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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
7
The article warns housekeepers about cheap baking powders promoted by grocers and speculators. It notes alum and phosphate powders can harm health, cites New York seizures of alum blends, and advises choosing well known brands made from cream of tartar from grapes. It also discourages allowing peddlers or testers in homes.
A Cleveland C district inventor introduces a stiff wire chicken lasso with a leg hook to capture hens, turkeys, and ducks from crowds and wagons. The device reportedly streamlines poultry hunts, reduces chases, and helps handlers collect birds for coop placement.
Poem by Sidney Warren Mase about a flirtatious wink between an adult narrator and a young girl described as eight years old. The piece portrays playful yet inappropriate romantic innuendo and parental permissiveness reflected in a quaint period voice.
A nostalgic verse about parting and friendship with lines from Viola Gardner Brown and Harriet Kendall. It contrasts joy and sorrow as friends drift apart while offering guidance to live by truth, honor, and empathy. It references the music of a benediction and the Christian call to bear one another’s crosses.
A pair of poem excerpts describes hopeful bright days to come with imagery of May snows and blossoming deserts, and a dramatic streetside fire rescue scene with horses and frantic crowds. The pieces cite F L Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution and S H Kemper in Everybody's Magazine.
A fragment from Frances J. Edwards reflects fears of germs and starvation. the speaker longs for a glass house with antiseptic air to conquer life’s cares. The poem links daily joys to a future heavenly sunshine and warns against wasting a day.
Poem notes how fallen leaves darken the stream and reflect on love and joy. The verse ties recollection of sweetness lost to deeper feeling, with a contemplative, lyrical tone.
L M Wood explains a simple six piece wood carrier to move barrels on farms. Four two foot long pieces with four inch width form handles and supports, two boards two by eight feet nailed to ends, circular cc pieces fit outside the barrel, old wheel tire fashioned into hinges at dd, riveted by a blacksmith. Two people lift from front and rear, lifting the barrel with minimal jar and strain.
Arch Shade dropped his watch into a country spring and it stopped running. A jeweler examined it and confirmed the spring was broken, a scene Arch described with his usual humorous mischief as he explained the accident to onlookers.
Friarspoint Mississippi reports on the Butler case with quotes from G L Butler praising Dodd's Kidney Pills as curing his son of a spinal illness after eight boxes. Other content includes remarks about a river boat and a note on Seton and a Philadelphia Record quote.
An assorted page fragment surveys patent medicines like Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Piso's Cure, with price notes. It also includes a string of satirical lines and quotations from various newspapers dated around 1900, mentioning marriages, music, and wit in terse snippets.
In New York on December 1 1503 flour prices range from 4.00 to 4.10 per bushel for winter straights while wheat corn and oats quote varied returns. Livestock prices show native steers bulls veals and sheep with several fattening ranges and hogs reported across multiple cities including Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
A Rhode Island Station Report argues forests regulate rainwater splitting it between surface runoff and underground flow. Forest floors with humus, moss, and loose soil enhance infiltration, water storage, and soil productivity, offering a model for farmers to add humus to improve soil.
Guidance on gathering fruit before full ripeness and avoiding sudden temperature or moisture changes. Store in a dry cool, even atmosphere, preferably packed in dry sand to retard decay and preserve quality year round. Ensure fruit and packing sand are dry and stored in a dry place.
Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit writes that after five years of uterine irregularities she found relief using Peruna, taking fifteen bottles over six months to regain strength. The letter claims Peruna cures catarrh of the pelvic organs and attributes women’s ailments to catarrh, noting symptoms disappeared.
An advertisement argues that female weakness is pelvic catarrh and claims catarrh can progress to affect the whole body. It asserts Peruna permanently cures catarrh old and new and invites readers to write Dr. Hartman in Columbus, Ohio for free advice.
Reports confirm the Simplon tunnel in the Alps nears completion with air cooling methods. High rock temperatures near 133 F were reduced to 126 F by spraying water and diluting air with hydraulically cooled fresh air, keeping 3,000 workers healthy over five years of work.
A Chicago Daily News item mocks a Paris social gathering featuring a man in baby dress and a nurse disguise. The infant, fed an alcoholic substitute, is scolded and rewarded with barley sugar by the onlookers. The writer notes such reduced circumstances alter cases and finds the scene entertaining.
A New Jersey clergyman hired a man as coachman and gardener. He bought horse liniment and told the man to apply it to a lame horse. The man reported he followed bottle directions using a spike to rub the leg, noting the instruction asked for a tooth-brush.
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News quotes Dusty Dennis describing his sleep attire. He recalls wearing a paper undershirt and a pair of something, noting he was tickled by a comic paper joke during the night.
A collage of brief sayings and reflections from various newspapers includes remarks on love and dowry, daily stock take as progress, caution in relationships, a maxim about luck and complaint, and a note on genius balanced by gentleness. It blends humor and moral maxim with literary references.
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