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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1909
Page
7
A Rural New Yorker correspondent outlines a practical icehouse plan 12 by 14 feet, 12 feet high, built on a stone foundation with oak studs and sawdust insulation. The guide details air circulation, double doors, pulley setup, tile floor, and sawdust packing to prevent ice bonding. Capacity noted as 40 tons from a nearby pond, scalable for larger needs.
A rustic advisory notes pruning wisdom to keep trees from growing tall. It recalls old apple trees towering thirty feet, making fruit gathering dangerous and costly.
A hillside road needs shrub planting to guard against washouts. Install a gutter and drainage ditch on the hillside side with a slight embankment to improve safety, nearly matching level-ground stability. Washout prevention advice ends with a call to nurture conscience.
An Illinois Prairie Farmer correspondent urges building roads to include legal walks 60 feet wide with proper grades and boundaries marked by stones. He argues walks would aid foot traffic wheel baby carriages and reduce mud, advocating engineer planning and wardens to protect walks, with tax support.
A notable victory in Wisconsin, largely by farmers, saw the state approve an amendment authorizing state aid for road building. The constitution’s ban on state money for internal improvements was overridden by a 70 000 vote margin. Farmers shifted sentiment by recognizing farm property bears road costs and that all property should share improvements.
An old guide extols alfalfa noting an acre earns 25 to 35 dollars in hay per year depending on yield. It outproduces timothy, doubles its market, and regenerates soil by fixing nitrogen as a legume. Four yearly cuttings yield five to seven tons per acre on good land, increasing land value. Great is alfalfa.
The Ontario experiment station reports 1907 yields from barley and oats as a mixed crop at 1,979 pounds per acre using four pecks of each seed per acre. Mansbury barley and Daubeney oats ripen well together and deliver a free grain yield. Across six years and 24 tests Mansbury six rowed barley dominates in mixtures, averaging 17.6 percent of the seed mix. The Eskimo line about losing the old home place appears in Stanford University Chaparral.
Thomas N. McCullough of Colorado Springs reports recurrent backache and kidney trouble with disordered urine and broken sleep. After starting Dean's Kidney Pills he says the troubles disappeared and the cure remains permanent. Sold by all dealers at fifty cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
A brief, sharply drawn scene features a boss presenting a dinner invitation to a boy. The boy declines, explaining his dress suit is in hock, signaling poverty or debt and adding a social tension to the exchange.
An 1908 testimonial claims Cuticura Ointment and Soap cured a severe eczema sufferer after other doctors failed. The patient describes extensive sores across the body, hair loss, and relief after using Cuticura products, with name and address provided. Also included are brief ad-like items and quotes from various sources.
An old newspaper snippet promotes Pettit’s Eye Salve as a quick eye remedy and notes Howard Bros. druggists in Buffalo, New York. It also advertises Brown’s Bronchial Traches for hoarseness and coughs at 25 cents a box with free samples from John I Brown & Son in Boston. It ends with a social quip about talkative women.
A blurred scene shows a wounded man bandaging his neck and limping as a well dressed caller arrives asking for business. The man vows to end life insurance agents, while ad snippets and proverbs fill the page alongside various product pitches.
A Baltimore woman shares four years of misery from female health issues and credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health. The advertisement claims the remedy treats displacements inflammation ulceration irregularities period pains backache and nervous prostration and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts to any reader seeking help.
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