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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
8
Guidelines for placing evergreen trees to reduce snow exposure and form a hedge. Spruce should be 20 feet apart long term, 10 feet now, with hedge spacing three feet for spruce or 18 inches for cedar. Leave 13 to 15 feet in front of terraces for a path, plant shrubs along sides, and transplant this spring after ground dries.
A guide explains saving girdled trees by bridge grafting with thin wedge shaped scions and wax sealing. It also notes farmers at Ohio State University study farm accounts to compare profitable land handling methods and field experiments across different plots.
A Kansas City puree food inspector found a sack marked 112 pounds of potatoes contained 98 pounds of potatoes and 14 pounds of dirt. The state board of health will prosecute sellers of dirt for tubers.
Florence Myrtle Harris testifies she believes her aunt Pearl Armstrong plotted to kill her husband George Armatrong using calomel poison, carbolic acid capsules, and strychnine. stomach analysis pending at Indiana University Bloomington lab.
Wilbur Wright cites a vivid magazine tale of aeroplanes from Dayton. He argues the piece is flawed and beyond real capability, contrasting it with a local anecdote about George Kettle of Trotwood insisting a telegraph to his wife be sent with a package of her teeth.
A prompt janitor rushes to a coal hole after a man falls in, with a bystander shouting a warning. The scene suggests a sudden casual workplace incident requiring immediate attention.
Letters praise Cuticura for curing a 25 year scalp and neck humor after doctors and hospital failed. A Boston man, P Keyes, reports rapid relief from a long agony. Another Philadelphia user, Wm J Sadlier, notes clear skin after ten days with Cuticura products. An unrelated Puck cartoon quip about domestic quirks closes.
An instruction on rat control using Rough on Rats mixed with food and placed under floors. It advises blocking larger openings but leaving small ones for rats to enter and exit. Cites packaging price 15c 5c 75e and notes Wells Jersey City NJ as source. Also includes a joke from The Circle.
A public health warning cautions against catarrh ointments containing mercury. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective when taken internally. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation and notes a strike among shirt waist makers with a brief market side remark.
The text prescribes a mixture of half a pint of whiskey one ounce balmwort and two ounces glycerine shaken and taken by tablespoon three to six times daily claiming it will check prevent and cure colds and lagripne faster than any other remedy and that any druggist can supply it. It ends with a self empowering line about personal resilience.
In a domestic scene a wife tearsfully plans a three week rest in the country to escape alleged abuse. Her husband rushes to the station, packs trunks, then she reveals she will not go, ending the trip before it starts.
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