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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
10
A compact collection of humorous quips and exchanges. Jesters play on parrots, whist club manners, and travelling menageries. A waiter’s punchline, a Pullman quip, and a joke about a cook all mingle with witty character sketches.
A Surinam cockroach arrives in England threatening greenhouse plants possibly via orchid shipments. Thurso in Scotland reports a family record of 49 relatives in the same trade across the Bame district. Baron Rothschild recalls a 1,250,000 franc legacy to an ancient Nice beggar and redistributes it among three heirs found in Odessa and a fourth in Brooklyn.
Hon John Tighe of Cohnes New York declares Peruna restores energy after extreme work and nervous strain. He endorses Peruna as a superior tonic, noting relief from mind and body fatigue. Readers urged to request free advice from Dr Hartman at TheVartan Sanitarium Calvubuy Ohio.
Ohio farmers heard a dirt road making method by Mrs D W King explaining simple drag construction using timber and iron. Horatio Markley in Morrow County applied a timber drag to a half mile road, showing smooth results after multiple passes and low maintenance costs. Neighbors adopted the idea, while noting it fits clayey soils best and may not suit sandy soils.
In trimming trees it should be remembered that wounds from cutting a limb close to the trunk heal, while cutting off a limb two or more inches away leads to decay and can cause the tree’s loss.
A distressed notice warns against deformed or ill-shaped eyes in poultry stock. It advises selecting best-shaped eggs and ensuring they come from strong vigorous commercial poultry, stressing quality control and avoidance of weak stock.
The text stresses keeping careful records of each colony’s performance as the foundation for building an upiary that aims to bring in the least returns. It highlights systematic tracking as essential to future outcomes and organizational aims.
In a field row system seed from separate cars is observed for performance, enabling selection from progeny of mother ears. Detasseling experiments over four years at Illinois show no clear detasseling benefit, while cross breeding rows suggest greater gains in a commercial system where both sire and dam seed are cross bred.
A blacksmith describes repurposing cast-off axes into a loading tool for unloading ties from trucks. The design uses a cut and hammered modification to create a pointed part for prying and lifting, reducing heavy lifting and tugging. The craftsman made 25 such improvements last winter.
Handy guidance from Midland Farmer on stock management pastures salt for pigs under one year feeding hens incubators scratching sheds and balanced rations. Advice covers oats for horses and proper digestion of ground seeds noting practical farming practices for year round poultry and livestock care.
A beekeeping note argues for replacing an unprofitable queen to save time and money, urging removal of inferior queens for better yields and efficiency. The brief stresses practical hive management and economic benefit from superior queens.
At the Portland Oregon biennial convention the Order of Railway Conductors endorsed President Roosevelt’s stance against secret rebates and warned Congress that centralizing rate control with a commission would cause litigation, rate cuts, and inequity. They argued the country’s low transport costs reflect American efficiency and warned against impairing railway management. New York Central Lines announced schedule upgrades to shorten the New York Chicago run to eighteen hours beginning June 15, with the Empire State Express and Lake Shore Limited gaining time reductions and earlier connections.
A collage of anecdotes contrasts American bravado with English reserve. It recalls a shy shark tale enjoyed by an American writer, Locker Sampson’s misbound treasure, Canadian readers favoring American literature, and a corporal’s fatalist joke about pistols on his saddle during Indian fights.
The item surveys diverse brief notes across people and places. It cites Alderman Hamburger of New York with about 6 000 supporters, Alexis Sergevitch Suyenly of Novos Vremya as a leading Russian journalist, and Joseph Davis linked to a jail fire at San Quentin. It also highlights a Maine longevity example in Deborah Chase’s family, describing a 4 year old matriarch, many descendants, and a long family history.
A San Francisco man credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing chronic dyspepsia after eight boxes. He details stomach pain, sleeplessness, and sallow complexion improving, urges others to try the remedy and obtain the diet booklet What to Eat and How to Eat from the Dr Williams Mellin Co Schenectady NY for additional guidance on digestion and constipation.
Eugene Be Lario of Denver recalls medical claims from 1899 about Thavo's Kidney Pills. He cites severe backache from desk work and states the remedy stopped his pain. Foster Milburn Co. endorses the product in Buffalo. Sold by all druggists for eight cents per box.
A brief note on ancient Egypt recognizing the virtues of the king of foods and how, through ages, traditional wheat-based food forms retain valued elements despite processing losses in modern production.
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