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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
21
A fragment from an advertisement praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women's suffering. The text references public belief in its efficacy and includes incidental dialogue about wealth and aging without clear narrative context.
An old ad promotes Cuticura for facial and hand care with free mail samples and a book. It includes instructions to apply ointment and wash with soap, plus a rejected joke and a political quip about a food control bill.
An 19th century style ad promises money back for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine and describes it as internal medicine affecting mucous surfaces. The note adds a Ducks Poisoned report from the Biological Survey about lead poisoning among ducks at Great Salt Lake due to shotgun shot at hunting blinds.
Brooklyn Eagle notes that telepathic instruction by new thought leaders to relay messages to soldiers in France creates new censor difficulties. M. D. Spitzer seeks 10000 dollars after swallowing a tack with soup in a New York restaurant.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges immediate husked ears to a dry, well ventilated area after harvest. Do not allow ears to touch. Drying prevents sprouting mildew and weevil infestation. Poor storage depletes vitality, even after a day in a sack or pile.
A brief farming note describes drying ears rapidly after harvest. It recommends tying each husked ear onto binder twine at eight inch intervals to prevent heat and mildew. The method emphasizes immediate, simple, low cost handling post harvest.
The article explains drying corn using wire racks or wooden seed racks. It recommends wire fencing racks with upright hangers and three inch lateral supports, and describes their fernlike appearance. Wooden racks are convenient but restrict airflow and risk dampness if not well ventilated.
Repeated trials show early fall plowing yields better conditions for next year. August plowing is advised on dry hot land with weeds controlled by disking or harrowing. Top-dress with manure and acid phosphate. if no manure, apply acid phosphate and bone meal. Treat meadows right for long profits.
The economy favors silage as more silos are built to preserve corn. Dairy cows on silage yielded 17 percent more milk and 28 percent more butterfat in an Ohio experiment compared with grain rations. Butterfat cost 13 cents a pound with silage versus 22 cents for grain. two pounds dry matter of silage costs less than one pound of sugar beets.
The USDA seeks seed information from all sources. Send name, kind and variety, approximate quantity and price asked. The committee will file the data to answer inquiries nationwide. Address communications to J A Oakley Chairman Committee on Seed Stocks USDA Washington.
Guidance outlines lime based methods to control sheep sorrel. Recommends ground limestone two tons per acre or hydrated lime one and a half tons per acre or quicklime one ton per acre. Quicklime can be flaked with water and sprayed to injure sorrel leaves and improve soil acidity.
Guidance on when to cut corn for silage, noting dented grains and drying husks. Encourages owning a silage cutter to fill the silo at the proper stage for best preservation.
George Challis of a Muncie Indiana theater recalls a persistent supplicant for show passes. After weeks of refusals the man was allowed in briefly to reduce his pestering. Later Challis, exhausted by a night of illness, gave the man a dollar to buy a ticket. The man balked calling Challis a cheap skate and left with the dollar.
Physicians urge attention to kidneys as filters of poisons and waste. Poor habits like low water intake and heavy meals strain kidneys. An herbal remedy Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root is advertised with a sample offer via mail to Dr Kilmer & Co.
Pressed steel dominates auto manufacturing as gray iron malleable castings wood brass and aluminum are edged out. The shift reflects a move toward higher strength and unified body construction in the industry.
This advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children as remedies for feverishness headache teething disorders and bowel issues and claims to destroy worms and accelerate colds. It notes 80 years of use and nationwide availability with sample free. Also reports the Nashville Commercial club opening a new headquarters building.
A letter recalls a man who read the Congressional Record daily about 26 or 27 years ago and later joined Congress. The writer asks if anyone recalls another person who read the Record as closely.
Comic exchange from a courtroom scene features a judge debating marriage and cowardice in a terse dialogue between a man and a woman about wedding timing and social expectations.
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