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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
4
An old almanac promises weather forecasts and lucky days for ventures marriages and cures. It claims Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters eases constipation indigestion dyspepsia biliousness liver and kidney troubles and even cures these disorders.
A fragment from a Detroit Free article shows dialogue about a fiancé and a lover. One person asks if the other confessed greater love, and the response mentions the fiancé wanting to return the ring.
The passenger department of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway has issued a booklet listing the population of all U S cities 25000 and over from the 1900 census. Copies available by sending address and two cents postage to the General Passenger Department, Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, Chicago, Ill.
The Atchison Globe quips about women spreading a red shawl over the sofa and placing a crimson shaded candle on a table to conjure an oriental corner, reflecting light humor of domestic decor.
Chicago Chronicle recounts Uncle Reuben from Egypt farm praising a hair renewer after visiting a horse show with all prize animals tailless. He notes fashionable bald heads among rich men and lack of facial hair in young men, calling it a curious fashion trend. An old drug ad and aphorism from Chicago Daily News accompany the piece.
The article explains basic poultry nutrition focusing on nitrogen and carbon in foods and how to balance feed for laying hens. It covers fat management to avoid reduced reproduction, differing needs for fat or lean hens, and practical feeding strategies including bulky foods raw meat oats grass and yard feeding. It also notes breakage of Asiatic hens via grass plots and keeping single breeds for uniform management.
A ten dollar coop, 7 by 10 feet, holds 12 fowls and costs six dollar per thousand feet for boards. It has 24 foot high sides, five foot long roof boards, tarred paper, and a 20 by five foot doorway on the south. It suits summer use but winter snows and large combed fowls can prevent laying.
The article discusses introducing agriculture education in country schools to engage farmer children, spark interest in farming literature, and possibly boost farming interest through lectures and practical demonstrations in botany soil textures and crop growth.
The piece notes consumers object to dark legs white skin and dark pin feathers in black poultry varieties. The prejudice is real and unlikely to change within a generation, a major factor poultrymen must consider when marketing dressed birds.
An Italian doctor experiments with inhaling petroleum fumes for whooping cough with reported success. A Lyons firm uses caustic potash to emboss silk webs by shrinking cotton threads, creating varied patterns. California asparagus and navel oranges gain favor in Britain, competing with French asparagus and California prunes. Tea drying methods determine green versus black tea. De Call in Lemur develops molten wood, a hard water and acid resistant electrical insulator shapable by cooling. A Paris hospital reports a 55 year old woman found insensible, rigid, later deemed dead due to alcohol preservation of body.
Dr Marini of Sardinia died in Naples after a six month cancer of the intestines. He spent forty years seeking to petrify human bodies while preserving lifelike color and texture. He left nothing to his daughter and wore camphor cloths to hide odors from his unusual studio. His aims included a university chair, but no professorship or post could be secured.
Quotations from O Hoolahan and O Callahan discuss starting a trip on a Friday and cautious planning. A joke about shaving a beard being nonreproducible in marble appears cited from Fliegende Blätter and Atchison Globe comment on the difficulty of fooling readers.
Isaac Brock of McLennan County Texas at 111 credits Peruna for health and longevity. He cites Dr Hartman’s books on catarrh and coughs noting catarrh is the common affliction and praises Peruna as the best remedy. A free book on catarrh is offered by The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
An advertisement claims supplying sufficient potash will yield large profits, while without potash crops will be scrubby. The note references German Kali and a New York address at 93 Nassau Street.
San Francisco printers celebrate a nine hour day. Savannah laundry workers form the first union in the state. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters shows a cash balance of 1 044 605. German papers largely under the Typographical union. Fifty new unions and 37 new branches in 17 months by United Brewery Workmen. France shows 7 to 10 percent unemployed among 800 unions. Atlanta unionists receive a memorial window from Universalist church. New York labor bureau reports 15 000 gain in membership across 151 unions in the last quarter. state total 1 603 unions with 247 602 members.
Australians lead in tea use at about eight pounds per person yearly while London’s Financial Times targets bucket shops. About 100,000 Indians reside in Canada's Dominion on various reserves. Glasgow contemplates a city savings bank. Liverpool saw 32 children contract typhoid from Italian ice cream on the same day.
A collection of short, humorous quotes and snippets from various papers. Entries touch on patriotism, politics, art, language, digestion, and social discretion with brief witticisms and light commentary. Notable voices include references to Chicago Daily News Somerville Journal and Detroit Journal.
In a rambled tale a mild ribbon clerk boasts of traveling 5 000 miles vs a veteran’s 48 720 miles, illustrating suburban life, rents and commuting woes, with quips about deluxe book editions and a light Boston tone. The piece shifts to a deafness cure ad noting Hall's Catarrh Cure and family pills.
A humorous exchange features Miss Goople teasing Mr. Blackstone about his legal practice while he pretends to be admitted to the bar but not practicing regularly. The dialogue hinges on mistaken confidence and a light, witty tone characteristic of 19th century newspaper humor.
A promotional note claims Cascarets cure a range of ailments by putting the bowels right. The ad touts ten cent starts, natural movements, and warns to beware of imitations of the genuine product in metal boxes stamped with C. 6c.
A local tale recounts a child nearly choking on a safety pin, described with a judge’s quip about the oddity. An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill and Fever Tonic claiming strong iron content and a tasteless form, with a no cure no pay offer priced at 50 cents.
Quotations from 1900 era newspapers include a travel line about a country that resembles a body of water color, followed by testimonials about Piso's Cure, a patriotism exchange, a dye advertisement, a reflective quip about knowledge, and a witty Bulletin quote.
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