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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
5
The West Virginia University announces the second High School day on May 16 and 17, 1912, promoting scholarship and athletics. Four seniors from each three or four year high school may attend. local entertainment is free. Six $50 scholarships, $85 first prize and $52.50 second prize in orations, essays, debates, and declamations, plus five athletic medals, are offered.
The West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Division reports a ten day special agricultural train run by B and O Railroad, with instructors from the Agricultural College. Despite muddy roads and rain, farmers from six to eight miles away attended. The train covered fourteen counties with fifty stops and an average attendance of 182 per stop. This is the fourth Extension train this year, traveling 1300 miles through 28 counties reaching about 30 000 people with agricultural instruction.
With changes at the College of Engineering WVU places greater emphasis on manual training for teachers and on special courses for mechanics. The aim is to showcase university opportunities, meet demand from high schools, and train teachers to expand manual training statewide through the Summer School.
The Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford for 1910-11 name two first class students in the Final Honor School. West Virginia University alumnus Thomas Porter Hardman earned Jurisprudence. a prior WVU alum, Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, now Yale faculty, had previously won the honor and authored The Allegory in Lyly's Endition from Johns Hopkins Press.
Two rooms in Woodburn hall are fitted as a girls gymnasium with dressing rooms bath piano and full apparatus. Outdoor plans include tennis tetherball and volleyball next spring. Summer School students gain access for gym use and physical training with Swedish system and playground activities led by Mrs. Chez and Director Ches for high school athletics.
The article describes menopause as a critical life change with symptoms such as hot flashes headaches dizziness and weakness. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for the nervous system and cites a testimonial from St Anne Quebec claimant Istvan La Grui spre about relief and improved ability to perform housework after two months of treatment.
An advertisement features C E Ayers of Montpelier Vermont warning that neglecting constipation leads to serious illnesses such as typhoid fever and appendicitis. It promotes Dr Miles Laxative Tablets as mild and effective, priced at 25 cents per box with a money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
An old veterinary bulletin promotes preventing milk fever in cows by inflating the udder with clean air using a milk tube and bicycle pump. It advises indoor care, a light diet, purgatives, and careful administration to avoid oral medicines during paralysis, claiming the device cures the disease.
Prof A W Nolan of West Virginia University highlights forest benefits to climate, water distribution and soil erosion, plus sanitary esthetic gains for communities. Advertisements urge kidney and bowel health remedies and tonics as common 1910s retail copy.
Mrs. A McGill of Jonesboro Arkansas writes of a total health breakdown followed by improvement after using Cardus. She reports headaches and backaches easing, regained ability to do housework, and praises Cardul as the greatest medicine on earth. Readers are urged to request the treatment for women.
Bar iron nails horse shoes wash kettles brass porcelain skillets wattle irons trace butt cow and halter chains farm bells screen doors and windows American fence wire barbed wire saws Black Hawk corn shellers lawn mowers files bolts loaded shells powder and shot are listed among offerings.
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