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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
4
A jumble of early advertisements and rhymed appeals tout various cures and remedies. Claims include Allen's Foot-Ease for tired feet, Dr Kilne's Great Nerve Bleuster, Piso's Cure for throat and lungs, and Laxative Frome Quitine Tablets. The text also contains quirky lines about veracity and love and a brief coin of residence and dates.
An extended guide on restoring exhausted fields, prioritizing erosion control with terraces or ditches, shallow plowing, and gradual soil deepening. It advocates growing cow peas, clover, and applying acid phosphate, kainit, and cotton-seed meal to build nitrogen and fertilizer reserves, plus manure, to revive soil for corn or cotton over several years.
A Kentucky state observer notes a woeful fruit shortage across counties, citing winter apples and pears as scarce. He argues that adapting orchards could cut imports, boost profits, and provide home use fruit, urging Kentuckians to invest in orchards and vineyards.
The Texas Farm and Ranch argues that farming benefits from diverse sciences. It asks why farmers send plant and soil samples to specialists rather than possessing broad knowledge themselves and how more scientific understanding could improve farming expertise across biology chemistry and engineering.
The article advocates year round dairy feeding using permanent pasturage silage or root crops with beets highlighted for winter feed. It notes silage is profitable despite high initial costs and that shredded corn hay lacks succulence. It warns dry feed reduces milk and emphasizes feeding livestock preserves soil fertility and boosts farm profits.
The column argues oleomargarine legislation harms livestock interests by millions annually. It notes horses’ gait, farm poultry fed on farm forage, and advises hens to adjust feed. It cites cattle price trends, Texas meal-fed calves, and Secretary Wilson linking high prices to broad prosperity and strong demand.
A collection of witticisms and sayings from multiple papers highlighting satirical lines about wisdom, truth, and miscommunication. Notable snippets reference misperceived facts, stubborn audiences, and humorous doctor and suitor exchanges across cities like Indianapolis Philadelphia and Atlanta.
A wholesale district salesman notes country merchants desire sermons when visiting New York. He explains many drummers are sincere church members despite travel, often converting through encounters with local merchants and the social fabric, with country merchants exerting strong influence on their habits and beliefs.
Nurse Eliza King states good nursing plus effective medicine improves outcomes. A hospital writer from St Andrews Hospital reports St Jacobs Oil as highly efficacious for gout sprains and bruises and notes doctors frequently order it.
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