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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1894
Page
7
A Massachusetts agricultural sub committee urges thorough soil pulverization for seed germination and later crop success. It discusses plow quality, team training, and farmer skill, then shifts to buckwheat culture, cowpeas as green manure, and sheep nutrition with practical farming tips and notes on thinning, weather, and stock care.
The fragment speaks of Syrup of Figs as a health aid and contrasts it with cheap substitutes. It laments that those clinging to older remedies may miss modern progress, while noting a challenging year for a duck.
An advertisement asserts that consumption is curable with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, citing hundreds of living witnesses and reports by home physicians. It claims high cure rates even after severe symptoms and offers a 160 page book from Worth’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo for six cents plus a stamped address.
A woman known as Mrs. Sarah Ann Brown of House's Point X.Y claims most or all of the estate of the millionaire Jay Gould for her daughter, Mrs. Si, wife of Wm Fierce of Wyo. Brown says she married Gould in May 18, tsi, while he was poor and that no divorce occurred. The marriage certificate is reportedly in her lawyer's possession. She left her husband and adopted her maiden name, alleging Gould promised support for her and their daughter which he did not fulfill. The daughter says she once met Gould but was told to seek a law case instead. The dispute could affect Gould holdings and provoke legal action.
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