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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1906
Page
4
A Kentucky woman describes a drastic improvement after shifting from ordinary foods to a breakfast of Grape-Nuts with rich cream. She credits the change with reversing indigestion and fatigue and restoring health and mental clarity within days.
A Columbus resident praises Peruna for hay fever relief. The letter claims the remedy eases catarrh and "ague fever" symptoms during late summer and avoids attacks by stimulating the nervous system. It urges others to try Peruna and even relocate if needed.
The Ohio State Journal argues that small farms near Paris show wealth potential when the land is cultivated with labor and smart soil use. It stresses that soil fertility and crop choice, not size, determine profitability, noting examples of high fertilizer input yielding outsized returns.
President Hyde argues that courage lies in facing a disagreeable present to secure lasting ends. He cites calmness under anger, steadiness amid mobs, and persistence in routine as essential forms of strength. Courage, he says, is the ready acceptance of pains needed to achieve personal and public aims.
Practical guidance for sheep and bee keepers. Notes on stocking a farm with sheep, soil quality, and the business like care needed. Suggests a simple device using a board groove and inverted water can to prevent drowning and keep bees supplied. By Bessie L. Putnam. Tribune Farmer.
Instructions emphasize keeping cream cans in cold water year round and washing the cream separator with a brush and washing powder after each use. Rinse with clean hot water, avoid old stale cream, and never mix cold and warm cream. Fresh cream should be cooled to the temp of the cream it joins and stored away from odors.
An old guide discusses placing silos near barns to reduce labor and odor transfer to milk, showing a connected yet exterior silo to allow sealing doors in cold weather. It also covers hog shade for cooling, pasture use, cost calculations from a Chicago herd, and assorted farm notes and items of interest from the period.
At Parrington on the Lake Cook county border Illinois Edward Landner a dairyman milking thirty two head of cows in a mixed herd has been keep
J T Scott advises gardeners to use empty space to sow fast growing green crops like white mustard toward mid August. Turning under these crops provides manure and prevents weeds, ensuring plots are harvested in near equal time and reducing future work.
Mrs. John Perrott returned home after a several days absence to find burglars had stolen about $2000 worth of books bric a brac and liquors. A note left behind read Sorry we had to leave in a hurry. Her husband is the Hotel Peninsula chef at Sea Bright New Jersey.
Mrs Christiana Schlegel 63 drowned off North Beach while aboard the yacht Paulis with her husband and several children. She fell overboard and was not noticed until the yacht had drifted away. A boat was lowered but found no sign of her as she sank.
A lamp debris toppled from a roof set fire to Rosie Greenberger on the sidewalk. She burned severely and may die. Mrs. Mary Haegh chased, wrapped a shawl about her, and rolled her to extinguish the blaze.
Frederick J. Mayer of Baltimore, a gas engineer, testified before master Arthur H. Masten in the Consolidated Gas Company case to declare the six cent gas law unconstitutional. He said he examined the company property over two months and estimated the replacement cost of plants at 16,137,927 dollars.
Dr. William Armstrong received a cable announcing the death of his father in law Thomas E. Stillman in Lisieux France. Stillman had been hospitalized since July 18 after an automobile collision with a wagon and his injuries, worsened by advanced age, caused by the crash.
A crowded trolley bound for Coney Island sideswiped a moving van at Brown's Jump, injuring six and leaving many others hurt. Twenty men on the trolley running board and railings were swept from the car as the van stuck out beside the track.
Nero the Nubian lion escaped at Victoria Theatre causing frantic pursuit by twelve stage hands with revolvers. The beast charged toward the basement door and struck a horse, tearing it open. the horse likely must be shot. Moments later the lion returned to its cage on the stage.
A switch engine pulling six Pullman cars for the Empire State Express jumped the track at Fifty fourth Street outside the Park Avenue tunnel and blocked local tracks for two hours. No injuries reported as cleaners worked in the cars. The locomotive damaged a concrete bridge abutment and tore up trackwork.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses kidneys and blood filtration, mentioning health and impurities but in unclear form. It references filters and the role of kidneys in filtering blood though words are garbled and sentences lack complete structure.
The piece extols lead as essential to civilization alongside iron. It details lead’s roles in plumbing, printing, bearings, solder, and especially paint including white lead and red lead, noting red lead’s preservative power for iron and steel and mentioning other lead compounds like litharge and orange mineral.
The anecdote of Elihu Root mastering aniline dye law to win a case illustrates education as training the ability to study, think, and discriminate. It argues true education develops individuality and initiative, not mere factual knowledge, noting the system often breaks down in this regard.
Fred W Harris of Chestnut St Jefferson Ohio suffered kidney disease for over a decade with swelling and back pain. After months bedridden he used Dean's Kidney Pills and recovered fully taking about ten boxes. He reports natural kidney secretions and weight gain with no symptoms. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A Chicago News quip describes a scene in a tall city building where Nan asks if JT can sell the “Encyclopaedia of Sporting Events.” The busy man says they already have one. The office boy is mocked as a walking encyclopedia on every topic from skiddoo to the Olympian games.
A pair of letters praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claim dramatic relief from monthly female pain and a near operation, with Mary Dimmick of Washington and Mrs Dienmick of Washington, D. C. endorsing the remedy and urging other women to try it and write for advice.
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