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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
7
Popular seafaring ad claims Allen's Foot Base powder soothes nerves by cooling the system. Daily use in shoes promoted to prevent prostration and heat effects. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents.
The cocoanut palm is described as the most useful tree with its trunk for building and boats, leaves for thatching, blossoms for preserves, pith making sage, flowers into sugar and arrack, and ripe nuts providing cream and oil. Its byproducts supply food, fuel, tools, and materials, while shells yield cups and spoons and fibers support ropes and mats. It also protects houses from lightning.
A bartender scolds a young apprentice for brushing off a white substance from nutmegs. The lad learns the powder is oyster shell, used by natives to protect nutmegs from weevils during long voyages to market. The exchange reveals a craft practice and concern with quality.
A fragment from Lippincott's Magazine features a child explaining conscience as wind in the stomach and a humorous courtroom exchange about bigotry versus trigonometry. An advertisement promises guns decoys and fur catalog offers from N W Hide & Fur Co of Minneapolis.
A Japanese newcomer notes America’s plain front grounds with green lawns and few flowers as the standard garden. She praises public front-yard displays for openness but laments the lack of artistic restraint. She suggests practical American gardens may suit Japan’s style while admiring traditional Japanese ideas for inspiration.
Sir Thomas Lipton recalls youth running a grocery while in New York, contrasting real and imitation goods. A rival once boasted of selling inferior butter, asking for the true measure, while Lipton quips that real weight vs counterfeit tricks can mislead customers.
An avid fisher named Jones sits by the stream bank hoping for a bite. A jovial stranger asks about the stream and Jones recalls a great bite two years ago. The exchange notes Jones’s enduring optimism and confidence in catching fish again.
V Belts of Tippecanoe Indiana suffered eczema over two years. He tried many physicians and remedies, including quacks and old-women cures, with no relief until using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent. Immediate relief followed and he recovered by November 15, 1905.
A band at the Albany hotel lobby entertained delegates to a laundrymen convention. After the performance a snare drummer asked to leave his drum with a cigar girl who stored it on a shelf. Visitors teased with jokes about drums and business as they bought cigars and cigarets. A line about wives and money closes the piece.
The advertisement claims a range of periodical and chronic female complaints can be treated by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription without alcohol or habit forming ingredients. It stresses strengthening and regulating pelvic organs, warns it won t cure tumors, and offers private consultations in Buffalo New York plus a medical adviser booklet free on request.
Traveling through Missouri, the writer notes large flocks of turkeys on farms and profitable prices from 1.59 to 2.60 per bird while outlining care, feeding, and roosting habits. The clover seed market shows high demand and risks from inferior seed, urging caution and preference for clean, high-grade stock priced 10 to 12 dollars per bushel.
Practical farm notes warn that creamery managers must cool milk quickly, keep containers clean, and use proper cooling like ice or cold water. Advice covers milk pails, stable cleanliness, hay stacking, manure timing, silage care, and pasture management to maintain milk quality and dairy profits.
Dr Pooh describes alang grass as a fierce competing vegetation in New Guinea. The grass forms dense mats with roots spreading through soil, preventing timber growth and creating neutral zones. Natives clear forest to plant alang, expanding its territory when fields are abandoned, reducing timber areas and yielding few crops.
Roonevelt Avenue veteran B Frank Doremus of Indianapolis describes severe kidney trouble in 1897 with headaches dizziness sleeplessness and weight loss. His left leg swelled and a doctor advised amputation before he started Doan's Kidney Pills, which relieved symptoms gradually and left him well for nine years. Available from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo for 50 cents a box.
A local editor once mocked town opinion with a quip about window washing. He later realized the line changed to claim widows along Mata street need washing badly, provoking angry residents and a public lesson in caution.
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