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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1904
Page
7
A Fond Du Lac Presbyterian minister Rev Jacob D Van Doren reports kidney disorder endured days at home then improved after using Doans Kidney Pills. He offers to share details in a personal interview and notes the product’s relief and corrected kidney secretions. A 50 cent Foster Milburnco ad lists availability.
A long adlike note argues a woman’s happiness hinges on blood condition, citing Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for delayed development, anemia, and menopause. It includes Miss Mattie Griggs’s testimonial from Lawrence Kansas and offers a free booklet from the Dr. Williams Medicine Company. It also lists other items and quips from unrelated sources.
A historic design for a combined barn and stable outlines stalls for box, cow, and horse, plus a carriage room, hay storage, coal bin, wood house, water closet, and harness room. It specifies materials: fourteen squares shingles, 23 pieces 2x6 rafters, 1300 ft sheeting, 1800 ft weather boarding, 1600 ft 2x10 flooring, 900 ft 2x4 framing, with balloon framing and a concrete or earth lower floor.
A reader asks if gravel with adhesive can make a cheap durable roof for flat roofs. It advises three-ply tar paper lapped and nailed, coal tar brushed on, then gravel sifted while tar is soft for embedding. Coal tar available at hardware stores. cement plaster on wood likely cracks and fails waterproofing.
A request outlines plans to add a fourteen by ten foot bedroom off a sitting room with one window and no upper story. The writer seeks an estimate, noting details like roof type affect price. An example estimates a ten by fourteen room with eight foot walls and lean-to roof at about fifty seven dollars including masonry work.
Inquiry on sinking a well in running sand seeks advice on cement concrete pipes as casings. A four inch thick cement tile is suggested to prevent tile sinking, with about half a barrel of Portland cement needed for a three foot length and a three foot inside diameter, noting gravel or sand mixtures affect cement use.
A reader asks about using concrete walls for sliding doors and windows. The author notes barns require thicker walls and describes hollow wall concepts to allow doors and windows to slide into a thin outer shell.
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