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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1917
Page
4
An article by V M Pierce M D discusses premature death in younger people linked to kidney degeneration. It urges preventing autointoxication by drinking pure water and taking Anuric before meals to ease rheumatism dropsical swelling and other kidney related symptoms.
Fort Wayne reader Mrs A T Coggesshall describes improved stomach condition blood health and sores after using Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and All Healing Salve She reports renewed strength and health and notes a trial offer for the tablets.
The frontier days committee plans a memorial for James Kid Wulloughby, a Wyoming cowboy who died in Los Angeles. Subscriptions pour in from pioneer plainsmen and former associates as the fund for the monument grows.
A brief item notes a tonic laxative effect of Quinine and mentions a Chinese postal surplus of 500000 gold for 1916. It recalls China’s postal service began in 1896, posted losses until 1913, then a rising surplus. Also a light exchange about envy in a dialogue.
An ad promotes ethine double strength for freckle removal promising rapid skin clearing with a guarantee and mentions a small amount needed. A brief humor snippet follows about courtesy exchanges and a bakery quip about rising bread prices.
Cincinnati authority says freezone lifts sore corn or callus with a few drops. A small bottle costs little and dries on contact without irritating surrounding skin. Readers urged to ask their druggist to stock freezone.
Anna Galigher extols the Runner duck as the most profitable and attractive of the family. Runners mature fast, weigh four to six pounds, lay white eggs of high quality, and fetch good prices. They require minimal water, forage well, and respond to careful feeding and housing. Better results come from ground or cooked grain and clean, dry housing with straw bedding.
The incubator and its room must be well ventilated and kept moist. Avoid strong drafts or excessive moisture or dryness as either extreme leads to uneven temperature, moldy eggs, excessive evaporation, and many weak or dead chicks. Ensure balanced humidity and airflow for healthy hatch rates.
In winter hens require green foods such as mangels carrots cabbage and sprouted oats. Hang greens for easy access and supplement with alfalfa clover leaves lawn clippings and soaked scraps. When insects are scarce provide bone and high quality beef scraps in convenient daily portions to meet dietary needs.
Fresh air is essential in poultry houses to keep them dry and sanitary. Damp housing increases illness in chickens. the station recommends winter ventilation via a muslin covered opening on the south side, sized 2 by 8 feet per 8 to 10 feet of house length, on hinges for easy raising on warm days.
The 13 mile road is a 40 foot wide waterproof macadam surface with eight inches of concrete and an elastic bituminous carpet. It aims to handle heavy hauling while separating slow truck traffic from lighter road users. The structure blends highway and railroad goals and could set a pattern for other cities.
An article by D Ward King argues for a nationwide highway system branching from major cities to every doorstep including villagers and farmers. It urges trunk lines with durable concrete or brick surfaces for heavy traffic and notes that less used roads may rely on water transport.
Discussion on road surfaces favors bound macadam or gravel in some regions where stone and gravel are available. Oiled roads may be economical. Minor wagon ways should stay native soil and be built with the road drag while opposition to road dragging stems from lack of information and narrow views.
Amid stormy talk of road taxation the key fact emerges that dragging dirt roads can shed water and improve their condition. The method involves farmers dragging from their front gates toward town, enabling low maintenance and better all round highways on earth.
The piece argues that improved roads lure city families outward by car to farms to visit, buy supplies, and support better farm-food production through increased traffic and engagement.
Article notes an unseen levy on road users, including horse-drawn and motor vehicles, caused by poor roads. It claims this invisible tax exceeds annual maintenance costs and affects owners who must fund repairs and wear. The piece frames poor infrastructure as a hidden financial burden.
The Demopolis Times notes indigo once dominated the Deep South’s money crops, predicting a potential hundred acre harvest would yield greater revenue than alfalfa cotton corn and peanuts. It argues indigo soils still exist and could regain value as world demand for dyestuffs rises postwar.
A child asks if the sick man is the doctor’s carpenter. Pa clarifies the man is not a carpenter and notes the doctor mentioned shingles as the illness.
In a tense family exchange Aunt Sarah gasps at John as he smokes. John remains calm and notes the cigarettes belong to his mother, prompting a startled reaction from the aunt.
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