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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1906
Page
8
A garden note surveys hoe designs for general tillage and precise weeding. It favors a wide sharp business hoe for large soil moves and discusses specialized onion hoes and a modified old blade for dense plantings. The piece endorses the new style hoe as a fit weeder for close crops.
The article argues that initiative is the ability to start new ventures without external prompt. It credits study and creative methods for breaking mental ruts, noting farming benefits from revolutionary new processes. It highlights innovators in plant disease and sub tropical cultivation as examples and predicts more advances ahead.
The article extols cowpeas as a nitrogen gathering fertilizer to prepare lawns. It notes their effectiveness on poor soils, mellowing subsoil, adding nitrogen and humus, and choking weeds. In the South and in villages, cowpeas are commonly used before laying new lawns, often with one crop sufficing. On very poor soil, two crops may be needed.
A mold growing on rye during damp seasons is described as spreading by wind rain and insects. A Russian scientist studied its poison potential after 1902 rye bread poisonings and warns against using infected rye for human food despite the need for large quantities to cause fatal results.
The shepherd should breed for size weight of fleece distribution length of staple fineness vigor health and constitution. As a result he will have a flock of large thrifty sheep yielding each season fleeces of the highest merit.
The article argues that paint acts as a financial asset, like fire insurance, protecting property value and reducing losses from neglect. It recommends spring or fall painting, praises ready mixed paints from reputable manufacturers, and advises hiring a skilled painter for best results and efficiency.
An assortment of old ads promoting Putnam Faceless Dyes for floor coloring at 10 cents per package, Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Peoria Illinois, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and pain relief, and a note on Germany supplying five sixths of the world dyes.
Letters from American women attest that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eases painful menses irregularities and related symptoms. The ad urges readers to consult Mrs. Pinkham for free advice and warns against other medicines, promoting Lynn Mass as the remedy center.
A local advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh claiming it cures constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failed case and urge sending for testimonials from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Witch-hazel Hamamelis virginiana is a shrub or small tree up to 25 feet tall with light brown bark and many diverging stems. It bears clusters of yellow flowers with four petals and a woody capsule fruit. seeds mature in fall. Found from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas, it carries many superstitions about hidden springs and treasure. Modern use includes a soothing medicinal extract from bark and leaves.
A church paper correspondent recounts a town meeting where he doubts the movement's value calling it a false exotic from London while townspeople undervalue it. The second note promotes Brandreth's Pills as a safe, vegetable remedy for constipation, digestion, and blood impurity with a century of use.
In Orwell Oswego county New York a memorial grave marker replicates a Redfield lumber mill in miniature detail Granite and marble scour the scale one inch to the foot showing saws carriages rollers and lumber laden carriages A carved angel and sheep motif stand nearby as in traditional cemetery sculpture
A Newburg New York resident recounts severe foot and ankle wounds from blood poisoning. After six months of pain and hospital confinement, Cuticura Remedies restored healing in two weeks following use of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent.
The article instructs on building makeshift ice storage using tubs or barrels filled with water to freeze in exposed spots. It explains pre freezing stirring for clarity, quick release by boiling the tub, and storing blocks in sawdust or a barn bin with straw for summer ice supply. It notes that several tons can be produced for a family.
A simple clover cutter built from a smooth end and a sharp blade improves feed for hens. Use one third boiled clover in mash with equal parts cornmeal ground oats and bran plus beef scrap per hen. Salt lightly and feed warm, with exercise and ample corn at night to boost egg production.
In Winchester a grocer lost money daily and blamed two clerks who were fired. Replacements also stole, prompting police action. An undercover officer found paper scraps from nests of paper money from holes in the till caused by mice. The discharged clerks sued and won $300 each.
The message urges acting promptly to profit from unusually favorable conditions available now and warns that delaying could cause one to forget and miss a chance. The information is presented as a freemarket style alert encouraging immediate engagement.
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