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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
7
A perplexed editor in Baltimore faces a bold woman who thrusts a newspaper clipping under his nose and demands explanation for a reviewer calling her book History of Female Suffrage by a new Historiea Weller. He admits a spelling error slipped in.
In Centralia Washington Mrs Enos Shearer recalls four months in bed with weakness sleep troubles swollen limbs and painful secretions. Three doctors said incurable and she was near death before Dean's Kidney Pills improved her condition within weeks. Pills sold by dealers 10 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Two Little Slips notes jokes in hospital admission slips at Gouverneur New York including a driver who fell off a perch and another who fell off a water wagon.
Practical farm notes cover fertilizer use, tree spacing, and garden planning with tips from a housewife. It warns against crowding trees, suggests modest garden plots, and favors broad wheels for field work. It discusses seed treatment to kill grain smut, seed germination, and renewing grasslands. It highlights dry farming progress in Colorado and urges semiarid regions to adopt it.
An urban farmer explains how to manage pasture and hay crops with diverse grasses, emphasizing clover Timothy or Hungarian grass and fodder corn, soil prep, and early growth before drought. A city tale ends with the invention of rooster muzzles to curb crowing in crowded quarters.
The article argues that farmers face a shortage of competent help paid fairly, unlike manufacturers and railroads that offer wage scales tied to productivity. It notes rising living costs and land values, the need for workers to operate modern machinery, and that farming is becoming a business where skilled labor is essential for profits and career prospects.
A gentleman questions a laundryman about missing clothing. The exchange ends with a quip that the shirt was laundered before it was lost, sparked by a twelve cent charge. The moment features a writer from Harper's Weekly observing the exchange.
An offer invites readers to write to Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York for a free sample of Allen's Sont- Fase a powder to shake into shoes. It claims to cure tired burning hot swollen feet and helps shoes feel easier. It also markets as a remedy for corns and bunions sold by doctors and shoe stores for two cents. Chemists say general ink writes papers legible in 27 years.
In a fragment from a Philadelphia area ad the text touts a permanency date for a restorer product by Dr. Kine and references a free $8 trial offer. The snippet also includes a stray exchange about a large rope in the British Museum and American women traveling abroad quoted from Yonkers Statesman.
A fragment from a Baltimore American item features a quirky line where a character asks what a chiropodist is and someone jokes it means reading character from handwriting, reflecting casual dialogue and era slang.
A citizen meets the Commercial Chair committee who argue real estate converted into sandbags yields higher profits. The man, at first boosterish, is persuaded after the exchange while the committee revels in a supposed good deed. The piece notes British shipyard products contributing 20 to 25 percent of the total.
Mrs Frank Donwthne of Kokomo Indiana reports a case where a young boy developed treking sores on his hands and body. She used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with lukewarm water, applying nightly, leading to a full recovery in four days. The testimonial is dated September 16 1907.
Conscience money received yearly by the chancellor of the exchequer in England averages $20,000 in default of unpaid taxes. Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup for Children teething promises relief, softens the gums, reduces fever and fuss, sold at 25 cents a bottle.
Over the past three decades the U S share of world coal output rose from L382 to 87 percent, placing the United States far ahead of other producers and highlighting its dominant position in global coal production.
Sylvester Hf Smith of St Louis records improved health after using Peruna for bronchial catarrh, noting rapid recovery within months and gratitude for restored well being. A. W. Perrin, MD of Brooklyn endorses Pertina for patients, recommending it for catarrh and noting its growing availability through local druggists.
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