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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1921
Page
10
Article by William A. Radford urges hog raisers to provide ample sunshine and ventilation in pig houses to reduce disease and improve pig survival. It notes cheaper building costs, advises planning with local dealers, and emphasizes outdoor access for pigs when weather allows.
An article warns Poison Ivy as a deadly plant with oily irritant poison that can cause severe inflammation from skin contact or ingestion. It notes exposure through clothing and animals and explains a sunlit concrete pig pen design that promotes health by ventilation and sunlight while illustrating how poison can spread indoors.
The Boston Common was bought by the people of Boston in 1034 from owner William Blackstone for a nominal price. An assessment charged a few shillings per householder, establishing common land where townspeople could pasture cows. As a boy, Ralph W. Boerson tended his mother’s cow there, and the Common later served as a British troop training ground before the Revolution.
The piece argues that self estimate is unreliable and performance reveals power. It contrasts egotistical fools who claim destined greatness with great men who doubt their abilities even after discovery, noting the world’s skewed sense of personal power.
The text recalls a site used for executions in early Colonial times where witches and Quakers were put to death, noting it as a historical place of execution during that era.
In Chinese schools a teacher writes a sentiment or proverb on red paper and pastes it on the door before noon recess. Each boy reads the slip on his way out and returns a two line couplet later in the day, creating a collaborative verse exchange.
The article notes Prof Roy L Moodle describes how ancient peoples believed headaches were demons. They sought relief by trepanation performed by shamans, often without regard to age, with skull openings found in burial mounds near Paris.
Chesterton admires Dickens for foreseeing social change and being more modern than Thackeray. He notes Dickens realized society shifting, while Thackeray did not. Dickens is not a socialist but depicted 19th century transformation clearly. Thackeray has become classical, Dickens remains modern in Chesterton’s assessment.
Dr Sundt of Predrika vern Coast Hospital in Norway reports in a pamphlet that 48 per cent of hip joint disease in children is not tuberculosis. He divided cases into groups including a no treatment group and found after two years the outcomes were as good as immobilized cases.
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a humorous exchange about a film play. A professional humorist praises the work as good comedy but remarks no laughter from the audience. The remark about a brother artisan and feverish laughter references wood work.
In a breezy animal tale, the Rocky Mountain Sheep praise all weather as healthy and brave climbing proves them sure-footed. They reject umbrellas and hats, boast their horns, and note Old Man Weather does as he pleases while creatures fuss about rain and heat.
A short humorous exchange features a child asking why his father lacks hair and a mother replying with a playful witchcraft insinuation. The dialogue shifts as the child is told to go away and mind his business, reflecting lighthearted 19th century magazine humor.
A playful exchange riffs on geometry by asking if teachers are book normals. The punchline reveals geometry teachers as angle worms, turning a pun into a light science joke.
USDA researchers pursue an intensive program to stamp out potato wart found in 17 villages across Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland. Trials used steam heat and chemical soil treatments but none fully eradicated the disease yet, keeping the goal of complete eradication in doubt.
Poultry specialists from the United States Department of Agriculture urge farmers to keep nests clean with one nest per four hens, gather eggs twice daily, store them in a cool dry place, market eggs at least twice weekly, and promptly sell or confine all male birds after the hatching season ends.
Poultry specialists advise a morning grain feed for 20 to 25 hens, four or five handfuls or about half a pint scattered in litter to urge scratching and exercise. If table scraps are scarce, provide a noon or night grain feed as much as hens will clean up, with summer option of scattering outdoors. A recommended mix is equal parts wheat, cracked corn, and oats, or two parts cracked corn to one part barley.
A Massachusetts woman recalls how her husband urged Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after medical warnings of an operation. She says four months of limited work and illness gave way to improved health and an easier eighth birth, praising the remedy to friends.
In a criminal case the defendant recalls his lawyer’s plea and tearful performance. The other man asks for the bill and the figure is about $100 a year, as noted by the Boston Transcript.
Purity and effectiveness claimed for Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root a vegetable herb based medicine. Not a stimulant taken in teaspoonful doses marketed as a universal helper for kidney liver and bladder troubles available in two bottle sizes with sample requests offered by mail.
A terse exchange on social hierarchy jokes about office holders and office scolders dividing the population into distinct classes. The remark plays on authority and public figures.
An old notice cautions shoppers to insist on the Bayer name on Aspirin for genuine medical use. It warns that only Bayer tablets are safe and approved for colds, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago, and general pain amid mentions of small tin boxes and larger drugstore packages.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura products for scalp itching and rough skin. It recommends rubbing Cuticura Ointment on irritated spots, washing with Cuticura Soap, and using hot water, then making these preparations a daily routine for clear skin and soft hands.
A humorous exchange shows a wife asking what to gift her mother for her birthday and a partner replying jokingly to send her home if possible. The snippet reflects light domestic banter and a casual tone.
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