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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1905
Page
2
A woman asks if Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription can cure her after reading reports of cures for female diseases. The ad claims thousands of cures for irregularity and weakness, with testimonial from Mrs. L. C. Wagner praising restored mobility and health. Also promotes Little Liver Pills as harmless, effective, sugar coated pellets for liver and digestive issues.
A 1904 reader from Melrose Massachusetts recounts severe kidney problems improving after using Swamp-Root. He notes a doctor confirmed healthy urinary findings and endorses the vegetable remedy. The notice offers free samples and mentions available 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles from drugstores.
Levi Pontius and Jennie V Armstrong married this morning in the police office after a raid last night found Pontius in the Walnut street home. Night Captain Billings and Officers Thurman and Purcell led the investigation and Chief McGaughey witnessed the ceremony.
Mrs. Jacob Kebort of East Front street sustained a dislocated and fractured right hip after stepping from a street car on Brook street near 10 o clock. She slipped or twisted, fell hard, and was carried home where Dr. E. B. Fulham treated her. she rests comfortably.
Carlisle Center New York resident G B Burhans testifies he was cured of a severe kidney trouble by Foley's Kidney Cure after four years with no return of symptoms. He says brick dust sediment and pain disappeared and recommends the remedy. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
A foxed report notes how swiftly a cow's lineage appears once she is struck by vehicles. The incident exposes lineage details amid the shock of the accident.
A stance argues that no error would occur by shooting sparrows crows and other small birds seen, reflecting a strict viewpoint on pest control. The text presents a blunt call for widespread bird killings as a policy or belief.
The note warns that late corn planting combined with inferior seed tends to produce poor yields and disappointing results.
A South Dakota woman who entered hens in the late Australian egg laying contest, where they won several first prizes, reports she can now sell her old prize hens for $20 apiece despite earlier doubts about a market for a large fruit crop.
The cement road culvert is coming into use and is described as the best material yet tried for this purpose. The wooden culvert is forecast to disappear from the nation’s highways within ten years.
A dairyman notes heat and poor pasture hinder cows. He suggests cool barns and green feed from 9 to 5 during dog days to maintain milk. If cows yield 175 pounds of butter yearly they fall short, but 400 pounds indicates full potential. many dairies miss about 225 pounds.
The fierce clash between steam and trolley railways drives a new transport plan using gasoline powered motor cars on steam roads to gain the benefits of trolley lines while protecting traffic and profits.
The text argues cheaper sheep farming boosts meat and wool profit, notes protests in a western state over cash road taxes replacing barter, and describes an elderly poorhouse resident who saved nothing despite years of work. It calls for better thrift education to prevent poverty in old age.
Market prices show hogs five cents a pound beef five to six cents butter twenty three cents eggs fifteen cents corn forty five cents a bushel oats thirty cents hay six dollars a ton. Farmers face costs including land value seventy dollars per acre rent twenty five dollars monthly equipment prices and modest interest on borrowed money. Some push for extreme price cuts while railing at government and current system.
The article argues that manufacturing rigorously controls production costs while farms lag. It notes farmers rarely know the true cost of producing corn, butter, beef, or pork and often celebrate small profits without understanding profitability. It urges treating farming as a business with measurable costs and returns.
The article notes that small farms usually yield a higher return on invested money than large farms and that many men attempt to cultivate too many acres, spreading resources thin.
The new method for repairing common earth roads is quickly spreading in the northwest. Reports from localities describe marvelous improvements in road condition and note the method is cheap and simple, appealing to communities with poor earth roads.
Minnesota prisons manufacture binding twine sold to farmers at near cost, saving about 300000 this season. If locally produced flax fiber replaces imported Manila fiber, Minnesota farmers could gain even cheaper twine.
The text notes a shift in American meat preferences from beef to mutton, highlighting rising demand for mutton and its potential impact on sheep producers who can raise a pound of mutton as cheaply as beef or pork, signaling market changes ahead.
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