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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1912
Page
4
An advertisement touts Sarsaparilla as the most effective medicine for complete blood purification and system renovation. It promotes spring use with liquid form or Sarsatabs, offering 100 doses for a dollar.
Walter Prichard Eaton argues that outdoor night stagings eliminate wing pieces and proscenium, creating a dreamlike illusion. By using painted backdrops and drapery to form shadow folds, productions can achieve beauty with simple means, possibly restoring ommitted scenes and clarifying Shakespeare.
The piece notes a twilight of the mind where many people experience fleeting moments of sanity between acts of love, marriage, divorce, and daily living. It suggests people inhabit a jangled world that remains largely out of tune with those around them.
The Atchison Globe notes that calluses on a man's hands may come from golf clubs rather than labor, suggesting leisure activity can shape appearance as much as work.
An illustrated Murine eye remedy promotion claims relief for red weak and watery eyes with gel-like Granulated lids. It emphasizes non patent medicine status and cites use by physicians, sold by druggists at 25 and 50 cents per bottle from Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago.
A mechanical hint suggests threading two nuts onto a bolt with square faces facing each other. In an emergency they can function as a makeshift wrench, gripping the bolt to turn it as needed.
A new dog rescue ambulance operates from the Animals Hospital and Institute at Kinnerton Street Pimlico. When a dog is injured or run over, the hospital can be phoned and a motor ambulance is sent at once with a qualified attendant.
Hugo Munsterberg tests the heartbeat response to lying noting some individuals show palpitations under truth telling stress. The piece comments on truth telling and physiological reactions in honesty.
Upper Sandusky Ohio notices a woman crediting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with restoring her health after a long period of fatigue backaches and nervous symptoms. The testimonial cites marriage and home duties and urges other women to try the remedy as the standard female health medicine.
Government plans to breed army horses by placing mares under first class stallions free in exchange for options on foals. August Belmont donated Henry of Navarre and Octagon to Front Royal Virginia area farms with $150 price for foals at age three. About 50 mares bred, Octagon hampered by distemper, strong farmer interest, 50 more mares offered for 1912 season. Circular 178 explains the plan and how to apply.
The article compares national averages of about five dozen eggs per hen to farm reports suggesting ten dozen. It notes losses from hidden nests and careless harvesting, with breeding improvements pushing estimates toward 150 eggs per year and rare records near 300, though a year has only 365 days.
A four year old full-blooded Jersey bull in Pennsylvania can pace a mile in harness under 2 40 or be ridden in saddle for faster gain. Weighing about 1100 pounds, the fawn bull is noted as docile and easy to ride or drive, with a strong fondness for speed that excites observers.
The report of the United States Department of Agriculture states Kansas produced 35 percent more winter wheat in 1911 than any other state, marking a record crop for the state.
The article argues that feeding range lambs using home grown forage and by products can be profitable with minimal added costs. It highlights lower grain needs, soil fertility benefits from manured forage, and England’s long use of this approach as a model for farmers to profit from their own farms without heavy labor or grain purchases.
A historical note states that starting a hog farming venture requires modest capital and careful management can yield fair profits in the inaugural year.
The Alaska Reindeer Service advances native self sufficiency by distributing government deer through 28 stations, with 11 000 owned by natives. Apprentices receive 50 head after five years, and the industry supports education, clothing production from hides, and new earnings from mining camps as Alaska's economy grows.
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