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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
8
A domestic animal suffers repeated stings from a large insect swarm. The incident highlights concerns for pet safety during seasonal swarms and the need for preventive measures. Local caregivers advise avoiding open outdoor areas during peak activity and securing shelter for pets.
Historical medical notice explains sting risks for humans and animals, with guidance on burns and scalds. It covers antivenom concerns, wound care, and extreme cases requiring rapid treatment, including cold water, dressings, and stimulants to prevent shock.
The article outlines burn and wound treatment using carbolic solutions, vaseline, and absorbent dressings. It covers cleansing with carbolic acid solutions, applying nonpoisonous dry powders like tannic acid with form, salves, gauze, and silver nitrate for proud flesh, plus cautions on caustic reactions and the sequence of dressings and water flushes.
This piece explains evaluating pasture as a farm asset by measuring grazing capacity and economic return. It discusses per acre value, required stock support, interest on invested money, and comparing pasture income to stock output for buying farmland.
The article advises careful care for a sickly colt to prevent lice or vermin. It recommends close examination by the owner to find a worm-eaten animal, notes that many powder and coal tar dip products work differently, and outlines weekly spray and spray-on treatments applied under the hoofs, jaws, backbone, forelegs, and flanks.
A naturalist explains bees travel vast distances to gather nectar. He cites that one pound of clover honey requires about 3,750,000 bee trips to and from the hive and involves millions of flights across miles.
Composted manure is described as superior to ordinary well rotted manure and cheaper since more is saved and less is wasted by leaching. It provides a better balanced plant food and reduces excessive leaf and vine growth, favoring fruit or root production in garden crops.
A letter condemns the emphasis on Latin in rural Carolina high schools, arguing most students will not attend college and will gain little from the language. It urges shifting away from dead languages toward agricultural education to prepare youths for farm work and practical careers.
A fragment blends Nashville talk of central jail booze worth fifty thousand dollars with musings on death sentences. It cites a New York Police Department training school for detectives and references fictional figures and modern phrases twisted into humor.
Pocahontas County Board of Supervisors met September 1 in regular session with four members present. They approved prior minutes and audited claims, resolved to reinstate a cancelled 18 inch tile contract replacing 2,496 feet to meet tests, adjourned drainage hearing matters, set aid for indigent relief including Mrs Samuelset and Mrs F Dayton, and discussed cancellation of the Webb contract in Drainage District No 84.
On motion the case set for this date was adjourned until September 1 1917. In motion the Board adjourned sine die with W C Wood serving as Auditor.
An old newspaper notice advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh that cannot be cured. It includes endorsements from I J Cheney and the National Bank of Commerce of Toledo Ohio and mentions internal use for blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and drugstore sale.
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