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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
7
The Henry Republican Iowa Homestead Poultry Farmer and our own paper are offered as a four-paper annual package for $2.00. The combination includes Farm er Institute Editions and promises superior reading for farm homes. Offer limited in time. samples available at the office.
The column blends a 1880 hymn fragment titled Beautiful Land of Somewhere with notices on Ely Liquid Cream Balm for nasal use and Arbor Day school shade planting. It also mentions officials approving Farmers' State Bank organization and a gospel expounder’s mixed-up text. Ballard's Horehound Syrup is advertised for coughs.
An advertisement praises Benson's Plaster as a superior external remedy for diverse ailments from rheumatism and neuralgia to colds and chest diseases. It claims quick relief where others fail, urging readers to trust the plaster over old salves and to order 26 cents worth from Seabury & Johnson Mfg. Chemists in New York with prepaid postage.
Clipped 19th century style notes Sophie Dhuleep Singh, daughter of the Lahore ruler, pursuing medical studies in Chicago. Mentions Cartie C. Smith Hampton graduate assisting, Queen Wilhelmina bans influence from certain associated heroes. Ends with remark on bad thoughts as messenger boys.
The piece notes efforts in London to establish a Lady Henry ship to study liquor trade methods, replying to Birmingham university's brewing professorship. It highlights Julia Mack of St Louis profiting as a city weigher, Rebecca Lowe's journalism rise, and Abbie Downing, a blind operator at Mattoon’s Metcalf Exchange, praised for skill and independence. It also previews the National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Washington with delegates from fourteen nations and plans focused on pioneers and the new woman and new man.
A mixed rural digest discusses farm efficiency, accounts, and contracts with hired help. It notes beef from rich prairie lands and corn contests funded by Illinois institutes. Mentions southern hogs shipments and the St Louis 1903 world’s fair corn contest as well as rural education successes and city-bred students excelling in agriculture.
A detailed look at cold month operations in poultry processing explains the picking room runway system the brain-stabbing method the fatigue of workers and pay by the head. It notes average outputs 125 to 170 chickens daily per man feather usage and shipments to St Louis Boston and other markets with 15000 pounds weekly not unusual.
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