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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
23
Mrs Mary Sena of Wyandotte Michigan reports severe monthly pains and digestive issues for four years. After using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she regained energy and can do housework, urging others to consider the remedy.
Physicians promote Calotabs as a nausea free calomel tablet that cleanses the liver and purifies the body to prevent influenza. Take one tablet at bedtime with water to cut a cold overnight and return to health by morning. Sold only in sealed packages for thirty five cents with money back guarantee.
A dealer quips about a young antique as proof of rapid aging. The remark notes a mark indicating the piece was made just twenty years ago, highlighting how quickly objects become labeled antique in modern times.
United States Department of Agriculture guidance on thinning to reduce cabbage worm losses and improve timber value. Recommends arsenate of lead and paris green for cabbages and stresses light, moisture, and selective cutting to boost growth and profit in Southern woodlands.
The article discusses arsenate garden sprays sold as paste or dry powder to combat cabbage worms. It provides mixing ratios 2 pounds arsenate per 60 gallons water or Bordeaux mix, and double-strength paste 4 pounds per 50 gallons. Repeated sprayings depend on conditions. resin and soap improve adhesion.
After four or five years rhubarb stalks thicken and sell poorly. Dig up roots, cut into two or three eye pieces for each hill to start a new patch. Alternatively lift all but a corner, replenish with well rotted manure, cover, and the root still in ground will regrow strongly that season.
Prof J G leach of Colorado Agricultural College argues crop rotation yields the best returns for plant disease control, aside from seed treatment. Many diseases such as wilts and root rots resist specific remedies and are reduced only by rotating crops, seed selection, and treatment. Continuous cropping worsens losses, while rotation requires little cost and boosts disease-free yields and soil fertility.
State agricultural data show about 20 percent of farmers in Pennsylvania own silos, around 43,657. A year earlier the estimate was 32,900. Farmers find silos a valuable asset when used properly and as conditions improve, the count climbs.
A farmer urges timely spraying of crops to prevent insects and disease. He argues proper timing and methods are essential for achieving clean fruit at harvest and views spraying as a form of crop insurance.
Standard guidance lists spacing for fruit trees and berries. Apples need 30 feet between trees, plums 20 feet, currants gooseberries and grapes 10 to 12 feet, red raspberries only in hedgerows six inches wide with rows 10 to 12 feet apart, strawberries in four foot rows and two feet between plants within a row.
In a drug store corner next to C. W. Pugh & Company, a town library sits. Nine year old Fred, angered after returning a borrowed book, vows never to return after saying he heard the librarian laugh. His mother urges him to speak up to clarify the misunderstanding.
Miss Manchuser and Mr Skirtshy exchange terse lines about love and labor as a humorous domestic dispute over a leap year marriage proposal unfolds with threats of doubled work. The exchange hints at comic social mores and witty banter.
In a curt library room exchange Chief Mulfer asks a humorous patron to stop talking while Ever-Cheerful-Lady retorts she is no clock, framing a playful aside between two characters.
In a sharp exchange, Perkins asks why the city tax rate remains high while Graves notes the difficulty of reducing it. Ross remarks on the challenge of keeping the rate down as officials debate fiscal policy.
A fragment casts a scene with a narrator noting prominent ears on a man before them and labeling him as a professional critic, implying judgment or satire. The brief text centers on appearance and occupation without additional context or events.
A speaker notes a touching case that occurred today. The remark prompts questions about the amount involved and the circumstances surrounding the incident.
The Straits Times notes emeralds now the rarest and priciest gemstones due to a global supply shortage. Output from government mines in Colombia has halted for years, lifting prices fourfold since before the war. A five carat stone sold in London for 3500 dollars per carat. Australian sapphires in Anakie are offered as emerald substitutes.
Maas asks the elder why tears flow as Bearcat Johnson of Rumpus Ridge vows no real fighting occurred. Johnson asserts if there had been a true fight, only one would cry. Kansas City Star report captures the light hearted exchange.
A rural exchange humorously resolves a time dispute between a motorist and a farmer. The farmer declares it is 3:37 p.m., inviting the city man to perform his own arithmetic and timekeeping.
An advertisement touts a chemist found cure for acid stomach with EATONIC. It claims the remedy neutralizes acids and removes them from the body, reducing bloating indigestion sourness and gassiness. The copy cites over half a million users and offers a money back guarantee from druggists.
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