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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1906
Page
3
A Watertown woman reports relief from severe fainting spells and anemia after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. The ad claims the remedy builds red blood cells and restores health, noting prior physician care without improvement and sales by mail or druggists from Schenectady New York.
The Pittsburg Gazette quotes Peter Pry arguing half truths are worse than whole Hes. It asserts some women use flirting to cover sins and claims marriage is a partnership where the woman is never the silent partner. It suggests buying a diamond ring as an economy measure since a wife will wear out many gloves.
An old medical ad claims local ear applications cannot cure deafness. It asserts deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh, solvable only by constitutional treatment. The ad offers one hundred dollars for catarrh deafness proven incurable by Hall’s Catarrh Cure from FJ Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A collage of short items from a Buffalo page includes jokes about Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for children, a playwright and critic exchange, travel fare offers via Nickle Plate Road, a street car transfer complaint, ad for dropsy specialist H H Green's Sons in Atlanta, Uncle Eben quip, a self inking dating stamp offer, a caterpillar digestion note, a riddle about trumps in cards, and a Baltimore American quip about spades as final trumps.
A Birmingham Age-Herald account describes a Mississippi town hotel that names its rooms after U S states rather than numbers. Travelers joke about state rooms Maine prohibition, Montana poker, Delaware small size, New York grand, Florida wake calls, and Iowa towels. The eccentric owner conceived the idea, origin uncertain.
Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas testifies that back pains dizziness and irregular kidney function plagued her until Dean's Kidney Pills relieved the trouble. She passed gravel stones after starting the remedy and reports lasting improvement. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
In a Middlesex village churchyard a son erected a square ivy grown monument with a coffin shell to hold his parents William and Agnes Louden. The inscription notes the parents died rich but the son buried them in midair to keep the money for themselves, despite the seeming injustice.
The piece traces muffs from satin and velvet early forms lined with fur to leopard skin in Queen Anne’s era. It notes a Venetian vogue, French muffs called chiens manchons sold in 1602, and sumptuary laws limiting color while nobility enjoyed gold lace and embroidery under Louis XIV.
An elderly veteran, once dependent on coffee and felled by malarial relapses, credits Postum with restoring his health. At 72 he now works hard driving sixteen miles daily and loading wagons, saying Postum suits him as well as coffee did. He praises proper preparation and notes others may grow to prefer Postum too. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich and promotes The Road to Wellville booklet.
The article discusses cow peas as soil renovators and profitable forage, stressing the need for mineral fertilizers and occasional inoculation. It describes growing, harvesting challenges in wet conditions, notes on horse and poultry forage value, and observations on related crops and soil management. It also covers cheese salting, watering, and field-specific crop needs.
W D Hoard of Wisconsin argues at the Illinois State Farmers Institute that lowering butter and milk prices requires culling unprofitable cows. He warns against keeping poor cows to prop up prices and urges wiser dairy administration to cut costs and surplus production.
Walter E. Reed of Madison Indiana describes a method to control vicious horses by threading the main line through bridles and rings so a pull on the lines applies pressure to the jaw. He notes it worked on a mule and helped another man work a mule quickly.
The article lists onion varieties for home use and market including Red Wethers field Yellow Strassburg Yellow Globe Danvers Southport Yellow Globe White Silver Skin White Pearl White Green Australian Yellow and Brown Globe noting skin color size growing needs and keeping quality. It also explains horse collar harness issues causing saddle galls and stresses fitting gear and regular harness checks after work.
A weight gain of four pounds per head and price gain of ten cents per pound make caponizing advantageous when feed needs are similar. The writer endorses caponizing every cockerel not bred, noting little pain if timed and done skillfully, but condemns cruel practice on live birds and urges practice on dead ones first.
The guide prescribes preparing well fertilized sandy loam, forming ridges 18 inches apart for corn-row spacing, placing plants in the center of ridges, firming soil around roots, watering, covering with dry dirt to prevent evaporation, cultivating once before vines start to run, and mulching heavily until digging time.
The pomegranate is a low shrub producing hard rind fruits resembling red roses. Blossoms June to September, shades orange to deep red, cultivated in England and the United States for its flowers. Its seeds in pulp, used in medicine, tanning, and drinks in various regions. It is native to Western Asia, Northeastern India, and Southern Europe.
A motherly guide warns against keeping newborn kittens in darkness or damp beds to prevent sore eyes. It stresses a warm, dry nest and warm milk for the queen cat in the first two days, with water served free of chill. As kittens grow, increase the queen’s food accordingly.
A correspondent describes an at home quilt washing method from the Farmers' Home Journal. Use a dry day start early heat rain water and pearl oil soap to suds in a machine and wringer. Rinse three times hang to dry and pin securely. The quilt will be pure and long lasting.
Instructions describe step by step how to change sheets for an immobile patient. Start with removing the top sheet, then handle the lower sheet by rolling it toward the patient. Roll and position the new near sheet lengthwise, then unroll and tuck securely on all sides. When two rolled sheets sit beside the patient, lift the patient onto the clean side if needed. Remove the old sheet and spread the new one evenly.
The article offers culinary guidance on cooking with hard and soft water, describes several dessert and bread recipes like Sponge Cake and Boston Cookies, and ends with a notice on rising horse numbers in the United States from 1890 to 1905. It references meat broth, vegetable flavors, and baking methods alongside a statistical note on horses.
Thomas M. Rossiter of East Orange New Jersey says eczema covering his face head and body was cured after five weeks using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap. He had spent years and hundreds of dollars and could not find work due to the condition.
A longtime village resident Aunt Panthea Brooks is adored by neighbors for avoiding quarrels. A summer visitor asks her secret and she replies with a simple philosophy: she allows others to hold their own opinions, whether they favor war or not, and she stays amiable.
A letter testifies that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped a woman endure the change of life with relief from soreness dizziness headaches and nervousness. The note praises the product and mentions Lydia E Pinkham’s daughter-in-law continuing the free guidance for women seeking help.
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