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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1929
Page
3
Dr Richardson notes that mind and body share health. daily diet should include nourishing foods. Spinach is praised as a top green vegetable. tips cover washing with a spray, quick cooking, avoiding soda, draining and buttering, and introducing children to its taste with ideas like tiny egg made from carrots or turnips and cream of spinach soup.
A diverse farm advisory note covers mulching strawberry beds after ground freezes, using red clover as livestock protein, sow exercise through winter with corn foraging, and maintaining dairy cleanliness. It discusses soil adaptation, USDA surveys, and planning legume crops by locality and lime content, with examples across regions and crops like velvet beans cowpeas and hairy vetch.
Cozy kitchen advice on yeast raised pastries and simple canning. Guidance on combining laundry space with cooking in one room, making spiced peaches from canned fruit, and notes on January white sales for children's clothes. Mentions a free Bureau of Home Economics leaflet Dress for the Little Girl Leaflet 26 L.
Dairy specialists of the U S Department of Agriculture say cows require sufficient lime in their ration. Legume hay supplies lime better than non legume hay, with alfalfa yielding far more lime per acre than timothy. High producing cows on lime deficient rations must draw lime from their bodies.
Early in 1886 Dr Benjamin Den Ron son a Tennesse medical graduate went to Bouttenstern India ma to practice among the Checotaw Indians. The witches belief persisted until Den Ron offered suggestive therapies claiming witch killing as his specialty and his treatments often succeeded. Over years Choctaw education spread and returned home with word there are no witches, ending the practice.
An article by Dr. H. C. Solomon in Hygela Magnane argues that heredity raises the risk of mental disorders across generations when many ancestors show such conditions, but sporadic cases in a family do not strongly predict future transmission. He notes similar percentages of disorders in ascendants of both affected and random well individuals, suggesting complex heredity.
A playful observation notes men enjoy compliments on aging while women take offense. It suggests many young women feel flattered by Cupid’s aim on romance, whereas financial concerns loom as others worry about expenses. The piece humorously contrasts social flirtations with practical money pressures.
Ellen Churchill Semple, serving as bulle tin of the American Geographic Society, says southeastern Kentucky inhabitants are the purest Anglo-Saxon stock in the United States with little intermixture. Descendants of early Virginia and North Carolina migrants, the stock is mainly Magtish and Scotch Irish, Teutonic in origin, with rare French Huguenot traces and few German names from Pennsylvania Dutch settlers.
A historical note explains dense winter fogs in maritime cities as cumulus clouds resting near the ground. Impurities like soot in the fog make it unpleasant, while sea fog is similar but cleaner. Fog from low-lying areas is typically shallow though some rise to 2,500 feet.
The article traces the history of Dude ranches across Texas, the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming. Howard Eaton, a pioneer, moved from Pittsburgh to Dakota in 1847 and began inviting friends to visit. Guests soon became paying visitors, prompting Eaton to move to Wyoming and start another ranch, inspiring many more of the same kind.
The brain is a dense forest where thoughts blaze trails. Once a thought passes, it becomes easier for similar thoughts to recur. Habit forms like reusing the same crease in folded paper. To cultivate cheerfulness, repeatedly send cheerful thoughts until the mental path is fully established.
A dialogue from the Christian Advocate shows an odd job man proposing tasks for the morning double digging the kitchen garden cutting down a tree and preparing timber for firewood cleaning sheds servicing a mowing machine and washing a dog named Fluffy a lighthearted kitchen notice.
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