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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
3
The Chicago Tribune quotes an agent praising a visible line typewriter and a merchant reacting to a red-haired woman in a green gown seen as conspicuous while she types morning correspondence. The exchange highlights novelty features and attention in a busy office scene.
A party including Captain A Paget and Lady Juliet Duff on the Panuco River near Tampico chased tarpon and tangled with a monster devilfish. The 18 foot winged ray towed five boats before breaking free, leaving three others with only minor damage. The sighting, rare for the river, was reported by the Tampico cornet of the Mexican Herald.
A boarding house philosopher muses that every woman is a pessimist at heart, always seeking the worst and not satisfied until she hears it, implying a common worldly sentiment about female reactions to calamity.
New dainty from Postum and Grape-Nuts line features fully cooked wafer crisps. Toasties come in small 10c and Large Family 15c sizes, ready to eat from the box with cream or milk, praised for aroma and crisp tenderness.
The piece covers lamb and calf feeding, horse usefulness, and the value of farm telephone lines. It advises near barn sheep confinement, gradual diet changes, proper washing day practices, fencing garden plots, and careful sick-animal care. It also reports on corn feeding to hogs and detailed strawberry bed maintenance and hoe-based planting techniques.
Readers learn that spraying orchards with poisonous solutions can be safe for livestock if foliage is rinsed or rains wash residues and animals are kept away for 48 hours. A Massachusetts note warns of risks under sprayed trees. Also discussed are hog breeds and rapid growth, favoring quick maturing, well bred hogs that gain weight steadily and fetch top prices.
The article explains catch crops as any voluntary crop grown after a failure or removal of a previous crop, with rape highlighted for cheap seed and rich pasture value. It notes benefits including weed suppression, soil organic matter, and potential early income, while advising sowing timing to prevent harvest issues and distinguishing fodder suitability for mild cows.
Notre Dame University shows interest in a statue of Rev. William Corby to be placed on Gettysburg battlefield depicting him administering absolution to a regiment about to march into battle. Texas competition ends onion growing in Bermuda Islands per New York dispatches as former Bermudian farmers relocate.
Miss Cary Thomas of Iryn Mawr College remarks during a student tea that French is the language of elegance and essential abroad. She recites a humorous Paris menu misstep by a Bangorian, who orders pins and saws instead of proper items, after reading a department store ad.
Elder A Pickerill of 1303 W Fourth St Marion Indiana confirms lasting relief from kidney passage pain after using Doans Kidney Pills. He first endorsed the remedy in 1906 and now reaffirms the cure. Doans sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. New York City telephone directories would form a stack seven and a quarter miles high.
Fourteen years after its introduction Allen's Foot-Kase is extolled as a clean antiseptic foot powder that heals while you walk. The ad touts 30 000 testimonials and claims savings in stocking costs while warning against imitations and urging readers to buy the advertised article.
An advertisement promotes Strong Winds and Sand Storms causing granulation of the eyelids and PET TIT'S EYE SALVE priced at 25 cents, available at Howard Bros. druggists in Buffalo New York. It also notes church innovations in Seattle and historic Japan trade growth from 1868 to 1908.
An advertisement promotes Marine Eye Remedy as a soothing treatment for red sore weary watery eyes claiming compliance with the Pure Food and Drugs Law and expert compounding. Separately the Nova Scotia government appoints a commission to study the feasibility of old age pensions for workmen.
Rockland Maine resident Mrs Witt Young credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of back and side pain after three bottles. Ad stresses backache as female weakness, urges reaching root cause, and cites testimonials guiding sick women to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
A reader describes sudden stomach noises and the desire to disappear in public. Advice suggests carrying CAS CARRETS to take after meals for quick relief. The note captures social discomfort and practical coping tips.
Henry Searle of Little Rock Arkansas describes severe itch and scaly red bumps on ankles feet arms and scalp. After visiting a skin hospital a nurse and surgeon offered little relief. Two to three applications of Cuticura Ointment with Cuticura Soap and Pills fully cured him. October 8 and 10 1907. Potter Drug and Chem Corp sole owners of Cuticura Remedies Boston.
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