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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
3
Annie Hendren of Rocklyn Washington reports improved health after using Peruna and Manalin, saying she can now do all housework milk cows and care for the milk. The letter highlights widespread praise from women of various occupations for Dr Hartman’s remedy and its advisory role.
The brain of a man is described as more than twice that of any other animal in a brief claim. An advertisement promotes Lewis' Single Binder Cigar with a rich taste and notes a dealer in Peoria Illinois.
The text notes Australian authorities considering encouraging shelter tent production or import. It details a waterproof sheet with hooks and eyelets, light weight, and its use by Japanese soldiers. Sheets can form bivouacs for four men and shelter from heat and rain when laid over weapons.
Consul William Bardel reports engineer Balderauer of Salzberg has built a balloon incline with a stationary balloon attached to a hillside rail. A ten passenger circular car is suspended beneath, using hydrogen lift and water ballast to descend. The system aims to replace existing incline cable roads and is tested on German mountains.
Elizabethtown pastor recalls near collapse from La Grippe five years ago and describes how Grape-Nuts food restored appetite, weight, and strength. He notes losing 59 pounds then regaining most of it, sleeping better, and resuming duties, endorsing the product as a rebuilding agent.
A detailed description of a practical cattle stall configuration emphasizing liberty, cleanliness, and ease of maintenance. It covers trough construction with one inch timber, arc-ed heads, adjustable sills, partitions, and hardware placements to accommodate 1000 to 1200 pound cows and ensure hygienic bedding.
The Ontario dairy report describes a cheese room wall system using outside siding, a matched lumber layer with paper, a 12 inch insulation gap filled with shavings, and inner double boards with a 1 inch air space. Air is the key insulator, with shavings aiding moisture control though not fireproof. tight sheeting prevents rodent entry.
A neglected fence harms the farm by inviting trespass of animals into unauthorized fields. It remains unsightly and serves as a harbor for weeds and predatory insects, signaling poor maintenance on stock and grain operations.
Middlesex county Conn farmer George W. Clark shares grass and hay guidance with several cautionary steps. He warns against ditch filling, underdraining without need, pasturing or driving on grass roots, and using coarse manure after seeding. He notes reseeding an old field takes time and advises mowing before frost and fertilizing slightly above need.
Discusses careful milking to ensure butter quality and cheese suitability, noting that poor milking harms cows and milk quality. Advises on cow feed and pasture management. Also recommends planting Hyslop crab apple trees as ornamentals for threefold visual appeal and a large autumn crop.
A narrator visits the countryside with automobilists and asks about the shepherds crook. A shepherd demonstrates by latching the crook onto several sheep to show its use. He explains a crook is a staff and tool much like a fisherman needs a hook.
A 10 cent package of EGG-O-SEE offers ten breakfasts and is pitched as nourishing and easy to digest. The ad claims benefits from wheat with iron and minerals, praising regular use for strong, happy children and adults. It invites readers to request the free book Back to Nature from the EGG-O-SEE Company in Quincy, Illinois.
A collection of maxims from Chinese, Terence, Plantus, Bias, Solon, Synesius, Phocylides, Pythagoras, and Cato. It presents thoughts on virtue simplicity wealth generosity restraint and public justice with concise moral contrasts and timeless counsel.
The article extols Yellowstone Park as a grand tourist destination and highlights unusually low summer round trip rates to the resort via Union Pacific. It notes a Yellowstone Park folder and travel information via W. G. Neimyer at 120 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. It also mentions a Rhode Island Society election involving Cornelius Vanderbilt as representative.
In a few days a letter dropped at the Chicago general post office before train departures will ride electric subway cars to Park Row station and be loaded onto mail cars. The system links the subway under Wabash avenue with Park Row and keys fast mail service to St Paul Minneapolis Omaha St Louis New Orleans Detroit Grand Rapids Cincinnati Buffalo New York and other points. The change ends wagon hauling of sack mail and uses elevators to reach mail cars. The piece on journalism urges ethical, energetic, fair reporting serving the whole community as the Newspaper Maker. It recounts Herbert Spencer as a boy walking home 120 miles over three days and notes a dispute about closet space between Adam and Wye.
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