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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
6
A vintage ad touts kidney health and toxin removal. It claims skin and joints suffer from toxic buildup if kidneys are clogged, urging readers to buy Anurle tablets for 60 cents and drink hot water before meals. The piece attributes benefits to a Buffalo, New York doctor and promotes a health regimen.
Corunna Michigan resident Mrs Julia Montfort reports long kidney and bladder trouble with backache eased by a trial package of Anurinic from Dr W M Pierce Buffalo New York. She urges others to try the remedy and notes the doctor’s reputation and his other products.
A lyrical exchange describes heavenly music and silken skirts as a woman teases a man, comparing him to Whitman. He feels dizzy and dreams, she wittily says any Whitman poem fits, and the chat ends with a quip about weighing souls using a spirit level.
Soap and hot water bath plus Cuticura Ointment cure eczema and skin conditions. Daily use as toilet preparation helps prevent recurrences. Free sample by mail with Book from Cuticura, Dept. Boston. Cathedral in Rome can seat 54 thousand people.
F R Marshall of the Bureau of Animal Industry told the Kansas Sheep Breeders Association at the agricultural college that there is no decline in well established sheep husbandry. He urged farmers to make sheep a regular production, noting rising meat and wool values and advising a target flock of about 100 ewes or one per two acres.
Cabbage grows easily with rich soil and early varieties are valued for their timely harvest. Heads vary in shape from round to drum and flat to stone, with all types offering virtues. Cauliflower is nearly as easy but worm trouble makes it less popular with regular gardeners.
Beekeepers must ensure strong colonies in spring to secure a full honey flow. Weak overwintered colonies reduce population and hinder surplus crops, making the season a failure without timely strengthening.
Plant squash pumpkins and cucumbers in 3 to 4 inch pots under glass to start early. Transplant easily without root injury by dumping plant and placing in prepared soil. Early flowering and blooming occur before frost with less pollen mixing from other plants is avoided.
Chief Chemist Alsberg reports progress in reducing waste and creating by products from processing crops. Trials dried potatoes for stock feed and developed outlets for culled potatoes through starch glucose and dextrin. Canning waste yields useful by products, cherry pits offer bitter almond oil, and other by products supply ships jellies and alcohol. Farmers need outlets for surplus crops amid supply and demand dynamics.
Soy beans thrive in hot weather like corn and need the same soil preparation. Drill Boybentis and corn together, hogging off in the full. Three or four beans per foot in a row is proper when drilling with corn. If drilled alone, sow a bit thicker. As forage, soy beans match alfalfa in protein and are highly palatable and digestible.
The passage notes legumes such as soybeans fix nitrogen from air into the soil, advising inoculation when planting on new fields. It describes seedbed preparation, inoculation methods, and mentions varieties with early to late ripening. Medium varieties mature in about 110 days and can produce two to three tons of hay along with 20 to 80 bushels of seed per acre.
A promotional piece urges women to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, claiming extensive evidence of relief for female suffering and noting frequent publication of testimonials. It mentions social circles and a reference to Mrs. DeStyre in Society Whirl.
Members of the Social Target club near Mudlake Kansas City sportsmen watched a big flock of ducks drift while guns readied. A voice from the water cried hello and hunters realized a talking parrot perched on a muskrat house was the source. The scene ended with laughter as the parrot entertained bystanders.
Rumor swirls after a late night proposal involving Pull-Kidder and Miss old girl. Details are unclear whether the gesture was taken seriously as onlookers wonder about the firmness of the engagement.
A shopper asks for the price of an embroidered skirt while noting Madam plans to end skirts at the next table. She mentions the newly arrived cape collar as part of the display, signaling a forthcoming change in offerings.
Mayor Bates of Ithaca praises foreign language knowledge and recounts a visit to a Fifth Avenue restaurant. A local man misreads French menu items, mistaking mayonnaise for a dish, and complains about serving food on a plate and not a broug h. The tale humorously contrasts language barriers and dining customs in New York.
In a brief exchange, Mrs. Nagg seeks medical help for a tired feeling. The doctor questions her and asks to inspect her tongue as part of a routine check. The text then shifts to unrelated notes about milk’s aftertaste and sausages’ preparation.
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