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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1913
Page
2
The piece argues the national revenue from saloons is large and harmful, urging prohibition as a fiscal and moral remedy. It cites internal revenue receipts of 208,601,500.09 in 1910 and claims prohibition reduces crime and poverty, boosting productive taxpaying citizens and state finances.
A Missouri proposal seeks to cut indirect taxes including a 40 million dollar annual levy cited by the St. Louis Republic. Proponents argue relief for taxpayers while opponents warn of funding gaps and service cuts.
An old advertisement promotes Capucine as the best remedy for summer headaches caused by heat or drafts. Bottles priced at 10c, 2c, and 6c are available at medicine stores. Honesty adage included.
An advertisement promotes a product claimed to relieve burn pain and reduce inflammation. It features a doctor figure and a suggested price of 1.00, emphasizing kindness to patients as a means to easier work.
Poultry expert outlines safe brooder setup with a coop and clean sand base. After 24 hours, chicks receive their first small meal with water in a restricted vessel. Wet or dry feeding debated. author prefers dry cracked wheat corn and oatmeal. Emphasizes warmth, dryness, grit, and lice control in first three weeks.
The writer describes using a dry hopper method to feed fowls. A mash of bran middlings corn meal gluten meal ground oats and beef scraps is kept before the birds. In the morning whole grain is scattered, and at night corn is given in winter with little in summer.
Merrit T Méad of Montgomery County Ind writes about oyster shells charcoal and grit kept in bins in a home made hopper illustrated in the Farm and Home. He reports that from 115 hens he gathered 11357 eggs in 11 months and endorses the feeding line based on experience.
Millets aid egg production while crowding reduces fertility. Use incubators to keep hens laying and feed with oats and wheat. Boil cereals, feed on a schedule, and keep coops clean to prevent disease. Remove hens that never brood and cull old, poor layers for money.
Walter Burley Griffin, an American, had his Canberra capital plan accepted with the site chosen in New South Wales. The scheme includes areas for parliament, governor general residence, and major national institutions, aiming to make Canberra a “city beautiful” like Washington.
Princeton University students plan to aid Hughie Golden a sixteen year old midget on the Old Nassau baseball team. Golden stands two and a half feet tall and was injured as a child. The efforts aim to give him a chance to develop physically like other boys his age.
News from North Carolina fields multiple items including a April 21 primary with twenty one names for commissioners in Winston-Salem, plus arrests under search and seizure laws in Rural Hall and Salisbury. Other notes cover road work, train derailment near Hildebran, school changes, and local civic appointments.
Raleigh reports say Ector H. Smith president of the State Trust Co Wilmington resists extradition to face fraud charges. Governor of Alabama will hear the case as Attorney General Bickett arranges counsel for North Carolina. Tarver of States Trust Co remains missing with his lawyer, while Durham police seize whiskey and beer in multiple raids amid a dry crackdown.
Raleigh officials E L Travis and W T Lee returned from Rockingham where they heard the petition by the People for a physical connection of the Rockingham and Seaboard railroads. The hearing noted freight advantages and expected benefit to shippers. another session is planned in Raleigh on April 29 with Seaboard present. Whiteville farm demonstrator J J Hendren named to succeed D F Strole amid strong results. Judges for the 1913 Charlotte Poultry Show selected: J H Cravenstadt, Loring Brown, and Percy Cook.
Rockingham County commissioners vote to move part of the convict camp to Stoneville to grade a public road to the state line north of Price North Carolina. The project will replace nine railroad crossings with a new road, eliminating seven crossings per a survey by county surveyor 3 B Cameron, with compensation from the railroad company.
A collage of quirky lines and ad snippets shows cinema chatter and humor. Notable items include mock dialogue about smoking and lighting, mentions of a daisy fly killer, and old ads for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.
North Bangor New York and Ann Arbor Michigan readers report relief from female weakness headaches backache and monthly illness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ads claim cure for hemorrhages pain and long‑standing ailments, urging others to try the remedy.
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