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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1904
Page
3
Booker T. Washington argues blacks should not be ungrateful noting elders remember slavery. He recalls a story of an old colored man who witnessed streetcars replaced by electric ones and quips that after 30 years since emancipation even the mule will be freed.
Dry plains in Montana Colorado Arizona Idaho and other arid regions respond quickly to Salter seeds including Speltz Hanna Bartey Jacaroni Wheat 60 Day Earliest Oats Billion Dollar Grass and Bromus Inermis All grow well in drought and arid soils Send 10 cents in stamps to John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin for their catalog and seed samples.
Ad for Wis Drug Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promoting 25 doses of guaranteed cough care tablets for 25 cents postpaid. Included is a quoted misattributed line from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune about Skinner and customers.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a refund offer if ineffective. It contains random quotes and city newspaper references from Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News, dating January 6, 1900, and mentions Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
Joshua Heller of 706 South Walnut Street Urbana Illinois testifies in 1899 that Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble back pain and shoulder blade pain. He says later use also provides satisfactory results and endorses the preparation today. Tester Milburn Co Buffalo New York, proprietors. For sale by all druggists at 50 cents per box.
A practical single building plan designed to hold twenty fowls per pen with attached yards of adequate length to prevent soil contamination. The south facing, two room style includes raised earth floor, brick or stone foundation, double siding, ample sunlight, roosts over a wide litter free platform, nests along the partition, and storm shutters. Estimated cost two to three dollars per running foot.
The article quotes Brice Haynes urging careful medicine use for poultry and promoting ordinary plastering lime as a cheap, effective remedy. It claims lime can prevent cholera, disinfect, deodorize, deter lice, improve nest and outbuilding conditions, and aid fruit spraying.
During the fall of Winter is the time to buy fowls because breeders are over stocked and will sell at lower figures than any other time. The spring is the time to buy eggs because advantages then are more favorable for hatching and raising chicks. It is very difficult to procure birds in the spring as fowls are mated and pens are complete.
A Tennessee farmer argues that planting black or yellow locust trees on poor, eroded hillsides rapidly stabilizes soil and raises land value. Trees grown two to three years old can yield posts in 15 to 20 years, with roots preventing wash and gradually restoring pasture and timber, given careful pruning and controlled grazing.
A rancher describes a straightforward survey tool using a 16 foot board with a flush 1x4 leg and a longer end to set a grade. By placing the short leg at the ditch start and leveling the bubble, the method yields a three eighths inch grade per rod across the entire ditch.
Instructions advise keeping chickens confined in a three foot square coop for three weeks fed table scraps milk and barley to soften meat and improve breast yield. Confinement prevents muscle hardening from free range and results in prime table quality with minimal cost.
The writer cites Ruskin stating a man who consumes more than he produces is a pauper and notes that many paupers exist among the rich. The remark contrasts consumption with production and questions wealth distribution.
A Philadelphia Press anecdote describes a man with hair loss who uses a supposed patent remedy. The bottle is emptied and refilled with sarsaparilla, leading to no hair gain and an odd increase in flies around his head, prompting the barber to question Bay rum.
Yorktown Arkansas reports Dr Leland Williamson sworn to a statement citing cured cases with Dodd's Kidney Pills. Henry Nfall Sr., 48, malaria swamp fever with haematuria treated two months to full recovery. Swelling of kidneys and urine irritation relieved by the pills.
The John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes a test offer for warranted vegetable seeds. Readers receive a catalog and seed to grow cabbages carrots celery lettuce onions radishes and more, all for 16¢ postage and two extra packages for 20¢ postage, plus a Berliner cauliflower packet.
Reaches the principal points in Wisconsin offering Pullman Sleepers Free Reclining Chair Cars modern coaches and dining on guest service between Chicago Milwaukee Manitowoc and St Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth. Connections are made with diverging lines at all terminal points Meals served a la carte For tickets sleep ing car reservations and further information apply to agents of this company or write to C Pond Genl Pass Agt Milwaukee Wis Stilts of pride lift you above the people today and lay you in a puddle tomorrow Ram's Worn.
The Wonderful Cream Separator works in thirty minutes leaving under 1 percent butter fat. Prices range from $2.75 to $6.00 each, a bargain buyers would not part with. Send 5¢ postage to John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin for their full catalogue of this and many other farm tools and seeds.
Tickets available through Southern Railway and connecting lines to South Southeast and Southwest with return allowed until May 31 1904. Routes include Florida via Lookout Mountain and Atlanta and return via Asheville and the Land of the Sky. For information contact W C Rinearson G P A Cincinnati.
Mrs Col. E. J. Gresham of Hernden Virginia as treasurer of the Daughters of the Confederacy and president of Hernden Village Improvement Society writes that Peruna cured her severe catarrh after doctors gave up. She says she used six bottles and considers them a king's ransom, praising the medicine to friends.
A plain talk urges keeping Peruna in every home to prevent catarrh colds coughs pneumonia and consumption in winter. It claims Peruna is a safeguard preventive and cure and invites readers to write Dr Hartman with any unsatisfactory results for free advice.
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