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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
3
An extended old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children and mentions its pleasant taste and cleansing action. It includes lines on mothers using the product for stomach and bowel health and a later verse about a couple by a well and a poem fragment from the Princeton Tiger.
Mr Robert W Ferguson of Hingham Massachusetts recounts a years long kidney disorder with backache and near death in Vancouver. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a complete cure and urges continued use to maintain kidney health. He warns against similar sounding remedies and endorses the product with strong Patriotic advertising tone.
Mrs Exste J. Van Den Sande of Paterson New Jersey reports feeling completely healthy after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. She endorses the products and urges other women to try them for various female ailments.
Article urges constant sanitation to prevent white diarrhea in incubator hatchlings noting high mortality and advising thorough cleaning of incubators and fumigation with formaldehyde. It cites a specific antiseptic formula for drinking water and stresses vigilance as essential to poultry profitability.
Use incubators for ducks on commercial farms as most incubation is done in such devices. Pekin and Runner ducks rarely hatch under hens. When no incubator is available eggs are hatched under hens, incubation about a week longer than hen incubation. A hen must be well cared for, and ducklings can be raised under hens with confinement and free range for the ducklings. Green ducks for sale are fed heavily with limited range to promote rapid growth. brooders used for chickens work for ducklings though ducks need lower temperatures.
On farms ducks suffer from wet bedding and poor dry spaces. Ducks need dry beds at night to thrive and avoid ailments. Do not lift ducks by legs to prevent lameness. grasp by the neck instead.
Sprouted oats are touted as excellent winter food for hens. The longer the sprouts, the more green food produced, and they can be sprouted indoors in pans or a large flat box hung over a range.
In a terse quoted exchange the characters discuss a theft and Byer recovering money. The dialogue hints at stock activity and restitution along with unspecified “the rest” of valuables being returned. The fragment suggests a financial or crime-related note embedded in a larger report.
A short aphorism notes that a perfect face never compensates for an imperfect disposition. The remark emphasizes inner character over outward appearance and reflects timeless social value on demeanor.
The article reports farmers in Western Canada paying for 160 acres by wheat harvests and forecasting growth in stock raising, home improvements, autos, and settlement along the Grand Trunk Pacific line. John Larcome’s 53 acre crop paid for his land, with funds left over, illustrating widespread land-purchase success as land values rise postwar.
The article urges protecting kidneys to prevent premature aging and death. It links kidney degeneration to auto-intoxication and old age, recommending drinking pure water throughout the day and taking Anurie before meals. A nurse can help with rheumatic conditions, dropsy, leg swellings, cold extremities, scalding urine, and insomnia from nocturnal urination.
A disjointed OCR fragment presents stray lines about small ways of living and work, references to imitations and flattery, and a quoted exchange between a woman named Maria and a hushed man aboard a ship or coastal scene. The text mixes misread phrases and incomplete sentences with dialogue about noise and recognition.
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