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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
7
A vintage ad copy touts a small enamel box of Cascarets as a health aid. It claims six tablets per box act like exercise for bowel and liver muscles, non-purgative, and a portable remedy for indigestion and general ill health. It urges genuine Sterling Remedy Company tablets stamped OCC.
On April 2, 1907 Freiburg schools establish a public dental service. By December 31 2487 children were treated drawing 3689 teeth 1231 fillings and 102 new teeth inserted. Two of every thousand examined had never seen a dentist highlighting poor oral health. William Waldorf Astor adds to Oxford University endowment drive.
The article notes that early science misclassified Malekulans as inferior due to egg shaped skulls. It explains conical heads result from binding the infants heads with cord and mat wraps, a practice observed in Malekula where such heads are valued. A mother proudly shows the result despite infant distress.
The text discusses Deutzia varieties with white spring blooms, their cultivation in well drained soil, and pruning rules after leaf fall. It highlights Deutzia gracilis, a compact evergreen shrub from Japan blooming in early June, and Deutzia parviflora from northern China blooming a week later, noting hardiness and greenhouse forcing ease.
A large elm near the old hotel in Passadumkeag yielded a clay pipe filled with tobacco when George Ranney and George Brann cut into it. An old resident blamed it on a bent tree used as a pipe rack decades ago, leaving the pipe to be swallowed by the growing wood. Nearby sheet iron is produced so thin that 15,000 sheets equal one inch in thickness and light passes through like tissue.
Chief Galloway reports alfalfa and red clover seed samples from the open market show widespread contamination with dodder and yellow trefoil seeds. Among 1,217 red clover samples, 405 contained dodder, 424 yellow trefoil, 135 Chile origin. Alfalfa surveys of 399 samples show 191 with dodder, 185 with yellow trefoil, 120 with sweet clover, 16 with bur clover. Bromus Inermis samples reveal cheat and wheat grass presence, plus meadow fescue in some cases.
Ashes from hard wood fetch higher value than soft wood ashes. Value depends on tree section with young twigs and leaves producing the most valuable ashes. Chemists note leaves ash is superior to twig ash and trunk ash. Seed germination requires 20 to 30 days for.
The cross section describes a thirty four foot wide piggery with stone or concrete foundation and a two layer floor. It notes a central six foot alley with a crowned dry floor and a two inch fall from alley to doors. Pens use upright boards on a two by four base with eight foot loft for storage.
The report notes 8 of 429 Kentucky blue grass seed samples free of Canada blue grass and confirms Canada seed often immature or mislabeled. It outlines beetle management for Colorado potato beetle with Paris green dusting or Bordeaux spray, detailing mixtures and application timing to protect vines from early blight and damage.
The passage lists farm tips and old remedies: tire care and feed value for stock, gradual work for idle teams, descriptions of cutworm larvae and nocturnal feeding, iodine treatment for bumble foot in poultry, a claimed cure for hog cholera using slop Venetian red and kerosene, poultry hatch timing for profit, and a method to remove an axe handle by heating the blade.
The list shows germination times for a variety of vegetables from asparagus to pepper, with cucumber 5 to 10 days and parsnips 8 to 14 days among others. Rhubarb requires deep fertile soil, high manuring, and is a heavy feeder. an anecdote notes a grower earning $30 from a two and a half rod patch by using frequent manure and even soapsuds on washing days.
Dry hydrate of lime formed by slaking fresh lime with water into a fine powder is used as an insecticide. It remains caustic and fatal to larvae of asparagus beetles, slugs of currant pear plum and other larvae with moist surfaces. Apply in the morning when plants and insects are still damp.
The article advises ensuring well drained garden and truck patches with underdrains and overdrains to warm soil. Start very early plants in a seed box or hotbed, transplant to two inch pots, avoid working wet ground, and fix fences to keep poultry out. It also recommends two gates for garden access and manure hauling.
Fredericksburg hunter James Gladstone recalls a day near Boerne when a wild turkey and a fox fell to his shotgun in a single shot. He explains the fox chased a turkey hen up a tree and both dropped as he fired, claiming a record marksmanship moment.
Mrs A C Brestlin reports her baby's inflamed face and neck cleared after using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent Pills. After a year of suffering and failed treatments from doctors and colleges, three boxes of Cuticura Ointment brought marked improvement. the child is now healthy.
The Indianapolis News imagines a world with a blue sun showing blue and black skies and red or blue-tinted landscapes. A green sun would keep yellows but erase reds purples oranges and pinks, altering the planet's brightness and temperature.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and promotes constitutional remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is offered with a $100 reward for any deafness case caused by catarrh that it cannot cure, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Dr. James Curtis Hepburn of Orange New Jersey may attend Princeton commencement in June to mark the 76th anniversary of his 1832 graduation. He also earned a 1836 Penn medical degree and recently turned 93. Of 1287 Princeton graduates from 1832 to 1852, 151 survive, eight of whom are listed as business men. several early classes have no living members.
A New York Navarre hotel houses an active aviary with about a hundred singing birds. The manager often enters the dining room during peak hours with sparrows perched on head or shoulders while guests feed them at various tables.
The table of the Czar is funded with extraordinary lavishness. Each dish costs ten roubles, about three shillings, and every food item counts as a dish even if it is a few olives or a celery stalk. State dinners run the totals higher.
A Rochester based firm D-Zerta Food Co promotes OUR-PIE Preparation for lemon pies. A shopper swears she will not bake with the old method, saying OUR-PIE saves effort. Available at grocers for 10 cents.
The London Globe notes Buenos Aires as the healthiest city with 14.5 deaths per thousand, ahead of Madrid 27.9 Berlin 18.2 Paris 17.8 London 16.5 and Berlin infant mortality 8.3, while Paris reports 11, Berlin 20, Vienna 18, and St. Petersburg 40 for infant deaths, reflecting public hygiene benefits.
In a Catholic Standard and Times snippet, a conversation centers on a man who frequents a specific restaurant. Remarks touch on waitresses, tipping, and the social dynamics of patronage in a casual, era-appropriate exchange. The piece captures everyday attitudes without sensational detail.
If your eyes bother you, get a box of Pettit's Eye Salve old reliable, the most successful eye remedy made. All druggists of Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y.
Modern skyscrapers employ suspended platforms hung from upper steel girders for bricklaying on tall buildings. Workers ride swinging platforms as the scaffold rises with progress through ten to fifty story structures.
An exchange shows Jane turning down May for an inquiry while noting a delay. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup ad claims gum soothing and wind colic relief for teething children at 25 cents a bottle.
A report notes that 1567 walled cities in China lack both foreign and Chinese pastors, highlighting gaps in religious leadership across these urban locales.
An advertisement from Dr E R M Kline of Philadelphia promotes a free trial battle and treatise for a great restorer tonic. It claims cure for St Vitus Dance and nervous diseases among laboring classes and notes Germany diet advice of meat once a week.
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