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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1915
Page
7
A distressed farmwife complains of lower body pains and considers using Mrs Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The fragment hints at attempts to ease discomfort and references testimonial claims. Text is incomplete but centers on a rural woman seeking medical relief.
A mixed listing offers a Hamontel Porter Steam Engine with Auto Torhington Steam Pressure Water Pump, a Lubricator, exhaust heater, water traps, receiving tank and pulleys. Includes six inch face and ten inch face pulleys, shale, hangers and long ducts. Western Newspaper Union contact for prices. Also contains unrelated snippets about bird protection in East Indies and a humorous library anecdote.
Building Master Men Potash and related food additives are noted as vital ingredients alongside lime and sodium compounds. The text references Bernie Nel Werven and mentions faces and many other foods in a fragmentary context.
A fragment describes Grape Nuts as a pious dish served with cream or rich milk. It claims the food is splendid for workers and quickly absorbed into the system, going directly to the sinew and brain load.
An owner praising Percherons notes their superiority in cotton and wheat fields, towns, and farms. The letter cites a 1,900 pound mare and a well-bred stallion, highlighting their stamina, steady temperament, and ability to haul heavy loads with minimal feed relative to other breeds, urging buyers to consider their proven reliability.
Practical tips on keeping sheep healthy with foot cleaning and antiseptic washes, preventing sore soles, and choosing dry ground. Also notes on culling poor layers, feeding dogs, colts and crops, and the dangers of over or under feeding with emphasis on digestibility and pasture management.
Alfalfa seed contains stems pods weed seeds and stones that reduce value. Use a farming cleaning device to remove lighter materials and a set of sieves to separate weed seeds small stones and other debris from the seed.
Farmers overtake crop value to supplement pastures with sweet corn as field corn. The plan grows a quick fattening program by sowing early, medium and late varieties and feeding green ears at peak condition for hog categories. It promises value especially in any season.
A Colorado farm article stresses protecting cream during transport. It notes that even simple coverings like wet burlap can keep cream cooler by about 20 degrees, reducing spoilage from direct sun exposure en route to town or creamery.
Instructions emphasize careful selection and marking of seed bags to ensure high quality flowers and vegetables next year. It stresses saving seed from this year's crop, labeling bags clearly to keep seeds vermin-free and organized for future planting.
Instructions advise labeling seed bags with Mrs Brown s pansies and keeping any related notes or labeling in a location you want to maintain. Then hang the bags where mice or vermin cannot reach them.
Newsletter notes lambing timing for October, advising ewes enter winter quarters after lambs drop for better growth. Recommends milk-boosting feeds like Commensuage Roots clover hay with corn oats linseed meal and wheat bran. Warns about clogged tle drains, musty grain, and fertilizer costs, plus hogs seeking mud for cooling and a dairy cow’s monthly milk yield.
A 1920s farming column argues profitable feeding hinges on diversified, well adapted stock and careful farm planning. It stresses matching crops and livestock to soils and markets, using silos to preserve feed, providing ample water and shelter, and feeding combinations rather than single crops to boost profits.
Poultry needs shade and open air to avoid heat stress and disease. Provide earth floors with dust baths and ensure fresh cold water at least three times daily. Early seed corn selection and periodic flock refreshing with new blood improve returns. maintain dairy cows in good condition for best production.
A California study fed 107 native range steers, 970 pounds each, 46 days with daily rations of 10.6 lb alfalfa hay 20.2 lb silage and 0.4 lb rolled barley. Average daily gain was 1.653 lb per head. per pound of gain required 6.9 lb hay 13.1 lb silage and 5.4 lb barley. Silage quality described. some spoiled layer mid July. Also includes kerosene emulsion recipe and poultry stock buying guidance in January.
In the Fijian Islands the Fijians are Melanesian with Polynesian admixture, dark skin and coarse hair bleached with lime, wearing elaborate maps. They are proud, hospitable and industrious, especially in agriculture, with exports mainly sugar and pearl shells.
The article notes rising exports of copra cocoanut oil and cocos nuts with the total export trade reaching about 5 million dollars annually. It also offers a practical tip advising to wind a watch in the morning to maximize spring power for the day, warning that night winding weakens its resistance to daytime jolts.
Rich portrayal of Cracow before the war shows its central square, market stalls mostly run by Jews and peasants selling milk cheese vegetables and poultry. Peasant women in bright clothes burdened with heavy loads while geese become the focal point of market day as residents weigh purchases under a sabre-weighers gaze. The piece contrasts Cracow’s refined inhabitants with a history of sorrow and notes the city as Poland’s heart in bygone days.
A student, told the exam would ask about the first of the kings of Israel, learns this, but the paper contains no such question. He answers by distinguishing major and minor prophets, humorously claiming the kings of Israel are the holy men. The tale ends with the prompt exam question.
Ad copy touts Cuticura Ointment for red rough itchy pimply skin. Claims superior emollients for skin scalp hair and hands. Offers free sample by mail with postcard to Boston department XY. Mentions jokes and various ad lines from a period newspaper.
Tale from the middle West on a single-track collision where a talkative jewelry drummer survives a bump. A new doctor assures no major harm, while a hypochondriac questions his expertise. A judge questions a silent approach as the running board rattles at ten miles an hour.
A mother confronts Cheries with accusations of cruel and inhuman behavior, while a wife tearfully confirms the claim. She recalls leaving her husband for the summer and returning to find animals starved, illustrating neglect and hardship within the home. The dialogue underscores a stark, tragic domestic scene with scarce details about others.
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