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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1909
Page
3
Douglas reads from a love poem to Polly as they drift into a moment of shared wonder. Polly, tentative yet hungry for insight, asks for more, while the church bell interrupts and he hurries to leave to finish the reading at the church.
Douglas arrives to lead a rural church as Mandy and Hasty adjust to life at the parsonage. He sketches plans for improvement, while Deacon Strong resists aesthetic aims and tensions rise over Sunday baseball and village life.
An advertisement warns against mercury based catarrh remedies and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective. The copy urges buyers to ensure the genuine internally taken medicine, with testimonials available and price noted. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The article extols shade for livestock in heat and warns poultry about lice, with lice remedies using fish berries in whisky. It praises carrots and mangolds for cattle and sheep, cautions on broody hens, and shares dairy calf milk data. It covers egg production feeds, bone meal, grain grinding, alfalfa, grit, charcoal, and humane fattening. It notes sunlit barns aid health and ventilation. Asparagus is valued for hardy, early spring yields and kidney health benefits.
The Danville Advocate reports the death of Mrs. Fannie Vaughn aged 70 at her Shelby City home after a brief pneumonia illness. Although her death was evident, her body remained warm through Saturday. Undertaker W G Lurber found the body warm twenty four hours after death and refused to inter it until a physician confirmed death. Her remains were taken to Taylor county for burial.
Mrs James Duncan of Haynesville Maine crowns Electric Bitters as the merciless foe for twenty years, saying after failure by many doctors the tonic healed her completely. Now 70 she can eat anything and regain health and strength. For Indigestion loss of appetite kidney trouble lame back female complaints it is unequaled only 50 cents at Haydon Robertson’s.
Whooping cough is presented as more dangerous than scarlet fever with pneumonia often resulting. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised for epidemics, with Delbert McKeig of Harlan Iowa endorsing its effectiveness after treating his nine month old son. Sold by The Leo Haydon Drug Co.
Poultry raisers urged to feed fowls a tonic to prevent cholera gapes roup canker and limberneck. Tonic priced 50 cents with no cure no pay guarantee by Haydon & Robertson and Red Cross Drug Store. Request booklet on poultry diseases.
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