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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
7
The ad touts Ayer's Hair Vigor as a regular hair grower and hair restorer that keeps the scalp clean and healthy. Minnie Fritz of Veedum Michigan endorses it as a dressing that keeps hair soft smooth and prevents split ends.
Two large paintings and seven water colors by Henrik Ibsen were discovered in Nit-Dalen Sweden in the widow of a friend’s possession. The works dated to Ibsen’s youth when he pursued drawing and painting. Previously only two paintings and two water colors from his youth were known to be in a private collection.
A Philadelphia Record piece quotes a young father praising a luminous plant that lights the way for night bottle feeds. He suggests applying the plant to the baby's face so parents can see to nurse without turning on a light.
Uncle Allen Sparks quotes the Chicago Tribune noting corporations will not donate to campaigns this year. He says less campaign oratory may come, but there is some gain in the change.
Difficulty cutting large tile to join laterals with main drains risks breakage and poorly formed joints. Recommendation favors using an acid pastures and careful cementing of openings to ensure a secure connection. The passage also notes unseen soil workers like earthworms contributing to soil tilth.
The article details constructing drainage basins at main tile connections using plank brick or cement boxes twelve to eighteen inches square. Basins extend six to twelve inches below the drain, may be covered or left below ground, and serve to collect sediment and unite lines. It also notes a plan for a dairy farm with a creamery, housing thirty cows, and asserts cement floors are superior to wooden, offering longevity and sanitary advantages.
The text discusses careful fitting of a main drain box to prevent entry of unwanted material. It weighs spiking plank joints to prevent displacement and ingress, noting that unspiked joints may create openings or allow sediment fill. The aim is to ensure water flows through joints without allowing solids into the drainage system.
Farmers rely on unseen laborers, the earth worms, for soil ventilation and nutrient formation. They constantly dig into lower soil and excrete to surface, aiding plant food production. Their hidden work underpins agriculture at scale.
Advice cautions against overusing chemical fertilizers and nitrate of soda. It notes soil quality varies, with clay soil usually poor yet rich in nutrients, improved by adding sand or furnace ash.
The Colorado Experiment Station advises spraying for codling moth as bloom falls. Use arsenic of lead or Disparene at 3 to 6 pounds per 100 gallons of water. The poison harms neither foliage nor is easily washed off, with a second application planned 7 to 10 days later.
A dairyman warns against using carbolic acid diluted one to five on newborn calves. He says applying a drop near the navel and on the nose saved many calves raised before drying, but calves left by the cow during the night died. Angora goats are noted as highly profitable on many farms.
Meadows can be revived and become profitable through fertilizer. A blend of 150 pounds nitrate of soda 150 pounds acid phosphate and 70 pounds muriate of potash should be well mixed and broadcast evenly over the field at this time.
Phoebe the hen owned by Mrs. I. Bush has long laid daily and sometimes two eggs. She hatched fifteen healthy chicks from thirteen eggs, suggesting two twin pairs.
The article offers practical tips on fruit tree care with water sprout control and spraying using Bordeaux mixtures. It discusses oat seed value for horses, crop placements for clover and alfalfa, and emphasizes formal landlord tenant contracts. It notes high demand for corn land and cautions farmers about garden produce affecting grocer sales.
A citizen narrowly avoids arrest after a sandbagging incident when a Commercial Club committee lectures him on real estate value. They claim sandbags, as real estate, yield higher profits and thus boost city welfare, leaving the man appreciative and the group satisfied.
Advertises a cure for deafness attributed to catarrh with a money back promise. Includes testimonial style claim from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and mentions distribution by Druggists. Also references Bragdon composer and a nursery anecdote about a baby's cry during a lullaby.
A Baltimore Sun writer recalls an editor’s dream encounter with a stern reader who objects to a reviewer calling a book a History for Female Suffrage. The editor insists the term should end with a y, labeled as unpardonable misprint. An ad for Dr Kine’s Great serve cures nervous disorders appears.
A fragmented collection of dialogue and captions mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children, garbled lines about chronic illness, a humorous quip about a game warden, and a nod to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s liberties with poetry.
A physician explains that thinness stems from stomach catarrh causing hyperacidity and fat digestion failure. Fermentation delays pancreatic juice action, hindering fat absorption. A Peruna premeal remedy accelerates digestion, preserving pancreatic function and enabling fat-forming foods to restore fullness.
The fragment contrasts an aristocratic house scene with a slang exchange about social pretensions and handwriting analysis. It presents two snippets from newspaper style dialogue, one about slumming in rich homes and the other about deciphering handwriting, reflecting satirical tone.
The Well Informed favor a simple pleasant laxative made from Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The California Fig Syrup Co. promotes this ethical, wholesome combination. Buy the genuine product from leading druggists. price fifty cents per bottle.
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