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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
4
A sensational ad touts Freezone as a painless cure for hard and soft corns and toe corn. It claims the druggist sells a tiny bottle for a few cents and promises instant relief without pain.
Plattsburg Camp Manual advises men in training to use Foot Ease in their shoes each morning to prevent blisters and sore spots and relieve swollen feet and corns. The antiseptic powder is shaken into shoes and sprinkled in the foot bath for comfort.
The silk industry of China employs between 4 million and 5 million people, reflecting its large scale and economic significance across regions.
United States Department of Agriculture promotes home rabbit raising as a food source, noting rabbits’ meat quality and high yield from small spaces. It outlines costs, breeding guidance, and feed practices including green and dry feeds, cautions on moldy foods, and the value of varied, clean greens.
US Department of Agriculture specialists say pruning and staking tomatoes pays, especially in small plots. Stems are reduced to one and tied to stakes, keeping fruit off the ground, cleaner, and easier to harvest.
A farmer notes that proper feed matters more than breed. A cow with a long pedigree still fails to milk if her stomach is empty, highlighting nutrition as the crucial factor in dairy yield.
The article advises gardeners on lime use and soil care. Apply ½ to 1 bushel of air-slaked lime per square rod after plowing or spading and before planting. Do not lime Irish potato land or apply with fertilizers or poultry manure. Unleached wood ashes bring lime and potash but should not mix with lime. coal ashes lighten heavy soils but add little fertilizer. Drinking water is essential for high milk production, being warm in winter and cool in summer.
Sweet clover has come to be considered a good legume. It was not more than 15 years ago that it was classed as a weed.
Home gardeners too often pick runners from old neglected beds leading to poor yields. Selecting healthier, fresh-strain plants improves fruit quality and plant vigor for the next growing season.
The remark notes that ignorance is no excuse for failure among dairy workers due to many books and papers published on the subject. It emphasizes the abundance of available knowledge for improving dairy practice.
A writer notes baboons can be trained as shepherds and form bonds with young or flock members. In one observed case a baboon cared for a motherless infant for over two years and another trained baboon tended hundreds of sheep daily. The monkey protected the flock from distant noises and acted as a timely weather prophet by borrowing an umbrella.
The advertisement promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as the world famous remedy prescribed by physicians for many conditions. It notes the Bayer Cross on tablets and packaging to guard against imitations and lists uses from colds to pain relief with 12 tablets in a tin sold for a few cents and larger packages from druggists.
A fragment from Ilome Sector recalls a soldier given a 30 day guardhouse sentence for placing his pillowslip topside down. The piece muses on the harsh early days for troops and the difficulty of bed making in the field.
A health notice urges parents to examine every Castoria bottle to ensure it bears the In Use for Over 30 Years claim. The message reminds that Fletcher's Castoria is trusted for infants and children and mentions that children cry for it.
The Ming era story recounts Pu Men visiting Huang Shan and turning it into a sacred mountain. A Peking audience spurred huge funding for temples, including a brass pagoda with a thousand Buddhas and the Purple Sand temple later renamed Merciful Light hall. Priests flocked to the area, roads were built to peak temples, and Buddhist prosperity flourished.
In a casual exchange, Mr. Filmhound explains he avoided the Colosseum in Rome due to it being closed for repairs for years, choosing instead to attend contemporary cinema shows.
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