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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1909
Page
2
The piece blends Alfred Tennyson's The Wanderers Return with verses about lovers crossing hills and time, describing distant lands, fading twilight, and a mournful homecoming. It shifts to Jayward themed reflections on returning home and longing, with lines about a deserted hearth and absent kin.
The report compares Dutch diver’s 175 foot descent to the Dorothea wreck with earlier feats. Cooper reached 201 feet near Cape Horn, and A Erestarbe did 180 feet at Skyro. Other divers recovered substantial coin from Alphonso XII and Hamilla Mitchai near Shanghai, with notable dives lasting hours and yielding heavy treasure.
A butcher answers a ringing bell to a shrill voice asking about grandpa's liver. The fragment suggests a quirky, mystery tone as Barress Magaalue. ats hints at.
A New York family recounts a three year old son spreading an entire box of Graham crackers with Cuticura Ointment, claiming it cured a cold. The note asserts the ointment is pure and harmless and suitable for infants. The ad ends with a social critique on gender superiority.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure fully cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The firm F J Cheney & Co. offers $100 for any case not cured and invites readers to send for testimonials. Also promotes Druggists selling the product and Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The quoted proverb appears at the end.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for corns bunions and sweaty feet. It claims pain relief and easy wear in shoes, with mentions of stores and a sample offer. The legible text references names and locations but remains incomplete.
A dated exhortation declares that the body will align with one’s aspiration if the person maintains unwavering focus. It emphasizes steadfast self-discipline as the path to realized goals and enduring achievement.
An advertisement touts Marine Eye Remedy as soothing for red weak weary eyes with a claim that it is compounded by experienced physicians and conforms to the store food and drugs law.
An advertisement extols Munyon cures for colds including relief of head and throat symptoms within a day. It also hawks rheumatism and kidney remedies and a Vitalister product. The prose interweaves a brief April scene and fashion quips alongside product claims.
A fragmented ad mentions Bromog Quinine as a laxative and notes a signature by B. W. Grove. The text contrasts a modern door jam with a mother’s old jam and includes a quotation about a clock falling from a second story window.
Pettit's Eye Salve claims to have cured millions of weak eyes and to increase sales yearly. Advertised by All druggists or Howard Bros. in Buffalo New York, the remedy pitches itself as wonderful and historically proven. The piece ends with unrelated adage about tacks and hat angles.
An ad touts Elamlins Wizard Oil as a swift remedy for accidents and injuries. It urges farmwives to maintain a purchase book detailing necessary goods for home use.
The passage notes long field hours push supper late, leaving a tired mother to wash dishes and tidy before bed. It suggests an earlier meal and an hour for reading and rest, contrasting with burdens of debt, illness, crop failure, and poor farm management.
Instructs readers to iron handkerchiefs and follow tips for tightening cleanliness. Advises mid section care and frequent cellar inspection to prevent decay and odor. Recommends preventing animal or vegetable matter from rotting to avoid issues.
Millions are urged to try CAS CARETS as a health maker with a 108 box offering a week’s treatment by druggists. The ad proclaims it the biggest seller and advocates home upkeep and nutrition while jokes touch on random modern life and a poverty prayer from a deacon.
A sister swaps Postum for morning coffee, omits tell, and after a few days the coffee addict gains strength, color, and clearer eyes. The letter touts Postum as nerve strengthening and health restoring with the slogan There's a reason.
A historic note on why farming lagged behind other fields, citing ancient Egyptian tools from Seti I's tomb and the long hunger era. It juxtaposes early farms with strong governments and arts, followed by a report on milking machines showing machine milking benefits for fresh lactation cows. The text mentions vast agricultural areas and a comparison of value to honey.
Lifting the Wagon Box describes a simple wagon bed jack built for singlehand use on the farm. It explains making a carpenter's jack to lift and move a grain rack wagon box, emphasizing practicality for one person.
A fragment outlines a do it yourself method to remove grain beds from a wagon using a jack, a central gas pipe king bolt, a crosspiece and braces. It notes measurements eight feet high four feet wide and steps to swing the bed off onto the jack. The author signs as Z Rux from Farm and Bema.
A truck gardener describes an early tomato raising method using a dry goods box two by feet eight inches deep. In each corner he placed two inch pipes to water the plants from.
The White Wyandotte is a popular utility breed smaller than Plymouth Rock with fast growth, good layers and market fowls. Y'ckin ducks excel in eggs and meat. raise March hatched birds under two years old for profit. Light Brahmas are a feather-legged breed valued for size and mature slow growth. ideal where large birds are desired.
A Denver field report notes some cows resist machine milking and that hand and machine methods alternation disrupts flow. It states one man with one machine milks about as many cows per hour as hand milking, while two men with four machines can match three hand milkers. It also records twenty four cows milked per hour by two operators with four machines and stresses thorough washing and boiling of parts after each use to achieve low bacterial content comparable to careful hand milking.
English importers claim a novel preserving process that makes six month old eggs taste like new. After cleaning and disinfecting, eggs are placed in hot paraffin wax under vacuum to remove air from the shell. Atmospheric pressure then returns and wax fills the pores, hermetically sealing the egg and preventing evaporation and bacterial ingress.
The Geological Survey promotes peat as a fuel and claims gas from peat could be cheaper than Niagara Falls power. In western New York 2000 to 3000 square miles of peatland, now undervalued, may be developed into productive lands by government efforts.
Bees sent to market produced a honey crop worth nearly as much as the barley crop, three times the buckwheat crop, six million dollars more than the rye crop, and about nine million dollars greater than the rice crop.
Description of sowing seeds in a box with sandy loam soil and manure, watering lightly, and after one week green tops appeared. In three weeks plants were transplanted to a similar box one inch deeper and later moved to the garden after three weeks in sheltered spots.
A fragment warns that excess salt harms hogs and can be deadly if given with ashes or sulphur. It notes brine from meat barrels as a poison and mentions cottonseed as a slow poison for hogs, with cattle feed implications.
The article discusses wheat bran substitutes for dairy cows noting cow pea and alfalfa as good options. It states corn fattening vs alfalfa growth, recommends alfalfa for calves, and says beet pulp with ghia ratio aids hogs. It calls for more root crops and mentions orange tree yields around 20 000 per year.
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