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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
Lena V. Henry of Norristown Georgia reports that she suffered severe female troubles and faced surgery. After starting Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she improved after the first bottle and is now entirely cured. She urges every woman with similar troubles to take the remedy.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a thirty year standard remedy for female illnesses. It claims cures for displacements inflammation irregularities backache and other symptoms and invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
A literary exchange unfolds as Dabster quips about poetry killing time and Crittick counters that talent would shine if time were not tied to immortality, in a Philadelphia Press exchange.
A man warns of danger after a heated exchange. A judge recalls a fatal outcome saying the other party was killed after a threat. The terse exchange hints at a violent consequence within a legal setting.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winson's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It claims to soften gums reduce inflammation relieve pain and cure wind colic. Price listed as 53 cents a bottle.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a regular boarder noting fewer hammock requests and Farmer Corn tessel replying times are hard on silk stockings this summer, reflecting economic strain and modest hope amid scarcity.
An old advertisement urges shoppers to ask their grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue laundry aid. The large 202 package is priced at 5 cents, indicating a midcentury consumer promo for household cleaning products.
A shop encounter notes that hats go in and out of style as fashion quickly changes. A polite shopman invites the customer to wait while trends update, reflecting bustling fashion cycles and consumer interest in current millinery.
A poem fragment titled in Judge's Library laments a singer seeking only to perform and earn a single bone per line, unconcerned with legislative change in the land. The piece reflects tension between art and governance through a satirical lens.
A Baltimore debate questions enforcing a barking dog law arguing ordinary barkers statutes would apply. The exchange suggests a practical approach to quiet nuisance without new legislation.
The passage highlights a Turk whose strongest sentiment is reverence for his mother. He remains standing in her presence until invited to sit, a ceremonial compliment he offers to no other person.
A Denver News-Times quote references Binks remaining in a harness and in a stable business. The short exchange suggests ongoing stability and steady work activities associated with Binks.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes strong public aversion to horseflesh as food despite claims of its taste and nutrition. It cites Paris data showing rising horse slaughter for meat, particularly among the poor, and emphasizes the need for clear labeling of horse products.
A quotation from Youth’s Companion discusses the mind’s influence on physical state. It cites a case from Ulk and notes strenuous work with minimal rest. The dialogue questions illness and answers with relentless labor as a presumed cause.
A quote attributed to Frank B. Welch warns that discontent harms the mind like cancer and urges early self criticism and rational action. It emphasizes self arrement and the use of common sense as remedies, endorsing personal responsibility for mental health care.
A Philadelphia Press quip centers on a bachelor and a young benedict discussing euchre. The benedict notes home is the right bower when hearts are trump, while noting the left bower would appear if clubs trump. The exchange blends humor with card game jargon.
A fragment from a historical report notes a patient survived a crisis after delaying treatment for kidney failure, highlighting risks and consequences of late medical care. The piece emphasizes the life saved by timely intervention and the danger of postponing care in kidney emergencies.
Mrs Herman Smith of Athens Georgia describes a rapid decline from irregular kidney function to dangerous dropsy and swelling. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her life at a critical moment after doctors failed to help. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Baltimore American quote shows a husband explains his tactic to keep harmony at home. He says when he and his wife differ he learns what she wants first and then orders her to do it that way, and she, in turn, complies with his wishes.
The Hades Head Stoker cries for accountability after a furnace outage. The Imp claims a High Financier was involved, admitting they failed to withdraw stock he kept, implying negligence or mismanagement behind the disruption.
A motto from a bunko steerer proclaims Never put off till tomorrow whom you can do today guiding participants to immediate tasks. The saying reflects a practical ethic heard at the event.
The piece blends a poem about resilience with a farm note on grit in poultry. It features J W Foley from the New York Times praising steadfastness and grit, followed by a practical discussion on poultry grit and reference to a Weekly Witness test with broken glass and china.
A farmer should use unleached wood ashes as a source of potash for orchards. Apply one peck to a newly set tree, and two to three bushels for a five year old tree. avoid banking ashes too close to trunks. If unleached ashes are unavailable, kainit or muriate of potash can supplement, while coal ashes have no orchard value.
A Maryland Station bulletin advises hauling manure directly from stable to field and spreading it immediately to minimize loss and labor. Use rotted manure for many crops for quicker results, avoid piling to prevent floss, and employ manure spreaders for even distribution on short hauls. Typical application ranges ten to twenty tons per acre, though experiments suggest cutting usage in half and supplementing with commercial fertilizer.
The article compares rations for a cow producing eight quarts daily to a standard based on live weight. It concludes four pounds of corn plus pasture will be protein deficient and high in carbohydrates, while five pounds corn on cob with five pounds bran and pasture meets dry matter but varies in nutrient balance.
The Rural Engineering section of the Department of Agriculture reports a novel plow that bores soil rather than turning it. It uses two auger like screws rotating oppositely ahead of the machine, gasoline powered and self-propelled, claimed to stir soil more thoroughly. In ten hours it can plow 2.5 acres to eight inches in compact soil at about $4, gasoline twenty cents a gallon.
A historical American Cultivator passage explains that a bull governs the herd through breeding, affecting all cows and calves. If the bull’s pedigree is poor, the entire stock declines, while a good bull imprints strong traits across the herd and its calves.
Guidance on cutting alfalfa when flowers appear, wilting leaves, windrowing, and curing in cocks of seventy five pounds. Leaves are highly valuable, and hay must dry completely to avoid heating or spontaneous combustion before barn storage.
The piece recalls days when New England bred lambs sold for thousands of dollars and formed seed stock for leading flocks. It asks what happened to the industry and whether the next generation kept pace with the stock’s value, pondering the drift of heirs from farming to grumbling.
The Louisiana experiment station reports on using cane molasses for horses. Despite favorable reports, the author advises northern farmers not to replace cereals and byproducts with molasses indiscriminately. Used as an appetizer and tonic, and to prevent colic, two to three pounds daily could yield satisfactory results.
Regular cultivation after planting and after every rain keeps weeds from growing. Deep pre-plant plowing and frequent harrowing prepare the ground, while shallow after-plant cultivation maintains loose dry earth and reduces moisture loss, yielding fewer weeds each year.
Department of Agriculture inquiries across more than a thousand counties indicate average crop haul length on country roads of 12.1 miles and average load weight of 2002 pounds. The typical cost per mile is 25.2 cents, about $3 per load, covering labor feed and wear.
The farmer keeps animals thrifty and healthy with proper feeding, good care and intelligent handling. Healthy animals need no veterinary or medicines when managed well.
The article advises mixing table scraps with grain for poultry and adding bulky feed, warns that oversized bucks misbreed with small hens, and stresses keeping hens active to avoid feather pulling. It also covers poultry housing to avoid dampness, early chick marketing, and butter separating using cheesecloth and buttermilk. It highlights the Jersey cow’s bred milk production and links milk yield to feed.
In a lighthearted Chicago News exchange Pearl notes a female college team faced scrutiny as five catchers married and left, effectively dissolving the squad. Ruby confirms strong catches became marital spoils.
A Washington Star excerpt presents a dialogue where a character challenges a term, saying a union is not a matrimonial alliance but a patrimonial one. The exchange highlights contrasting views on the social significance of the match and inheritance implications.
John Schweitzer, a cook for Otto Knabe at 538 Grand Street, paid $25 to a rival for taking the rogue cat Schnitzel. The cat wandered from Prospect Park to Hoboken and aboard the Hamburg American liner before returning toKnabe, who had tried to abandon him in several places. The dispute ended with chaos at the restaurant as the cat reappeared and a scuffle broke out among staff and customers.
Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister, purportedly shares a daily plan for 200 year longevity. The schedule requires two meals daily lunch and dinner, no fresh food, rice or whole wheat bread with vegetables, nuts and fruit, avoids coffee tea liquor salt and condiments, chews thoroughly, no drinks at meals, breathes deeply and takes moderate exercise.
A Wisconsin reader from Appleton reports rapid improvement after six bottles of Peruna, noting restored energy, appetite, sleep, and health. An Evanston resident confirms Peruna revived strength after prolonged run-down symptoms and weight loss.
A London Mail excerpt shows a doctor pressed for time as he reviews a patient’s symptoms while an impatient husband interrupts. The husband dismisses the doctor’s focus and demands the wife’s condition be read aloud.
A mother from Camberwell Green England recounts her son Owen’s severe eczema from infancy to age fifteen. After four hospital discharges as incurable, a six month regimen of Cuticura Remedies reportedly cured him, ending years of sleepless agony.
Mrs Newed weeps as her husband John away for a week writes he kisses her photo daily. She reveals she removed her picture from his bag and replaced it with her mother’s as a joke, prompting fresh sobs.
A statesman faced interruptions from an opposition voter during a recent speech. The speaker retorted with a story about a braying ass that drove off the Syrian army, while the disruptor urged the crowd not to fear and claimed the audience could not be stampeded. The London Mail notes the exchange.
An elderly Londoner awakes each morning without his nightcap. After two months his family suspects somnambulism. One night, watched, he climbs to the roof, takes a nightcap from the chimney pot, and hides it there. The next day they uncover dozens of caps in the pot. He continued the perilous nightly route unfazed.
King Alfonso and Prince Arthur of Connaught dressed in plain clothes visited a Seville convent of nuns making sweetmeats. He ordered two dozen sugared yolks and later sent a large tip, joking about his address and family. Nuns sent back fourteen dozen yolks in reply.
The article notes the saltwater crocodile as the largest living reptile, reaching thirty feet in length. It mentions a grim idea by Professor Koch that the crocodile bite could cause sleeping sickness, implying a sleep that never ends.
On his deathbed the mathematician Bossuet, unable to speak, is asked by Maupertius to reveal a math answer. With a final effort he voices the square of twelve as one hundred forty four.
Aesop the fabulist faced critique for the fox and grapes fable but now natural historians defend the tale. The article notes a real animal in Africa called the zerda or Fennec fox with long ears that feeds on grapes and fruits, often nocturnally.
A lighthearted Chicago News item notes a wife joining a Don't Worry club and becoming anxious about not worrying. She fears worry itself and appears to be worrying herself nearly to death.
A comic exchange features a duck declaring the chick is trying to talk and a young rooster dismissing it as mere cheep. The scene appears in the Catholic Standard and Times as a light humor vignette.
A Baltimore American quip about country living during summer travel. The speaker notes personal mishap from transit, prompting a humorous exchange on simplicity and adjustment away from the city.
Somnambulists can maintain footing in perilous places while in a waking trance but sudden awakening blurs self possession and balance, a finding noted for public safety and neurology discussions.
In a playful exchange the speaker hopes dessert is pie while his companion replies with a tart comeback. The light dialogue showcases a sharp, humorous tone characteristic of the periodical’s social snippets.
A reader attributes years of pale weak health to coffee and credits stopping it for Postum. She recalls rapid improvement after switching to Postum, noting better appetite sleep and fewer headaches within months, weighing 148 pounds and praising Postum’s life giving qualities. The letter ends with There’s a Reason and sponsor details from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
A brief comic exchange shows Mrs Noseigh-Jane scolding Jane-No'm for not washing front windows for over a week. Jane-No'm replies she did not consider it necessary since neighbors across the street moved away.
The article notes that anaesthetics existed in Homeric times and that 2000 years ago the Chinese used a hemp preparation called ma yo to dull pain, a practice likened to modern cocaine in effect.
A historical note states that one fifteenth of Spain's inhabitants are nobles. This highlights the social structure where a small elite class holds hereditary or recognized noble status within the kingdom.
A historical note states that hasheesh the drug causes mania and is popular in Persia Turkey and Egypt. It claims the word assassin derives from hasheesh due to the murders associated with its users.
A street beggar muses on money’s power in clipped, rhythmic lines. The speaker wryly notes money’s speech is rare and stuttering, contrasting wealth with poverty in terse, pointed phrases. The fragment captures a sharp social observation in a compact voice.
Readers debate a proposed union between Arabella Lil and Dick. Estella insists the idea is absurd and urges silence, while others find the topic too ridiculous to ignore.
An elderly man spends more time examining a contract before signing. He weighs terms carefully, seeking clarity on obligations and protections. His cautious approach reflects careful consideration of potential risks and benefits.
The Boston Herald reports on Brazil's venomous snakes such as the suracuon believed to kill in six hours and sometimes nine feet long with tawny yellow skin and dark lozenges. It notes the jara roca as the fiercest lance-head viper, similarly yellow with a brown-black tail.
All grocers advertise Red Cross Ball Blue as a laundry additive that makes clothes clean and sweet as new.
The New Orleans Democrat notes Bolivian Indians form small groups called estancias. Residents cannot relocate without local authorities reviewing their private history, though transfers are rare due to strong attachment to familiar places.
The article notes Darlington as the cradle of the railway and recalls an overrun stretch toward Stockton where the first railway carriages ran. At Stockton the earliest railway station remains as a smoke-darkened shed on a siding, a relic revered by visitors, especially Americans.
The tale recalls a man anchored beside a fence knot hole at the baseball grounds as the overflow crowd gathered before the game began. The dialogue captures a tense moment of frustration and curiosity amid the sparse setting.
At the Tatler show a debate erupts over the correct descriptor for a work. A bystander asserts a hearing word, while others correct with a technical term indicating a pastel painting.
A vivid verse from the Cleveland Plain Dealer latches on to heat as a blame germ and calls out sluggish and tiny germs in a brisk, pointed poem about the season and fevered conditions.
A humorous exchange shows a boy named Tommy asked by his mother how often he disobeys. He responds with a playful retort claiming he is not an adding machine, reflecting the newspaper’s lighthearted humor style.
A reflective line notes that pessimists always invent grounds to complain whether predicting rain or denying sunshine. The quote contrasts two negative stances and highlights a habit of finding fault regardless of circumstance.
In Abyssinia locals carve steaks from a live cow and eat the warm meat directly from the animal, using its natural heat.
A satirical note recounts Joshua stopping the sun and mocks England’s Parliament claims, framed as a humorous New York Sun tease about national pride and overreach.
A Pittsburg Post quotation shows a merchant criticizing advertising after underestimating demand. The owner admits mistakes and vows not to repeat the same error, acknowledging the ad driven a rush that outpaced supply.
A Nashville American quip likens medical advice to choosing between whiskey or a vacation. The exchange tests whether strong praise implies practical recommendation. The humorous line hints at physician indulgence and patient expectations.
A lesser known passion flower variety produces a luscious fruit about the size and color of a purple plum. The botanical name given is Passiflora edulis.
A Washington Herald snippet shows an interviewer doubting an applicant's fit after asking if he has ever been jailed. The reply denies prior imprisonment, yet the interviewer remains skeptical about meeting the role's demand for high intelligence and reliability.
A reflective column voice complains that no one asks for his plan to steer the country and that his proposals are ignored. The speaker laments public indifference to personal reform ideas and policy change.
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