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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
7
A Prairie Farmer correspondent describes a self built water system for country homes. The farmer digs a trench from the well, places a one inch pipe to a 16 foot high Oregon fir tank, pipes enter center bottom, and adds two shutoffs. The tank is roofed and protected with straw in cold weather. After three years, the system provides ample water for stock, house and bathroom with strong pressure and little maintenance.
A new road making method using small granite sets laid in intersecting circles is tested as a durable dustless paving option. After four years of use the sample shows no wear, and it will be tried on the main road between Accrington and Haslingden. The effort aims to cut costs compared with standard granite paving.
The article argues for a national resolve to build modern highways like France, noting the 2 150 000 miles of US roads with only about 32 000 surfaced. It calls for broad, hard surfaced, dust free roads to improve health, prices, and rural life, urging big future investment.
A Michigan Farm and Home correspondent explains using a mixture of one part arsenic to three parts salt filled into holes bored in peeled maple posts. The treated posts remained sound after six years, while similar untreated posts rotted in two or three years. Larger posts should have multiple holes to ensure full penetration below the surface.
A compact farmers column advises on seed corn safety from rats and frost, planning next year’s operations, using modern machinery, and proper ventilation for livestock houses. It notes that a married man with a house makes the best farm hand and urges study to make the rest season profitable.
The post ground contact treatment favors green posts as sap transports poison through wood cells. Coal tar coats the butt and the exposed top to resist moisture, especially when the top is cut on a slant to shed rain.
An old book claims elder flowers gathered on midsummer day, dried, and consumed as a spoonful in water twice daily for a month will render a person young and handsome for a long time. The passage reads like a folk remedy and reflects historical belief in botanical tonics.
A short editorial notes that men waste valuable time mimicking others and urges reading good farm papers to interest people in better farm conditions.
A parish sociable sparks suspicion about Deacon G. after he proposes a game featuring a hidden button. The deacon’s past opposition to the pastor’s call and his recent oyster soup outing fuel insinuations while a child defuses the moment by offering to lend the button, unless saved for a future collection.
Miss Ann Pearsons of Northfield Vermont describes a painful eczema covering face and neck that resisted three doctors and multiple treatments. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the condition healed in under three months, ending with no leakage or soreness. Potter Drug & Chem, Corp. Boston.
A young boy at Sunday school explains that Eve was Mrs Eve Adam a friend of God's who kept house in a garden. He adds the tale centers on God and love and a woman who gave an apple to Adam.
A Wisconsin couple credits Postum with ending coffee-related troubles and improving health. They cite better sleep, steadier nerves, fresher skin, and calmer temper after switching, noting relief grew with continued use and proper preparation. The letter, attributed to Postum Co. of Battle Creek, invites readers to try the product.
Judge George E. Law known as the Marrying Squire for wedlock counts in Indiana. He wrote in 1906 praising Dean's Kidney Pills claiming relief for back pain sleep and urine clarity and reaffirmed in 1909. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents a box.
A classroom vignette contrasts a physiology lesson with a boy naming bat types including a brickbat. The scene shifts to a humorous exchange about a sunset and postcard value, followed by an ad for Lewis' 5c cigars and a medical claim about curing piles.
Mrs Emma Wheaton of Vienna West Virginia credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending a decade of suffering. She says doctors offered no relief and urges other women to try the remedy which she says relieved pains and misery. The Pinkham lab in Lynn Massachusetts holds many testimonials from women cured of various female ailments. Readers may write for confidential advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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