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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
7
A cheerful tale shows a billionaire, misled by an auctioneer, buying a laundry instead of a steam launch and vowing to make it pay. The piece pivots to widow to widower ratios from a 1920 Bankers' Life Bulletin note, citing higher male mortality after fifty and younger wives as a factor.
The ad argues catarrh is worsened by constitutional illness and presents Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a tonic and blood purifier that acts through the blood to reduce inflammation in mucous surfaces. Circulars are offered for free from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
Important to Mothers urges careful inspection of BOR bottles the famous old infant remedy. It notes the product bears a long use claim for over 30 years and ends with a quip about children crying for Fletcher's Castoria. A Danish proverb about earthen and copper vessels follows, then a remark on Cypress and walnut causing decay when used together.
F L Washburn of the Minnesota College of Agriculture urges farmers to use sulphate of strychnine mixed with sugar syrup and anise or added to attractive bait. A one ounce dose dissolved in boiling water covers about a half bushel of grain soaked for 24 hours and placed where mice are active. Protect bait under boards or tiles to keep pets away. Fall and spring use recommended to reduce infestations. Thick whitewash tinted blue with Bluestone solution offered as an effective nursery treatment, applied around trunks and ground, with reapplication on warm winter days.
After fruiting, old canes must be cut and burned to promote new growth. Without proper tool use the work is laborious and causes many scratches from spines. Some growers use pruning shears but equipment can injure bands and faces.
H. L. Spooner in Michigan Farmer describes a homemade device to cut spiny canes without bending. A blacksmith shapes an old file as a cutting element bolted to a four foot round stick with holes for the shank. The hook knife lets the user pull canes free without touching them, reducing backache and entanglements.
The bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture reports new methods to combat the plum curculio. This beetle attacks young and nearly ripe fruit, laying eggs under the skin and allowing grubs to bore into the fruit’s heart. Adults may live about a year, feeding on peach leaves until hibernation in late fall and for months after harvest.
Orchardists argue that growing alfalfa in orchards introduces seeded organic matter and nitrogen, offering advantages over traditional clean cultivation still favored by many. The practice could improve soil quality and tree vigor, aligning with sustainable orchard management trends.
On rough west lands where general farming fails fruit proves very profitable. Thousands of acres of such land exist in many areas and much of it should be planted to orchards now.
A practical guide to feeding a backyard flock with a self-serve dry mash made from ground grains. Discusses mash compositions using corn meal wheat bran wheat middlings beef scrap and options like fish scrap or cottonseed meal substitutions. Emphasizes controlling access to prevent overfeeding and notes beef scrap as a costly yet essential ingredient.
The text explains green-cut bone from a butcher can substitute beef scrap when fresh. It warns it spoils quickly and may cause severe bowel trouble if overfed. Feed in small amounts through a trough about half an ounce per bin every other day, and discontinue if looseness of the bowels occurs.
The article discusses feather plucking in caged hens, noting causes linked to confinement and diet. It suggests changing living conditions, adjusting feed with cooling substances, and removing offending birds to prevent spread. Techniques include pawing the beak to prevent nibbing, and ensuring broad space and access to greens for healthy fowls.
Local notes suggest hens outperform pallets as breeders when well grown and matted. Beekeeping terms appear, mentioning Corkerets and Bawe, with Dini thay Bawe cited as proving good breeders through observed bonding and fertility.
An elderly man named Bill, after 16 years at a cottage with his beloved, plans to return to his wife Marcia. On arrival he finds Marcia with another, a twist that shatters his return, leaving him alone as the train carries him toward an unfulfilling goodbye. The scene shifts to Jim and the cottage, where life resumes in quiet order.
The article recalls Franklins D Roosevelt’s query on becoming the youngest VP at 38 and notes John Cabell Breckenridge as the youngest VP at 36 in 1837. It mentions Breckenridge’s later roles, his Confederate service, and his death in Lexington Kentucky on May 17, 1975.
A brief dated exchange shows a secretary reporting a delegation of ladies seeking a senator. The senator declines, and the secretary notes the visitors would wait, while a Hebrew comedian quips they should live so long. The piece ends with a remark on funding friendships.
A nostalgic ad notes that over fifty years ago women wore UUP skirts while requesting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery from the druggist. It asserts the tonic's unchanged ingredients and lack of alcohol, branding it the best stomach and blood remedy and promising renewed vim and vitality. It promotes liquid or tablet forms and urges all druggists to stock it.
Two men entered a self serve restaurant and after getting what they desired they sat at the same table. One says the way to save money is to go in debt and pay it out while the other agrees with a grim joke that you can be skinned and never pay it out.
Everett six years old recalls his mother’s Christmas outfits and a neighbor’s joke while at a neighbor’s. A cartoon caption reflects on honesty and theft across generations with a quip about shame and stealing.
The ad promotes Cuticars Ointment for pimples redness roughness and itching followed by Lathe with Cuticars Soap hot water rinse dry and dust Cuticars Talcum for a soothing fragrance. Price 25e each. Also notes a playful dialogue about a diary and a man asking about root hair over ears.
A quixotic collection of lines weighs prose with paradoxes about truth, perception, and crime. Quotations mingle old wisdoms with cryptic admonitions, suggesting a meditation on understanding and moral weight across voices.
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