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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1910
Page
7
An advertisement offers a free $3.50 recipe for urinary and kidney troubles. It promises quick relief from pain in the bladder and kidneys and other symptoms. Readers are invited to write to Dr A E Robinson in Detroit, Michigan to receive the recipe by return mail, with emphasis on home use and trial.
A Niagara Falls man recalls a Scotsman and a Buffalo man gazing at the falls in silence. The Buffalo man sighs, and the Scot replies that Peebles once showed him a peacock with a wooden leg. Mark Twain cites a gender anecdote about a girl and her children. An Ungallant Outlook cites Pennypacker on husbands and divorcees.
A Wisconsin mother recounts years of headaches and irritability from coffee and how switching to Postum brought relief to her and her husband and child. The letter suggests coffee harms mood and family harmony, praising Postum as a sunlit change for home happiness.
A farmer explains building a profitable dairy herd through a fixed performance goal, regular testing with the Babcock tester, and selective culling. He details raising the milk output per cow, starting from 200 pounds of butter a year and increasing the target as the herd improves, while emphasizing pure water, clean stables, and proper cream handling. He notes selling and bottling method, butterfat emphasis, and the advantage of keeping only top cows to double state profits.
The article describes a method of housing calves in grouped pens to allow exercise, with feeding in stanchions for individual grain rations. Young calves up to two to three weeks should be kept in separate pens to prevent wandering before they learn to eat hay and grain. The pens should be well lit, clean, and open to an exercising yard for weather permitting turnout.
The passage outlines how chickens should be slaughtered with the head left on or removed, and the body hung to drain blood. It notes that wholesomeness of the meat is ensured by proper draining, with the neck raggedness sometimes concealed by skin and twine.
In an era of dietary advice, a scene contrasts a playwright and Abel Stringham with claims about Quaker Oats’ nutrition. It cites Yale’s Prof Fisher and Sir James Crichton Browne on meat versus oatmeal, noting endurance differences. A report from Consul General Horton details Greece’s fight against malaria and tuberculosis, with a projected tuberculosis congress next year in Athens and public health efforts to drain stagnant water sources.
A reader from Manchester Iowa credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief from two years of back pain and rheumatic leg discomfort. She notes kidneys now act normally and praises the pill's effect, urging others to remember the Doan's name. Also recounted are humor snippets and short notices from the era, including light anecdotes and a brief ad for seeds amid a collage of short items.
A Boston teacher spent a quarter hour teaching the pronunciation of vase. The next day she asks Johnnie what he sees on the mantlepiece. He answers with a child’s misinterpretation, saying Fathers feet, ma’am, in a lighthearted classroom moment.
Brookfield, Mo woman describes weight changes and fatigue during the change of life and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving health. The ad urges readers to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts for personal advice, noting the product has helped women for 20 years with various female ailments.
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