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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1904
Page
7
London physician Dr Warner claims a link between tall high rise buildings and physical deterioration in children. He cites smaller heads in districts with great height residences, noting both wealthy and poor families show the trend. He warns of future costs if such dwellings must be pulled down.
Insurance journal statistics for New York show Americans buy life policies at eight million dollars per day. Over the past year all firms paid claims totaling 258 million dollars. Aggregate payments to beneficiaries including annuities reached 346.4637 million. In force in New York City alone are policies aggregating about two and a quarter billion dollars.
A Virginia girl engaged to three men married the man she loves least to settle the issue. The Louisville Times doubts the chosen one will take long to see she spoke the truth.
A prominent Rome physician shares a personal experience praising Grape-Nuts as a powerful rebuild er of nerve brain tissue and muscle. He cites rapid strength and weight gain after using the cereal during a period of illness and urges others to try it, noting improvement within weeks. The ad promotes Postum Co. and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
The piece advises practical farming wisdom and fair dealing. It discusses turning farming into a business, speaking kindly to enemies to regain trust, and measurements of profit such as three-fourths of success from good management. It notes price control by packers and criticizes dishonest beef practices.
A detailed method for felled leaning trees from Rural New Yorker outlines a step by step wedge and saw approach. It describes starting at C and E, using wedges at D and X, and coordinating two workers to guide the tree along the desired line C while accounting for wood condition and leaning direction.
Ernest Thompson Seton notes a lack of native earthworms south of the Saskatchewan and west of the Mississippi. He explains that soil mixing in moisture regions is driven by burrowing animals, especially Geomydae pocket gophers, spanning from the Mississippi to the Pacific and into Mexico, with Manitoba’s thick black loam highlighting their role.
An Omaha man reportedly owns a steer weighing about 4,000 pounds. Measurements span from shoulder to hip, length and body girths, including a 12 foot 10 inch total length and a 6 foot 2 inch height. The detailed dimensions astonish cattlemen.
The article explains how runts in large pig litters can thrive with generous feeding and proper housing. Keep a personal trough, allow initial nursing with the sow, then separate at weaning for a liberal diet of oats shorts and corn meal with skim milk, adjusting with flax seed meat or tincture golden seal as needed.
Farmers should favor useful fowls over fancy breeds and prize birds. Emphasize egg production through continuous culling and selecting the best layers, as profitable flocks are built for production rather than sale as breeders. Shows harm egg-laying and shape.
A simple chick drinking fountain assembled from inch board six by six and a six by twelve inch piece forms a right angle. Attach a bottle to the upright, strap it in place, and use a baking powder can lid as a spout with a nail beneath to let a small amount of water escape.
The Missouri Valley Farmer advocates blue grass as a superior hog pasture compared with alfalfa. It notes blue grass yields lasting soil quality and that hogs prefer it, outpacing alfalfa and cane or rape in long term pasture value for upland farms. The piece concludes with a note on honesty as a virtue.
A stylish young man in a suit and monocle saunters past a crowd, notices a "Fresh Paint" sign on a letter box, but does not touch it. He smirks at the onlookers, observing them with a jaunty, self aware air as he ambles along.
Fredericksburg Indiana June 20 Rev Enoch P Stevens lauds Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing his kidney troubles after nightly and daytime urination issues. He claims two boxes fully cured him and urges others to try them for kidney disease and rheumatism to achieve pure blood and better health.
A fragment from the New York Tribune features Dionysius and Damocles with a razor sharp pun, followed by assorted 1900 era ads for foot powder Allen’s TFoot-Ease, dog tastes in St Louis reports, Nickel Plate Road travel offers, Dr Kline's nerve restorer, and testimonials including Mrs Robbins in Norwich New York.
New York trade shows flour patents at 4.90 to 5.25, wheat around 1.07, corn 0.85, oats 0.48 to 0.49, hogs firm, cattle and sheep varying by region. Cleveland notes flour at 5.35 to 5.50, oats 0.44, butter 0.18, eggs 0.174, potatoes 1.40 to 1.50, hay 14.50, cattle 5.50 to 6.00, sheep 4.50 to 4.75, hogs 5.50. Toledo cash grain 1.00 wheat, 0.50 corn, 0.43 oats, cloverseed 6.10. East Buffalo cattle 6.15 to 6.40, sheep 5.25 to 5.50, hogs 5.45 to 5.20, Pittsburg cattle 6.20 to 6.72, sheep 5.10 to 5.50.
Sam T. Clover, sent to Dakota by a Chicago paper, met John Grass amid tense fears of war. Capt Maus arranged a meeting without warning the principals. Clover recalls Grass’s grim reaction, proving to him the Indian was not easily civilized and never smiled at the seized moment.
A boy complains his new suspender pants are too tight under the arms, while his mother insists that wanting regular pants means getting them and should be satisfied. The Philadelphia Press excerpt uses humor to illustrate a child’s fashion concern.
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