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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1905
Page
7
Mrs. F A Dinsmore of Woburn Massachusetts credits four months of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing her rheumatism after years of failed treatments. She warns that rheumatic trouble signals blood illness and urges keeping blood healthy with these pills sold by all druggists.
A North Bend Nebraska Eagle letter praises Western Canada crops and prospects. It cites high yields in Edmonton district including oats 65 bushels per acre and wheat 42? bushels per acre, notes mild fall and frost, and forecasts a transcontinental railway reaching Edmonton within five years.
Consumers want plump properly picked fowls while city merchants demand shaped birds before packing. The shaping process creates a uniform form, reducing the risk of poorly formed fowls in boxes or barrels and improving market success for poultry raisers.
The Indianapolis News describes a simple shaper to shape fowl for packing. Build a frame with two ten foot troughs of seven-eighths inch by six inch boards, then lay the carcasses head down and weight with an inch board and bricks for six to seven hours until shaped for crates.
A Breeders Gazette excerpt presents Jansen and Wing on lamb feeding. Wing describes a habit driven approach using early lamb purchases, shading pastures, slow feeding of alfalfa and corn silage, then gradual ear corn. The method yields steady gains and market-topping lambs with low grain input.
Observers urge keeping male and female birds apart during fall and winter to ensure fertilized eggs for hatching. They warn unfertilized eggs die soon and even at 60 degrees fertilized eggs decay faster. emphasis on separation for hatchery success.
Advice for young farmers stresses three priorities upon starting farming windbreaks pure water and storage. The windbreaks grow essential as forests decline making orcharding feasible where it would otherwise be impossible according to Farm and Home.
Elijah Norton of Dover ships silver gray foxes to M. H. Bertrand in Houghton Michigan and sends a red fox. Norton has sold several pairs of silver grays for 500 dollars per pair. Maine Farmer.
Soy beans used about 525 pounds of water per pound of dry matter produced in Wisconsin tests. The crop yielded 7,980 pounds of dry matter per acre, equal to 9,177 pounds of hay with 15 percent moisture.
A simple homemade stirrer is described for cooking large batches of stock. It uses a wooden shaft with paddles at the bottom and a crank mechanism to rotate the paddle, with an adjustable board strip to fit over the kettle. A brick and cement fireplace is suggested for outside cooking.
The careful owners of horses should provide a special room for harnesses near the horses to keep them from ammonia gas and dust and to avoid carrying harnesses back and forth.
A Cleveland Leader quip imagines a patent medicine “Regulator for Chills and Fever” that would flip seasons to trigger chills on warm days and fever on cold days. The idea pokes fun at patent cures and seasonal whimsy.
In Chicago Record-Herald style, Cholly muses on why people live and his rough uncle retorts with a blunt reply Jerusalem. The exchange captures a moment of existential doubt between two characters.
A shopkeeper overwhelmed by delays asks for help as a doorwalker points to the basement Undertaking department. The Philadelphia Press notes the improvised moment reflecting shop life.
An Eagle River Wisconsin report notes kidney trouble and rheumatism cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Maggie E. Deckert says nine boxes cured her pain, restored sleep, appetite, and mobility, and proves kidneys cause rheumatism. The ad copy closes with a Puck quote.
The U S Department of Agriculture backs Salzer's New National Oats. It reported 1904 yields from 150 to 300 bushels per acre across 30 states. The ad challenges farmers to beat these results in 1903.
The notice touts Salzer seeds with high per acre yields for various crops including Beardless Barley 121 bu and Home Builder Corn 300 bu. It urges farmers to order the 1905 seed catalog by sending 110 cents in stamps to John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wis, and mentions calendars from N W Ayer & Son and a quote about a great mind avoiding affronts.
No other medicine has such widespread endorsement for female troubles and uterine disorders. The product is claimed to cure conditions from backache and leucorrhea to ovarian inflammation, womb displacement, irregular menses, and nervous symptoms, with broad assertions of safety and efficacy. Sold by druggists everywhere and urged to refuse substitutes.
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