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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1913
Page
6
A WVU agriculture note explains that seed potato quality drives yield. By hand digging rows, separating hills, and choosing high yielding hills for a multiplication plot, farmers can improve future harvests. Selection repeats each fall for next spring planting.
The country school today shows mixed progress over two decades with younger and more female teachers, modest gains in scholarship, and continuing issues in buildings and lack of mature male staff.
L J Hankman state supervisor of rural schools notes poor rural facilities include brick scarcity and ventilations lacking in frame buildings. He cites low attendance with only about half of six to twenty one year olds enrolled regularly and calls for citizen action to improve schools.
Advertisements claim Dr King’s New Life Pills are safe and painless for women with testimonials from Mrs M C Dunlap of Leadill Tennessee. A separate note touts Burdock Blood Bitters for clear skin and purified blood. Prices listed 25 cents and 1.00 respectively.
A testimonial from Mrs Laura of Sav es Daughter Ky claims relief from long illness and nervous trouble after taking Cardus woman’s tonic. She credits eleven bottles with renewed health and ability to work. The ad urges other women to try Cardus and notes a 50 year history and availability at druggists with a Chattanooga Medicine Company mail offer.
Bellevue Ohio resident Mrs Gus Cuarman testifies to relief from backache nervousness and periodic troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses the product and urges others to try it citing improved health and wellbeing.
Readable fragment lists farm goods and tools including Naiestee Baas Cape Iron Wasl Porcelain Kettles suiters wa rrens trace butt cow and halter chains farm bells screen doors and windows fence wire barbed wire saws Black Hawk corn shellers lawn mowers files bolts loaded shells powder and shot.
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