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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
2
Notice for Jackson Missouri post office showing second class matter entry on November 4 1897 with advertising rates. Locals and legal advertisements priced, professional cards offered at annual rates. Display ad rates specified on application.
The Market Report outlines prevailing grain conditions with indicators of supply, demand, and pricing. It notes weather impacts, harvest progress, and trade activity affecting futures and cash markets.
An essay advocates returning to nature to fight tuberculosis praising fresh air outdoor living as a key cure. It cites examples of people sleeping out doors in buffalo bags and verandahs to harden the body, claiming such practices strengthen lungs and prevent death from consumption.
The physician at a municipal lodging house in Chicago notes many tramps have factory work histories or other debilitating occupations. He warns that artificial modern life creates human wrecks among the homeless and calls attention to the contrast with countryside youth growing up amid nature.
The piece argues modern cooking boosts business for both saloonkeepers and undertakers. It warns fiery spices and strong flavors create thirst and drive liquor or cigarettes, as people eat for sensation rather than nourishment. Vitality and resistance decline, making individuals susceptible to illness.
A Denver doctor ran experiments with consumptives in a tent colony outside the city. Early winter progress seemed steady, but a brutal blizzard and temperatures to 20 degrees below zero spurred rapid improvement in one woman once the cold turned extreme. Her appetite returned, signaling the body’s natural regain of function. The note ends with a reminder that metal will rot if unused and the body grows diseased without exercise.
Professor Huxley declares condiments like mustard pepper and spices create a false appetite and harm health. He argues appetite signals digestion while condiments deceive by making one think they are hungry. He warns against foods that poison the body's atmosphere and threaten public health and freedom.
A Swedish physician, about fourteen to fifteen years ago, treated dying tuberculosis patients with a crude regimen. He gave baths three times daily in cold water, first rubbing the patient, then gradually increasing immersion. Despite initial doubts, many patients reportedly recovered through the cold water and rubbing method.
Gould laments urban crowding and argues that underutilized land can provide livelihoods for all. He insists proper hygiene and youth lung development prevent tuberculosis with adequate living space and opportunities.
In New York and beyond, consumptives are building huts atop houses and forming tent colonies outside large cities. Advocates say open air living aids recovery, with rooftops offering sunlit respite better than damp inner-city dwellings.
Practical guidance on dressing to avoid illness. Warns against overheating the neck with heavy wraps and advises ears and heads be protected. warns against wearing rubber footwear indoors or outdoors except to stay dry. Explains perspiration and evaporation chill can cause sore throat and nasal issues. recommends removing rubbers when possible, drying feet and changing to dry shoes to prevent dampness until footwear dries.
Green Pea Soup uses pressed peas with water salt and cocoa butter melted in a double boiler. Dried peas are optional, while cactus hints, cornmeal batter, milk and eggs form quick sweet batter for frying. Vegetable Salad blends potatoes celery onion egg whites yolks lemon juice and olive oil with greens garnish. Mince Pie combines apples prunes marmalade juice nuts malt honey sugar raisins and butter baked slowly for hours. yields five-three portions and keeps sealed.
A water filled soap bubble one foot in diameter holds about a single drop. The piece compares a financial bubble of 100,000,000 to contain 99,000,000 water 750,000 monopoly and 250,000 real value. It notes one can dispense with everything but the first if insurance is mixed with the water.
Mrs Caroling Cable of Waupaca Wisconsin credits Cuticura with curing her husband’s salt rheum on his hands after endless bandaging. She states one complete set of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills fully relieved his agony and left his hands smooth. She hopes the letter helps other sufferers.
The article notes that in Siam men may take multiple wives as finances allow, with the first wife serving as the head of the household. It highlights a highly elastic divorce law where marriages can be annulled by mutual consent, reflecting limited female rights.
Some grocers say they do not stock Defiance Starch because they already hold twelve 1 oz packages on hand. They believe the product cannot be sold to a customer who has previously used Defiance Starch for some money.
The Argentine telegraph system is hampered by spiders that weave webs on wires. Wet cobwebs cause leaks and draw current, reducing capacity to about a tenth of normal.
A brief guide recommends daily chest expansion through posture and twenty deep breaths, with a gentle start and gradual increase. It contrasts with a note on plant superstitions tracing to uses, including parsley as a euphemism for impending death among Greeks.
A. B. Selzer of San Francisco petitions for divorce arguing that spirits told him his wife no longer loves him. The unusual testimony was recorded in court.
Stockholders who acquired their shares from alleged wrongdoers and via prior mismanagement lack standing to complain, as stated in Home Fire Insurance Co v Barber Neb 60 LRA 927.
A Somerville Journal weather quip contrasts opinions on a forecast with the crusty reply noting the weather will not change despite objections. The brief exchange highlights local wit about daily climate.
A visitor recounts relief from years of stomach and bowel trouble after breakfasting on Grape-Nuts and cream. The change includes improved digestion, better sleep, relieved constipation, weight gain, and sharper memory. The account cites Postum Company of Battle Creek, Michigan.
Balzer's New National Oats proclaims yields of 240 bushels per acre in Michigan 256 in Missouri 510 in North Dakota and 150 to 300 in thirty other states Presently the oat is widely grown and if generally adopted could add millions of bushels and millions of dollars to farmers' incomes.
Mixed content reports seed company names and tons of seed samples alongside unrelated education and society quips. The fragmentary text mentions John A Saber Seed Co La Creme Win and a claim of big entasy with farm seeds. It also includes playful school and wedding humor excerpts from Town Topics.
Goodland Kansas special report on N E Albertson a local blacksmith cured of rheumatism in moments by one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says he slept poorly before and could not work his shop but now his pain vanished and has not returned. Neighbors began using the pills after seeing his improvement.
A Scotch shooting box reports a novel sandwich using thin bread slices with cream and crushed raspberries or wild strawberries. Raspberry and cream or strawberry options are highlighted, with berries alone praised for fruit flavor. The piece also notes silica bread sandwiches with cream and finely grated chocolate. A separate note describes a twelve inch gun shell traveling nine miles in forty two seconds.
An old notice claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube lining cannot be cured by topical therapies and offers a $100 reward for cases caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Mall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and Vail's Pills for constipation.
Two women armed with revolvers and daggers were caught early morning in Paris robbing a cardboard warehouse. They stated ages 21 and $50 Mexico City and Return $50 via Iron Mountain Route. Tickets sale March 4th to ith inclusive. City Ticket Office 6th and Olive sts St. Louis Mo.
Report notes valuable iron deposits found in the Bongo region of the Soudan with high quality and large quantity expected. Public excitement grows as mining prospects advance, while unrelated items mock and commercial notices appear in the same fragment.
A short inane exchange features a proverb about biting one’s nose to spite the face and a tale of a man kicking a hand out of doors. The dialogue highlights rural humor and local vernacular in a brief clipping from the Doston Transcript.
Miss Mamie Conway of Canton Ohio credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring her health and complexion after a breakdown in blood health. She cites nervousness headaches liver torpor indigestion and pimples that vanished after two boxes. The advertisement urges readers to obtain a box from any druggist to correct irregularities and strengthen health through better blood.
An Irishman in Australia complains that he was not born a fool while noting many friends who are fools reap wealth. He muses that fools are favored because they dig for gold, and no sensible man will overlook them. The passage uses dialect to convey frustration and irony about fortune.
A noisy ad urges Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use claiming 16 oz per package while rival packages are 12 oz. It touts no stickiness when drying and chemical-free composition. Warns against 12-oz alternatives and urges demand for Defiance. Also notes Tombstone paving protests in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
A humorous line notes that maturity brings a realization a man is too old to marry. The piece references Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and advises it as a remedy. it is sold by druggists and retailers. The fragment presents period tone and product placement typical of old newspaper humor pages.
A quotation urges happiness to reduce quarrels and wickedness. It mentions a torre or package Red Crane Holl Hue and the Huss Company, a booth bond, and Ip Wages of Bohemian Miners. The text notes Bohemian coal mines pay an average nine hour day wage of 86 cents.
Woman writes of foot comfort after using two boxes of Allen's Foot-Ease powder. The advertisement claims relief and calls it a godsend. A separate notice laments clergy hunger and cold, noting many Church of England clergy lack food clothing and fuel, relying on charitable society aid.
The article argues that good habits are essential for career success, stressing creative ability, order and system, and the enduring need for character that earns trust and credit in all fields. It emphasizes disciplined practice and reliable conduct as foundation for achievement.
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