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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
6
An advertisement urges readers to replace calomel with Dodson's Liver Tone a safe pleasant vegetable liquid that cleanses the liver without causing salivation It claims calomel is dangerous mercury and warns of weakness sickness and nausea from its use The ad guarantees satisfaction or money back and targets both children and adults.
Advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children praising its taste and labeling on bottles. The text also mentions Dr C Widmer in a Berlin publication noting how attention to injury reactions in industrial work can prevent accidents.
An OCR fragment mixes aspirin ad copy for Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with claims about aspirin safety, pricing, packaging, and uses. It also includes unrelated lines about Bayer’s chemical composition, South America land claims, a liver remedy, and a New York judge's joke about love and insanity, all in a jumbled historical newspaper fragment.
The 1919 1920 sessions closed with diplomas at Furman University and Greenville Woman’s College. Thirty three Furman graduates, with Eugene Harrison winning a senior orator medal, and numerous prize recipients were named. The Greenville Woman’s College addressed by Dr Charles S Gardner, awarded 36 diplomas. Additional notes cover Lancaste r case mistrial, rural education appointments, Saluda American Legion progress, Baptist school graduates, and Clemson commencements. Gaffney reports Negro voter registration attempts amid rising applications.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture urges farmers to boost sorghum sirup production to relieve sugar shortages. It notes simple methods, small-scale profitability, and potential community plants. Yields reach 75 to 200 gallons per acre with 600 to 1,000 pounds of seed per acre.
Guidance on selecting a sweet sorghum variety for the North, planting spacing of four to six inches in rows three and a half feet apart, and seeding five to eight pounds per acre. Field readiness for syrup occurs in late dough stage. describes the juice mill with three iron rollers and an evaporator pan heated by fire or steam with steam coils.
Large quantities of alfalfa seed are imported from Turkestan. The U S Department of Agriculture says Turkestan alfalfa is inferior to native alfalfa grown in Kansas and Nebraska. It is less hardy and yields less hay, and seed commonly contains Russian knapweed seed, larger chalky white wedge shaped.
Careful study shows direct contact with infected animals is the main spread method in dairy stables. The common drinking trough aids transmission, and contaminated hay straw and feed with sputum or discharges from diseased animals also transmit the disease.
Instructions for making poison bait to control cutworms in corn fields. Mix 50 pounds bran or cornmeal with two pounds Paris green and two quarts cheap molasses to form a stiff dough. Add water to moisten if needed and scatter along the corn rows. Warns that the poison will also kill birds, advising caution.
A Nashville sightseeing trip turned eerie when a driver sped past a cemetery as a ghostly groan and a voice from the seat near him teased a boy. The car fled and disappeared, leaving the narrator to seek a return ride. The Houston Post notes the tale as a spooky, humorous night in the city.
A dialogue unfolds as Mr Dubson asks Miss Peacher to marry him. She mishears, thinking he said miles away. He clarifies the distance, about 150 miles, and notes the rival has moved to take a new post. The exchange hints at tension between rivals and distant plans.
A fragmented report describes a tense encounter where Major Moses greets a tall figure amid darkness, with lingering questions about allegiance and the fate of a local unit. The passage hints at a ceremonial salutation and possible trouble surrounding the Legion.
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