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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
13
Drugstore reports show many people unknowingly suffer kidney trouble. Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root is praised for healing influence and high success. An insurance examiner notes many applicants are rejected due to undetected kidney disease. Sample offer requires ten cents for a test bottle. Ad reads in paper.
An early 20th century style ad touts Pope’s Cold Compound for quick cold relief and Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a universal cure for catarrh and deafness. It promises dramatic hearing restoration with mucous-surface treatment and offers a hefty one hundred dollar refund for non cures.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the article describes how poultry breeding associations grow from community efforts. It notes business men often fund stock and pens through bank loans, enabling members to obtain breeding stock while expanding local agriculture and community wealth. Overton County Tennessee showcases an endless-chain model: banks finance ten-pen lots costing about $2.50 per bird, with members repaying in future stock and expanding pens to new members over five years.
A hen in laying shows an enlarged abdomen from expanded intestines, ovary, and oviduct with a deeper rear than the keel front. When laying stops the condition reverses. Pelvic bones are wide in the laying hen as production falls and the lobes contract.
Farmers advise burning refuse and brush near poultry runs so birds forage ashes and charcoal bits to obtain mineral elements they crave. The practice helps hens supplement nutrition by cleaning up remnants from fires and improving intake from ash heaps.
When a farmer discards mixed poultry and raises standard bred birds he finds them more satisfactory and profitable, avoiding poorer stock. The note praises standard bred fowls as a better choice for farmers seeking dependable returns.
A fragmentary notice presents cryptic phrases about theft and police, with references to a hat, sprouting, and questions about a beat taken by a sleuthing figure, citing two policemen.
An early 20th century advertisement warns that poison gas harms kidneys and urges relief with GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. It touts a two hundred year test, Holland origins, availability at grocers, and a money back guarantee. The passage ends with a fragment about a club meeting resolution.
The Kind clinches top prize in a local melody contest with a standout performance. Judges praised the group for its harmony and stage presence as the event highlighted emerging acts.
An old advertisement urges readers to avoid harsh laxatives and try Cascarets to cleanse the liver and bowels. It promises no griping or sickness and claims the product removes bile poisons, easing sour stomach, coated tongue, and bad breath while you sleep.
A garbled early 20th century column hints at gendered wartime themes and social tensions. The fragment mentions a “military attraction” and contrasts of desire, with unclear references to violence and pest imagery. Readable names, dates, or places are not evident in the fragment.
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