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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
7
An old advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as superior laundry bluing, claiming it saves water and washes more clothes. It urges readers to ask their grocer for a large five cent package and promises brighter, happier laundry outcomes.
A dialogue contrasts freedom with restraint as one speaker says you can go as far as you like while the other warns against going so far that recovery becomes impossible. The exchange frames a broader question about boundaries and consequences in language.
An old advert promises quick healing for burns and cuts with Cole's Carbon salve. It claims faster recovery and no scars and offers the product for 26 cents or 6 cents at druggists. Free samples are available by writing to J. W. Cole & Co. in Black River Falls Wisconsin.
Mrs Back asks Ellen to have her dress finished by three o clock to receive visitors, but Ellen questions if her mother will stay in. The exchange reveals household expectations and humorous reluctance.
An advertisement touts Marine Eye Remedy for red inflamed eyes with tablets and bottles sold by druggists. claims dentists and physicians used it for years and includes price details. A stray social line about a girl and kissing ends the fragment.
A humorous exchange features a boast about a new hat being very large followed by a sharp remark that the bill was so high it made the hat seem tiny by comparison. The witticism is attributed to Roseleaf.
A judge recounts Freddie who has been ill for some time. He tells his father that the doctor’s medicines feel excessive and seem to be applied harshly. Freddie questions why he is being asked about owing the doctor, hinting at perceived mistreatment.
Mrs Brown quotes a compare and contrast between valor and discretion. Valor is loudly taunting a champion fighter as a ruffian, while discretion is doing it by telephone. The exchange ties bravado to public confrontation versus private caution.
A humorous exchange cites a six year old solving algebra and a four year old knowing Greek. The couple wonders where these linguistic and mathematical marvels reside, with a punchline revealing the boy in Boston and the girl’s home in Greece. The snippet comes from National Food Magazine.
In a cooperative country village a girl boasts of a new baby. A neighbor asks where it came from and jokes that the doctor breastfed it instead of buying with trading stamps or dividends. The tale critiques local thrift and “trading check” culture through a humorous exchange.
A Racine Wisconsin woman recounts rapid relief from a severe stomach disorder after using Grape-Nuts with Postum. She could eat with relish, tolerating small portions daily, and her nerves and appetite improved as her digestion recovered. The letter, attributed to Postum Co., praises the product and notes ongoing reader letters.
Purdue University extension outlines the surge of farmers short courses across Indiana. Seven Purdue staff teach in field crops livestock soil improvement dairying horticulture poultry and domestic science with a carload of equipment and stereopticon lanterns. Since season start, more than 5 000 farmers have attended direct courses and 8 000 to 10 000 more will be reached before spring, totaling over 15 000. demand exceeds funds, urging early applications to the Agricultural Extension Department Purdue University Lafayette Ind.
Wheat breeding differs from open pollination in corn. A manual cross uses pollen transfer between Rudy and Michigan Amber varieties, selecting the best offspring over at least three years to yield a new variety with desired traits.
The animal husbandry department launches a third sheep feeding trial on December 11 using 140 Idaho lambs sired by Hampshire ducks. Wood Brothers bred the lambs noted for high quality range stock. The research compares leguminous and non leguminous roughage with and without a nitrogenous concentrate, studies corn silage with and without cottonseed meal in a corn and clover hay ration, and seeks the profitable silage level for lamb fattening. Three experiments will be published as bulletin reports at the earliest.
A bulletin prepared by C. G. Woodbury and J. W. Wellington of the Purdue Experiment Station notes the value for Indiana orchardists. Based on J. M. Zion's 50 acre Clark's Hill orchard tests, the study compares heater types and fuels and shows smudging as practicable and effective with precise records from three trials.
Members of the Apple Knockers club announce a fruit show timed with Purdue’s farmers’ short course. The club is a very recent organization but remains exceedingly active with a range of worthy efforts.
The dairy barn milk room is under remodeling to boost facilities for processing and handling milk, aiming to improve efficiency and throughput at the facility.
Report covers Civil War actions including reconnaissance from Port Royal to cut Savannah River off Fort Pulaski, naval engagement with five Confederate gunboats, and Union/Confederate movements in Missouri Kentucky and Tennessee. Also notes Mason-Sidell Trent incident, seizure and exchange plans, and British neutrality stance plus mediation offer from France.
In a den off the living room a man muses about a modern twist on a song and proposes free laundries for the poor. He contemplates mechanics, beneficiaries, and discrimination and urges his sister to work out the details while a companion seeks ten million to fund the plan.
A humorous fragment from the Detroit Free Press features a neighbor asking a child about her new guardian and the girl quips she would have chosen a better papa herself, illustrating childlike bluntness in a家庭-divorce vignette.
London Opinion quips at a superstition filled with humor and old world phraseology, wishing three sons find marriages of affection amid playful regional speech and cultural banter.
A terse aphorism asserts that no man harms an enemy as severely as he harms his own stomach, implying self-inflicted neglect or overindulgence. The remark plays on the idea of internalizing conflict through diet and bodily health.
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