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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
3
A magazine style promotion touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder problems claiming wide customer support and promising a sample bottle by mail with ten cents. It cites testimonials and druggist endorsements and notes bottles for sale at drug stores.
A housewife offers a little dinner while a tramp asks if the dinner bill counts as immodest. The brief exchange captures a sharp social moment at a doorway.
Fifty years ago few used dentifrice or brushes. Allen's Foot Ease claims to reduce friction in leather or canvas footwear, preventing callouses and bunions. The ad touts Army Navy use, urges readers to shake powder into shoes and start a hygienic habit.
Dialog excerpt shows a couple discussing fear and control in the home. The wife says she avoids confrontation with the servant to keep peace, while noting the children stand up to her. The piece hints at household dynamics and power.
An advertisement touts Othine double strength to remove freckles with nightly and morning applications. It claims most cases need only one ounce to clear skin and warns to buy the guaranteed product or money back. A subsequent note disparages Artena as the City of Crime in Italy, alleging widespread criminal lineage.
Advertisement proclaims Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe for decades, with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Tin boxes of 12 cost a few cents and larger Bayer packages sold by druggists. Includes trademark and chemical note. Additional fragment references waste Samson temple misquote and aging men remark.
United States Department of Agriculture explains cleaning and disinfection of railroad stock cars after transporting livestock with communicable diseases. Federal inspection at stockyards and slaughterhouses triggers car set aside, cleaning, and disinfection under federal supervision. Bureau records show 44 848 cars disinfected in the fiscal year ending June 30 1919.
A fattening coop with slatted sides provides fresh air for the birds. After meals a muslin curtain covers the coop to create semi darkness while allowing air. Slatted floors keep the coop cleaner as manure cannot drop through.
Canada peas and oats are ready for silo when pea pods yellow and oat heads begin to ripen. Clover yields dry matter if left until more than half the blossoms are brown. Soybeans are ready for silage as plants near maturity with pods turning yellow. cows pens should show the same signs.
Garden pests and diseases are categorized into biting and sucking insects. Recommended controls include arsenate of lead sprays for beetles and worms, soap suds and tobacco decoctions for sucking insects, and bordeaux mixture with lime and copper sulfate to limit fungi like rust and blight. A soil dust mulch and dry surface mulch aid reduction of insect breathing pores.
Hoard's Dairyman reports a dairy farmer used lead paint inside a wood silo and cows died from lead poisoning after silage feeding. Chemical analysis of stomach contents confirmed lead poisoning as the cause.
The United States Department of Agriculture describes an egg circle as a community effort to improve poultry strains and egg quality, reduce waste, pack uniform clean eggs, guarantee standards, market directly to consumers, and buy supplies cooperatively for member and community benefit.
The Ohio station reports that selecting seed ears from standing corn increases yields by about a quarter bushel per acre. The main reason is that field selection picks ears with inborn merit rather than those enhanced by rich spots or one-stalk hills.
The article advises culling all old hens not needed for next year's breeding. It suggests confining them in a small space, feeding heavily for two to three weeks, and fattening them for sale at a profit despite high grain prices.
The Columbus Dispatch reports excerpts from General Sherman and Secretary of War Stanton observing early 1865 Savannah and Washington. They note slave enlistment policy discussions, land rights for freed slaves, wartime quarrels, rising prices, and impatience to end the conflict amid profiteering and civil strain.
A French doctor reports injecting diluted gold to treat nervous breakdowns and similar conditions. The method, costly and limited by gold supply, has cured some wealthy Parisian patients though the gold itself is not a tonic. Injections use a platinum tube costing over twelve hundred dollars.
A Forbes writer argues money is highly desirable and enables grand deeds yet cannot buy true happiness. He notes wealth should be pursued honorably, but ill gotten gains fail to bring lasting joy to the possessor or their heirs.
The piece argues that preserving birds benefits agriculture by reducing weeds and pests. It urges U S Canada protection of migrants and calls for Mexico and Central American involvement to complete the conservation effort across their range.
Government protection for seals in our waters appears successful as seals bulge in migration to the Arctic three weeks earlier than usual. An unusually large number observed en route to the north.
A three year old named Ethel grows bitter as her mother fondly teases her. The mother holds a new puppy like a baby and Ethel retorts that the puppy is like her mother. An advertisement for Cuticura skin products follows praising improvements to complexions and itching.
Cortlandt Bleecker, a New York clubman, spoke at the Ritz about a spring display of gowns. He praised the gowns as superb and daring but dismissed the buyers as aging women, saying in frustration that “what's the use” of old hens wearing chic clothes.
A child gives his grandfather a box of cigars for his birthday. The father prompts a warm greeting and mentions many cigars, but the child corrects the line, saying the grandfather should open the box to see there are many cigars inside.
A nation and a church appear Hvellest as both confront looming debt obligations. Officials warn of financial strain and the need for restructuring or fundraising efforts to meet expected payments.
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