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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1918
Page
7
A villager complains about the inability to vote due to missing voters list. local church building is used to publish the list as required by law. The note references a public building and a call for honest conduct in daily thought.
An eclectic page lists paint and wallpaper firms such as Bowlew Wall Paper Co and Proper Paint Co, plus sanitarium and beauty parlor ads in Portland. It also advertises schools including Barber College, Mish Dmcker Private Business College, Hawthorn Auto School, and an Auto & Gas Engine School with practical training and welding.
Cincinnati authority promotes freexone as a new drug to treat corns and calluses. A drop applied to the affected area supposedly soothes soreness, dries the corn immediately, and avoids irritation. A small bottle costs little and claims to remove every hard corn or callous.
The article explains feeding laying hens during snowless periods, emphasizing forage access, foraging tests, and preventing waste. It outlines war time standard rations using mash, cornmeal, bran, middlings, oats, meat or fish meal, and green feed like cabbage or sprouted oats. It also offers an alternative ration with beef scrap and notes sprouted oats as acceptable green feed.
The article advises that good breeding stock from reliable breeders is essential for pigeon raising. It notes failures come from poor stock, aging birds, or excess males, and mentions many pigeon varieties with squab raising focusing on the Mother variety as the popular choice.
The American Standard of Perfection recognizes six turkey varieties as most desirable: Bronze, White Holland, Bourbon Red, Black, Narragansett, and Slate. Other varieties are considered mongrel and uncertain in progeny quality.
An advertisement touts daily hot water with limestone phosphate as a liver wash to remove indigestible material, bile and toxins, claiming it keeps the alimentary canal clean and the body feeling fit. The blizzard of health claims is joined by a humorous note about a teamster and his horse calling it a mighty good name.
A Baltimore Sun correspondent ponders whether savoring lobster and cream counts as disturbing behavior and suggests that occasional opportunities to smile at life’s follies can save us.
An ad promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use hair darkener. It claims gray hair will vanish after dampening strands with the preparation, leaving hair dark, glossy and youthful looking. No disease cure is implied.
A patented bottle design prevents accidental poisoning by making contents hard to pour without deliberate manipulation. An ad from a Rotment store reads Girls wanted for men s neckyear, though such a notion would distress a man wearing a girl around his neck.
Water hyacinth rapidly clogging streams shows high fertilizer value. Partially dried and rotted stalks contain extensive water, yielding a compost similar to farmyard manure but richer in potash.
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