Trials of a Housewife and Medical Ads Echoing 19th Century Remedies
A collage of testimonial style notes from women praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and recovery after childbirth. The prose mixes personal anecdotes from Providence Ohio and Bloomington Illinois with general patriotic health messaging, urging readers to request the brand's private text book and highlighting enduring lines of domestic hardship and healing.
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Providence
R. L
Lydia E. Pinkham
Hernent L. Cassen
Meni Court
R. J
Ohio
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Fayette
Mia
Cuesten A. Batt
Illinois
Bloomington
J.A. McQuitty
Walnut St
Loomington
Ill
Mra
Casson
Ball
McQuitty
United States
Lydia
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Massachusetts
Live Stock News on Feeding and Breeding for Size
A United States Department of Agriculture note emphasizes good care and the right feed to prevent undersized stock. An Indiana swine producer cites foundation stock and practical feed trials, with records of boars growing from 165 pounds to 1015 pounds by twenty eight months, illustrating results from solid blood and proper nutrition. The message highlights the eye of the master in fattening cattle.
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States Department of Agriculeure
United States Department of Agriculture
Uncertain Quotation Reflects On Treatments and Profit
A fragmentary remark notes that raising them under any treatment never proved profitable. The speaker mentions many claimed before and after illustrations on paper but sees no real benefit in the feed. The line suggests frustration with literature that fails to translate into practical gains.
Scrub Pigs Expensive Lesson For Page County Club
Page county Virginia agent urged purebred hogs to a farmer but he bought four scrub pigs instead. The pigs grew slowly with the largest at 175 pounds by January, while the club winner weighed 30 pounds after five months. The farmer reports scrubs cost more than twice the meat value.
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Page County
Virginia
Flo
Best Fattening Steers Feed Plan Emerges
A practical ration for fattening steers is 60 pounds of silage daily plus two to three pounds of offal and two to three pounds of clover hay. Adding corn or cheap fuel during the final two months with an increasing amount of curt completes the plan.
Early Shearing Favored for Sheep Weight Gain
The article argues for early shearing to benefit ewes by reducing the burden of heavy wool in warm weather. It states that light wool growth favors healthier, trimmer sheep and less stress for the mother, with wool weight increasing after weather warms but not enough to justify delaying shearing when animal comfort is at stake.
Fattening Lambs and Feed Practices on Farm
A fragment reports on lamb fattening for market with Spock care and weaning. It mentions Abuttiqnes of BugerTent for supplemental feed, highlights grain, wheat bran, and pilment as key foods, and notes farm use and production signals.
Impure blood remedy promises relief for itching skin
An old advertisement touts an herbal blood cleansing remedy as a cure for chronic itching and skin troubles. It claims impurities in blood cause the condition and urges readers to enrich their blood with the product sold by druggists, offering free expert medical advice upon request.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Georgia
Senator McCumber Deals With Dollar-A-Year Patriots
Senator McCumber, chair of the senate Glance committee, discusses exposures of profiteering by dollar-a-year patriots. He warns against harsh judgments of well-meaning but tempted men, recalling a tale of Little Willie who stole a quarter and argued his mother’s sermon on resisting temptation.
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McCumber
Senate Glance Committee
Patriota
Wille
Willie
Wisdom of Children and Military Phrases in Daily Life
A New York World piece notes how military terms invade everyday speech with examples like cheerier phrases and the zero hour, plus a humorous anecdote of a boy asking why couples must marry again after fifty years, and an old woman’s salute at a newsstand.
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Brooklyn
City Hall Park
Sy Wille
New York World
Paul
Fire of genius theme sparks debate on purpose
An enigmatic note discusses the fire of genius and its struggle to align with moral purpose, hinting at conflicts between inspiration and practical outcomes. The fragment suggests a tension between creative impulse and societal bounds without providing concrete figures or events.
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