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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1891
Page
4
A historical ad touts a vegetable remedy for women’s ailments including periodical pains, weak back, nervousness, and insomnia. It claims to improve digestion, enrich the blood, and restore health, offering a money back guarantee if not satisfying results.
Advertised as a trustworthy remedy, German Syrup is praised by parents for treating sudden threats to children including croup and throat inflammation. Testimonials from mothers claim the medicine delivers quick relief and confidence to caregivers during emergencies.
Hollister Sage argues farmers should invest in a tool and machine house with a dry raised floor. He favors shingled roofs and well drained floors of coal ash or brick, with low walls for level access. A Worcester county design features a front shop and rolling doors, a 20 foot wide shed, a 8 foot wide shop, and a rolling 5x12 platform for storage, plus light and hoist access to protect and organize implements.
Waldo F. Brown argues oats bran and oilmeal fatten pigs cheaper than corn. He cites a neighbor with 59 pigs who avoided corn, using bran and oilmeal to feed for 50 days, boosting weights and profitability. Brown asserts feeding oats bran and linseed meal yields better gains and recommends this diet for eight to ten month fattening.
The lecture outlines criteria for a productive dairy cow focusing on heart and stomach power, skin condition, and directive power directing energy to milk or beef. It emphasizes a moist nose, prominent milk veins, long lean milking face, strong neck, well positioned shoulders, and a long shapely udder, with care and proper feeding essential for success.
Heating milk to 150 degrees keeps dairy milk sweet for 24 to 48 hours. When buttermilk is thick with butter, stop churning and wash the butter with water. Goat milk is rich but goats are not ideal for the farm. From heifer calves, digestion and growth improve strength. Consistent milking builds familiarity between cow and milker. Fall fair shows improved breeds versus scrub stock. seeing is believing.
A reader describes draining a 13 acre rolling field using a center box and 4 inch tile. The system places a 4 by 4 foot box at the lowest point with brick bottom to resist washing and 4 inch tile distributing to multiple branches. The method relies on ample fall from the box and plastering or earth covering as needed.
A discussion on how nervous habits waste energy and how steadying movements can conserve vital force. The article urges sitting still, avoiding twitches, and using willpower to suppress fidgets, suggesting relief from tension by resisting small compulsions until a controlled release.
A garden yields large crops when space is well used and manured. A garden acts as a miniature farm showing farming potential. With careful manuring and cultivation, farms can match garden output. Poultry and fruit, especially apples, can utilize waste and improve overall production. Source: St. Louis Republic.
The October issue features Miss C. H. Garland's narrative The Maidens of the Lakes with portraits of Dorothy Wordsworth Edith Southey and Sara Coleridge. Also includes Natural History pieces by Bates Robinson and Olin, travel and home-life stories, folk-tales, art and literary sketches, poems, puzzles, and a Children’s Letter-Box. D Lothrop Company Boston lists $2.40 yearly or 20 cents per issue.
The Butler County Fair, the country’s largest county fair, runs October 5 to 9 in Hamilton with a program promising to surpass prior efforts. The C H D will offer round trip excursion tickets from Cincinnati Indianapolis Lima Delphos Wellston and intermediate stations to Hamilton good for return through October 10.
The Burlington route will sell from principal stations on Tuesdays August 25 September 15 and 29. Harvest Excursion tickets at low rates to principal cities and farming regions in the West Southwest and Northwest. For tickets and information contact a C B Q ticket agent or P S Eustis Gen Pass and Ticket Agent Chicago Ill. Tue hen that sets on a porcelain egg may not accomplish much but she has oddest intentions.
A 3 inch display advertisement claims no two words are alike except one word each week from The Dr Harter Medicine Co Crescent on all their products. Also mentions various ads for medicines and a few quotes as filler in a historic newspaper snippet showing promotional copy and humorous quotes.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as pleasant tasting and effective for kidneys bowels and digestion. It claims early action on sickness and habitual constipation, and urges purchase in 50 cent or 1 dollar bottles from leading druggists with substitutes avoided.
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