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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
10
An assorted Dallas News clipping combines an old malaria cure claim promising relief for a fee, a humor excerpt about photographs and manners, and a parody of capitalist satire. It includes an ad style line for CATARRH MEDICINE and a quirky seaside scene mentioning lobster and ice cream.
A fragment recounts 17th century civility discipline from The Miles of Civility and notes suppression of blunt behavior. The text also mentions Darby Main Street shop windows showing hundreds of items with prices cut about 50 percent.
An advertisement touts Tetterine as invaluable for clearing blotches and rough patches on Southern women’s skin, promising soft velvety skin. It asserts eczema and other skin diseases yield to the product and notes availability from druggists or by mail from Shuptrine Co of Savannah Georgia.
A damaged fragment recounts a caller offering help to a soldier named Uriah Unison. The exchange hints at a long, lonely wait and a courtroom juror reacting emotionally as the talk turns to a sick soldier and possible convassing. The text blends misread lines from various papers.
The article notes that the White Leghorn is the most popular egg breed and that white eggs command a premium. It cites that US egg production in 1000 totaled over 1.5 billion dozen with high value, mainly produced on farms and large commercial egg farms near premium markets.
The article notes Splendid Flock of White Leghorns and breeds such as Leghorn Complac Minorea and Annona. White Leghorn ferns are described as the most popular and widely kept type, part of the Mediterranean and Continental classes per the American Standard of Perfection. These breeds are common in general farms and especially in markets preferring white eggs and large poultry flocks.
The article notes that many turkeys are raised in Texas Mississippi Alabama and western Florida on general farms with available range. Ducks are less common in the South though geese and white guineas are kept on many farms for home use and market sales. Guinea fowl run wild and are not produced at market scale.
Chicks and fowls in confinement during hot weather need abundant green food and milk or both. If on free range they get most of their meat food from bugs and worms and can add to their diet from vegetables they forage. This is true for fowls as well.
Advice on feeding and housing to keep poultry healthy and productive. Emphasizes clean housing, evening grain, mite control, straw bedding, green forage, sun protection for market pets, purebred birds, growth for youngsters, avoiding roosters with hens after breeding, and ensuring confinement birds receive free-range like feeds.
Prof. B. B. House of the Colorado Agricultural College cites The Engineering News-Record on road maintenance. He argues cheaper wearing surfaces can be economical, if proper drainage and side earth repairs are used, and criticizes earth road patches and low quality fills as wasteful.
The text discusses patching concrete and brick surfaces on streets, noting careless methods harm highway maintenance. It warns improper repairs create costly, unsatisfactory roads and discourage economical improvements, urging proper annual upkeep to avoid public sentiment against certain road types.
The article reviews Quebec road development from 1911 to 1916 noting government subsidies and miles of maintained roads by municipalities. It highlights totals of 1 000 miles in 1907 rising to 18 000 miles in 1916 and toll road gains, plus the broader benefits of good roads for trade and property values. It also discusses the ineffectiveness of mere planning without funding.
The Miendiai road project aims to build a concrete lightway for 174 miles linking Metuchen and Tulway. The design includes an 20 foot wide roadway, an 18 foot concrete driveway, tree shoulders on both sides, and a 3 foot outer shoulder beyond the trees. The road will be eight inches thick with reinforced foundations.
An old advertisement stresses the Bayer Cross on genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin and warns buyers to purchase unbroken Bayer packages with full directions to safely relieve headaches toothaches and other pains. It notes small 12 tablet tins cost a few cents at drug stores and mentions larger packages.
A fragmented ad section touts dubious cures and tonic blends. It mentions a vacuum cleaner as a humorous quiz and lists Quininc tonics, liver pills, and vegetable pills as supposed invigoration aids. The text mocks dull newspapers and includes stray sentences about a domestic argument.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder issues unknowingly. The ad claims Swamp Root restores kidney health and helps back pain headaches and fatigue, offering a sample bottle for ten cents and urging purchase of larger sizes at drugstores.
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