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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
7
A Prairie Farmer writer reports on convenient sliding gates used in barns to restrain cattle during milking and feeding. Gates of pine five inches wide hang on a two inch gas pipe track with iron straps as hangers. The author notes eight gates in their barn, praising improved control and even animal safety when stock escaped.
France staged extensive road tarring for the Grand Prix prep using Lassailly heating and applying apparatus. Two six-driver teams and eight tar spreaders worked May 25 for about ten days to cover 500000 square yards, with sand swept by four wagons to leave ideal roads.
The column notes an encouraging harvest overall and warns bruised potatoes spoil in bin storage. It advises careful seed corn selection, sturdy staking of beans, proper potato handling, and simple primitive cultivation as a stable, cheerful livelihood.
Two female wrestling camps led by captains faced off in a dirt arena. The bout opened with formal bows, then rapid exchanges as holds and throws continued until one side fell. The umpire struggled to maintain order as captains challenged his calls and the crowd debated. The act ended with a winner and the performers bowing out.
The Central American president frets over a thirteenth retreat by his army. A reporter notes his concern that those costly regiments are now mocked as his running expenses by insurgents.
A medical student quips to the chief examiner that he would call in another physician when he fears he cannot prevent a patient’s death. The remark appears in the Chicago Daily News as a sharp, wry exchange reflecting medical humility and doubt.
Elsie complains when Mose and Elsie try to name their newborn John instead of a preferred sister name. She laments missing a chance for a girl, insisting she wanted a little sister.
Prices across flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes and cattle show varied figures in New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburgh markets dated October 2 and 3 1906. Notable ranges include flour 4.10 to 4.40 at Minneapolis and 4.00 to 4.25 at Cleveland, wheat No 2 red around 78 to Tic, cattle steers often 4.50 to 5.90, veals 5.50 to 9.50, lambs 5.00 to 8.25, hogs 6.80 to 7.10 in Yorkers firms, and butter 26c per pound at best creamery in Cleveland.
I D Daughtrey of Suffolk Virginia says after two to three years of kidney trouble he passed about 214 pounds of gravel and sandy sediment in the urine. Three years ago he stopped passing stones after using Dean's Kidney Pills and now calls the remedy a fine kidney tonic. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Over the last year Audubon Society of Louisiana rented 17 breeding islands in Gulf waters. Two wardens paid by the national Audubon committee helped hatch and raise about 40 000 birds on Breton reservation and neighboring federal lands, including common terns foresters terns royal terns laughing gulls and black skimmers.
A New England spinster Aunt Mary dies in Carlsbad for health reasons. Her nephew plans a quiet burial in a country churchyard. He opens the casket to find an English general in full regalia. The general’s heirs order a full military funeral with six brass bands and saluting guns for Aunt Mary.
A Sunday puzzle lore item recounts how in border days El Paso and Juarez used Mexican and American quarters worth different values. A citizen could cycle payments across the border, swapping quarters and repeating the drink purchases, prompting the question who ultimately paid.
A Missouri physician testifies that stopping coffee and using Postum improved his long standing heart trouble and nervous symptoms. He reports good flavor and health benefits, and says he prescribes Postum for patients whose coffee causes illness.
Mrs. George J. Steese of Akron Ohio reports her baby healed after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for a severe skin humor. Doctors failed to help and neighbors recommended the products which she says cleared the sores and left the child with clear skin. She would pay five dollars if needed.
The Singapore Times reports the full lunar eclipse on August 4 seen in Singapore. Hindu belief links the event to the planet Rahoo with a myth of the moon seized and released. Hindus bathe before and after the contact and abstain from drinking water during the interval due to pollution fears.
An historical advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous system remedy. Endorsers from Walding Kinnan Marvin attest firm honesty and solvency. Pills are advertised for constipation.
The Port of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, stands as a busy transit hub rather than a market. It serves cargo transfers for China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Siam, and other eastern ports, while being a small island with limited local production and consumption.
Great Northern Railway offers one way Colonists' Tickets from Chicago daily through Oct 31 at $33 to Seattle Portland and Western Washington and $30.50 to Spokane with similar rates to Montana Idaho Oregon and British Columbia. For details contact Max Bass at 220 S Clark St Chicago. When a married woman hints it tends to affect the husband’s finances.
The fragment mentions Sw ma and a Chinese saying about secret merit. It advertises Put nam face less dyes for dresses and cloaks. It notes a wife as a valuable asset when property is put in her name and includes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and windcolic at two cents per bottle.
Chinese living abroad send home an estimated 50 million dollars every year as remittances. The figure reflects money sent by workers and nationals in other countries to families and communities back home.
On the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month the Big Four will sell excursion tickets to most points in Virginia South Carolina Tennessee Alabama and Georgia at one fare plus $2.00 with return limit 30 days. Liberal stopover privileges. Inquiries to I P Spining General Northern Agent Big Four Route 238 Clark St Chicago.
Liverpool surgeon Robert Jones recalls a patient, an old poacher, who, under cocaine influence during leg bone surgery, regaled him with vivid accounts of his poaching exploits.
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