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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
2
A vintage ad touts Danderine as a hair beauty tonic that can revive lifeless hair, restore color and vitality, and create long thick lustrous locks. It promotes a 15 cent bottle at drug or toilet counters to refresh the scalp and curb gruff falling hair, claiming rapid improvements and abundant hair. An unrelated note mentions scientific machine-operated farming could yield large grain outputs from American farms.
The notice discusses genuine Bayer Aspirin, labeled Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packaging, with directions for headache cold pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It notes nineteen years of physician acceptance and a small cost for a 12 tablet tin, highlighting Bayer as the trademark. The quoted dialogue implies a casual remark about a daughter learning piano.
United States Department of Agriculture and Purdue University find Bessie among premier dairy cows near Porter County Indiana based on two year study of 968 cows producing market milk for Chicago. The report details feed rations, labor, overhead, calf crops, and manure as factors in high milk production and net returns for dairymen.
A Binghamton New York woman reports over a year of extreme nervous distress. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and urges others with nervous prostration to try it. She notes relief from dizziness backache and menstrual irregularities and invites letters for advice.
The report notes that at an Ohio college 100 pounds of whole mills cost 68 cents when silage is fed and butter costs 18 cents per pound. Without silage average feed raises 100 pounds of whole milk cost to 1.95 dollars and butter to 22 cents. The same applies to beef. balanced rations use silage with limited cottonseed meal, clover hay, soybeans or cowpeas. Moldy silage should never be fed to stock.
Ten to fourteen days old calves need some grain. The silo is crucial to dairy farming. Butter taste varies with salt preference. Observant farmers see the need for more dairy cows to save on feed. Dairymen should weigh each cow's milk daily. Feeding and labor cost too much for low producers. Transporting whole milk long distances requires skill and knowledge to prevent souring.
Castor a Morgan gelding bred at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Middlebury Vermont farm finished with a clean speed record after day four in a 300 mile endurance race from Fort Ethan Allen Vermont to Camp Devens Massachusetts. Castor placed third for speed despite a nose injury and walking the last five miles, as the event showcased rehabilitation efforts for the Morgan breed and aimed to promote cavalry mount breeding across the United States. Colonel George rode Bob, who led early but did not finish. Rustem Bey and Ramta also competed. Maj. C A Benton retired as a judge for the bureau of animal industry.
A market report notes blemishes reduce prices by up to 50 or more for sound horses of the same type. It urges preventive breeding of thoroughly sound mares and stallions, acknowledging some colts may be defective yet argues for continuing to aim for quality to protect profit.
When piglets reach about three weeks they crave more than milk. Set a shallow trough out of reach of the sow, scald middlings with milk, add a tablespoon of molasses, and guide the piglets to the feed until they begin to eat by following the molasses scent.
Pigs should be kept in dry clean quarters and fed in clean troughs. They must not be exposed to cold rain or become chilled. Sows running through sth and then being tackled can cause pigs to scour.
Eupora Mississippi residents recount recovery from five year illness with Cardus tonic. B E Tedder describes severe pain and weakness eased after taking Cardus, claiming four years of health and renewed strength. Cardus advertised as a mild tonic built from harmless ingredients aiding body and nerves. Your druggist sells Cardus.
A vintage ad copy touts Dr King’s New Discord as the solution to stubborn colds throat coughs and croup claiming nationwide popularity and fifty years of relief. It urges readers to buy at druggists and try the remedy to avoid lingering illness.
An ad promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills as a gentle bowel cleansing remedy. It claims the product clears the system, reduces spasms, and supports comfortable daily function without harsh purgatives. Available at druggists.
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