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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1907
Page
7
Practical house care tips cover bathroom organization cleaning maintenance and pest control. Instructions include keeping enameled surfaces polished with whiting avoiding nickel plating acids and using ammonia soap and warm water. step by step mantel cleaning and safe handling of spirits. and a method to locate and destroy ant nests with sugar bait followed by kerosene or boiling water to kill the colony.
This period urges fur owners to clean worn furs at home to restore luster. Suggests using heated bran rubbed into the fur, brushing, and bagging out dust. white skins like ermine and white fox need special care with sawdust and plaster of paris mixtures. Also advises refreshing a chiffon hat with powdered magnesia and brushing.
A historic note describes treating rust on nickel plating by coating rusted spots with mutton tallow and letting it stand for days, then rubbing with powdered rotten stone, washing with strong ammonia and clear water, and finishing with dry whiting to reveal the metal.
In Kirkwall Orkney the bellringer’s wife reports a spectral figure near St Magnus cathedral as she rang the curfew. Trees planted before the cathedral were felled overnight while many residents heard no sound as daylight returned.
An advertisement urges readers to mix Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla into a home remedy. It claims the mixture cleanses the blood by improving kidney filtration, reduces uric acid, and restores red blood cell count to 95 percent, aiding relief from eruptions and rheumatic and nervous ailments.
A Western Canada settler recounts moving to Manitoba near Benito and filing a $10 entry. By 1906 he had 80 acres cropped with 65 acres wheat yielding 850 bu and 15 acres oats yielding 355 bu plus 110 bu in granary and a single oats sheaf. receipts show $1,037.10 from 1,755 bu wheat and 355 bu oats worth 88.75. He notes rail proximity now within two miles and other services nearby.
A seedy Bohemian explains his grin is born from perpetual poverty and hardship. He says constant lack has trained him to accept fate and take his medicine with a smile.
Mrs Blinks debates a suffragette delegation coming to Washington to address the president while Mr Blinks remains silent. A Carnarvon county bench discussion centers on dogs used for burning with eight exemption applicants. The bench rules owners must license such curing dogs.
In Baltimore over ten years, Johns Hopkins medical department has used the ray as a diagnostic tool. Dr. F Howard Baetjar compiles and describes the results showing benefits from early diagnosis and study of aneurisms and arterial dilation.
A Midwestern woman recounts nerves and illness for years then credits stopping coffee and switching to Postum. Within a month her color, sleep, appetite, and energy improved, and she remained well for six months with no medicines. She notes a friend improved by boiling it longer and endorses The Road to Wellville.
An old advertisement promotes Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois with claims of rich taste. The snippet includes aphorisms about prosperity adversity and humility attributed to various authors, framed as ad copy.
A man may know much and yet be nothing.
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