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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1899
Page
7
Fragmented ad style text touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for irregularities and related female ailments. Includes testimonial from Isabel maider of New Providence Kentucky claiming renewed strength after six bottles and pellets.
An old newspaper column urges balanced meals with grains vegetables and limited meat, and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for digestion. It cautions against overreliance on heavy meat and highlights tonics and remedies like strychnia and Atrophanthus, ending with a note on bicycle frame protection in Philadelphia.
In poultry houses roosts should be placed crosswise on a frame six feet wide and nearly as long as the building. Mount the frame on one wall side with hinges and props or rope supports to drop for cleaning. Repeat whitewashing reduces filth. a spray pump aids washing with lime. American Agriculturist.
A poultry correspondent urges premises sanitation to stop gape disease in chicks. It explains gape worms infecting a chick, blocking air and causing rapid death, and recommends scattering strong lime in runs each spring as a disinfectant to prevent gapes and other diseases. It also notes lime aids laying hens and cites camphor pills as immediate relief for infected chicks.
Farm Journal advises not to thresh all the oat and wheat. Leave enough in the sheaf to exercise poultry in winter. Ensure laying pullets are settled before housing them. Once layers begin to lay, they should not be moved. Use a bucket spray pump to limewash coop interiors. Turn unused coops upside down for a bath, then store under cover. Keep horses and hens apart and avoid luring fowls to the stable door.
An Canadian wintering bee study placed hives six inches from the floor and covered with old carpet. Each colony retained 30 pounds of honey for winter, with all hives surviving. Cellar temperatures stayed steady from 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit per a self‑registering thermometer. The text then shifts to a note about egg flavor differences, attributed to hens fed on clean grain.
A Farm and Fireside quoted piece argues cold storage extends egg and poultry supply but warns of mislabeling as fresh lard. It favors a law requiring clear labeling to prevent fraud while allowing sale of cold storage items with proper notices.
From American Cultivator an article explores turkey domestication history and feeding. It emphasizes turkeys prefer freedom, the turkey hen’s foraging during growth, beechnuts as a superior winter feed for flavor, and a rapid ten to fourteen day fattening window when confined in darkness to prevent indigestion and fever.
An illustration describes an automatic hen nest that confines each bird as it begins laying. Nests can be checked several times daily to release hens after recording their summer and marking eggs. The device identifies top layers to improve breeding for better laying.
An obscure 19th century poultry section discusses the plague of beginners focusing on egg yield. It notes many spring-hatched birds show non-livers and outlines methods to select roosters and inter hatch practices. The text contains garbled phrases but centers on broiler size, marking, and determining quality.
A profile highlights Mrs Wright, a respected educator turned legislator, active in primaries and conventions since 1894. She credits a selflessly unsolicited nomination, campaigned mainly from the schoolroom, and won by a large majority at public meeting in Boomer's Ferry. She led on education and privileges and elections committees and presided over the house briefly. She advocated suffrage in 1896 as justice, urging eastern states to recognize women's freedom.
The piece argues expanding a child's mind through varied life scenes. It urges visits to studios silk factories brick-yards and iron foundries to learn labor's poetry and to explore churches monuments castles and distant landscapes. It stresses city country travel and meeting workers to foster sympathy and understanding of labor.
Dr Williame Pink Pills advertised for pale people priced at 60 cents per box. Six boxes cost $2.56, with packaging sold by the package rather than by the dozen or hundred. Reacts as a historical medicinal advertisement from Schenactady based company.
In New York some families hire a moving van by the year. Two months is the limit they set for a stay in favored quarters. They pay the first month’s rent in advance, then the second month’s rent, and at the end the van returns to move them again. The van man knows this routine but keeps quiet to maintain good customers.
Report notes a farmer named Schaffer drilling and damming pasture, triggering a sudden lake with tiny fish two to four inches long. Locals baffled by source as no nearby water bodies exist and well yields 20 000 barrels of water daily. The incident prompts discussion of curing hives and relates to a fad ointment advertised at 50 cents.
Theodor of Rain, Nuttall attributes the smell of freshly turned earth to the bacterium eintho- Urix odorfera. It multiplies in decomposing plant matter and flourishes with heat and moisture, causing odor after disturbing moist soil or lingering after rain, while dry soil halts its growth until moisture returns.
Grain-O is advertised as a tasty nourishing drink that replaces coffee. It is described as non stimulant, aiding digestion and strengthening nerves, suitable for children and adults, and priced comparable to coffee.
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