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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
7
The passage discusses backache as a signal of feminine health trouble. It links symptoms like nervousness headaches and loins pains to feminine needs and claims a single remedy removes the cause and restores health.
A Missouri Farm and Home subscriber offers an 18 by 24 foot barn layout with an open shed for tools wagon or manure storage. It features ten foot eaves fourteen to sixteen foot front height loft over eight feet, two feed rooms, battened walls and a tight roof. Estimated cost from 50 to 60 dollars, with potential savings using native lumber.
The article stresses proper clover seeding methods including liberal seed use, spring sowing on wheat land, and thorough field preparation. It urges farmers not to neglect the garden in summer, highlighting the family health and expense savings from a well maintained garden and timely fruit and vegetable provisions.
The Forest Service administers over 164 million acres, about one-fifth of the nation’s forested lands, with most unappropriated domain now under federal protection. The piece notes protection, sustainable timber growth, and ready access to materials, while humorously warning about cabbage cutting mistakes.
Growers are advised not to remove the large leaves from stumps until sprouts have time to reach a usable size, allowing photosynthesis to support new growth and development.
A Colorado veterinary bulletin warns mixed breeding yields little beyond the first cross and many progeny stay below average. It argues for persistent breeding to a single pure breed to raise overall quality and eliminate native blood through successive generations.
An article extols fertilizer as essential to crop yield and cautions against uneven spreading. It describes a Virginia invention, a compact machine with fine adjustment, claimed to distribute fertilizer evenly and allow precise control of quantity.
Soon wean young pigs from sows. Provide a dedicated pen with fresh milk and constant corn access. Start with little milk swill and increase gradually, ensure fresh swill at each feeding, avoid sour or excessive swill, then remove the sow once the pigs are dried up.
The invention describes a portable woven wire fence end attachment using two posts at each end, four inches apart, aligned with the fence. Oak clamps are bolted on each side of an upright wire to prevent lateral slippage, forming a secure corner post assembly.
The passage advises that a young man of enterprise and health may justify borrowing for a reasonable amount, depending on opportunity and ability to succeed. If married, the wife’s disposition and strength influence shared responsibility, and the guidance targets determined, sober youths while cautioning others to avoid debt.
A 122 day WV experiment fed skim milk to 22 hens and produced 1 244 eggs. A second group of 22 hens fed mash wetted with water laid 996 eggs in the same period.
A Massachusetts inventor patents a combined mixing spoon and fork for kitchen use. The device merges spoon and fork into one utensil to beat eggs and mix batter, with fork prongs inserted transversely to the spoon bowl to lift and mix more effectively.
Instructions describe a method to freeze cream with alternate ice and brine, burying the freezer and churning after chilling. It also provides a yeastless bread recipe using whole wheat flour baking powder and milk, mixing, and baking in a greased pan. The tone mimics old household tips.
Wash and simmer whole figs until tender. Dissolve gelatine in cold water, add to hot figs, then sweeten and add orange juice to three cups. Chill until thickened, fold in fig pieces, mold, and serve with cream or custard.
Recipe lines describe combining two cups flour half teaspoon salt two teaspoons baking powder two tablespoons butter one beaten egg one scant cup milk. Stir and pan bake with quartered apples butter cinnamon and more butter. Bake until apples are done and serve with sugar and milk.
Tea leaves have many uses and should not be carelessly thrown away. Drain them and they are useful to strew over a carpet or floor to keep the dust from rising while sweeping a room. They are good to clean glass water bottles, and it is also good to leave fish knives and forks in the wet leaves to remove the disagreeable odor.
A 19 inch wide pantry window is fitted with a box as wide as the lower sash and a foot deep. Two shelves are installed and the box is nailed to the window exterior. By raising the window a cool fall storage space forms for butter eggs and milk.
Heating potatoes on the stove before baking speeds up the process. This method saves gas and time and allows potatoes to bake in half the usual time once finished on the stovetop.
To maintain the cabbage’s fresh green tint boil in water with a pinch of soda. Use about a quarter teaspoon for a medium cabbage.
Practical tips on soaking pecans to keep kernels whole and using pumpkin seeds as mouse bait. Advice on inspecting sun blinds, repairing tears with matching material, and cleaning floors with a kerosene moistened flannel bag. Proposes window box of mignonette as a fragrant pest deterrent.
The Boston Herald describes Brazilian vipers such as the lance-head viper the suru cucu and the Jararoca. It notes the lance-head as deadly and states a serum from Brazil may become nearly extinct. The suru cucu reportedly kills in six hours and can reach nine feet, with a dirty yellow skin marked by dark brown lozenges. the Jararoca is similar in color and feared for its aggression.
Mrs. A. S. Payne of Columbus Mississippi suffers years of kidney pains and weakness. She finds relief with Deans Kidney Pills which she says helped from the first, restoring strength. available from dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The New York Times recounts Hal Chase promoting teetotalism among players while sharing a humorous anecdote. Leroy Vigors arrives in an amateur game with a skate, jokes about three bats and three balls, and ends with a puzzled hit on the outside bat after an umpire’s advice.
Mrs Lizzie B Sledge of Selma Alabama describes a four year battle with a widespread skin eczema. After two doctors failed and stopping treatment her husband bought Cuticura Remedies which cured the symptoms in six months and she has remained free of eczema for three years. The report also notes the Olney Bucks home of poet Cowper undergoing a reverent museum renovation by trustees.
The piece recalls a Lord Russell joke about bigamy. In court the barrister asked the extreme penalty for bigamy and the reply was two mothers in law, as told by London Tatler.
Chocolate Pie promotion touts three varieties Lemon Chocolate Custard available at grocers for 10 cents per package. Put up by D Zerta Food Co Rochester N Y inviting readers to share the easy pie mix.
The Laurentian carried 1000 tons of cargo including 1000 bags of peanuts from Glasgow to Boston. This marks the first such shipment from Glasgow to Boston in history.
Strong winds and sand storms cause granulation of the eyelids. Pat Tit's Eye Salve soothes and quickly relieves. 25c. All druggists of Howard Bros., Buffalo, New York.
Miss Lenora T. O'Reilly of the Women's Trade Unions league estimates 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 working women exist in the United States. A patent medicine ad notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething at 25 cents a bottle.
The London police guard a property valued at four point five billion dollars. The estimate marks a record in city assets and underscores security costs for high value holdings. Authorities declined to identify the owner or location for security reasons.
The ad touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe effective laxative. It claims it cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or dosage increases, acting naturally and pleasantly. The message urges buying the genuine product manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. through leading druggists.
Washington report notes a 1908 act securing pension rights for widows as promoted by John W. Morris. The item places emphasis on the new law and its administrative handling in Washington D.C. and New York addresses.
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