Peruna touted as cure after seven years of illness
Miss Kate Brown of Kansas City Kansas writes praising Peruna after seven years of kidney bladder and digestive trouble caused by a neglected cold. She spent hundreds on doctors with little relief before a nine month course of Peruna restored her health and prompted thanks to Dr Hartman.
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Kate Brown
L. C. B. Association of
Kan
N. Seventh St
Kansas City
Peruia
Hartman
Fertility First on the Farm and Humus Renewal
W F McSpanan argues that land fertility trumps moisture lessons and tillage. He urges restoring humus via rational crop rotation and plowing under green manures, with livestock, manure, and clover to build soil, noting quick gains from plowing under cover crops after oats and wheat.
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Acre
W. F. MecSpanan
The Dairy On The Farm And Cream Separator Use
The article discusses dairying on ordinary farms close to markets, noting cream separation can boost profits via creameries, with skim milk fed to calves or hogs. It emphasizes proper barn ventilation, a good separator, and churn temperatures of sixty to sixty-five degrees, plus careful salting and pressing to preserve butter quality.
Preservation tips from Farm and Fireside on dairy storage
The piece extols cooling and ice storage in the milk cellar to keep cream milk and butter in prime condition. It notes the convenience during hot summers and the mercenary and practical benefits for farmers and their tables.
Deteriorating Cotton Crop Warns Slow Selling
The Southern Cultivator notes the June crop was heavy but the August crop is light due to extreme August heat. Bolls are dropping and plants wilted, yielding widespread damage from North Carolina to Texas. Farmers should sell slowly to maximize price, with an expected around ten cents per pound.
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North Carolina
Texas
Bermuda Grass Faith in South Pasture Value
J. G. B. Erwin argues in Dixie Farmer that Bermuda grass provides permanent, reliable pasture and net land value. He claims one well set acre yields high stock benefits and suggests Bermuda lands are mortgage-lifters for southern farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland
J. G. B. Erwin
Dixie Farmer
Economy in Poultry Raising for Profit
The article notes that poultry profits depend on economical methods and proper feed. It stresses that economy means fowls digesting suitable food rather than cheap food, with water being essential. Early chick care is critical, as neglect stunts growth and cannot be fully reversed. Farm and Fireside.
Farm Advice From A Rural Journal On Crops and Stock
The article extols dairy as luxury on the farm and notes Egyptian cotton’s boll weevil resistance. It praises hens, pumps, October sowing, feed saving, and sheep. It highlights horse training, box elder as park tree, and planting plum or peach trees with hens aiding soil and fruit production.
A Column of Figures
A compact summary listing diverse statistics on weights volume immigration emigration land use and labor across nations and regions. It notes a hectoliter equals 2.75 bushels nearly 400 Scottish bowling clubs and demographic splits among Russians alongside changes in German emigration and Switzerland foreign residents. It concludes with Manitoba acreage uses and a multilingual workforce at Hannibal Missouri cement plant.
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Scotland
Germany
Switzerland
Manitoba
Suez Canal
Hungary
Hannibal
Cream on the Milk Bottles Sparks Humorous Exchange
A lighthearted exchange between a young couple cites a milkman who explains he fills bottles to the top leaving no room for cream, praised as a credit to him. The snippet concludes with fleeting ad lines for Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar and Pike’s Toothache Drops.
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Indianapolis News
Hale
Pike
Noted Quotables and Patent Medicine Snippets
A compact scrap captures a string of humorous quotes and patent medicine endorsements. It mentions a dentist’s office called a dental parlor, urges calling it a drawing room, and includes testimonials praising Burdock Blood Bitters Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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Philadelphia Record
The Pinkham Cures and Growing Reputation
Skeptics met initial doubt as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proved effective for many women. Over years an expanding group of cured users became a nationwide movement, drawing attention from scientists and physicians to the medicine's benefits.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
America
Be ELLI E TOOTHACHE ALL DAAGONS
A garbled fragment comments on discovery and ignorance and warns about disease with a plug for Dr Wood s Norway Pine Syrup as a health incentive. The text includes hiccups and stray phrases about toothache dragons and a quote on learning.
Recognized Resemblance In Hair Fashion Clash
A city youth who favors the pompadour earns a stern rebuke from his father who insists on a side part. An old friend notes the startling resemblance between father and son as the boy defies traditional hairdressing with humor and sharp comebacks.
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Churches
Chicago Chronicle
Meanest man and a tremulous Frenchman in comic snatches
A collage of short gags and excerpts from newspapers about a famously irritable man, a timid Frenchman, and humorous misunderstandings. It includes a tale of humidity blamed on a wife, a Philadelphia joke, a moonlit exchange, a water anecdote at a hotel, and an ad for Dean's Ointment curing itching piles with a price mention.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes Color More Goods Per Package
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century page features asides about Uncle Sam and duties, a remark about Putnam Fadeless Dyes claiming higher color yield per package, plus a casual exchange between a striker and a non union miner and a quip about poets.
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Putnam
Philadelphia
Restaurant Requisites and Opening Gaffe in Newark
The Newark News reports a satirical scene as the new cheap restaurant prepares to open. The proprietor and manager debate sugar, condiments, milk, and butter authenticity while plans hinge on missing illuminated mottoes from a sign painter.
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Newark News
Scott
Serious man seeks to be center of gravity
A grave man tries to impress others with seriousness until his friends joke that he acts as if the world revolves around him. Moral from the New York Herald notes a man so serious he seems the center of gravity. A separate quote adds that one golden day redeems a weary year.
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N. Y
Cecil Teaxter
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Cures for Kidney Troubles
Retired farmer John J. Scharschug of Aurora Illinois reports three years of backache and kidney issues ended by Doan's Kidney Pills. He asserts lasting relief with no recurrence and recommends the remedy. Free trials available by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. price 50 cents per box at druggists nationwide.
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Bright
Dean
John J. Scharsehug
Concord
Scharschug
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
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