making silage advantageous for feeding.
The article notes manure boosts swamp and muck soils by increasing available nitrogen. It advises applying rotted manure to light and clay soils before crop needs, warns against excessive unrotted manure in dry or warm climates, and favors well rotted manure for cereals tobacco potatoes and sugar beets. It also discusses climate influence and timing for spring and fall applications.
An ad touts Sloan's Liniment as quick relief for lumbago and rheumatic back pain. Promises near instant comfort by topical application, recommends a 25 cent bottle for use on sore muscles and related ailments with money back if not satisfied. Includes an additional note promoting Burdock Blood Bitters for digestion and purification of blood at $1.00.
Professor Strakosch of Vienna compares economic plants as workers on a farm, measuring how much soil material they require to produce value. Jerusalem artichoke leads in efficiency, producing 7127 pounds of starch per acre with a $20 soil cost and a $116 net balance, followed by beer and corn in the top ranks.
A small booklet of Gouraud's Oriental Beauty Leaves is marketed for women to carry in purses. The leaves provide perfumed skin application, prevent spills, and remove dirt and grease, leaving a cool bloom. Priced at ten counts, available from 42 F. Hopkins, 37 Great Jones St., New York.
Ants trouble mushroom beds and a simple control suggests laying fresh bones around infested spots. The ants feed on the bones and, once collected, can be destroyed.
A vintage advertisement claims Dr King’s New Discovery relieves colds and soothes coughs, praised as pleasant antiseptic healing. It includes a testimonial from Lewis Chamberlain of Manchester Ohio and promises money back if not satisfied. The piece ends with an unrelated census note on Canada’s native population.
A Homer City Pennsylvania resident R FE Roberts praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He has used it for years and says it never fails to give the desired results. Sold by all dealers. Adv.
The article stresses that high grade butter requires scientific farming methods and strict cleanliness. It highlights the farmer's wife often handling butter, the importance of clean milk, well bedded cows, daily grooming, and sanitary dairy utensils washed in lukewarm and scalding water.
What would you do right now if you had a severe cold. Chamberlains Cough Remedy is highly recommended by users who have relied on it for years. Mrs E Sargent of Peru Indiana praises its value.
Mrs. Joseph Kallans of Indiana reports belching sour stomach and headaches eased by Chamberlain’s Tablets. She says the remedy improved digestion and regulated bowels, noting she is entirely well. Ad sells through all dealers. A court etiquette note discusses a king’s visit requiring backward walking.
Mrs Esther Mae Baker of Spencerport New York credits Chamberlains Tablets with curing bilious attacks and headaches and toning her whole system after months of use. A Hungarian diet bill proposed to compel women to render military service in war time away from the battlefield if enacted.
An old ad copy promotes Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney ills and Doan's Ointment for skin itching. A mention of a laxative product appears with a reference to sales at drug stores. The text also claims France as a major chicken raiser and cites a large income figure of 35,355,000,000 for the industry.
The list compiles longevity ranges for various animals. Rabbits about 7 years. squirrels or hares 7 to 8. sheep 10. cows ~15. dogs 14 to 18. cats 16 to 18. foxes 14 to 16. bears 20. pigs up to 20. rhinoceros 20. horses 20 to 25 with a record 62. stags 30. camels 40. tortoises a century. whales about 300. elephants up to 400 years.
Sarah Fossness of Lake Mills stepped off a wooden platform at a well when boards gave way and she fell about thirty feet to the bottom. She grasped the pump rod and called for help. rescuers arrived and pulled her up. Apart from fright she was uninjured. Also a 1912 motor car output estimate is given as 250000 to 285000 in the United States.
Mercury in catarrh ointments can damage smell and body systems. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally. ORIGINAL NOTICE in Winneshiek County Iowa warns defendants in a 1914 equity case about a real estate dispute and upcoming November term.
Notice announces Charles W. Mitchell named administrator of the estate of James T. Humphrey late of Hesper, Winneshiek County Iowa deceased intestate. He has bonded as required and all claims must be presented and debts paid through Decorah Iowa with Buice and Hook as attorneys dated October 12 1914.
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