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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1906
Page
3
Publicizing its full ingredients, a Buffalo lab prints the components on Dr. Pierce's Family Medicine wrappers. The open disclosure argues the product is not a patent or secret remedy, and physician reviewers endorse it as trustworthy and effective despite competitors.
railway schedules list diesel services and daily runs among cities including Atkinson, Topeka, Santa Fe, and Kansas City. It notes arrivals and departures, exceptions on Sundays, and special services with limited trips to Leavenworth and nearby routes.
A veteran rancher recalls past deer migrations near Anaconda and a deadly bear encounter, then shifts to indoor gardening. The piece notes deer behavior, ownership disputes over venison, and a neighbor’s role in resolution. It then offers guidance on growing plants in north-facing windows, detailing ferns, begonias, rubber trees, fugium, and smilax, with care tips for moisture, dust, and light.
An old advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as a popular throat and lung remedy and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy. The ad claims superiority over imitators, appeals for trust with testimonials, and notes availability at Barber & Son's drug store. It promotes Hale’s Family Pills for constipation and urges readers to send for circulars and testimonials.
A garden guidance piece advises planning a summer fruit and vegetable plot in a small yard. It recommends rotation, quick-growing crops, and spacing for abundant yields, with diagram suggestions for succession planting and shading considerations for berry bushes and seedbeds toward the north to catch sunlight.
Winter advice for fruit growers outlines pruning debris disposal by burning, mouse protection for young trees, wrapping to 18 inches, storing poplar cuttings in moist sawdust, spacing rows, and using stable manure around trees to prevent winterkill. It notes soil preparation for orchards and the risk of unbanked trees dying.
The note urges readying spraying apparatus in winter for spring use. It mentions a watchman overseeing a North Sea dyke and a child Hager in a distant peril. A Dr King’s New Discovery is cited saving a man named Geish after prolonged cough and inflammation. Barber & Son’s offers trial bottles of the remedy.
An early 20th century piece explains ice as a farm luxury and essential for dairy quality in summer. It discusses pond harvests, costs of securing ice, practical storage, building concerns for preventing melt, and packing density to preserve ice for home and dairy use.
Handy wagon jack designed for one handed operation except with heavy loads. Suggests having separate jacks for light and heavier rigs. Emphasizes practicality and ease of use in lifting wagons and loads.
Instructions describe making a simple jack using three 1 inch thick boards four inches wide and as long as the axle height requires. One board is cut six inches shorter and placed between the longer boards, then bolted. A half inch lever is added with oak or lekory, notched top, a wire loop near the base of the standard allows motion as illustrated.
Cherries profitable in the central west. Advice urges farmers to transfer a cow’s character to ensure success and to protect outdoor implements from rust. Silage costs at Tennessee station range from 1.41 to 2.83 dollars per ton depending on crop. Emphasizes breeding on farms, noting ships of lineage. Warns about kidney trouble and praises Foley’s Kidney Cure with anecdotal testimonials from Morgantown and Barber & Gos drugstore.
A character, Mr Bifleby, explains in the New York Bun that delaying tasks to tomorrow leads to comfort but no revenue. He notes others who act now become wealthier while he remains the same, and vows to stop postponing and begin work today.
A Royal Society review notes permanganate of potass ium as a potential antidote for snake bites. Dr Rogers reports nine recoveries in a dozen cases, including viper bites, with two fatalities where treatment was delayed. The method is cheap, requires an incision and ligature, or a lancet for the puncture.
A mixed clipping recounts sightings of rhinoceroses and a fox’s wall-top trick. It notes rhinoceros behavior, horn length, and birds aiding parasite control, then narrates a Waterford hounds chase and a corralled fox scent trail. Also includes aged medical ads for Foley’s Honey and Tar and Cardui wine.
A correspondent from Ohio Farmer describes a cheap, sturdy barnyard shed for cows. It uses 19 ground posts, an eight foot high frame, boards for siding, two openings including a door, and an outside pen where straw funnels to the ground. Inside there are two stalls, a movable partition, a salt box, and a design to keep stock clean and sheltered year round.
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