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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1913
Page
12
A rural interurban stop tale describes waiting for a homebound car with a farmer and a houseful of chatter. A man asks about the car while a wife nearby plans readiness. the exchange hints at delays, the timing, and a light local humor about travel and daily life.
A lady doctor writes about Daily Special Postum claiming it replaces coffee, improves sleep and nervousness, aids weight gain, and fits her busy schedule. She endorses its two forms Regular and Postum, suggesting preparation with cream and sugar for a pleasant taste.
A 1911 study shows ducks produce one pound of duck for about 3.16 pounds of grain, with total costs around ten cents per pound and potential profits of ten cents per pound. A separate potato trial found poultry manure yielded 36.76 pounds from 24 hills versus 20.6 pounds with superphosphate, with minimal disease and no scab except one potato in poultry-treated rows.
An article outlines how body lice plague fowls, draining feed and egg production. It recommends regular dusting with dry materials such as road dust, loam, sand, or coal ashes to reduce lice, noting that residual lice need destroying agents. Dusting powders like Dalmatian or Persian powder, tobacco, sulfur, or air-stacked lime help reach the lice hidden in long feathers.
A Practical Farmer writer urges proper sheep care including dry ventilated sheds free movement, timely feeding with oats wheat bran linseed meal and clover hay for ewes. Sheep should be dipped after shearing and again in about three weeks to destroy ticks.
Investigators found bacteria counts in milk drawn before feeding were much lower than in milk drawn after feeding. Differences were striking in several cases. lower counts occurred when milking took place in a partly covered pall. cover the opening.
A description explains covering the milk with cheese cloth to block dirt and foreign substances from entering the milk, effectively keeping the product clean and uncontaminated.
The text advises letting in cool night air to prevent disease in chicken houses. It stresses keeping coops loosely closed in hot weather and using screen wire over openings to deter vermin, ensuring ventilation and safety for poultry.
A farm woman’s poultry venture can yield substantial income with care and judgment. The Farmer's Wife notes cases of several dollars per hen yearly through exhibition and breeding, while many women earn from one dollar per week to larger sums via market poultry. An Iowa widow even funded college for her children by running poultry, showing the business can profit any farm woman who applies diligence.
Advice on stable conditions and feed for horses cows pigs and sheep. Emphasizes light dark stables training type alfalfa meal potato feed when affordable quiet gentle stock breeders. Warns against moldy hay and notes market value differences and breeding season vigor.
In a Boston Bullyday school class a pennies collection was to be allocated. Children debated whether to give to foreign missions or local sick and needy kids. A seven year old boy urged spending at home noting his own cold, after saying he had saved many pennies.
The piece contrasts how signatures and signatures alone fail to prove authentic art, citing Raphael Urbinas and Reynolds. It also humorously notes a Wall Street stenographer mix up in vacation season leading to comical misreadings like bouillon soup and Bank of England. It highlights the quirks of attribution and the charm of painterly signatures.
Advertisement and miscellaneous items paste a testimonial from LeRoy Ce of O'Brien about clearing facial pimples labeled seed warts after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It notes free samples and world-wide sales, followed by a humorous landscape caption about night joy rides.
A customer inspector recalls leniency toward female smugglers, admitting they allowed a few cigarettes a cake or foreign soap as concessions. The remark highlights lax enforcement and notable bias in the handling of such cases.
Advertisement-style note urging caregivers to use Castoria for infants and children. Highlights that it has been in use for over 80 years and carries three signatures, with a claim of safety and reliability for young patients.
An old health column promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to ease aging digestion. It cites Mrs Mary A P Davidson, 78, who improved after use and notes bottles cost fifty cents to one dollar with a money back guarantee. Free samples offered by sending name and address to Dr W B Caldwell Monticello IS.
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