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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement from Estherville Iowa touts Farmer and Breeder a live weekly magazine for farmers and breeders. It highlights departments on Veterinary Dairy Home and Dressmaking, market reviews, crop reports, farmer correspondents, illustrations, and wholesome family reading with educational value. Sample copies are offered.
The text argues fertile land increases value and crop yield when spread with proper stable manure using an IHC manure spreader. It suggests farmers see a local dealer to learn how to achieve double profit from heavier crops and improved land value.
Local dealer touts IHC spreaders as the best for manure, promising high efficiency and free service. A Chicago IHC Service Bureau offers farming information and answers to productive questions.
A fragmentary humor piece describes a cave-man with prophetic vision and a joke about being born too soon to wear winter coats. It winds into a fishing vignette about haddock and herring, then a country scene where two city boys fear a grazing horse and debate throwing a stone. The humor hinges on misfit timing and naive restraint.
The report notes a peak period for herring in the North Sea with about 5,000 miles of wet conditions nightly as seas remain productive during the height of the fishing season.
W H Wheatly of Ottumwa Iowa suffered a kidney ailment that worsened into rheumatism and other pains. He took Foley Kidney Pills and reports prompt improvement and complete recovery, thanking the remedy.
A boarding house vignette shows a ship at sea under moonlight with a captain, two flirtatious mates, and a birthday girl, all vying for her affection. The scene blends romance with a comedic tone, ending as the sleeper wakes on her thirty-second birthday and contemplates choices amid a chorus of admirers. An ad for Noley's Honey and Tar reinforces cold cure advice.
Mr and Mrs Aschenbrenner tour Pisa with Mrs Aschenbrenner climbing the Leaning Tower. The husband, cautious about heights, yells a warning as she leans out waving a scarf, prompting a panicked shout to retreat. The moment ends with a comic outburst about the bending tower.
A teacher asks students to name dangerous things with horns. House Jeanie Jones promptly answers automobiles, prompting the unidentified speaker.
A terse aphorism notes that those judged lacking by judgment may say the scales are out of order, reflecting a skeptical view of fairness and accountability. It frames weighty moral weighing as provoking excuses rather than acceptance of verdicts.
The ancient Greeks trained not only soldiers but the entire population by offering liberal prizes for bodily feats. Competitors excelled in running, leaping, biting, spear throwing and wrestling. At sixty yards spearmen struck targets with precision.
A visiting country guest plans errands in the city including viewing art at the institute to seek the Venus with a broken arm and the headless Victory, visiting the public library for a magazine ending, and consulting the sewing machine seller about a troublesome Tucker attachment. The dialogue hints at social shopping, literary curiosity, and personal appliance grievances.
London Free Press notes a Merlin bakery producing 20,000 loaves daily of sawdust bread for horses. The bread is fermented and treated, mixed with one third rye flour, and baked. Some claim it could help in famine, while others say it is not for people.
Under the Temple clocks in London a clockmaker carved the base motto after officials delayed. A judge’s offhand rebuke prompted the inscription Go about your business, a phrase born from an accident and years of waiting.
In this country discrimination against men over thirty five seeking railway and other jobs causes consternation. In England some employers doubt anyone under thirty five has discretion. The British post office plans replacing young women operators with older women, especially widows, believing they have steadier nerves for difficult subscribers. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Lord Campbell spearheaded efforts to recover regimental colors of the Fifty-Third Westmoreland regiment found in a pawnshop. The flags dating to 1760 were hidden for over eight decades, stored in a London pawn-broking establishment.
The text urges Senatorial re election for Lafayette Young, praising his outspoken stance against Canadian reciprocity and opposing administration policies. It contrasts him with Senator Kenyon, labeling Young as practical, experienced, and devoted to Iowa needs, while describing Kenyon as theoretical and cautious. The piece frames the June 3 primary as a clear choice between practical leadership and theoretical politics.
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