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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
3
General Moody reviews proposed remedies in the criminal code and cautions that some are ineffective if applied singly. A chophouse waiter anecdote illustrates impatience with cold food and prompts a remark about warming plates. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The piece extols gardening as a graceful form of exercise for women and urges embracing hoe work for mental growth and physical fitness. It dismisses social constraints and promotes digging, weeding, sowing, and harvesting as beneficial, while noting alternative activities like bicycle riding and tennis. The section ends with a note crediting Eleanor R Parker and a separate tip on cleaning nursing bottles using potato pieces and Ivory Soap.
The judge asks the prisoner to speak before sentencing. The prisoner requests not to be prejudiced by his lawyer's defense and asks for the sentence he would have received if he had pleaded guilty at once.
A testimonial from Mrs. Alice Berryhill of Chattanooga Tennessee narrates severe uterine illness and an avoided operation. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief and long term improvement, praising Mrs Pinkham for confidential advice and free assistance to women.
A veteran recalls Sherman’s furlough plan after Vicksburg and a riverboat voyage on the Moderator in 1882. He describes crowded meals, rank dining, poetic clashes over seats, and a captain paying for dinners. Anecdotes touch on home cooking, Brownlow family hospitality, and camp life during Manassas and Pope’s campaigns.
In Clark County unique industries include a skunk farm near Alarysville for pelts and a Washington Town ship dog farm selling coon dogs. Charlestown Township hosts a dedicated coon dog operation, while Nabb hosts a snake breeding side show. Jeffersonville area turtles are farmed, Bethlehem Township grows sunflowers for seed with a $3,000 revenue and butter beans shipped to Louisville and Cincinnati. Camp Creek in Washington Township raises ginseng with first roots next year. Knobs near St Joseph's hill house Indiana's largest grape vineyard for wine, and a forest reserve near Henryville farms Mongolian pheasants.
A Missouri mother recounts using Grape-Nuts to revive a 15 month old with pneumonia fever teething and convulsions. After traveling to Kansas City she fed juice and milk then the cereal itself and the child grew strong and fat. She raises future children on Grape-Nuts and urges parents to consider the nourishing food.
The New York World notes Dorothy rushes home with praise for her new teacher yet cannot name her. The exchange ends with a quip about not writing to the teacher. The Houston Chronicle mentions a playwright calling the heroine Little Sunshine, daughter of a distiller, with a crude quip about Moonshine.
After eight years of labor a Preach artist completes the largest picture ever painted. The monumental canvas depicts the funeral of M Carnot and covers 150 square yards.
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