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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
7
The United States Dispensatory notes Peruna ingredients like hydrastis canadensis golden seal cory dalis formosa and cedron seeds as tonics and treatments for mucous membrane disorders dysentery and intermittent diseases. The piece invites readers to request a free book of testimonials on Peruna’s catarrh claims.
The Italian government sells quinine to peasants in malaria districts and uses the profit to combat mosquitoes. It relies on drainage and land improvement rather than prompt adoption of screens or veils by villagers. Last year sales reached about $800,000 with a net profit around $75,000.
A historic article describes a low cost hay stack cover using 12 to 16 foot boards bent over the top pile. It explains layering boards on sides, securing with wires and staples, and adding posts or weights. It notes removal by drawing staples to uncover sections. It also mentions Lambertne Fears and a U.S. Department of Agriculture project restoring a horse farm, including a $4,000 stallion and 500 acres deeded to the government.
Farmers discuss fly control methods to save livestock during fly season. A spray with cresene liquid is applied directly to flies on cows and horses to provide relief. A drag saw guide reduces needed crew by guiding the saw from one end. a portable sorting table aids picking and packing of apples. Potatoes fit dairy farms with digger use to save labor. Colonel Battell of Middlebury, Vermont, is noted for preserving the Morgan horse.
The Agricultural Society of Germany reports successful arid farming via shallow winter plowing to store moisture in the subsoil. In Syria and Palestine, crops like watermelons and cucumbers flourish from April to October with minimal rain, aided by alternating shallow and deeper plowing and moist subsoil moisture.
The piece reviews disk and seed-germination strategies, followed by cultivation or frost to kill germinated annual weeds. It notes turning livestock to graze stubbled fields as another control, and discusses crop rotations, summer fallows, and the challenge of eradicating perennials. It mentions smother crops, bare fallow, chemicals, tarpaper, and a costly tar-paper method for small quack grass patches, likening quack grass to Bermuda grass in spread and persistence.
The report notes a nine year dental mark in upper jaw with the corner teeth showing a defined mark and fading in middle teeth. It also discusses the strawberry crown borer and recommends crop rotation and fall burning of infested fields to prevent pest thrive.
Practical guidance on farm livestock feeding and welfare. Advice covers poultry grain, beets as feed, shelter for chicks, limits on boiled eggs, dairy cow care, milking conditions, and caution against overmedicating horses. Emphasizes grass vacations for horses, clean stables, protein-rich clover, and prudent budgeting.
Mrs A Gregory of Denver writes that after six years of female troubles and a failed operation she found relief with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter touts cures for backache bearing down pains and periodic pains and urges other sick women to try the herbal remedy and seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
A London Standard account outlines brumby hunting in New South Wales with corral setups a booby fence and fluttering cotton to deter brumbies. Hunters pursue leaders drive pack toward the funnel mouth then corral and after twenty four hours without water begin breaking the wild horses.
The London Globe notes tea affects mood and domestic harmony. It cites Russia’s tea habit of pressing plant stems into cakes and claims English tea, in moderation, largely sustains daily temperament and family peace.
Five hundred children from Sheffield and Rechabite lodges joined the annual fishing outing at Hck ington Derbyshire now in its sixteenth year. Participants paid three halfpence weekly with each child receiving a prize worth 3 pence. Thirteen winners with catches earned extra prizes. fish weighed from a quarter to two ounces.
An Indiana woman testifies that drinking Postum after quitting coffee relieved liver pain headaches and gallcolic and improved chest heaviness. She says Postum tastes better and remains consistent, unlike coffee which herds vary. The letter promotes the product with a seal of authenticity and mentions The Road to Wellville.
In Herbert N. Casson's New York Magazine piece Cleveland is praised for his simple life and lack of vanity. The former president, celebrated as Democratic leader since 1861, remains closely tied to country living, showing charity to a ragged tramp and teaching humility to his son Dick.
A humorous back and forth shows a Society Editor urging a concise confession of love as George tries to express deeper feelings in a playful Brooklyn Life exchange.
A Yonkers Statesman item captures a country editor advising advance payment for subscriptions while a bearded farmer protests he has no vegetables ready. The exchange reflects rural humor and the era’s newspaper routines.
A Montreal mother recounts using Cuticura Remedies to cure her three daughters of severe eczema. She washed their heads with Cuticura Soap and applied Cuticura Ointment several times, noting relief and full healing among the children. She cites a plump baby with neck skin sores that disappeared by morning after treatment. May 21, 1907.
A curious Bellary district rite in which a ragged male effigy of the bridegroom's father is paraded before the wedding. The bridegroom's mother washes its feet and marks its forehead while the bridegroom's relatives receive mock attentions from the bride's party.
Mrs Mary E K H Rouse of Cambridge New York recounts years of kidney pain back and hip trouble from a fall. After using Deans Kidney Pills she reports quick relief and full recovery, noting improved health and endurance. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In a brief anecdote from The United Presbyterian a bride asks for a blessing and the father grants it freely yet notes board and lodging at regular rates. The item then shifts to Pettit's Eye Salve history and banking statistics noting New York leads with capital in national banks, followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Catalog promotion for Hide and Fur Co. Minneapolis offers guns trapes and furs at low prices. Health note describes infant soothing syrup by Mrs Winslow and teething relief. Newton Mass women teachers pay inquiry follows a suggestion by Mrs George F Lowell.
A vivid description portrays a Siamese forest as a tangle of fish hooks and knives linked by barbed wire, suggesting a dangerous, hostile landscape.
The Well-Informed favor a simple pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs with Elixir of Senna. The California Fig Syrup Co. promotes its genuine product as ethical and wholesome, with gentle prompt action. Sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
A Wisconsin woman wrote Pickles and Peppers hailed as the best Rag match published. Campaign managers favor the piece over Hot Time and a piano copy is available by mailing 7e to publisher Joseph Flanner in Milwaukee Wisconsin with free complete catalogues.
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