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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1922
Page
3
Wisconsin representative Frear laments high clothing costs at a Milwaukee dinner. A rich banker jokes with a second-hand shoesman at the back door. A spring romance theme notes joy in marriages built on lasting love and springtime affection.
An Omaha resident, W. S. Meadville, reports diet medicine Tanlac improved his liver kidneys and back pains after weeks in bed. He praises lasting benefits and notes Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. A Birmingham Age-Herald item adds a joke about a barber who had a fit.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports no reliable technique to determine the sex of chicks or eggs for hatching. Tests of various devices showed inconsistent results, with two people rarely agreeing on outcomes. Sex-based color differences aid a few breeds early, but for most, reliable sorting only comes with age.
An advertisement promotes taking aspirin only as directed by Bayer and notes the Bayer Cross symbol as proof of genuine Aspirin. A brief dialogue questions if people should push themselves forward, followed by a joke about a golfer struck by a ball for being overly focused on the foreground.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims botanical ingredients and a sworn purity statement with every bottle and offers a sample by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. at Binghamton New York with paper mention.
A Detroit Free Press exchange comments on New York undertakers plans to lighten funerals and funeral music, joking about removing lugubriousness and introducing jazz elements to funeral dirges.
A teacher warns Johnny that a note to his father will be sent if his behavior does not improve. Johnny resists, claiming his mother is jealous like a cat, as depicted in a weekly American Legion column.
The article argues oats form the backbone of growing chick rations, promoting frame and muscle efficiently. Steel cut, rolled oats, or ground oats with oatmeal provide economical feeds, especially with buttermilk, while a grain mixture adds variety.
Confine the hen until the chicks are weaned. Chicks should not receive feed until 36 hours old. The baby chick needs heat on demand. Observe chicks as soon as hatched to tell ages later. Disease control and sanitation are crucial in poultry management. Early chilling can cause chick loss even after growth. The coop should be easy to clean and suitably sized for comfort. In cold weather keep to nine or ten chicks per hen. in warm weather fifteen to twenty.
The British Medical Research Council issues the first guide to a living germ collection, intended for researchers needing specific disease strains. Similar banks exist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Museum of Natural History in New York, and Vienna. The Lister Institute houses Britain's collection with ongoing additions and a catalogue listing germ name donor and gift year.
In Fortin's Rotounce in Chinese Literature, J P Donovan cites Yao Niang, the emperor Li Yu’s concubine, as inspiration for the foot binding craze. The tale claims gold lily petals were used to guide her steps, and her feet were pressed to three inches to resemble a lilybud.
A neighbor joins a walker and his son Junior as they struggle to inflate a football. Junior asks Miss Jones to inflate it, joking that his dad says she is the longest winded woman ever breathed, prompting a light exchange.
A garbled collection of quotes and witticisms from the Birmingham Age Herald includes remarks on Mr Grampson’s standing with neighbors and his lack of musical skill, a quip about Dubbs creating a tempest in a teapot, and a judge’s aside on home brew. The fragmentary text also questions marital behavior, celebrity success, and bystander innocence.
A tea room remark by Theodore Dreiser frames criticism as a lost art. A gallery tale shows a woman misreading a painting of a rescued child and dog. Humorous exchanges about trains, umbrellas, aging, and reporters illustrate everyday wit and misperception from a Birmingham Age-Herald snippet.
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