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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
7
Mrs Mittie Huffaker of Columbia Tennessee credits Peruna with curing her severe dyspepsia after years of sickness and failed doctor visits. She says the remedy restored her health and life. The ad notes a revised Peruna formula adding a mild laxative quality as approved by S B Hartman M D.
British physician Dr W F Robertson argues paralysis is a germ disease like tuberculosis and diphtheria. Dr Emil Reich notes English upper classes’ goat from heavy Port wine. Ultraviolet light reportedly heals baldness. Kronmayer claims 27 of 32 cases cured. Prolonged artificial light can dull eye color, but brightness may be restored with care.
An article argues white bread causes dyspepsia by starch digestion in the intestines and praises Grape-Nuts for pre-digested starch from whole wheat and barley. It claims ten days to two weeks on Grape-Nuts improves strength and health, citing visible grape sugar crystals and a slogan There’s a reason.
A farm and home illustration shows a wool tying box built from one inch boards with a central one by one foot square and three foot sides. Strings cross the top, fleece placed on the center, edges folded in, sides raised, and a clamp secured to form a compact bundle with wool evenly exposed on the outside.
A dairyman details one pure bred Jersey cow with nine calves from 1897 to the present, six bulls sold at $50 each and three heifers kept, milk yield about 7500 pounds yearly at $1.20 per 100 pounds, plus calf value totaling $1080 over eight years. The animal is described as robust, well cared for, and consistently productive.
Agricultural notes advise proper saddle fit and care of young stock to improve milk and meat yields. It recommends clear separation of old sheep, use of cream separators for larger herds, vetting new milkers, and prioritizing clover and bluegrass pastures for hogs and swine.
The piece argues hog health suffers where yards are dirty. Clean yards prevent hog cholera and pneumonia like symptoms, noting mud after rains and dust in dry weather. Advocates using several hog yards and moving hogs between yards to keep them healthy.
A farmer explains using metal leg bands numbered for each turkey to prevent losses and help manage the birds. The bands allow easy counting and tracking of individual turkeys after a neighbor killed some.
The article explains dipping as the main remedy for sheep scab and ticks, comparing proprietary dips with lime and sulphur. It details a lime and sulphur formula, dipping frequency of two times eight to ten days apart, post dipping isolation, and methods for small versus large flocks. It notes mites cause irritation and skin inflammation leading to wool loss, and mentions dipping setups and stockyards dipping etiquette.
A reader seeks a method to build an elevated sleeping platform for hogs. The plan shows a bed about two to three feet above the floor, accessed by a dotted-line approach from the feeding floor. The design labels A P as passage and FL as the feeding floor sloping toward the sleeping platform.
In eastern Kansas seedling peach trees have matched or exceeded the returns of high priced budded varieties over five to six years. While budded peaches often fail, seedling trees yield reliable crops and can be more hardy and thrifty. Planting only a few seedling trees yearly helps maintain an ongoing crop. Heath Cling and Elberta offspring are among the successful offshoots.
The text argues that even with unscientific breeding, hogs can be profitable, and that scientific management should focus on disease prevention, early maturity, and unlocking the animal’s natural fecundity for better profits.
The author recounts failed cures for roup in chickens and describes turpentine throat swabs and goose oil as a cure. They advocate minor sulphur use for hens but warn against applying it to sitting hens or those with chicks due to eye irritation in chicks.
A note from Peterhof says Emperor Nicholas will not receive the deputation and that the address must be presented through the ministry. Mouromtseff calls a meeting of parliament as constitutional democrats rally, then seek to quell anger and avoid open conflict.
A special 1901 census report notes that in 1902 telephone systems operated over three quarters of total wire mileage and employed about 70 percent of wage earners. It records commercial systems with 4,779,571 miles and 2,225,981 telephones, mutual lines 70,915 miles and 89,316 phones, and independent lines 49,965 miles and 55,747 phones.
Mrs. Julia G. Young of Cleveland is killed and three others hospitalized after a midnight crash on the lake road near Girard. The car struck a telegraph pole overturning. the party had planned a Cleveland to Erie to Buffalo trip.
The Winnipeg Free Press highlights vast opportunities in the Canadian West. Government agents in the United States can provide information on rates and access. The article touts a mass migration boom to the prairie wheat belt, promising social and civil advancement alongside farming prospects for energetic young men.
A collage of mid century ad blurbs and quips includes lines about gifts on rail journeys, a nerve restorer offer, a joke about upper berths, cigars, an engine by air, soothing syrup for teething, a boast about pride and fall, Garfield Tea for health, and a remark that gasoline makes the world round.
Cleveland operators hopeful that Jefferson county mines will reopen without clashes between strikers and detectives or nonunion workers. In Salt Lake City, Richard B. Shepard, former legislator and bookstore owner, gets 13 months for mailing immoral catalogs.
A midcentury advertisement urges women with menstrual and pelvic symptoms to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to avoid surgery. It cites patient letters from Ruby Mushrush and Alice Berryhill praising relief from irregular periods, ulceration, and inflammation, claiming the remedy saved them from operations and restored health.
City Architect Lagueruela was arrested on an indictment accusing him of responsibility for the Genereg Gazette factory catastrophic collapse that killed six people and left one injured. In Paris Archbishop Ireland and Bishop McGolrick arrived, planning a one week stay before US return while McGolrick tours Ireland. In Maryland a work train derailed into the C&O Canal, causing three deaths and fifteen injuries with two more missing.
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