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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
7
Three travelers recall speeds of trains in humorous anecdotes from Harper's Weekly. One compares telegraph poles to a fine bed, another to a solid fence, and the third boasts a Chicago westward run near fields that seemed to alternate like corn and beans.
Reverend H Fateh of Flintpoint says after 26 years of bladder and kidney trouble he healed using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports renewed health and urges others with kidney or urinary issues to consider the remedy as a natural cure.
A young woman in a long automobile coat on an Indiana avenue streetcar finds a man placing his hand in her pocket. She confronts him after realizing his mischief, the crowd watching as the scene ends with her stepping off at the next stop.
A mother credits a Denver physician and Grape-Nuts with curing her four year old boy’s stomach liver and kidney derangement. The diet omitted sugar and used Gram-Nuts as the main sweet, yielding rapid improvement and rosy health.
Guidance from John Spian on early grain feeding to ease weaning and maintain growth. Separate older foals, build a secure pen with a feed trough, provide oats and hay, and place rock salt nearby to attract dams. Weaning at five months, then transition to mixed feed of cracked corn oats bran and water, keep foals together, and ensure ample grit and bone meal.
Thistles can be eradicated by thorough field work and crop rotation. Plant early potatoes with weed control, followed by turnips. crown with corn or more potatoes next year to suppress regrowth. A Hungarian grass crop helps crowd and repeatedly mow thistles, destroying new growth. hogs can root them out after plowing.
The article emphasizes consistent cow care and comfortable housing as key to steady milk returns. It advises providing good year round feed, intelligent attendants, and shared ownership if needed to afford quality dairy cattle.
The article advises steady fertilization and soil nourishment for corn to ensure early growth and a strong start before frost. It emphasizes frequent small applications of fertilizer rather than single heavy doses, keeping roots supplied as the crop matures and yields improve with careful management.
The cabbage fly deposits its eyes on stems of young cabbage plants and maggots feed on the plant until it dies. A suggested remedy is to scatter slaked lime, ashes or coal dust along each stem while leaving some plants unprotected to attract the flies for egg laying. Visited plants show damage and can be pulled up and burned.
Soapsuds can act as a special fertilizer for celery in small garden plantings. For best results keep ground clean of grass and weeds and water the plants with soapy water for five to ten minutes, two to three times weekly.
A New York Experiment Station bulletin reports chicks gain up to 1500 percent in ten weeks and ducks 50 to 180 percent weekly with proper feed. It stresses mineral matter or bone-building material must supply about ten percent of diet, as ash from regular foods is too low. Without enough bonemaking material bones stay small soft weak and can cause lameness or deformity.
Latest figures show the U S telephone industry valued at about 450 million dollars with over 4 thousand systems and more than 90 thousand employees. In 1902 about 5.9 billion conversations occurred and revenue reached 86.8 million dollars while expenses were 61.2 million.
The Washington weather bureau reports widespread drought in the central valleys and corn belt with excessive moisture in the Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf districts. Rain is beneficial. oats and wheat harvests progress. cotton shows deterioration in many areas while boll weevils damage Texas and nearby regions.
Four people die and twenty five or more are injured when three street cars on the Chicago Great Western line are struck by a fast passenger train. Motorman Michael Ryan sacrifices his post as he clings to the brake lever and is buried as the wreckage scatters. Authorities arrest the crew of both trains amid the disaster, which follows another series of rail tragedies in the Chicago area.
A vast iron ore mass near Durango Mexico rises 400 to 650 feet above the plain and may weigh over 60 million tons. Geologists describe it as a massive hematite dike likely formed by crustal fissures. Ore content is 60 to 67 percent iron with steelmaking quality, similar to Superior Lake ore.
An advertisement by A. G. Sprague of Nor tool TH claims years of kidney pain relief after using three boxes of Dean's Kidney Fills. The testimonial asserts dramatic recovery, improved sleep, and restored mobility. Free trial offered by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, with 50 cent price at dealers.
A Cumberland Dagland dog habitually carries a basket with money and a book to a co operative store, delivering coins to shopkeepers. One day a bar ran away with a dropped packet. the dog retrieved it, pursued, and returned with the items, behaving as an unusual errand doer.
An advertisement promotes Allen & Ginsted foot powder for hot tired and sweating feet at the St Louis Exposition. It claims 20 000 testimonials and urges buying locally with a 25 cent price and free trial package. Address LeRoy New York.
The report shows confusion over competitors at the American Meet with misread entries. It highlights an apparent exchange about two fox hunters and a mix up between names Mackball Winthrop and Sara hont.
Repeated notice describes Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children with claims to ease teething pain and wind colic. A quoted exchange contrasts trust in riches with a sly reply about placing trust in riches, reflecting a Chicago News snippet.
Mrs Elizabeth H Thomason of Lillydale New York Wise Templar and W C T U member shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for curing her womb trouble backache and bearing down pains after six bottles She also notes her niece recovered from heart trouble and nervous prostration and later had a baby Two others are mentioned as cured of female troubles with this medicine
A reader learns that England's parcel post weight limit is eleven pounds yet the post office can deliver far heavier items under special rules. A man paid 3 pence per mile for registered post to reach a distant Balham address, signing for delivery after a messenger bore a printed notice.
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