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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
4
A faded notice touts a plant based remedy from the Pinkham Medicine Co. promising relief during a woman’s critical period. It claims users feel better daily and offers confidential advice, listing Fremont and a Miss Peregrine address as contact points for suggestions and guidance.
An office device removes an old pen from the holder using a metal loop pressed down by fingers. The loop grips the pen and pulls the holder. the article mentions a fictional "New Regime" with a witty exchange about time.
The Calgary Herald notes a strong demand for both improved and unimproved farm lands across Western Canada with prices rising ten to fifteen dollars per acre and some wheat lands nearly doubling in value. High crop prices, beef and mutton demand, and government support fuel optimism for a long lasting agricultural upswing.
New guidance emphasizes local markets and standardized packing to boost sales of home canned goods. It advises organized clubs to label containers, separate products, and grade by size to build reliability. Beekeeping is urged as a strong farm innovation with potential to greatly raise honey production and provide nutritious foods.
Care may be taken to thin cantaloupe and watermelon plants after they are strong and vigorous enough. Farming for feed is the safest farming. Keep potatoes well cultivated early in the season. Straight rows look better in the garden than crooked ones. The first year sweet clover usually does not go to seed. It is a true scientist, making red and slight top growth the first year and going to seed the second year.
United States girls canning clubs and home demonstration agents produced 14,640,187 containers of fruits and vegetables in 2017. The overall canned product is valued at about 50 million quarts and 140 million dollars, not counting dried or salted home products.
Ohio factory workers earned up to 7.36 dollars daily for eight hours of spare time garden work, with monthly and yearly totals cited. The note urges industrial workers to value home gardening, linking garden labor to greater returns than factory time. It also warns on horse care and suggests consulting state experiment stations and Farmers' Bulletin 808 for feeding young horses.
The article outlines frugal gardening using a spade, hoe, and rake costing under five dollars. It suggests improvised items like a garden line from twine and sticks, a weeder from lath and copper nails, and a heavier weeder from sharpened iron bent into a loop.
A bank clerk notes counterfeit checks circulated in various scripts including Gaelic and Irish Sinn Fein related marks. He recalls Esperantists once writing amounts in Esperanto, becoming a nuisance to banks, illustrating how altered currencies and unknown scripts complicate banking operations.
This notice promotes Swamp-Root for kidney ailments, claiming quick relief and advising immediate treatment. It mentions bottle sizes and distribution at drug stores and references a Dr Klimer Co in Brighamton with a mistyped directing note.
A playful quip imagines a baby Heracles reacting to advancing giant reptiles. The infant supposedly cries out Great snakes in a humorous clash of myth and danger.
An advertisement promotes a freckle removal product with flawed claims and dubious efficacy. The fake testimonial tone mocks the reader and warns against unsafe remedies while citing a quote about writer’s ailments and a cynic’s remark.
A fragment notes policemen assembling around Lim as the moment of confrontation looms, conveying tension and a heightened sense of authority without graphic detail.
A Peabody Gazette notice recalls a letter from a girl to a Canadian sweetheart in France asking about the censor who signs Opened by the censor. The playful remark suggests mixed feelings toward the censor and Beth, with a quip about choosing between romance and business. The piece ends by noting good looks can hinder business success and suggests trying the movies.
A scrambled Morning Post transmission describes a French hydrophone station officer reporting a drenched homing pigeon bearing a leg message. The carrier bird, stained and waterlogged, left no note of its whereabouts as machines fail and the pilot faces a desperate situation. A related English dispute over sacrilege sparks debate, while a dean urges focus on sacred causes and workers finding value in past timbers for the future.
A garbled school report fragment discusses agriculture questions and a misread task about cattle barns. It mentions amateur hunters and a guide, with phrasing suggesting confusion and unclear outcomes.
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