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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
7
United States Treasurer McClung recommends Congress fund extra facilities to exchange old and defaced currency for new. He cites widespread interest in cleaner money and notes bacteria cling to paper bills spreading disease, arguing the expense is small compared with health benefits.
Grace refuses to marry Jack as he claims a year before he can marry. Maud counters with a man who could marry at any time, prompting Grace to reveal a ready partner she knows.
An Ohio woman writes that switching from coffee to Postum cured long standing health issues from heart trouble to indigestion and nervous strain. She credits better strength memory and endurance to Postum and notes family observers marvel at the transformation. The note promotes Postum with a signature from Battle Creek Michigan and references The Road to Wellville.
Purdue University announces a 1912 summer school for teachers from June 17 to July 20 focusing on agriculture domestic science and manual training. Organized to enhance rural education, it offers Purdue faculty instruction, option to specialize in one division while pairing with others, and practical training in kitchen garden soils dairying drawing tools and industrial subject integration.
This historical note traces silage origins from 1875 France to 1876 America, credits Francis Morris, and notes how silos preserve corn, boost milk production, cut feeding costs, and enable year round dairy farming. It also describes silo construction and proper packing and removal for efficient feeding.
Miss Thompson teaches spelling to her nephew with careful sounds then taps her chest to indicate letters. The boy, watching her finger, guesses the letters spell Fat.
The passage sketches competing bluing claims and humorous ads. It touts Red Cross Ball Bluing as superior blue, notes costs of glass and freight, and urges readers to ask grocers. Additional items advertise laxatives, skin salves, and a quip about an artist and a model.
The ad touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children promising to break up colds in 2% hours and relieve fever, headache, stomach troubles, teething issues, and worm infestation. It notes 22 years of use by mothers and lists availability through druggists with a LeRoy New York address.
A brief dialogue excerpt features Mr Seekton praising restraint and his wife gently acknowledging past actions. Leonidas is granted credit for not hurrying, reflecting a quiet domestic moment from Stray Stories.
An advertisement urges mothers to examine each bottle of Castoria for the signature of Chay YY Seicedue in use for cag. It emphasizes Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children and notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
The soils and crops department leased two new fields at Worthington and North Vernes to study crop rotations drainage tile effects lime manure and fertilizers. Emphasis on soil fertility conservation through returning crop residues and using clover and cowpeas as soil rejuvenators. Results to be published when available.
In Indiana at Wsnatah the experimental fields, once regarded as barren, produced gratifying results using commercial fertilizers and proper management. Crops grown include corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, potatoes, clover, timothy, and cowpeas.
Mrs Flatt chides Mr Flatt for not showing concern as she shivers with cold. He asks what he can do and she begs him to shiver too in a brief humor piece from the Boston Transcript.
A mother describes a six month old child losing hair and developing a red scaly rash that spread to the face hands and arms. After trying multiple doctors and ointments, she reports rapid improvement within days of using Cuticura Resolvent Ointment and Soap followed by further gains after two bottles and three cakes of Soap. She praises Cuticura for other skin issues and notes free samples offered by the company.
A brief literary line by Louisa May Alcott advising care for cheerfulness while noting that gloom shifts away on its own. The ethics emphasize maintaining optimism amidst daily life and challenges.
A collection of letters from women in Massachusetts Connecticut Maine New Hampshire Vermont praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from hemorrhages back pain irregularities and nervous prostration. The testimonials claim rapid improvement and long term health benefits after taking the medicine.
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