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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1911
Page
2
A patient Elisabeth Gebrk from Fort Smith Arkansas details six months of severe neck eczema and intense itching. After trying Cuticura Soap Ointment and own regimen, symptoms eased on day one and cleared after three weeks. Notes similar relief for a brother with facial burns using Cuticura products.
John Jackson of Ottawa County Michigan describes converting an old barn into a larger, comfortable, functional space. Additions built over time use existing boards, requiring little new lumber. The redesigned barn stores hay grain fodder and straw, houses five horses and seven cows with well arranged stalls, and uses lofts for hay and fodder. Plans include a cement floor to replace rotten plank flooring.
When money is invested in land feed cows dairy machinery and other essentials profits rise. The note argues that allocating more funds to productive assets yields higher returns and better economic efficiency for dairy operations.
The Hereford breed ranks among the chief beef cattle in the United States. It is believed to have been imported by Henry Clay in 1817 and matures early like Shorthorns. Noted for rich red ground color with white face and tail tip, thicker skin, spreading horns, and curly coat. Recent Missouri state fair featured a prize winning Hereford steer. Malt sprouts are barley grains sprouted for brewing.
A discussion on farming capital, land values, and cost accounting. The Bookkeeper estimates national invested capital, notes rising land values, and argues farmers must treat interest on investment as a real cost. It calls for a businesslike system of cost accounting to meet transitional farm economics.
Professor Atwood reports pullet eggs hatch as well as those from older hens once pullets begin laying. Early clutch eggs tend to be less fertile than later ones, but overall hatchability improves as pullets lay more eggs.
Aunt Hildreth narrates the tale of Fred Wanless, a carefree nephew who just finished college and plans to earn a living as a book canvasser. After his aunt reveals she has lost money, Fred lands on a scheme to woo Miss Polly Jewett, the target of his publisher’s prospecting, by selling poetry volumes while keeping bees away. A comic misadventure with a bumble bee leads Polly to misjudge Fred, but he vows to return, not as a canvasser, but as her protector and suitor, hinting at an impending romance and aChange in fortune.
A reflection on the earliest horse presence in Crete, speculating a prehistoric import or trade. The piece muses on a clay intaglio of a horse with a tree, suggests a long-forgotten horse dealer, and notes a Cretan saying about animals, concluding with a literary aside from H. Hawes in Wide World.
A fragment shows a mother noting a man pacing the ship deck with a searching expression and a quip that he is probably a customs officer, indicating crew or passenger humor aboard during travel.
After years of female troubles and nervous debility, a Waurika Oklahoma resident reports rapid improvement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. A Huntington Massachusetts woman also credits the product with restoring health after a long illness and doctor's ineffectiveness. The ad touts relief from inflammation ulcers fibroid issues irregularities backache and nervous prostration, urging others to try the remedy.
The National Association reports sixty five open air schools for tuberculosis affected children in 28 cities, begun January 1, 1907 in Providence. The movement, first at Providence and later Pittsburg and Boston, aims to restore health and efficiency and calls for one such class per 25,000 residents.
A famed temple of liberty in Toomebridge on the County Londonderry side of the River Bann was burned to the ground recently. It was erected about sixty years ago by the late Rev. John Carey, a Cromwellian descendant noted for wealth and a controversial past including a murder trial in which he was acquitted.
Dr Grenfell of Labrador predicts a brilliant future for the region after twenty years of residence. He says it will grow as populous as Norway does today and will be a preferred land over Iceland Lapland Finland Siberia and northern Alaska.
An old advertisement-like piece tells how nature signals inedible foods and urges prompt change. A testimonial from a Baye man details relief after abandoning breakfast starches for Postum and Grape-Nuts, citing weight gain and fewer stomach distress symptoms.
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