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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
7
Taunton Massachusetts girl reports monthly pains and fatigue kept her from work until she started Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After one month she worked full month and says she is now in good health and recommends the remedy. The ad urges others with painful or irregular periods to seek medical advice and consider the product.
The speaker notes increased church attendance brings satisfaction and comfort from communal singing and fine music, free from ragtime lyrics or dancing. The focus is on the serene, instructional value and solace found in being part of a regular, contemplative worship setting.
Ad snippets include Cuticura ointment and soap usage for skin irritation, a Q and A about a bill payment, Dr Peery's Dead Shot worm medicine, and humorous chatter about Mr Blinks at a dinner. Readable fragments combine medical ad copy and light newspaper banter.
Adyvy B H Foster owns 11 000 acres of wheat near Smith Center Kansas. The notice advertises a 25 cent bottle of Baby Nase with mail coupon and a guaranteed gold ring as a promotion for curing bowel complaints and teething issues in babies.
Western Newspaper Union notes heavy wants filling without ads as Department of Agriculture clamps down on seed data. It urges use of pure home raised oats for seed and confirms fish cultures and marl deliveries while listing extensive farm offers and livestock for sale including cattle, hogs, poultry, tools, and equipment.
The article explains early sexing of Barred Plymouth Rock chicks. It notes pullets show willow-colored beaks dark legs and finer bone while cockerels have yellow beaks and legs and a coarser head. After a couple days both show blue color fading to yellow in pullets. Similar methods apply to other breeds with solid colors showing a prominent cockerel.
The piece argues for following natural methods in rearing young chickens. It claims natural feeding and maternal care by the hen prevent common illnesses and warn against humans altering these natural processes. It emphasizes protection from overintervention and maintaining the hen’s role in caretaking.
Lice and cholera germs thrive in hot weather and contagious disease spreads without timely cleaning. The piece argues that reactive remedies and futile efforts to address an outbreak show how not to manage such health threats.
N Su Harris of Kansas State Agricultural College foresees rapid growth of capon farming. Large scale raises enable direct shipment to distant buyers at 14 to 18 cents per pound live weight. Capons offer steady farm profit as meat scarcity increases, with simple husbandry and efficient feed conversion.
Judging poultry is a refined art and selecting pullets with fine heads alert eyes and textured combs faces and wattles is the first step toward higher egg production. Good pullets stand square with wide apart legs and slightly higher front body, a long back and tail held high. The body is wedge shaped to provide space for reproductive and digestive organs.
The women usually look after the chickens. A man can help by locating the chicken coop near the house and building it for convenience with feed hoppers shell hoppers water dishes and alfalfa rack.
An advertisement extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a gentle, vegetable remedy for sluggish liver and bowel cleansing. It warns against calomel for its dangerous mercury content and claims the product won’t salivate, with a money back guarantee and widespread use.
Popular Science Monthly describes a pneumatic tube system that moves ammunition from magazine to firing turret. An intricate mechanism ensures shells enter breeches at high speed without errors in firing.
Readers of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic commonly take the old remedy regularly to strengthen the system against the depressing effects of hot weather, with stronger individuals believed to withstand summer heat better than the weak. Price soc.
Dialogue snippet shows a prison setting with a woman questioning a laundry area and a staff member confirming it is used to wash and iron convicts. The exchange hints at daily life inside a jail and may reflect social attitudes toward inmates.
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