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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
7
A Penang Gazette excerpt quotes a romantic letter from a secret admirer to a daughter, describing faltering handwriting and desperate affection. The writer laments education lost after rejection from Rangoon college and clings to affection as a lifeline.
West Pembroke Maine March 21 Mrs A L Roith of this place reports Dodd's Kidney Pills as the best remedy for growing girls. Mrs Smith shares her experience of a thirteen year old daughter plagued by weekly Crazy Spells, yellowing, and poor appetite, who after a dozen boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills has had no bad spells.
Mrs Suburba laments wars in old age while Mr Suburba, with a new atlas on his knees, quips that a mapmaker might see value in territorial shifts as borders change. The Cincinnati Times-Star frame hints at geopolitical humor in daily life.
The Rural New Yorker lauds Salzer's Earliest Potato yielding 464 bu per acre and Salzer's Early Wisconsin at 736 bu per acre, noting newer varieties. It invites readers to request Salzer's big catalog detailing Teosinte, Victoria Rape, New National Oats and other fodder plants, with claims of high outputs.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment as the most successful cure for torturing skin and scalp humors including hair loss. Claims hot bath with Cuticura Soap and possibly Cuticura Resolvent Pills provide immediate relief and speedy cure, especially for infants and children, while noting a quote from Cato about disregard for others.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for swollen hot feet and says ladies can wear shoes one size smaller. It urges buying at druggists for 25 cents and offers a free trial package with address in Le Roy New York. Also cites readers endorsing Piso's Cure and a quip about kleptomaniacs.
An old-time ad copy notes Stopa the cough remedy and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents. It promotes ease of slipping into a rut over rising out of it and references Ram's Horn dyes and fadeless colors for silk and cotton.
A 19th century note describes a tread power device using a large inclined wheel driven by a walking animal. An animal tied at one side walks on a disk wheel connected to a small under wheel, transferring motion without belts or gears.
The Vermont Dairy Association advises milker cleanliness and clean clothing, udder brushing before milking, and thorough quiet milking. Discard the first streams from each teat, drain milk through clean fabric, aerate and cool promptly, and keep milk in a clean, dry, pure air room. Avoid mixing fresh and cooled milk, never add substances to prevent scouring, and keep cans covered. Cleanliness and cold preserve milk. hot weather uses a damp blanket for cooling.
Denmark, with land worth $500 an acre, sends researchers to study English taste and then produces the exact butter England wants. Danish dairymen cooperate through creameries eggs sale houses and slaughterhouses, delivering a uniform product through honest hard work.
A tip filled note advises on preparing rich seed beds for apples guarding seeds from mice and freezing. Sow in fall in a covered box or sheltered place, transplant in spring with generous space, cultivate, graft or bud, but single seed per tree and avoid rot grafting. Ends with promise of an enduring orchard. Also notes many farmers now view the cream separator as essential.
Advocates for government road aid cite precedents in education showing federal support for state colleges and agricultural stations. They note 1862 1887 Morrill Hatch acts and rising annual sums, arguing federal aid to education legitimizes federal road funding despite constitutional gaps.
A historic Farm and Home note describes making a dirt drag for roads by splitting a log into two flat-faced halves placed 30 inches apart and fastened with a chain or heavy wire. The log should be 10 to 12 inches thick and about 10 feet long, with the front edge protected by iron or an old wagon tire.
Prof W H Conn explains clean milk vessels prevent bacteria. Ordinary farms use one boil for many pails, which fails to clean them and leaves bacteria in cracks. Daily steaming is ideal. if not possible scrub with boiling water and sal soda, rinse with boiling water, and dry inverted.
Sir Francis Winter reports the Ahgaiambo, a swamp dwelling people in New Guinea who never walk on solid ground. Their houses float on bamboo poles about 12 feet above mud and water. They swim well and rarely leave swamps, with legs and feet deformed by a life of canoeing and swimming. feet bleed when they must tread on land. Their bodies show marked adaptation to wet life with weak joints and wooden‑like feet.
George Ethelbert Walsh recounts the Panama Canal fiasco as the 21 mile isthmus and 46 mile route proved costly. De Lesseps led hopes for an 1888 opening while fraud and mismanagement wrecked the project. Machinery rotted in Colon and thousands died or returned home.
A French translator adds a footnote clarifying the Golden Rule quotation attributed to Roosevelt. The note cites Bookman and links the rule to a claim about Pythagoras. The exchange mentions Senator Ingalls and the iridescent dream in politics.
A January 10 1897 line notes Dr Hartman received a letter from John O Atkinson of Independence Missouri praising Peruna and Manalin. The correspondence cites long term catarrh chronic constipation and change of life as cured by Peruna, with a promise of further advice gratis from Dr Hartman.
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