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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
3
Extensive listings describe farms and lands for sale in multiple states and provinces. Items include a Pine Cul farm near Sor heuse with several outbuildings, and a stock farm in Morrigtown Arizona offering significant copper and gold prospects. Other ads note irrigated land in Alamosa Colorado and properties near Monticello Arkansas with multiple dwellings and outbuildings.
A long promotional letter extols Western Canada's grain booms in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It highlights settlers who thrived with modern methods, strong debt free holdings, and large crops. The writer from Dayton Ohio shares a firsthand path to homesteading wealth and urges others to seek Immigrant services in Ottawa for more names.
Literary dialogue contrasts mood and tone about a sorrowful novel and a marble heart. Quoting exchanges highlight emotion and a pun on staying in statu quo. The brief snippets resemble a serialized chat on literary sentiment.
Cures for catarah offered with Cole's Carbon salve sold by druggists in 25 and 50 cent sizes. Also contains a miscellaneous ad copy claiming virtue of justice, fortune, and Blue products. Ends with quotation about initiative conquering fear by Blanche Blessing.
Ernest Siler of Wells Kansas explains a barn hay door installed last fall 59 by 48 feet built with two by six studs open on the hay door. The door uses cypress flooring to fit the roof gable and a double track system called the big Four with two rollers per side. Ropes pass over a pulley and attach sand buckets to raise and lower the door, operated from the mow floor by a boy.
Advice on cellar prep and preservation for winter harvests. Clean walls and repair windows to prevent loss, sort potatoes, dust good ones with lime, harvest and store squashes properly, and can kraut when cabbage heads burst. Keep beets turnips and apples, share surplus with neighbors, and use scraps to feed poultry.
The Scientific American describes a metal fence post by Porter K Bushnell of Medina New York. The post is an angular channel widening at the base to form feet for firmer ground hold. Wires are gripped by notched bolts passing through the post into triangular blocks fitted to the rear.
Expert notes on silo design and management from Connecticut Experiment Station. Silo size and shape affect feeding safety and efficiency, with round wooden stave silos preferred for longevity and reduced spoilage. Optimal diameters, dual-silo use, and mid July harvest timing boost silage value by up to 50 percent.
A collection of farm guidance urging weed seed prevention, wise seed buying, silage and alfalfa as money makers, careful soil work for 1913 crops, and prudent barn improvements. It emphasizes feeding stock, cropping choices like celery and strawberries, and preparing youth for winter at the agricultural college.
A dialogue extols a supposedly brilliant financier who wooed a jeweler's daughter and secured a ring at cost. After the engagement ended, he returned the ring and had the jeweler pay eight percent interest on the invested money, illustrating a controversial use of debt in a personal matter.
A humorous exchange about why dozens of empty bottles fill a cellar. One character jokes he never bought an empty bottle, prompting a playful back and forth between the couple. The brief gag centers on mistaken blame and domestic banter.
A Gray County probate judge states he suffered five years of heart trouble with dizziness puffed eyes and back ache. After about a year on Dodds Kidney Pills he reports no palpitations and full return to work and health at age 63. The letter promotes the remedy with an invitation to publish and request free accompanying guides.
Advertisement urges careful examination of Castoria bottles for infants and children. Claims the remedy is safe with a long history and bears the signature “Auga” and the phrase In Use For Over 300 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
Advertising humor contrasts a folding bed with an unfolding bed. A merchant demonstrates the bed while a customer questions the term. The bluing water joke promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as a whitening aid, claiming liquid blue is costly and effective.
In a breezy panel of quips and ad lib chatter, remarks mock beauty myths and advertise Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. The aviation meet earns a dull note with three accidents and no fatalities, reflecting a minor mishap advisory tone.
An advertisement touts Cole's Carbon salve as a cure for itching skin diseases and claims it leaves the skin smooth. The product is sold by druggists in 23 and 50 cent sizes.
Dandruff and hair loss prevention advised with frequent use of Resinol Soap to stop itching and dispel dandruff. For severe cases, massage Resinol Ointment into the scalp occasionally. Sold by druggists (Soap 25c, Ointment Be) or by mail from Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md.
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