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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
7
Advice on diversified farming from Peruna testimonials to poultry husbandry. Includes a cured patient, a smoke house build, and guidance on green cut bone for laying hens, pure breeds, feed, and keeping birds healthy for profits.
An OCR fragment blends a spoof testimonial for Hall's Catarrh Cure with older medical claims about catarrh. It cites F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as makers and promises a hundred dollar reward for any cure failure. The piece ends with a joke about a brick thrown at a hen in a garden.
An assortment of 19th or early 20th century ads tout eczema cures like Cuticura and Tetterine, with testimonials from Burkhart and Miss A. B. King. The filler also promotes Capudine headaches and Allen's Foot Ease, promising relief from itch, boils, dandruff, piles, and corns through various tonics and salves.
Practical notes on building a hog handling crate using 2x2 posts and 1x4 strips, with dimensions around 54 by 30 by 16 inches and slotted bottom support. Guidance covers lifting technique, calm handling, and moving hogs between crates. Also instructions for limewashing a henhouse with quicklime mix, salt, carbolic acid, and optional sprayer for large buildings. Contains additional notes on a piping stock and clamping to a casing with a spout handle brace and suction rod.
A collection of aphorisms on frugality and prudent living. It argues that living on little sustains freedom and that wisdom distinguishes whether the world is laughing with or at a person. It notes that a small profit can support vast effort and that today impacts yesterday and tomorrow.
A farming tip advises keeping only one male bird in a flock at a time. Better results come from rotating males weekly rather than housing them all together.
A terse aphorism collection discusses the value of understanding advertisements and questioning motives. It asserts uprightness in all dealings as a divine requirement, contrasting distrust with prudent judgment.
Taft selects a White Steamer after War Department tests of several makes. The White car, delivered before inauguration, is in constant use in Washington. White dealer claims Taft’s model is exactly like public options, differing only by emblem and size options. The firm cites a $4000 full model and a $2000 smaller version with the same construction.
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