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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1891
Page
4
Ohio Farmer recounts using roof catchment to supply stock water with cisterns. Discusses 35 inch rainfall, volumes from 2x52 foot roof, and a two-tier cistern system with proper filtering and frost protection. Provides construction guidance and emphasizes convenient placement and clean water.
Prairie Farmer outlines benefits of keeping a variety of stock to maximize forage, reduce grain use, and improve soil fertility. It notes rotating crops to produce grain straw and fodder, shelter for young stock, and feeding strategies for cattle horses sheep and hogs to reach market readiness with minimal grain while using mill feed to supplement.
A guide on treating horse derangement from malnutrition. It details symptoms of the disease, caused by poor or greedy feeding, and prescribes rest and a bran based diet with a medicated powder every few days, claiming dramatic recovery after several weeks.
The article urges removing all blighted limbs on pear, plum, and cherry trees to stop spread of disease. It explains ripe pears and apples store longer, notes that potatoes and hollyhock face pests, and warns against planting trees without knowledge of their care.
Farm and Fireside argues high roosts cause injuries and joint ailments in hens and young turkeys. It recommends roosts about a foot from the floor, level across, and suggests not using roosts at all. Removal may make the poultry house more roomy and easier to manage.
J F Jamieson advises on tile drainage layout using a five or six inch main, laid with natural flow and a foot deeper than laterals. He describes perfect connections to prevent earth intrusion and placing laterals two feet deep, three to seven rods apart, with sand across the flow to cut surface water quickly.
The November Wide Awake highlights The Boyhood of Hawthorne by Mrs Richard Manning with family anecdotes and a Hawthorne portrait, Five Little Peppers Grown Up chapters, and Laura E Richards ballad Nolan about Raglan’s dispatch. Other stories include Gladys McLean’s Hallowe en Party, Mistress Esteem Elliott’s Molasses Cake, Old Adams the Bear-Tamer, and Johnny O’Dowd’s Chance with poems and essays by multiple authors. Subscription and back-number details follow from D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
In spring 1855 a traveler leaving Coloma for Frisco describes a brutal night in a rolling yellow flowered landscape. He climbs a tree to escape a grizzly, loses his gun, wakes to dawn, and later confirms the encounter with the bear's broken body later seen near Lake Tahoe.
The king of Cores shows strong interest in Corean schools teaching English. For three years the program has run with the king personally conducting annual exams at night in crimson robes. Learners kneel, read from a numbered Lamboo stick aligned page, and parse the exercises with the king using a foreign “pony” and an interpreter.
A Yonkers Statesman passage describes a 3 inch display ad from The Dr Harter Medicine Co promising a unique word each week and free lithographs or samples in return for guessing the word. The text also notes a bass drummer in a parade being seen as honest despite public perception.
A collage of product pitches and wry asides notes Syrup of Figs for cleansing and health, Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Hale’s Honey of Horehound, Pike’s Toothache Drops and jokes about sailors, purgatives, real estate speculators, and punning quips from various papers.
An advertisement proclaims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a guaranteed remedy for blood, skin, and scalp diseases from blotches to scrofula. It claims blood purification, healing of ulcers, and asserts no other treatment equals it while stressing value and affordability for disease relief.
Fragments describe stomach pains linked to August Flower. No further readable details on causes or outcomes are available from the clipping text.
Jesse Barker from Humboldt Kansas reports long battled biliousness and constipation eased by August Flower. After trying two preparations with no success, a friend’s recommendation led to relief from persistent stomach pains and a renewed sense of vitality. The testimonial endorses the remedy as a benediction to humanity.
An old fashion claim says medicine needs a bitter taste for effectiveness. Scott's Emulsion, cod liver oil with fish fat flavor, proves that taste harms nothing and only taste is lost.
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