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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
7
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes that months of feminine illnesses left her almost unable to live. After using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the prescribed treatment she recovered, becoming strong and well again.
The advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Liver Pills as a remedy for female troubles including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities and backache. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice and offers guidance from Lynn Massachusetts.
The Dundee Advertiser reviews annual periodicals from the Arctic region. It cites the Eskimo Bulletin near Cape Prince of Wales printed on hectograph sheets, and mentions Godthaab and a Greenland title "Something for reading" with Greenlandic language. It also notes another publication Kaladlit.
The description lists frame components for a hay sweep including two main beams of 21 percent by 4 inch pine scantling at 12 feet length, 20 inches apart. Teeth crafted from 2 by 4 inch scantling are 9 feet long and beveled to glide over uneven ground. Hitching arms project about 2 feet 6 inches beyond the sweep ends and use 2 by 5 inch stock. Guide arms measure 9 feet by 2 3/4 by 3 inches, with about a foot of chain and a ring to attach to the breast strap. A hay guard is made from 2 by 3.
Instructions describe a raised sweep rake with bracing and wheel assembly, horse hitching method, and best practices for stacking hay. The piece also reports on agronomic trials comparing copperas to bluestone for weed and mustard control, noting mixed results and planned repeated trials at Davis and other stations.
A Minnesota farmer patents an egg testing device using a light and mirror to reveal unsound eggs. The piece also reports rising Italian tomato imports with good quality and low prices, while U S shipments to Italy fall and some critics claim US tomatoes are picked too early.
Farmers are urged to adopt better spring prep and roadside mowing. Experiments in Wisconsin show wild mustard may be cheaply controlled by spraying with blue vitriol without harming crops, though cost concerns are noted.
The piece argues individual farmers lack market power and that collective selling can raise earnings. It cites wheat, beef, pork, and mutton gains from small price boosts, and notes Tidewater Virginia sweet potatoes and Southern cotton growers profiting from cooperative marketing. It frames organization as a decisive business tool.
Instructions describe using small blocks to build a crib under the log center. Lift one end to slide the crib into place, then raise the log with the improved leverage. The sketch demonstrates a simple, strain reducing technique for single-man handling of heavy timber.
Farmers should avoid laying by corn too early as weeds overtake the field and soil becomes foul. Keep ground weed free to allow air and dew to nourish roots. Prevent egg eating by hens with exercise and lime rich feed plus a shell trough. Clean the garden in late summer to reduce weed seeds and spawns for spring.
Advice warns stable owners to keep stalls well lit to protect eyes and ensure clean air to safeguard lungs, stressing the link between environment and equine health. The guidance underscores basic welfare practices for horses and handlers.
Sour swill is not fit for hog feed and dry soil aids sheep farming. Early fruit brings high prices, thinning fruit requires nerve but pays. Excess corn causes pig thumps, select breeding pigs from larger litters. In boar buying favor progeny over pedigree. Fattening sheep while parasites remain is unprofitable. Keep bees for cross pollination. Crude petroleum fights scale but harms trees with repeated use. Starting a 2 year old tree requires care. trap nests stop egg eating. rice is decent for hens but not superior to wheat, corn, or oats. Sheep improve soil less with overgrazing than with proper grazing. closely penned fowls underperform in summer versus range grazing.
A Women's Home Companion guide recommends using thick brown paper and cotton batting to insulate a pitcher of ice water, sealing air out to keep water cold after ice melts. It also describes canning berries with sugar, no heating, using clean jars and inverting briefly to seal, yielding preserved flavor and winter strawberry shortcake.
A simple cold sweet uses one quart gooseberries two ounces sugar four egg yolks and whipped cream. Stew berries until soft then press through a sieve. Add sugar and yolks cook gently without boiling cool, then spoon into custard glasses and top with flavored whipped cream.
Peel and halve ripe apricots remove stones weigh fruit. Boil in water drain and place in a bowl. For each pound fruit add one pound sugar and half pint water then boil to soft ball add apricots boil twice pour into bowl. 24 hours later drain dust with sugar then dry in a cool oven turning and adding sugar until dried.
A simple home fix uses equal parts putty coal ashes and salt packed into the worn area. Heat the pot with a little water until the cement sets. The recipe uses readily available materials and a nickel’s worth of putty from a plumber.
A simple biscuit recipe uses one quart sifted flour one half cup lard one half pint milk and one level teaspoon salt. Rub dry ingredients with lard until smooth add milk beat twenty minutes then roll cut and bake in a hot oven for about twenty minutes. This yields about thirty biscuits.
Heat one pint tomato juice then add creamed butter and flour with salt and pepper. Cook five minutes. Butter a baking dish and place whole eggs, then cover with the hot mixture. Top with bread crumbs and brown twenty minutes in the oven.
Instructions describe making canned blue plums for pies by mixing seven pounds of fruit with 334 pounds of brown sugar plus one pint of vinegar and one ounce each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice. The fruit is scalded three times and then jarred.
A collection of practical tips on whitening tallow with alum or saltpeter, lighting candles by placing the match at the wick side, varnishing linoleum every three months, substituting celery seed for celery salt, preserving cling peaches whole, peeling skins with boiling water, cleaning gilt frames with spirits or turpentine, adding glycerin to starch to prevent sticking, and using a brick under ironing to retain heat.
The narrator describes a baby with severe eczema covering the body especially face and hands. After a year plus under doctors with no help, Cuticura Soap and Ointment are credited with a complete cure in three months. May 2 and 20, 1907. St. Louis reader Alice L. Dowell.
Mrs. F. Louis Mora owns a unique Washington medallion from six made for Gen. Lafayette. One of six, it survived while the other five disappeared. The cut glass piece, bound in gold with a plaster Washington head, bears Desprez Paris inscription and once circulated through the officer corps after the Revolutionary era.
The narrator describes three weeks aboard a boat on the Nile near Cairo. Ethereal boats pass under a big bridge as they journey slowly through treacherous channels, with loud shouts in an unfamiliar language and sailors sounding the bow to avoid getting stuck in the mud. Various vessels, from ferries to water jars carriers, crowd the scene alongside winged dahabeahs and mingling passengers.
A Grimsby fisherman's bottle, washed ashore in Lincolnshire after 150 miles, joins a history of sea-borne messages. Records recount bottles traveling from Bermuda to Shetland nearly 5000 miles, and others drifting 2587 knots in 512 days, with daily averages around 22.1 knots.
A traveler recalls a trip by train with his four year old daughter. They note the empty seats faced each other and the child asks if sitting backward would mean going to the same place as her father, highlighting a humorous moment on travel.
The scene unfolds as American produce floods a harbor with a vast cargo: from farms and mills to oil fields and factories. Four hundred workers wheel, haul, and rope cargo through the night, while trains, tugs, and barges converge to load the liner before sailing, a costly, time driven operation narrated by Ernest Poole.
Mrs James M Long of Staunton Virginia reports that Doans Kidney Pills cured her backache urinary troubles and bearing down sensations on January 31 1908 and that four and one half years later on June 20 1907 she has had no kidney trouble since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A Balik Pulau Chinese farmer reports dawn chaos as a tiger raids his pig enclosure. He fires and kills the intruder at close range. The tiger, reportedly enormous, swam from Province Wellesley and rested at Pulau Jerejak before crossing.
The Northwest leader in wholesale millinery, Blumenfeld Locher Brown Co, shows Fall styles. The firm, famed as The Progressive Millinery House of Milwaukee, emphasizes up-to-date hats and affordable prices under their B. L. & B. label.
A large group of children at the Lincoln chautauqua on the normal school ground in Englewood sang the Chil dren's Temperance March. They wore red white and blue caps and carried flags. Eight marchers dressed as prohibition states and two boys bore large Lincoln pictures.
Edwin age four rereads a picture book about a fierce cow chasing a boy. He studies the scene then proclaims with triumph that the cow has not caught him yet.
Inventors unveil a monorail wheelbarrow designed to travel on railway rails for use in busy yards with many tracks. The device aims to streamline material movement by running along the rails rather than on the ground.
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