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Newspaper
Hamilton Democrat Sun
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
16
Agricultural editor notes the fifty seventh Butler county fair is imminent with all board members active under President Slade and Secretary Larsh. The piece shares farm wisdom and reports a rabid dog scare in Miamisburg with rapid dog culls and precautions for residents and livestock.
An advertisement touts Rengo as a quick harmless fat reducer claiming a pound per day. It claims to be candy like, non addictive, and effective without wrinkles, offered by The Rengo Co in Detroit with trial packages and mail options. Local Ham ton druggists are listed as sellers.
Bulletin on maintaining soil fertility cites clover as key to high yields. advises leaving mown fields to rot, using old clover for hay, and notes a new dry wheel implement for corn drilling. Reports limited hog cholera locally, recommends salt ashes or charcoal for hogs and kerosine lard spray for pest control.
Special to the Democrat Sun Greenbrier Ohio Mrs Alex Kepplar and daughter Mary spent Saturday in Hamilton. Mr and Mrs Ralph Hood of Seven Mile entertained Sunday. Families Gerber and Werner noted. Sick list includes Mrs Tra Moak Mrs William Keener and daughter Mable. Jacob Werley entertaining his Kokomo sister. David Gerber Cincinnati seen Sunday. Welch hosted Lambert and Shaul families from Camden.
Miss Mae Coombs of Hamilton visited relatives and spent the day with her local family.
Miss Mamie Geeting’s Sunday school class surprised her with a birthday visit and presented a fine toilet set. Cake oranges and bananas were shared with many class members and neighbors in Pleasant Grove. Others visited relatives and attended church dedications and funerals in the community, including Will and Anna Southard at West Alexandria and Mrs Bailess Sheely at Trenton.
In Sassafras Ridge Ohio on October 2 Mrs Susan and Mary Davis of Hamilton spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Oliver Gillespie Archy Standley and family of Okeana visited Fred Shearer and family Sunday. Harry Donoworthcalled on his brother John Donoworth Sunday. Mrs William Ludlow spent Friday with Mrs David Willey of Okeana. James Vanlue of Bath visited relatives on the ridge a few days. H F Wilcox and wife called on.
An old coffee drinker can quit with ease and switch to Postum which, when well boiled and served with cream, is described as tastier than common coffee. Within ten days the body undergoes a transformation as caffeine is replaced by nourishing liquid food, making the test easy to prove.
Bert McCoy and family spent Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs G L Rommes and daughter Iva near Scipio. Joe Brosey and wife and daughter visited Mr and Mrs J H Brosey on the same day.
Instructions from the Maryland Experiment Station detailing careful apple handling from picking to packing. Techniques include padded bags, portable sorting tables on wheels, and a specific method for filling barrels with two-grade sorting of firsts and seconds. Emphasizes avoiding ripe or damaged fruit and proper head placement with caps and cushioning.
Instructions from Farm Journal explain packing two layers of apples with stems down in a four barrel container. Place facing layers, fill with same grade, then add two more layers stems up, leaving a one inch space above the barrel chime before closing the lid and pressing gently.
Farm Journal advises on pig care with pasture, shelter, clean water, and shade. It emphasizes water, grain, and clean earth, plus peavine and rape in limited pasture. Weaning timing, sow maintenance, pig growth, and market-ready conformation are covered for profitable pork.
An old saying highlights Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as effective for sores burns wounds piles and chilblains. The ad promises disappearance of symptoms and guarantees satisfaction through druggists.
An advertisement asserts that Dr King’s New Life Pills regulate the liver and bowels to prevent appendicitis following liver torpor and constipation. It promotes the product as a remedy sold for 25 cents at drug stores.
The recipe instructs boiling pigs feet for thirty minutes then cooling them. Return to a kettle with water and vinegar, add salt, sugar, whole peppers, bay leaf, mace, more peppers, onions, and thyme in a bag. Simmer until tender, pack in a stone jar, strain liquor over, cool, and refrigerate.
A recipe describes brining green tomatoes in a salt solution for a day, rinsing, then cooking in vinegar with sugar. Ginger, cassia, cinnamon, cloves, and mace are added per quart of vinegar, simmered briefly until the tomatoes are tender but intact.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote shows a stranger asking how to discover things and a native replying that advertising is the way. The exchange highlights practical tinkering with information gathering through public notices and word of mouth.
Large Chicago printing office seeks competent men for permanent non-union cylinder press work. Half tone and three color jobs pay $22.50 scale. Apply to H W Lemering at St Charles Hotel Hamilton on October 3, 4 and 5.
A political note reports Democrat leadership emergence amid a market scene featuring white onions at Rothenbush’s, signaling local shifts and grocery rivalry in the area.
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