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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1916
Page
6
Readers are urged to start each day with a glass of hot water and a spoonful of limestone phosphate to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. The ad claims this routine improves appetite and purifies the alimentary canal as a health habit. It ends with a jab about women’s hair, oddly noting it as well.
A health advertisement urges return to Jad Salts for sluggish kidneys and bladder issues caused by heavy meat eating. It claims four ounces daily in water before breakfast clears the urinary tract, relieves backache, headaches, and rheumatic pains, and promotes lively kidney function.
An ad touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as mild soothing products for a baby’s irritated skin. It offers a free sample by mail with a postcard request to Cuticura Dept L Boston. The text ends with a proverb about a man deceiving his wife but not his father’s wife.
The ad touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Ton ic claiming it drives out malaria and boosts the system with iron. It highlights the label formula and lists price at 50 cents with testimonials about health benefits.
A farm barn plan details concrete foundations structural tile walls and a framed upper section. It discusses two silos versus one large silo cost efficiency and emphasizes sliding door hangers drainage ventilation hydrants and a crane for manure handling for easy cleaning and warmth.
The London Chronicle notes Erzerum, held by Russians from Turks, is an elevated city with brutal summers and extreme sanitation failures. An American preacher recounts Armenian massacres of 1896, where open gutters and piled refuse produce high child mortality in a typical family of twelve.
The article explains that good poultry feeding requires balanced rations and access to natural food. It cautions against overfeeding concentrated foods and emphasizes the value of a mix of corn wheat and animal matter, plus a specific growing chick mixture of wheat cornmeal and 50 percent protein meat with clover or alfalfa.
A detailed guide explains movable grain troughs for fowls with slatted sides and detachable roofs to keep feed clean and dry. It covers essentials like grit bone meal and charcoal, greens during winter, and placement sheltered from wind to reduce waste.
The article warns that feeding salt to poultry is hazardous for chicks and hens. Even small oversalted scraps can kill, cause molting, or feather loss out of season. Some keepers salt to induce early molt but this is dangerous. chicks should have no salt until well grown.
The text explains that exes avoid laying in winter because worms bugs and insects from summer are scarce and meat substitutes are fed to hens. It notes hens as omnivorous feeders consuming meat and vegetables.
Overfat hens cannot lay fertile eggs and corn as main feed is imbalanced. A balanced ration uses one third wheat one third oats and one third corn for cold weather, then shifts to bran based mashes with 10 percent animal food and ample green feed as conditions warm.
Grain and water should be placed close to the nests of sitting hens with grit charcoal and green feed so they feed regularly. Exercise care in keeping down lice using insecticides liberally and regularly. Lousy hens will moan lousy and dead chicks.
Taunton Massachusetts resident Clara Morin, 22, reports relief from painful irregular periods after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges girls with menstrual pains to consult a physician and consider the remedy, offering free confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A vintage ad-line touts Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh as quick relief for cuts burns sprains and bruises. The copy urges prudent housewives to keep a bottle on hand and warns harshly against misfortune in daily home life.
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