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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1903
Page
7
Mrs Tupmai of Richmond declares she suffered from uterine troubles for years and found relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports weight gain, improved strength, and renewed health after ten bottles. Mrs Pinkhon of Lymn, Mags., offers free guidance to sick women through letters.
Reading through a jumble of 19th century curiosities we note stray remarks about marriage, lightning conductors planted near farms, a Cologne factory insuring against unemployment, United States cable surveys, Paris cleaners, and a Parisian physician using hair bleeding as a safety valve for headaches.
An old newspaper fragment tells of Mrs. M. O. Garrett, stricken with kidney ailment, who, after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, reports full recovery and return to health. The piece also advertises laxatives, starch, and various patent remedies in a jumble of 19th century ad copy.
Dispatches report a large Russian flotilla delivering guns and beef, with troops occupying river forts at Pekin and New Chwan. Russians also seize forts at the Liao River mouth while building military works near Yangtze lands, signaling a major Manchuria prelude amid diplomatic tensions.
A first shock earthquake occurred in the Grand Valley between 12 and 1:20 PM Friday, with tremors lasting several seconds. The quake appeared to travel from the northwest to the southeast, marking the first seismic disturbance reported on the western slope.
Davie Mills former minister and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada died suddenly in Ontario on May 11 in his seventy‑seventh year. Authorities speculated a blood infection as the possible cause. Mills was a high court authority in the dominion and had held top legal posts. The report notes other varied items from the same period including political figures and corporate licensing news.
The Armour butterine case ended with a guilty verdict as jurors found the firm violated the law prohibiting artificial coloring of butter. The trial lasted about four hours, and the packing company plans an appeal to the supreme court. Attorneys sparred over whether ivory white should set the standard for whiteness and if yellowish ivory constitutes coloring that violates the statute.
In a farmers review, a breeder outlines feeding for winter eggs and show-quality Leghorns. He stresses meat-based feeds like green bones and ground meat to build muscle and fertility, noting costs and regional availability while detailing ideal Leghorn cock conformation and feathering for purebred displays.
Mary Ratunvis reports that Wilson was found guilty of murder in the second degree after a long trial. The jury deliberated overnight, and the verdict surprised many as public sentiment favored acquittal. Knight family members watched the ruling as Judge Parrish set a 20 year prison sentence pending appeal.
A chaotic report details a fatal religious dispute ending in a skull fracture and a separate fatal wagon overturn near Luxemberg and New Vienna. It also notes Deputy Sheriff Beker of Osmell Blails shot while attempting to arrest Charles Mather in a jewelry-case robbery.
A Department of Agriculture guidance on humane chick feeding methods. Start with easily digestible foods like stale bread soaked in milk, then introduce ground grain as chicks grow. Use sour or sweet milk, provide greens early, and feed often at first while gradually reducing frequency and increasing portions. Keep small pens and foraged foods to supplement.
The fragment discusses dairy practices including grain feeding for cows versus pasture grazing. It notes success with pasture in late summer and questions the profitability of grain feeding, referencing a farm or farm group perspective and long experience with diet choices for milk production.
A document urged by the Michigan State Board of Health calls for protecting wells from contamination to prevent typhoid outbreaks. It notes Plymouth Typhoid cases and warns about privies near water supplies, urging proper pit and vault use and removal of waste to safeguard city wells and springs.
United States consuls report rapid agricultural development in Honduras focused on export crops. Banana plantations exceed 42 000 acres with harvests totaling over three million bunches last year. Plantains cover about 20 000 acres with 96 million bunches, coconuts exceed a million trees with substantial exports, while corn beans and rice are grown for home use and other crops like coffee and tobacco expand. irrigation potential could transform the country into a vast garden.
A farmer from Carroll, Illinois, extols blue grass pasture for cattle. He notes 85 acres never plowed, better now than 30 years ago, with 32 acres in fleeced pasture and 40 cows. The pasture should be low, level, well drained, with cows kept in yard until grass has food value, and grazing delayed until mid May to early June.
The passage argues spraying is an undeveloped profession needing attention and practice. It claims sprayi ng will form a distinct department of forticulture and enhance agricultural aptitude through anatomy, botany, and chemistry for practical benefits.
A fragmentary note references a farmer associated with Indla and a possible rage incident. The readable text hints at a rural figure named in an unidentified context with no clear event date or location details.
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