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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
3
Mrs Laura L Brexrr of Crown Point Indiana reports two years of terrible spinal pains eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after three bottles. She mentions renewed health and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass noting free guidance and a $5000 penalty for fake letters.
A flood of testimonials extols St Jacobs Oil as a universal rheumatism remedy. Doctors and druggists report dramatic relief and rapid sales as subscribers from Chilton to Reading share remarkable recoveries and renewed vitality.
A merchant offers Mr Harkalong a ton of hard coal for 12 dollars as a personal favor. The condition is that the customer must not reveal where the coal came from, citing past loans and patronage.
Captain Alfred G Nigier of Huse Company No 4 Canton testifies to a lifelong kidney ailment improved by Dean's Kidney Pills. He describes severe backache and weakness, failed treatments, and his later full endorsement after a trial. The ad claims a free trial by mail and urges readers to buy 50 cent boxes from druggists.
Dialogue quotes a joke about an ideal man with sand and dust. A kitchen note praises Mrs. Austins Buckwheat as a wholesome breakfast enjoyed by a family including a baby and grandfather. A line comments that newspaper and periodical numbers have more than doubled.
Progressive dairymen demand at least 300 pounds of butter per cow annually and favor keeping heifer calves. Buying fresh cows to replace dry cows reduces output by a third. Well bred calves cost some to raise but repay expenses as they mature, especially when one cow can match three years of output.
The account details a calf killed after injury from cows. The meat was cut up and salted between layers in a large vessel. Sulphur was lit on a shovel placed on the meat, then the vessel closed and stored in the poultry house after 20 minutes. Chickens fed raw meat daily. teat remains undamaged.
The mother hen oversees a coop with the chicks and young turkeys. Beginners pen them with two V shaped boards briefly then grant more room. Feed starts with milk softened bread cottage cheese egg shells. later bread of corn meal middlings with sour milk water soda and salt. Five feedings daily with water at each call.
A sketch outlines an inexpensive hog shelter using two forked posts with ridgepole and parallel ground logs, covered in straw with one end open. It notes possible use of more forks for heavier loads and suggests the idea as a warm, economical building method.
On rainy days abandon excuses and tackle neglected chores around the farm. Mending harness, tightening plow stocks, oiling handles, oiling axes, hoes and shovels, grinding tools, filing edges, and sharpening saws. Prioritizing maintenance keeps equipment ready and labor efficient.
The piece urges farmers to use rainy days for chores such as shelling and milling readiness, building and repair work, and record keeping. It argues that time spent loitering at mills or stores wastes efficiency and that well organized books and tasks on bad weather days yield returns, stressing consistent effort by farmers and helpers.
At dinner tables and drawing rooms Scasdon embodies the old world capital of social rank. The smart set guards precedence, hosting only familiar guests while well known visitors move through daily, meeting leaders across fields, a scene unmatched elsewhere.
The piece recounts Rev. John Thompson of Rockford Alabama refusing a Doctor of Divinity title as overgenerous degree practice is lampooned. A German university's rush for honorary degrees prompts Macpherson to request one for his servant and then his horse, prompting playful revulsion from the faculty.
An inconsistent fragment recalls a violent scene with Tim O Hara and Jim Murray, a boy Tim aged about 13 torn by family abuse, plus stray lines about Rheumatoid heart disease cure claims, advertisements, and a line about New Britain, Connecticut wiring project and a self inking dating stamp offer.
An 1880s era letter from Sisters of Charity in Detroit endorses Peruna for laryngitis and throat catarrh. The testimonial cites relief in a young patient under care of Dr. Hartman and invites readers to request a free booklet from The Peruna Medicine Co. at Columbus Ohio.
A naturalist recounts provoking chameleons to bite to study their habits. He notes the bite rarely draws blood, leaving only skin indentations. Only once did a chameleon grip tightly, requiring help to release, but no puncture occurred.
In a Baltimore News fragment a speaker muses that a tale under the title is labeled a true story though its author is described as an amateur. The exchange features Sherlock Holmes as a casual interlocutor noting the authorship ambiguity.
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