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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
7
Poem excerpt presents a call to unity and effort across a day from dawn to dusk. The Work To Be Done questions readers whether to join in labor with cheer, pace, and companionship, ending with a pledge to be comrades until sunset. The piece credits Frank Walcott Hutt from Youth's Companion.
Henry Hibler offers simple steps from grinding nicked blades to honing and polishing for a sharp edge. Use water on a grindstone, hollow grind, then whet on a flat stone with circular strokes, finish with leather stropping to avoid nicks and protect fingers.
An Icelandic yarn recounts a codfish delivering a letter from Reyjavik to Vestermann after a voyage of about 180 miles. Earlier cases include a French whale cargo with letters and a Brighton pier love note recovered through a mackerel. A Sicilian dolphin also carried a Parisian wife’s letter months later.
A gardener at the Creake rectory in Norfolk England found a wren nesting inside the sleeve of a hung coat in the rectory greenhouse. The bird appeared settled and was left undisturbed in its unusual nest site.
A single sale in New York involved a vast shipment described as a hundred tons of cats tails for lady fashion adornment. Estimating each tail at about two ounces implies the slaughter of at least 1,792,000 cats to supply this consignment.
Cottonseed first sown in Virginia gardens early in the seventeenth century. The crop proved slow to take hold there and was later introduced to Carolina and Georgia plantations. A century and half after initial planting, cotton remained light and unimportant.
An Australian curiosity called the bottle tree grows up to 50 feet high and bears bottles of varied shapes. Its interior holds a glutinous substance used to make a refreshing drink, tapped like a sugar maple. Natives hollow out trunks to fashion canes.
London dispatches report Prof. Koch states he has shown that meat and milk from tuberculosis infected cattle may be consumed with impunity. He claims human and bovine tuberculosis are distinct species and human tuberculin cannot inoculate animals, urging a removal of precautions against infected cattle. The Farmers' Review cautions awaiting additional details.
Fragments of unfermented cakes found in Swiss lake dwellings point to neolithic crackers as the oldest bread forms. Though abandoned for fermented bread, such cakes offered portability and long shelf life, providing nutritious, convenient food in certain uses.
The Australian Leader reviews an agricultural device devised by the South Australian department of agriculture to deter bulls from breaking fences. A wooden block on each horn links by wires to a nose ring. pressure from the bull’s movement lifts the ring, inflicting pain and teaching the animal restraint.
The Farm and Home column notes big city dairies mock the idea but supports cooperative efforts to bring steam laundries and bakeries to populated western state neighborhoods. It highlights the farmer’s wife as overworked and suggests cooperatives could relieve labor burdens and improve farm life.
Provides a cheap, reliable fly treatment for cows using pine tar and lard. The mix is melted and smeared on the back of the cow’s head, along the spine and brisket twice weekly or as needed, described as lasting in results and comfortable for the animals.
A Milwaukee Sentinel fragment shows a young girl nicknamed a cat in spirit. Her parents fret over her stubborn ways as a kitten plays dress up in a doll cape. The child quips that she and the kitten are the same kind of cat as yesterday. Dorothy, the sole daughter of a prominent family, is noted.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Miss Beenz from Boston coolly reframes heat by imagining a thermometer coma. The joke hinges on a cold reaction and misread numbers as 91 degrees in the shade.
The markets show mixed prices for flour wheat corn oats and livestock in New York Cleveland Toledo East Liberty East Buffalo and Oil City on August 13. Prices cover flour patents wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes cattle sheep and hogs with regional variations and oil market balances.
Dr. A W Nieuwenhuis, medical commissioner of the Dutch Army in Java, arrives in San Francisco on plan to return to Holland after exploring Borneo. He traveled with three whites and three natives, won Dyak aid by treating malaria with quinine, and gathered animals, plants, and geological specimens while recommending Dutch control of the interior.
Do your feet ache and burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures corns itching swollen hot callous smarting sore and sweating feet All druggists and shoe stores sell it 25 cents Sample sent free Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York
A collection of quotes contrasts foreign interest in U S events with opinions on money, pharmaceutical cures, and a witticism about answering fools. The excerpts include remarks attributed to a Kansas City Independent reader and John F Boyer, dated February 1 1900.
An ad for Hoxsie's Croup Cure priced at 50 cents claims an infallible remedy to cure and prevent pneumonia, promoting relief without rest for the idler as advertised in Ram's Horn.
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