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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
7
A notice-like feature reports a woman named Stella Blocker from Leander Louisiana who recovered from chronic headaches and weakness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. It explains headaches arise from blood issues and other illnesses and that these pills renew the blood, easing pain permanently. Blocker described years of weakness including fever and liver and kidney concerns resolved after three boxes.
A fragmentary dialogue from a newspaper appears to joke about money's power in life and philosophy. The text references Dustin Stax, a Washington Star line, and scattered phrases about indigestion and cures, with garbled midsection suggesting misread ad content and misprinted medical claims. The jumble includes mentions of syrup and pills and a rushed note about a volcanic island.
Mes Pare of Glasgow Kentucky describes chronic kidney trouble with back pain and variable urine. She says kidney pills restored normal secretions, reduced inflammation, stopped burning, improved rest, and left her stronger and healthier overall.
The Cosmos report by Jules Rudolph discusses a Brazilian potato Solanum Commersoni, noting its vigor and drought tolerance, but finds the tubers bitter and not yet edible. It traces origins to Dunal 1822 and credits Dr. Heckel with early cultivation while calling for years of refinement through selection and hybridization before market readiness.
Pennsylvania experiment station warns farmers to slow use of calf meals marketed as milk substitutes. They are costly and not proven full substitutes though useful as supplements. England and American practices vary, with flaxseed and linseed meal as main ingredients and a two gallon daily preparation to replace milk after two weeks.
A practical note on constructing hog pens with concrete floors. The suggestion is to add a false wooden floor using two by four inch lumber to create feed and sleeping areas within one pen.
A two section false floor rests on cleats inside a cattle pen to avoid rheumatism from concrete floors. The design is shown in the cut and is used at Michigan Agricultural College. Details are in Farmers' Bulletin No. 205.
Infertile eggs should be removed from nests after one or two days of incubation. Candling reveals infertile eggs early, allowing reuse of viable eggs and better hatch rates. The same applies to incubators, as infertile eggs cause losses. detect within two days as fertile eggs turn cloudy while infertile stay clear.
A three-A harrow with a frame of 2x4s oak or hickory resists splitting. Build any width with a brace of hard wood plank one inch thick six inches wide bolted side to side and a circular brace from an old wagon tire. Three horses may pull it as with two for three times the pulverizing output. Never play with a young bull.
The St Louis Globe Democrat summarizes Taft era reports praising order and growth in the Philippines. Education expands with rising English learners, school enrollment climbs from 183000 in 1903 to 263000 in 1904, wages rise, taxes decline, and a fixed currency replaces old coinage. Calls grow for United States admission of Philippine products and planned railway and internal improvements to boost prosperity and a bright future.
The Philippines post on Mindanao, Fort Ferando Keithley, honors Private Fernando Keithley of Company H, Twenty-eighth Infantry, for distinguished bravery during a Moros attack near Marahui. Keithley, mortally wounded, stood his ground firing until he collapsed, earning posthumous recognition from General Corbin.
The report notes 91 of 100 Filipinos are Christians while literacy remains at one fifth for those over ten. Hemp is the main export. roads are few and poverty limits production. The piece argues colonizers are teaching literacy and seek to provide stimulus and opportunity to spur productive labor.
Beal notes Santago de Cuba endured the heaviest rainfall for a short duration, with an English engineer measuring over four inches per hour. Between seven and ten pm, more than a foot fell at the station, and the storm spanned about 300 square miles with heavier totals in some areas.
The wreck of the French battleship Sully on the Cochin China coast caused a quantified loss of 5 609 900 dollars.
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