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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1921
Page
7
A promotional note touts California Fig Syrup as a trusted remedy to cleanse the liver and bowels of children. It urges mothers to use the genuine product and warns against imitations while promising quick relief and a well child.
A scanned promotion from South Bend Indiana touts Pierce's Favorite Prescription as strengthening and nervine. It quotes Mrs Samuel Romine praising its benefits during illness and urges readers to seek free confidential advice from Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo New York.
The USDA advises simple methods to store surplus vegetables for winter. Cabbage can stay in the garden until hard frost then be buried in shallow trenches with straw and dirt. Irish potatoes beets and turnips use well drained sites with a conical pile lined with straw and covered to ventilate. tomatoes ripen in cool cellars or be packed and boxed for several weeks.
The Department of Agriculture reports better wool quality at concentration points due to last season demonstrations on handling and preparing wool for market. Untied fleeces are down, grading emphasized, and major pools show strong intake growth with improved buyer value.
James C. Young recounts Christina of Sweden a ruler of the 17th century famed for riding drilling troops and fighting like a soldier. She refused marriage sought a masculine role wore men's dress yet remained a woman with jealous temper and royal revelry. Her early brilliance faded as Sweden waned and she abdicated the throne running a life of excess.
A questionnaire of 1 000 leading farmers and breeders for the United States Department of Agriculture finds about a third to a quarter of annual farm livestock production consists of runts and undersized stock. Farmers say incomes could rise about 13 percent if runts were eliminated with better feeding and breeding, purebred sires, good care, housing, sanitation, dam care, parasite and disease control, and culling of hopeless stock.
Barberry bushes threaten wheat production by spreading rust and raising bread costs. Scientific studies show a spring fungal life cycle starts in barberry plants, prompting officials to destroy millions of bushes to protect crops.
A historical sketch follows Henry IV and Henriette d Entragues, detailing royal marriages and infidelity, then Catherine the Great and Marie of Sweden in Russia. It covers love plots, executions, and a chilling tale of murder and regal power across courts.
Paulette Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, pursued fashion and pleasure in Paris after 1797. She married Leclerc by force, then Camilla Borghese, and later posed for Canova. Her life featured many lovers, royal intrigues, and a dramatic decline ending in 1825 with a final defiant remark on beauty.
Mrs E H Haydock of Chicago writes that after four doctors urged surgery she took 22 bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recovered fully. She says the treatment delayed an operation and her sisters also benefited, adding she can confirm the gospel truth and will respond to inquiries.
A report notes that Malays prefer knives for combat and self defense amid regional tensions and traditional martial practices reflecting cultural weapon choices.
An advertisement touts Gude’s Pepto Mangan as a blood-builder for weak and exhausted patients. It claims the product restores vigor and a healthy red blood color, with physicians long prescribing it and druggists selling both liquid and tablet forms.
A London Opinion line notes the man who hid behind a woman's skirts would be puzzled by this now, a wry reflection on changing manners and behavior.
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