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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1912
Page
3
A homeowner guide urges civic duty through yard care and curb appeal. It stresses tidy lawns, repaired fences, and sound trees to reflect well on families, neighbors, and even strangers judging your home. Emphasizes planting sturdy trees like elm and hackberry and avoiding clutter, cans, and debris in the yard.
The piece promotes yard cleanup and tree management advising removal and transplanting of maples and elms. It details soil mixes and seed guidance for lawn seeding, emphasizes avoiding terraces, and outlines steps for transplanting trees with root balls. It evokes a call to action to plant, with timing tied to favorable autumn conditions.
Guidelines on calf rearing note that skim milk can replace whole milk for growth with adequate protein and minerals. It advises initial colostrum, two days with dam, then two weeks of 8-10 pounds daily, gradual shift to skim milk, introduction of grain, and careful feeding, cleanliness, and timing for best results.
Ines Haynes Gillmore argues in Harper’s that women study society to align with marriage and see men as their natural prey. She notes single women compare eligibles, face competition, and launch a merciless, warlike scrutiny of rivals, making every other woman an adversary in social arenas.
A reader recalls a two year leg breakout that spread and itched badly. After trying many salves with little relief they used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, brushing and applying twice daily, leading to healing with no scarring. The advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment with Boston department store sample.
A collection of miscellaneous quips and commercial blurbs mixed with dialect prose, noting Mammy imagery in a boarding house, references to Chinese yuan design, patent medicine promises, cigar quality claims, and a joke about a female optimist marrying a poet.
A public phrenology lecture turned comic when a professor invited a boy to the platform. After a cranial examination, the professor claimed a pronounced bump indicated philoprogenitiveness. The boy quipped that the bump measured where he had been struck by a belt truckie yesterday, prompting laughter.
A buyer laments the sale of a supposed full blooded setter, claiming the dealer tricked them. The remark underscores disappointment and questions the dog’s true lineage and value.
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania says after suffering dropsy for a year with swollen limbs, heart flutter, and fatigue, he used 56 boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills and the swelling disappeared. He reports renewed health and faith in the remedy and invites correspondence for testimonials. A London Mail anecdote about two brothers and whisky concludes the clipping.
Loch Dochart castle dating to the thirteenth century on an island in Loch Dochart is taken in hand by the Scottish Historical Antiquarians Association for renovation to ensure permanency. The piece notes historic ties to Rob Roy and discusses restoration aims amid local commentary.
An endorsement style notice warns the change of life brings headaches dizziness and other symptoms and recommends Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A testimonial from Mrs Estellia Gillispre of St Anne Illinois claims the product lifted swelling pain and backache letting her resume housework after two months.
Businessmen from New York aim to establish the first butterfly farm in Red Bank New Jersey. They seek to breed varied butterflies for rich ladies to decorate conservatories and parlors. Mary Stewie Harvey is nominated as Baltimore’s first woman police matron with full police powers.
A fragmentary exchange shows tension as a speaker accuses another of absence while the other asserts readiness and discipline, hinting at a formal or drill setting. The phrases imply evaluation of presence and preparedness without full context or narrative.
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