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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
3
A practical guide to washing and starching shirt waists for neat appearance in hot weather. Steps cover unwashable buttons removal dusting seams cold water rinse salt to prevent color running warm suds starch preparation gum arabic borax and drying details.
A historical passage describes myths of the eagle’s aging and renewal. It narrates the bird seeking a pure fountain to restore its strength, then bathing in crystal water and leaping toward the sun to restore sight and vigor, while noting the eagle’s keen vision and hunting prowess. The tale also links parental care and selective nurturing of young to their readiness to fly.
Theresa Carreno, hailed as the greatest living woman pianist, stands with Paderewski and Eugene Albert and has been likened to the Calve of the piano. Born in Venezuela she moved to New York as a child and is regarded as American. Her European studies drew Liszt and Rubinstein’s attention, though she has not visited the United States for years while remaining a Europe favorite.
A fragment notes a speaker beating a carpet while a peddler with jangling wares distracts at the door. The piece blends domestic routine with intrusive street commerce.
The text discusses limited use of salt around quince bushes to suppress weeds and retain soil moisture, recommending a heavy mulch of coarse manure. It urges spring soil digging without harming roots and applying mulch heavily. It then critiques selling eggs by the dozen, urging weight-based pricing to ensure fair value and better incentives for farmers, poultry, and animal feed efficiency. It concludes with pumpkin cultivation guidance, soil choice, planting steps, thinning, cultivation, and storage for winter feeds.
The northern belt states have converted marginal hillside land into apple orchards yielding 15 to 75 dollars per acre annually. Planting, careful cultivation, barnyard manure, and free-range poultry improve soil, while early pruning and precise insect control build healthy trees and higher returns.
The text notes pumpkins as a fall and winter cattle feed, praising their affordability and ease of use as a food source for livestock. It emphasizes pumpkins as a simple, cost effective supplement during colder seasons.
Practical notes on dairy and meat production advise minimal butter handling, careful horse care, light oats before work, and thifty pigs. It covers market preferences for eggs and fowls, heat care for ill horses, grafting potatoes in France, berry trials at Geneva station, training horses one skill at a time, and potato sprout preservation by eye removal.
A persuasive appeal discusses female health issues including womb displacement and back pain. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure based on testimonials, citing Mars L. Martow of Milford, TL, who credits the product with relief after childbirth.
The notice claims deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for catarrh deafness not cured. It also touts Hall's Family Pills and advertises no city directory being published at Saint Petersburg.
A collage of medical quackery and product pitches extols Grain-O as a coffee alternative, promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for malaria and digestion, touts Allen's Foot-Ease for foot pain, Buckingham's Dye for beards, and Piso's Cure for Consumption with anecdotal testimonials.
The Bank of England stores silver ingots in its vaults dating back to 1696, preserved as part of the institution's long history and bullion reserves.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from grains. It claims it tastes like mocha and java but is gentler on the stomach, costs 15c plus 2c, and is sold by grocers. Also notes Russia plans a permanent legation in Abyssinia next fall and offers Missouri Pacific rail details to various western cities.
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