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Newspaper
Moulton Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
6
A fragmented 1900s page offers ironing directions for shirt waists, stove and fire side airing, plus scattered ads and quips. It includes laundry routines, starch use, and care notes alongside promotions for brokers, butter color, foot powder, cough cures, child teething syrup, and calendar offers.
A local resident attributes relief from sciatic rheumatism to Doan's Kidney Pills after a hospital treatment failed. He reports the pills eliminated the cause of pain, allowing him to work without aid. He offers to answer inquiries and notes a free trial by Foster Milburn Co. He adds a parish visit anecdote about matrimony and purgatory.
Richard White of Kentucky, a longtime clerk in the Washington post office accounts office, is believed to be the oldest federal employee by years of service aside from a New York post master with 74 consecutive years in office. Appointed in 1836, White has spent 66 years in government work, was a friend of Henry Clay, and has never exceeded 10 days absent in any year. His salary has varied from 640 to 840 dollars as he continued to work into advanced age.
A practical joke in Europe involves one person challenging another to wager five dollars that he can knock a hat over an unsuspecting man’s eyes. After the hit, the jokester covers his own eyes with his hat and the target’s anger escalates, leading to a comical chase as both search for the culprit and the missing hat while disputing the wager.
A fragment from Chicago Chronicle quotes a blunt view on gender and deception, contrasting men's lies in business and politics with a woman’s supposed tricks in appearances. It blends verse and ads noting Dr August Koenig Hamburg Drops, a long marketed blood purifier sold to a German audience.
Good fruit quality rarely equates to profitability east of the Alleghenies. Ben Davis apples dominate despite low quality due to reliability and long shelf life, while some regions prize shippers over flavor. Strawberries face similar issues where home use berries differ from marketable shipping fruit. Asparagus cultivation in Oklahoma follows careful planting, feeding, and forcing practices. A tame bull incident in Dodge's Mountain shows canine loyalty saving a farmer. Georgia peach orchards may shift post San Jose scale toward moderate profits and smaller operations focusing on quality and care.
A Texan station bulletin explains Lespedeza Striata or Japan Clover as a summer forage plant suited to light soils from Trinity River to the Carolinas, with seed spread by birds and wind. It notes initial salivation in horses subsides, yielding a valuable crop. sow in late spring, 0.25 to 0.5 bushel per acre, and it stays green through droughts. It also covers woodlot management, avoiding deforestation, preventing fires, and selective harvesting to sustain fuel and soil health.
Kokomo Indiana report details Anna M Willis suffering kidney trouble for twenty years. After using six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills she finds relief and proclaims the cure. The piece also contains a humorous note about hats and umbrellas from a British army officer.
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