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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
7
The article stresses shade as essential for poultry in hot weather and notes many losses when shade is lacking. It advises moving young birds to colony houses with ample range, adding green food, insects, and earthworms, and integrating poultry with fruit orchards to aid soil fertility and pest control.
J. J. Davis, resistant entomologist, reviews Illinois vegetable gardening's scale and value from 1900 to 1909. He notes Chicago as the truck garden hub, potato dominance with 139,464 acres in 1909, and key crops like onions cabbage beets and cucumbers. Emphasizes clean culture, crop rotation, early detection, and weed control to limit pests such as maggots thrips and beetles.
A man intervenes as two boys fight in a South Side vacant lot. The victor is pulled away after rubbing weeds on the other boy’s face. The offender claims he wanted to make the other boy as great as Abraham Lincoln.
A Lebanon man recounts years of severe scalp and thigh eczema with relentless itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment he reports rapid relief within minutes and full cure after two days, noting improvement in dandruff as well.
Lady Henry Somerset recounts a London slum charity tale inspired by a patient boy. During a hospital visit a crippled child endures a painful plaster cast change without flinching, explaining he imagined a bee sting to cope and keep focus on the imagined sting.
A western Kentucky jail holds a black man awaiting calf theft trial. His wife Mandy refuses to hire a lawyer, insisting he is innocent. Grady, the jailer, is urged by a voice from above to tell her to get a lawyer, and a dam good one.
Stella asks about views at a summer resort and Bella notes there are none but the place is near the rmcoon light.
In Peoria and Jessup testimonies, Mrs Christina Reed and Mrs Joseph A Lynch describe severe gynecologic issues resolved after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. They urge others with female ills to consider the remedy before surgery.
Advertisement promoting hose by Lehr Mfy Co offering direct consumer sales and a credit plan. Mentions Chicago address and Houston style phrasing with a repeated line urging exclusive agency to hustlers.
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