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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1910
Page
4
Jerome S McWade recalled offering five dollars for the best short love story. A poor man loves a rich lady, spurns a drunkard path, finds a bag of gold, and marries the woman. They have twins, with the moral Virtue is its own reward.
A reader-furnished line from Lussige Woche describes a divorced woman who dislikes the doll’s PaPa and Mamma phrases and wishes the toy would say only Mamma. The quirk underscores personal sensitivities in toy design and language.
A young patient recalls scalp disease in childhood cured by Cuticura remedies within weeks and notes later use for hand breakouts with good results. The piece also includes anecdotes about P T Barnum praising Cuticura and a traveler's gate story, plus humorous snippets and ads.
Southern farms with year round pastures can raise lambs on Bermuda and burr clover with minimal concentrated feeds. Alabama trials show cottonseed meal and hulls during winter kept ewes in good condition, with lambs growing well and milk flow strong, though costs rose slightly during suckling.
Instructions describe building a compact smokehouse with a front height of four feet and a rear height of three and a half feet, walls three feet long. A two foot square door is placed at the front, connected by a stovepipe to a nearby small store, creating a handy and safe meat smoking setup.
Baldwins and Greenings are the two most profitable apples of Western New York by reason of health vigor and productiveness of the tree and the commercial value of the fruit. There are many other varieties that are profitable but no other can be called unqualifiedly preeminent. the Twenty Ounce might be named as a third. The tree is very productive of large rather coarse fruit that finds a ready sale at good prices and is being planted in increasing quantity.
The writing extols trees as vital for fertility and moisture, arguing they prepared the planet for human life and would improve it if given opportunity. It warns that destroying trees creates deserts and suggests America will suffer the same fate unless reform occurs.
The text discusses building a colony house for young chicks about 6 by 8 feet, with a larger 8 by 12 feet model preferred if the house will be used to winter layers. It emphasizes proper sizing for flock management and warmth.
The department of agriculture notes a British practice washing butter with separator skim milk twice pasteurized. This reduces bacteria to one fifth of the original and avoids using improper water. The text warns that feeding pigs poor substances is a mistake.
The Department of Agriculture reports promising tropical root crops Yantins, taros, and dasheens for southern adoption. These plants grow on wet lands unsuitable for other roots and cereals, serving as salad crops, tubers for food and stock feed, and starch sources for alcohol. They are staple in Hawaii and important in Japan and other hot regions. distribution is not yet possible.
A lustration shows an alfalfa rack used to feed hay to hogs. The rack stands three feet high, six feet long and sixteen inches wide. It is made of stained wood with a tin top, solid ends, and four inch slats with four inch gaps. A four inch deep tie trough extends seven inches beyond the rack.
A scattered collection of farm tips warns improper feeding harms ducks and livestock. It covers diet mixes with sand, water access, space needs for chicks, hog range, milk production, and management practices for dairy, poultry, and gardens.
A dated passage argues that intelligent planning and a scientific approach to manure production define true farm success. It warns that mere hard work cannot substitute a well ordered plan that is rigorously followed to ensure ongoing manure distribution and effective farm management.
A farmer notes kafir corn as an excellent hog ration when corn is scarce. A slop made from soaked or boiled kafir corn, ground soft, pours easily and yields economical growth for hogs, especially useful for pigs on pasture to keep them in good condition.
Experiments show dried and ground skimmed milk serves as a good horse food in France with an average daily feed of about 15 pounds plus hay. Many horsemen in this country feed sweet milk to old horses to restore condition quickly. Milk does not produce solid flesh in horses. Sows that are petted and handled become gentler mothers.
Siler City resident Mrs. Sarah J. Gilliland writes she recovered from grip and “womanly troubles” after using Cardul. She says the tonic, made from mild herbs, helped when other methods failed and urges other women to try it. The ad cites 50 years of success and offers a 4 page home treatment book.
An enigmatic figure proposed a scheme to dress as a man but balked when each collar would cost ten dollars, expressing doubt and retreat. The plan hinges on the impractical price tag and the speaker’s hesitation.
A nostalgic note promotes a tonic with syrup of sarsaparilla and Geounce Torts Compound mixed with whiskey, claiming first day improvements. It also includes old-time anecdotes and quips about race, manners, and common social scenes, ending with scattered proverbs and ads.
Notice announces a Grand Cash Prize Offering by the Defiance Starch Company of Omaha Nebraska to distribute $2000 in cash prizes to ladies who use Defiance Laundry Starch. Prizes include $200 $100 twenty $25 and fifty $10 plus many smaller prizes, with distribution by December 10. Also includes stray anecdotes and quotations.
A jumbled OCR sample shows scattered lines from a periodical page. It includes stray phrases about polar conditions a washing ton correspondent and caricatured jokes. Classical quotes from Milton and Washington appear amid brief witticisms and ad hoc notes.
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