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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
6
Michael Steinman of 7 Sumner Avenue Brooklyn New York recounts a twelve year battle with eczema. He notes severe itching cracking and inflammation that spread across four body parts. After using Cuticura Ointment and other remedies his son's skin became smooth and clear. April 16 1905.
In Germany vaccination of cattle against the fatal disease black leg becomes general and highly effective, with only three losses reported in five years.
An Indiana breeder recalls curing hog cholera with Sloan's ointment five years ago and again in later cases. He treated sick hogs that would not drink with drenches and found Sloan's Ointment consistently effective. The notice invites readers to request Dr Sloan's free book on treating livestock.
Paris slaughterhouses process more than 30,000 horses each year to supply meat. Each horse carcass yields about 369 pounds of edible product for markets.
A Lynd mass columnist urges women to confide private health concerns to Mrs. Pinkham for confidential guidance. Her decades of correspondence with sick women allegedly offer knowledge that can aid cases, underscoring the trust in her counsel.
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen Town Pa reports a long history of organic disturbance and female weakness with headaches and nerves. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her recovery after following medical advice and guidance from the advertisement.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ills after thirty years of use. It claims the product cures displacement, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, backache, bearing-down sensation, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness and nervous prostration.
The paper asks advertisers to note that readers should say they saw the advertisement in this newspaper. This reminder reinforces ad attribution and helps track responses.
A poem from the Detroit Free Press laments gender limits and social access, imagining the freedoms of a girl who could attend shows, dances, and cafes with a beau, contrasted with a boy’s lack of invite and money for outings. The speaker contrasts desires for fashion, treats, and entertainment with the exclusion boys face in getting invitations or funds to go out.
The narrator recalls a weekly class voyage of fifty to sixty boys to the municipal baths. Pudge stands out as a small, stubborn boy wearing a long morning coat, shuffled with his mates, and enjoys a rowdy bath experience. The scene captures comments from passersby, the chaotic but ritual cleansing, and the narrator’s duties keeping order and timing Pudge’s swims.
A boy named Pudge jumps into a bath to save a non swimmer who had fallen in. Attendants revive the drowning youth after about twenty minutes. The rescued boy’s mother berates the incident as news spreads. The school chief later praises Pudge while the rescuer faces a repayable assault from the saved boy.
Stated items note court stenographers striking in Nova Scotia, Russia's textile trades with 37 214 members, Manitoba considering bartender licensing, eight U S women in boilermaking, French railways pension funds, Harvard president praising Canada 1907 act, New York State Farmers Union planning August convention for farm price gains, Columbus Ohio seeks B L E headquarters after a decade in Cleveland.
A fragment from a Curb Stone club meeting questions the public's attention to everyday details. A Saturday evening speaker probes common knowledge with trivia about teeth, watch dials, cat toes, watch faces, step counts to a post office, coin faces, stamps, and employer eye color.
J. Z. Reid of Florida praises the nut industry noting grafting and steam or electric cracking enable ready market for pecan meats. He cites 200 pounds per tree per season and prices of 60 to 70 cents per pound, predicting strong profits as demand exceeds supply. Washington Post.
A skull of a muskellunge found in a drained lake bed with a swan skull inside shows a water battle where both combatants likely drowned. Reports note a seven ty pounds fish and a smaller case of a five-pound fish choking on a three-pound prey. The mus kellunge is described as voracious, preying on bullfrogs ducklings aquatic birds and small mammals.
A traveler in Baden wishing to send a telegram writes the message on a postcard, adds a stamp, and drops it in the train’s letter box. At the next station the box is cleared and the telegram is wired to its destination.
In Gunten on Lake Thun a natural tree fountain channels spring water through a shaft into a cut poplar trunk. The trunk rooted, branches grew, and now the tree exhibits a remarkable water-spouting top growth observed about twenty years after the experiment began.
A servant, John, joins two brothers who look alike but one is deaf. He misreads papers and letters and says The mail, old buck. The deaf brother corrects him, saying it is my brother who is deaf.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as pure wheat and barley food, claiming digestion ease and brain nerve benefits from phosphate of potash. It cites Dr. Carey and asserts potassium phosphate as essential for nerve fluid and health, urging use for overworked workers and families.
A lady writer who raised a family praises Grape-Nuts as ideal for brain work and healthy children. She shares morning appetite issues during nursing, prior reliance on unhealthy snacks, and how daily Grape-Nuts with milk improved her energy, clarity, and mood. Postum Cereal Co. Battle Creek Mich.
Inventions include an improved culinary tool with a blade and a pivoted holding lever. The hollow holder grips waffles when inverted to turn them. A spring keeps the lever against the blade and is released by a thumb piece to admit the waffle.
Cut one large rabbit or two small ones into joints. Mix chopped rabbit liver and heart with ham, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, pepper, and half a beaten egg. Shape into balls, layer with rabbit and ham in a dish, add stock, cover with puff paste, and bake for about one and a half hours.
A kitchen note lists ingredients for a spiced raisin cookie dough using butter sugar chopped raisins eggs milk flour cinnamon cloves mace nutmeg and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar then mix in raisins eggs milk and flour with spices then fold in more flour to form a soft dough for rolling cutting and baking in a quick oven.
Peel and cut four oranges into bits and blanch English walnut meats. Chill the fruits, mix with mayonnaise dressing, and fill a chilled lettuce lined salad bowl. Cover with more dressing and serve cold.
A simple frosting method uses four tablespoonfuls of milk per cup of sugar. Cook until a thread forms in cold water or a soft ball forms, then beat until thick and white. Maple sugar adds a delightful flavor to this frosting.
Cream butter and sugar then add yolks water and flour with baking powder. Fold in stiff egg whites and ground nut meats. Bake in small buttered patty pans.
Short guidance on cleaning zinc tubs with paraffin and soap, protecting fine china with soft mats, enriching rice pudding with eggs, removing medicine stains from spoons using acid, cleaning white paint with bran, a long lasting paste recipe with alum and clove oil, improving oil lamp light with camphor or vinegar, egg handling tips, and storing eggshells for jelly.
A traveler explains camphor production in distilleries near camphor trees. Low mud buildings host multiple fires and kettles with perforated lids, an iron cylinder holding camphor chips, and a top inverted jar. Steam extracts oil, brine-like droplets form frostlike crude camphor which dries and is refined into the familiar white balls and cubes.
The clergyman notes the two and twenty seventh New Year pledge and recalls a time in India when temperance efforts were illegal. Medical thinking once claimed whites needed daily whisky, and abstinence led to arrest and banishment. The piece ends with contrast to modern views.
A described standard for a well formed woman cites weight of 145 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches height, balanced limb measurements, and waist 28 inches with bust at least 36 inches, noting shifts from prior generations. It emphasizes proportional mirrors of grandmotherly metrics and exact body plan benchmarks.
Admiral Dewey praised a successful business man for a trait he attributed to his early success. As a 22 year old who opened a trimming store he learned to persuade people by courteous questions. When asked to make change he would smile and ask how they would have it, offering options like buttons ribbon lace or insertion.
Professor Udinski of Bucharest veterinary school amputated the fet lock joint of a horse and fitted a leather artificial leg. The animal now walks and exercises, demonstrating an experimental prosthesis.
Minnesota advertisement offering a free watch fob to customers who ship five dollars worth of hides or furs or purchase guns or traps totaling that amount. N W Hide and Fur Company of Minneapolis promotes the deal to boost trade.
The text extols St Jacobs Oil as a balanced pain reliever for nerve and bodily pains. It claims deep penetrating power to reach sciatic and facial nerves, easing neuralgia gently, and even inducing restful sleep after use. It urges every family to keep a bottle at home.
A Philadelphia builder has sold 25 touring cars to customers in Cuba with delivery slated by January 1.
The first reinforced concrete chimney was built in 1898 at Bayonne New Jersey. Since then about 400 stacks have been completed across the United States and Canada. Height varies from 50 to 352 feet with inside diameters from 4 to 18 feet. Most are 150 to 200 feet high and 5 to 6 feet in diameter.
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