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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
3
The California Figs Syrup Co promotes its laxative as wholesome and effective. It touts an ethical approach and urges purchase of the genuine product for sale by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
A Louisville Courier-Journal brief quotes a campaign atmosphere with satire on a spell binder figure. The exchange mocks political rhetoric and a candidate’s appeal by likening it to pockets filled with money and a revulsion from empty pockets.
Arabs greet visitors with repeated handshakes and hugs indicating warmth. Distinct individuals may exchange several embraces showing stronger cordiality and social closeness during meetings.
The proverb warns that vengeance feels satisfying at first but excessive indulgence in sweet treats harms health. It cautions restraint even when revenge tempts, linking overconsumption to negative consequences.
Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet and cures corns bunions swollen sore lot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes a store fire joke, contrasting burned down with burned up and basement origin. The brief comedy reflects local readers’ wit on a recent blaze and police or fire response implications.
Farmers face dairy sanitation challenges from taints in milk and churn utensils. Borax emerges as a natural cleaner and antiseptic, aiding utensil hygiene and preserving sweetness. A tablespoonful per quart water protects udders from roughness and cracking, with pure 20 Mule Team Borax recommended for best results.
The Minneapolis Journal notes Lady Aylesford has her dog fitted with gold-rimmed glasses. She says the dog's eyesight is defective and she took him to her oculist. The lighthearted piece speculates on the dog wiping his glasses on the grass after a bone, as friends smile at the odd scene.
A Philadelphia Ledger caption notes the sea serpent delays its yearly appearance due to prohibition. The joke frames enforcement as the creature blamed for business woes, reflecting era attitudes toward liquor laws.
E H Mertes of Spokane argues that Alaska hosts vast untouched pine forests along the coast with immense future timber potential. He notes interior stunted growth due to harsh winters but foresees eventual exploitation across thousands of square miles where the ax has yet to ring.
A primer notes that about 2 500 different kinds of animals exist on earth and defines mammals as warm blooded milk producing creatures, distinct from other beings, for clarity in naming.
A St. Louis Times editorial notes the dangers of modern progress citing electrocution rumors about George Washington, trolley accidents involving Lincoln, and four people drowned in New York when a car lost control and plunged from a pier. The piece laments speed driven civilization and warns airship development may bring further risk.
A London weekly paper offered a prize for the best list of ten strong words. Ten words were chosen by a committee: Hate blood hungry dawn coming gone love dead alone forever. The note asks readers for stronger, more suggestive terms.
The article recalls Charlotte Bronte's death after a brief marriage to Mr Nicholls. A delirious moment led to a plea that God would spare her, insisting they could not be separated because they were so happy. The dying bride clung to her husband in final prayerful whispers.
Scientist J Hann notes distinct atmospheric compositions at different altitudes. At sea level nitrogen is 78.03 percent and oxygen 20.99 percent with trace gases. By 20 km nitrogen rises to 84.34 percent and oxygen to 15.19 percent. at 1000 km hydrogen dominates at 99.45 percent, helium 0.453 and nitrogen 0.099.
A nursery anecdote from Everybody’s Magazine tells how a child plays quietly to imitate a father returning late, while another child acts as the mother. The scene captures domestic humor through a playful misdirection.
A Harper's Weekly panel shows a teacher explaining to children that ladies wear silk dresses produced by silkworms. Bessie exclaims that fact comes from their papas.
A New York woman describes a long battle with peritonitis and indigestion. She credits Grape-Nuts and Postum with restoring appetite sleep and strength. The letter promotes the products as aiding recovery and ends with a company signature and promotional note.
James Whitcomb Riley praises a man who endures poverty yet remains hopeful shaping his fate with patience. The poem envisions praise as rewards arrive like honey and laurel, predicting peace and universal influence for one who bides his time, eventually earning recognition alongside notable historical figures.
Expert horticulturist J. H. Hale says older orchards are fading and commercial plantings must replace them. He advises choosing best soil, thorough tillage, careful transplanting, low headed trees, annual pruning, thorough spraying, thinning to prevent overbearing, multiple pickings, avoiding dwarfs but dwarfing standards by pruning, deep subsoiling, early cultivation to mid July, cover crops, limited mulching, fertilizer plus cover crops, and storing apples cold each night with community storage plants encouraged.
A Indiana Farmer correspondent shares experience on sowing alfalfa on a 20 acre field over three years with one fourth stand remaining. He advises liberal barnyard manure to barren patches, turning under to seed bed, then reseeding. Manure aids germination and weed control, ensuring a good stand.
Armitage cites analysis showing bran contains 14 to 18 percent aroused matter, comparable to barley and oats but inferior to oat straw. He warns bran is very indigestible and does not deliver its nutrients, causing hard work to fail and horses to become soft and fatigued. racing trainers and hunters avoid bran.
If the eggs are gathered daily and marketed often you can offer strictly fresh eggs for sale. Twelve eggs equal one bushel of wheat in nourishment. Medium sized turkeys sell readily at market. Keep drinking vessels clean for healthy poultry. Good separator milk aids chicken growth.
A farmer’s manual describes using tobacco tea to treat cattle lice. Boil a pound of tobacco in two gallons of water for hours, cool, mix with two more gallons of fresh water, and apply with a brush to the cow’s hair. One or two applications are claimed to remove even severe infestations, with particular benefit for young stock.
Beekeeping success hinges on the beekeeper and site. Orchards provide prime bee habitat and strong hives. During the honey season bees live only weeks, but a prime swarm yields surplus. Store honey dry to prevent moisture and spoilage.
Indiana farmer Riley who bred the Boone County White Corn is reported as the subject, with the note that his work made the variety notable in local agricultural circles.
A Pennsylvania experiment found dry ground grain fed in hoppers improves pullet weight gain egg production egg weight hatchability and hen health while reducing molting losses versus the traditional ground grain mixed with water. Wet grain lowered cost per dozen eggs slightly.
The late Henry E. Alford, chief of the dairy division, urged in American Cultivator to train bulls from calfhood with steady, firm, non fondling handling. He advised keeping a bull under constant subjection so he never learns his own strength.
A grower outlines balanced daily rations for sheep. For each thousand pounds of live weight he suggests twenty five pounds of dry matter daily. Wool breeds receive a ration of about three pounds protein and fourteen pounds carbohydrates with fat totaling 0.6 to 3.5 pounds protein and 14 to 14.5 pounds carbohydrates and 0.75 pounds fat.
Advice on raising broilers and geese, soil care, lime incorporation, pruning, and pest control. Notes on fodder, hog feeding with wet hay, profitability of mixed crops, weed control, soil humus and nitrogen, and a method to char cob feed for hogs. Includes practical tips for small farms and animal breeding.
A fragmented column on social behavior and etiquette contrasts masculine bravado with marital insight. It notes themes of politeness, jokes at friends’ expense, women’s spending, singing talent, and the allure of work while hinting at aging and domestic life.
A Times opinion piece contrasts unconventional women with male expectations, noting how women repelling intrusions earn respect while men justify failures. It imagines a daughter’s shift in love for her mother after marriage and children, and likens battle scars of motherly love to a soldier’s loyalty. The author admires women who curb curiosity and laments stalled ambitions in men seeking excuses.
The article surveys global wedding practices from ancient to modern times. It notes ring placement in Roman ceremonies, sacred rings in Greek rites, foot washing in Java, heel taps in Servia and Bulgaria, and secret marriages in Europe, plus historic uses and sensational mentions such as Mary Stuart and crusader holy cross rings.
A judge reports a boss harassing a stenographer with invasive questions about slang spelling habits and private business knowledge. The applicant defends the profession and asserts readiness to work, prompting the manager to drop the interrogation and proceed with work.
A London merchant in Glasgow asks railway porters for the station name at St Enoch. A cartoonish exchange follows, ending with a Scots porter insult and the farmer wagering five shillings, as the joke plays out on the platform.
A New York Times quips about summer travel woes as people dread resort discomforts and inevitable creditor encounters during trips away from home.
A reflective note contrasts past and present costs of living. It ponders whether today’s expenses justify the value, suggesting that modern living demands greater sacrifice and consideration.
In bustling Fifth Avenue a gentleman known as F Townsend arranges a dramatic abduction of Miss Annette Van Deveer to force a marriage. The plot unfolds with prison like secrecy, a drawn out chase, and a consent won by patient love, ending in a high society wedding.
The largest and most wonderful subterranean chamber in the world has been opened to visitors. Discovered by G. A. Perko in 1890, the cave lies in the Karst near Trieste, accessed from Opicina, Istria, via steps and steep descents to a vast stalactite and stalagmite chamber with a 460 foot high dome, 440 feet wide and 800 feet long.
A dialogue notes that a college classical course yielded him money by inventing Latin and Greek names for patent medicines. The speaker highlights his several hundred dollars earned from these naming ideas and questions the value of formal scholarship.
In a fragmented town column a rumor circulates about a man named Bijer dying from a neck bite, linked to a strange automaton oddity. The passage hints at humorous sarcasm and unclear local chatter with no solid facts.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a downtown waiter who observes tipping varies by season and attire. He notes tips rise in summer when waiters help guests with coats, estimating roughly double the tip when coats are involved.
A farmer asks a medical man to visit his wife, noting she felt unusually tired after a morning of chores including milking, feeding pigs, cooking, washing dishes, and tending the washhouse, hinting she may need medicine.
Vaudevillian and song writer banter about a new song titled How'd You Like to Be the Blarney Stone. The writer boasts the piece is striking with girls and asks the vaudevillian for the surname, as quoted by Puck.
An enthusiastic speaker at a South Shields seamen meeting urged the crowd to “take the tide by the flood and grasp it red hot,” an example of mixed metaphor cited by the London Chronicle.
The term forcemeat derives from force meat meaning stuffing meat. It traces to the French foree with a meaning of packed or forced filling used in dishes.
Hale Bordwell of Tipton Iowa describes a fifty five year battle with severe eczema. He endured itching red and white boils until using Cutiura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills for eight months cured him. Nelson R Burnett of Tipton endorses the testimonial as truth.
The musk deer lives in the Himalayas and Tibetan mountains at about 9000 feet. The male yields the finest and greatest musk. The deer are shy, alert, and hard to capture.
A testimonial touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ills. Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri claims twelve years of suffering and eleven doctors failed until following Pinkham's advice restored health and strength.
An old advertisement promises whitening with Red Cross Ball Blue powder. The 2007 package is shown, priced at 5 cents, suggesting a bargain laundry aid for brightening garments.
Coats of arms are said to have arisen in the eleventh century to distinguish the numerous knights and nobles who gathered for the first crusade to Palestine.
A short dialogue about concerns of brain fag in a patient, the doctor assuring there are no symptoms. The exchange references Chicago Tribune as the source or context of the term. The tone mirrors a period newspaper style.
A line of jockeys and horses waited for the start of a steeple chase when a tall rawboned horse refused to yield to the starter. The starter urged, the rider, a youthful Irishman, declared the horse a cab horse that will not start until the door shuts.
A Yonkers Statesman quip recalls a couple debating commitments with humorous bite. The exchange centers on enduring hardship versus facing financial ruin, capturing a mood of wary resolve in a domestic vignette.
A historical note describes Byzantine princes playing a game nearly identical to polo with a ball and mallets, showing early polo-like sport steeped in imperial culture.
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