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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1912
Page
4
Gentle advice on animal care and farming practices covers horses poultry hogs and sheep. It stresses humane handling daily hoof care, proper feeding, periodical equipment checks, winter mulching, and breeding prudence to raise healthier stock and improve profits.
Practical notes cover animal digestion and feeding including cows sheep pigs and poultry. Advice includes weaning ages for pigs, how to keep chickens healthy with roosting and diet, and market considerations for flock value. Emphasis on shelter grain mixes hay and gentle handling for livestock wellbeing.
A Wisconsin woman earned a Canadian Government certificate in Milwaukee to buy a discounted train ticket to Edmonton Alberta where friends awaited about forty miles away. Now married to a promising local farmer she plans to homestead in Pembina district next spring. She notes wild raspberries abundant and describes a beautiful country with a well kept farm, crops and cattle. Letters praising Canada’s settlement program are press material for agents. Hubby jokes about a milliner’s bill showing her featherless wings.
A child’s fretfulness from mild digestive disorders may be treated with a gentle laxative. Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is claimed as a mild, effective laxative that calms the stomach liver and bowels and is suitable for children. Available in 1 and 3.00 bottles from druggists. A free trial sample is offered by Dr W B Caldwell of Moncell o, Illinois.
A quip attributed to Roseleaf contrasts a new hat with a bill that makes another hat look like a pinhead. The exchange highlights humor over fashion expense and personal likeness.
The Iowa Hornet's Nest brigade plans a fiftieth anniversary reunion to honor the Battle of Shiloh. Governor Carroll and state officials will attend the dedication at Pittsburg Landing on April 6 and 7. An excursion from St Louis by steamboat is offered at 15 dollars, with full rates via Captain W V Twombly of Des Moines. The brigade includes the Second Seventh Eighth Twelfth and Fourteenth Iowa regiments.
The Hamilton county corn show and farmers' short course, held under the State college at Ames, closed in Webster City this week. The agricultural department will establish an experiment station in Webster City due to the event's success.
Violet Lorenz, seventeen, confined by the Humane Society of Des Moines after repeated failures to quit smoking. The girl, described as a confirmed cigarette smoker, shows weakened will and diminished ability to work due to excessive tobacco use.
Scott county grand jury indicts Isaac Richardson a baloonkeeper for selling liquor to Arthur Windram until intoxicated and letting him lie in a box stall all night in freezing weather causing death. Farley Iowa Northern rail line project advances as Luxemberg raises 35000 for construction and bids are advertised.
Solon John Rouner cuts cordwood on thirty acres bought from William Cambridge last fall. Timber yields forty cords per acre of prime hardwood, selling at 86 per cord, for a land yield of 240 per acre. Rouner paid 150 per acre for the land last fall.
The ninetieth birth day of Judge George Vermilya, the county's oldest living pioneer and former district judge, was observed with a large gathering. Born in New York in 1822, he came to Iowa in 1855.
Iowa City resident Willard F. Malin, bankrupt manufacturer, fights J. C. Cochran in court. Cochran seeks eviction from a $12,000 home where he holds a $6,000 claim, while Malin has lost about a third of a million dollars over the past decade.
Mason City, Alexander T. Cooper, a roommate of Andrew Carnegie during school days in Scotland, died at his home here at age 87. Cooper was a machinist in Scotland shipyards during the Crimean War and had lived in Iowa for thirty years.
Fort Dodge announces its new water supply system is in operation after two weeks of trenching 1,100 feet. Workers connected wells to the city pumping station despite intense cold, with two segments following Soldier Creek bed.
A farm near Lamoille reports young Myron Bohnsack found a shotgun shell and opened it with a knife. The blast blew the boy’s eye and may cause blindness. He is the son of a local farmer and is receiving medical care.
Emil Ack erburg son of Mr and Mrs Peter Ackerburg living six miles east of here killed while attempting to steady a wagon loaded with corn about to upset. He was found beneath the corn.
James Delaney vice president of the First National Bank at Marengo has died at age eight. A noted pioneer stock buyer in Iowa and Johnson County his death marks a significant loss to local finance and agricultural markets.
Eight horses have died or were slaughtered in a glanders outbreak near Harcourt and Gowrie. Mrs. C. E. Freed is the hardest hit, losing six animals in the epidemic that has affected the region.
The department encampment of the Iowa Grand Army will be held at Mason City on June 11, 12 and 13, according to announcement from the state headquarters.
A quantity of horse liniment containing strychnine, mistaken for a medicine for herself, caused the death of Mrs. John Swearingen, 60, of Hedrick. The tragedy highlights the danger of misusing veterinary remedies for human ailments and raises questions about access to proper medicines.
The thirty fifth annual farmers institute was held here attracting unusual interest as the court room proved too small to accommodate all who wished to attend.
The Iowa river yields the finest ice crop yet with 80,000 tons packed in Marshalltown ice houses. Colfax to host the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley for its twenty fourth semi annual meeting on March 21 and 22. Plans are underway.
The United Presbyterian Church in Albia was badly damaged by fire. The building, completed a year ago, cost $10,000 and was insured for $4,500.
The yearly meeting of the Calhoun County Farmers Institute will convene at Rockwell City on January 36 for a three day session.
Candidate for District Bench Storm Lake A R Bailie announces his bid to succeed himself on the Fourteenth district bench outlining continuity in office and district coverage with no opposition details provided.
Students at the State University of Iowa form the Iowa Journalistic Club in Iowa City with strong membership. Fred Vogele, head of the United States fish cultural station at Spring Branch, has been transferred to the fish station at St Johnsbury VI.
Saloona Iowa City now has ten saloons, the limit under the Moon law, after council granted the last license to H C Colwell.
Waterloo and Oreston report two Iowa Dairy Association trains to instruct farmers in extension work. One departs February 17 over Rock Island lines, the other March 7 over the Illinois Central. Hampshire breeders hold annual meeting January 27 as local breeders prepare for a good gathering.
The annual meeting of the Hawkeye Commercial Men's Association for 1913 will be held in a new location as Marshalltown Cedar Rapids region adjusts the venue. Organizers urge members to note the updated schedule and participate actively.
The three day farmers institute at Madrid continues in session with more than 500 dollars offered in prizes.
Col Silas Tyo Secretary of the Aberdeen Angus Breed association announces the annual meeting in Des Moines on February 8. Prominent breeders from across the state will speak at the program this year.
A fragment reports 13 year old Greenfield Bauer shooting a squirrel and slipping while climbing a tree, breaking back and ground contact noted. The readable text is partial and unclear.
A fragmented page touts Resinol Ointment for piles and skin ailments with testimonials from Memphis about long use and cures. It also references Cole's Carbolisalves for burns and refers to Dr. Pierce's Pills for constipation. A child’s joke and a quip about courtship are included amid ads and a rural notice.
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