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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
3
This notice advertises a book claiming a comprehensive explanation of cancer and its successful non surgical treatments. It cites sixteen years of experience and ten thousand cases, offering free delivery and urging readers to request a copy by writing to Dr O A Johnson in Kansas City MO.
News of all kinds gathered from state wide sources. The school bond issue carried at the Franklin special election. A Mexican laborer killed by a Missouri Pacific train at Falls City. Nebraska field hospital corps to depart for home Feb 18.
Doan's Kidney Pills are praised across 45 hundred American newspapers with 40,000 testimonials. Mary E. Hadley of Sidney reports back pain relief and dizziness after using the pills bought at Vath's Pharmacy. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sells the remedy nationwide.
Ashland Woman's Club fed 50 persons with a dainty substantial meal during high living costs. The menu included chicken patties mashed potatoes bread and butter sandwiches apple and banana salad apricot fluff wafers and tea, all for 7.8 cents per person.
February and March are the pruning months for grapes blackberries raspberries currants and gooseberries per University of Nebraska horticultural experts. A circular on pruning methods is available from the university horticultural department in Lincoln.
The United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 468 notes potatoes reinforce family diets with economical and dietetic advantages. It highlights potatoes as a readily digestible starch source and a mineral contributor essential to the body.
The article notes potatoes help keep body fluids alkaline, countering the acidifying effect of meats and fish. It stresses potatoes supply energy and minerals, and warns against deep peeling to avoid losing soluble mineral salts near the skin.
The agricultural engineering department of the state university reports a late season method to store ice by digging an ice cellar. If no storage exists a sixty to seventy five cent dynamite blast can create a pit in a ground likely unfrozen in the machine shed. The plan proved feasible on E. P. Brown’s Arbor farm and plans are available from the Lincoln department for those who want to build an ice house late in the season.
Many states now have pure seed laws designed to protect the purchaser of seeds against adulteration, improving quality control and consumer confidence. The regulations aim to standardize labeling, prevent misrepresentation, and ensure seed purity across markets.
The notice warns that seeds may carry dangerous weed seeds and urges purchase only after purity testing. It notes vitality can be checked at home with a simple germinator, stressing that impure seeds commonly introduce weed pests into crops.
For sow farrowing in early spring the state university agricultural engineering department suggests plank floors off the ground are several degrees colder than masonry floors built on the ground. Banking the hog house or using substantial bedding will make a plank floor much warmer for the animals.
The agricultural engineering department of the university says spring opening creates an opportunity to excavate before field work begins. Once below the frost line, digging is no harder than in summer. Five pit silos were built in early spring at Cushing Nebraska in one year.
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