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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
6
Mrs Haven of Hamilton Minnesota recalls months of pain and illness before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at age seventeen. She says the tonic restored her health and regularity, praising the forty year popularity and urging others to seek advice from the Pinkham firm, written by a woman in confidence.
A odd scene unfolds as Mandy seeks a shave while Bill Tiiner and the Kidder clash from across the range. A violent disturbance erupts with a shattered table, falling stones, and a knife secured by BML as Ike is pushed aside amid garbled dialogue and disorder.
A fragmented untidy page mixes an eye cream pitch with a museum scene caption and a quip about an old bachelor. It notes ottine double strength and a mistaken artist name, plus a political remark about waters being fooled again.
Elizabeth Foster, 72, widow of a former street railway manager, owned over $100,000 in real estate and more than $6,000 cash. Found unconscious in the kitchen of her North Tenth Street home, with no food or coal. Died at Episcopal Hospital from arsenic poisoning. Foster, once noted as a landscape painter, married Albert P. Foster, who led the Fourth & Eighth Street railway before its consolidation with Union Traction.
Jase B Farewell a Springfield farmer aged 28 was arrested on a bigamy charge after living with two wives. One wife from Canada and Philadelphia, the other a local farmer’s daughter. The first wife is mother of three, the second is pregnant. Mothers of both wives visited the Farewell home triggering the authorities action.
Philadelphia report describes Ruth Chanoey a Bryn Mawr sophomore and self government treasurer who learned of infractions in the college group. She resigned to avoid breaking her duty to report while officers voted to shield non officers from disclosure, prompting Cheney to keep the secret if legally bound.
Three pallbearers were caught in a tragic accident when a plank over a grave opening broke. The coffin toppled and pinned the men as mourners watched in shock at the burial site.
The field pea, an annual plant with slender stems two to four feet high, yields hay or grain for animal feed. Its production as a summer crop is limited by high temperatures, with frost harm mainly during pod set. rainfall of 15 inches in western Canada suffices, while 20 inches in Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado is inadequate. Pasturing with sheep or hogs is common in some locales, but must be managed to avoid waste. Lambs fatten on field pea pasture in 70 to 90 days, with a good yield per acre when properly grazed.
When plowing this spring avoid quilted spots bushy corners and stumps. Clean them as you go to ease cultivation all summer and enable idle land to be put to work or waste places improved. Patchy ragged fields spoil farm appearance.
W C Palmer of the North Dakota experiment station explains how rearranging a farm’s buildings saves walking miles. Water piping cuts 53 miles to none, wood hauling drops 22 to 8.5, machine shed trips fall from 67.375 to 11.5, hog feeding saves 10.214 miles, and chicken care saves 3 miles. Total yearly saving about 217.25 miles worth $36.74 in walking time.
Roy Kinnebrew in Farmers' Mail and Breeze describes a handy latch for cow lot gates. The latch prevents self opening and can be opened by foot. The design uses a weight, a footpiece bolted to the gate, and an upright piece connected to a center gate slat.
The mechanism features two footpieces on opposite sides of the gate. Stepping on a footpiece releases a latch and makes the gate swing open. Each side has its own footpiece to allow opening from either side.
Practical poultry notes urge moving sitting hens at night and providing clean nests. Advice covers market freshness, pure air, indoor runs for hens with chicks, sugar and coal oil cures, sanitary conditions, healthy breeding stock, and egg weight standards for hatching.
An advertisement touts Anuric as a potent uric acid eliminator linked to Dr. Pierce. It claims relief from backache rheumatism gout and kidney trouble and urges readers to obtain trial packs or purchase for a dollar.
A traveling salesman arrives in a rural town and learns a hotel boasts four factories not yet built. He notices many whistles and steam sirens while the proprietor confides the sounds come from a flower mill to simulate industry until real plants arrive.
An old print ad touts Cuticura for infant care with hot bath using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for quick relief and sleep. It offers free samples by mail with a book from Boston. The page also contains a humorous kitchen table remark about a guest asking the lady to cut capers she was doing.
A father laments rising costs of living during wartime. His child Johnny jokes that inflation matters only when prices fall, reflecting a shared concern and a touch of humor about economic strain in households.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature, touting it as a safe remedy for infants and children used for over 30 years as Fletcher's Castoria. children cry for Castoria.
In a schoolyard exchange Bobbie's uncle compliments the boy on his time at school. The boy replies with pride that he won most fifty marbles from Jimmie Smith during recess today.
Fragmentary report notes a person named Flaxte order phosphate and switch to charged drinks. Additional garbled dialogue hints at a shared sentiment of dissatisfaction and a Sun Dial reference. No clear event, place, or date can be confirmed from the fragments.
A terse remark from the Boston Tran script signals looming dullness as onlookers sense an upcoming bore at the club. The line frames mood and anticipation without detailing events or participants, reflecting a clipped newspaper style.
A child named Marian with an open mind questions fairy tales as she and her mother discuss the difference between magical castles and real ones. The mother explains real castles are brick and stone, not gold, and cautions against believing everything in books. The Indianapolis News notes the snippet as a small glimpse into a child’s developing skepticism toward literature.
Laundry- list ad copy claiming a toothpaste SPEARMINTO promises attractive teeth and health. Claims no alcohol soap grit or coloring and conformity to dental authorities. Sold at drug stores or by mail for 25 cents with a liberal sample offer. Chicago advertiser Herson Chemical Co. 336 W 634 St. Illinois.
Bacon Astronomers compile a star map from thousands of loci in hopes of cataloguing between 30,000,000 and 46,000,000 stars. Egbert-Evidently doubts any change in the heavens. Upward. A line laments meat and gasoline prices as a distraction.
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