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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1905
Page
2
A promotional tale touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as the best remedy for dyspepsia and related stomach miseries. It quotes Mr Baylson of San Francisco praising the pills and notes their availability from druggists with a diet book offer. Also referenced is a cured patient’s experience with Cuticura for a long term skin tumor.
Archibald Forder widely known as the Arabian Livingstone is in the United States to support poorer Jews in Palestine. Forder plans lectures and fundraising efforts aimed at helping Jewish communities in the Holy Land. He seeks to mobilize aid and raise awareness among American supporters.
In a short quip from the dolphin Bulletin the writer questions wasteful spending on inferior tea. The piece urges readers to examine self role and adopt prudent reflection rather than indulgence as a form of personal reform.
The fragment notes tea knowledge and calls for responsibility. It mentions a firm, Behilting and Company, and a scandal about servant girls having money. It claims in Germany servant girls with savings bank accounts outnumber shop girls threefold.
A short excerpt notes a Japanese burial custom with the deceased seated squatting, chin resting on the knee, described as a cultural detail. It references Schilling's Best and a visit to a grocer, alongside a remark about Moscow's central location in European Russia.
Dr F R Walters emphasizes fresh air as the key to sanatorium care for consumptives. Open air exposure, wind protection, shade, and dry, bracing climates aid recovery, while damp, rainy settings hinder progress. The text details shelter designs, verandas, ventilation, and exercise needs, plus routines to improve sleep and comfort.
The National Huilder warns that a horse's condition hinges on stable conditions. Foul air in poorly ventilated, damp stables causes coughs skin diseases and eye issues. Remedy: keep stables clean, well ventilated, drain floors, wash twice weekly, and sprinkle with gypsum to neutralize ammonia.
Rev Jacob Chapman of Exeter New Hampshire celebrated his 91st birthday. He is a longtime Exeter Academy and Dartmouth alumnus, former teacher, and now lives in retirement pursuing genealogical research and writing family histories. He remains active, cutting wood daily and walking in fair weather.
A discussion on why humans need water explains that without it the body cannot eliminate natural poisons, leading to dense secretions and reduced urea excretion. Water serves as a circulating medium, dissolves food, supports nourishment, and aids removal of worn-out materials. Daily water needs are two to three pints, more in hot weather. fruit-heavy diets may lower this need.
Hutchinson argues water is essential to life not merely a solvent but a core body element. He asserts water boosts energy by powering the heart and enhances tissue activity as a constituent factor in bodily processes.
The article discusses whether cooperative creameries should allow outside ownership of stock. It argues strongest for keeping stock in the hands of supplying farmers, noting much stock yields little interest and outside holders could push toward converting to a stock company. In some creameries one share is tied to a farm, transferring with the farm to prevent share trading.
The piece advises using good seed corn by selecting ears when silk turns black, drying them, and storing in a garret or barn. It prescribes spring planting with three to five grains per bill, harrowing a week after planting and again when corn is four inches high to curb weeds. For rich land, plant three feet by six inches and vary cultivation depth, staying away from hills and deep early, then shallower after July 4.
American consul polled apple sellers near Three Rivers Quebec on barrels versus boxes for packing. Fancy apples sell better in boxes while common varieties go in barrels. Boxes require more handling, needing three boxes to equal one barrel, and increased labor may be needed during rush periods. One handler favored boxes for extra quality fruit but preferred barrels for average apples.
The soy bean, Glycine hispida, native to southeast Asia and long cultivated in China and Japan, gained little favor in the United States despite its long history. Imported into England about a century ago with little interest, it later attracted attention in the Southern states. Its value was finally recognized, and today the crop is famous.
John Bean notes in Farmers' Review that feeder pigs need little sow milk as they grow, with skim milk supplement. He describes turning piglets to blue grass pasture to balance rations of soaked corn, which aids digestion. Soon they will feed new corn and reduce soaking, though soaking remains beneficial.
Seed failures are tied to soil temperature not poor seed. One batch planted at 65 degrees rotted after cold rain, while later warm sun raised well drained soil to 66 degrees and seed germinated. The lesson stresses soil warmth over mere thermometer readings.
The crate in which the pig is to be shipped must be strong yet light. Keep on hand sturdy crating material for frequent sales so it can season. Elm is regarded as a top crating material. Measure the pig carefully before building the crate.
Three years after Eugene Ke Luria a ticket seller in Denver California states you are at Wherry for I have had no reason to change my opinion of the remedy Penn’s Kidney Pills stopped my backache and I have had no pain since Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York For sale by all druggists Price no cents per box.
The Wellington brings a Japanese survivor to San Francisco after he clung to the center board for four days and nights without food or water following a capsized fishing boat incident. He endured a rough sea ordeal before rescue.
An archival notice highlights Winlow's Soothing Syrups marketed to ease teething and calm infants. The advertisement touts relief for teething pain and general discomfort, claiming quick soothing effects for babies.
Andrew Wilson argues fatigue signals the need for rest and nourishment to restore energy. He likens the body to a furnace needing fuel and water, noting energy supply fluctuates and exhaustion demands replenishment to sustain work.
Near the Nepal frontier, Sandook Phu rises as the hill of poison to tibetan locals. Aconite abundance muzzles cattle driven through the area with 80 deadly effects. Newly imported stock seems most at risk while natives note sheep avoid the youngest leaves.
A householder laments a moving day mishap as the neighbors depart, taking the cat and the broom. She jokes that luck deserts a vacated home when the cat or broom is removed, recalling a quip from the New York Sun.
A remark notes that it hurts a woman's pride when she and another woman share a man's attentions, reflecting social expectations about romance and exclusivity in relationships.
A terse line notes a general male inclination to take charge in issues involving women, reflecting gendered expectations and social norms of the period. The remark highlights a common attitude toward leadership and decision making in gendered contexts.
A 19th century health treatise notes Christian ministers as notably healthy. Behoffeld, once examiner for the British National Health Society, presents a table of longevity. Also referenced are Allen's Foot-Ease powder and a note on silkworm diets affecting colors.
Mrs. Mary Dimmick of Washington describes how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. The letters, presented with pride, aim to prove the remedy's efficacy as repeatedly claimed in these columns.
Lynn Massachusetts specialist Mrs. Pinkham provides guidance based on reader letters from Washington and others. She highlights cases of menstrual pain, inflammation, and the use of Vegetable Compound that she claims saved lives.
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