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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
3
An advocate claims Botanic Blood Balm cures various ailments with a money back guarantee if no cure. The advertisement notes a 30 year tested Botanic formula and offers samples and free medical advice from the Blood Balm Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
A collection of humorous quips and lines from Chicago Journal Washington Star and other papers. Lines touch on gold fever dust street sweeping finances rents fashion rivalry and old stories from theater and classroom humor.
A letter touts Postum Food Coffee as a cure for headaches nervousness and biliousness linked to coffee drinking. The writer claims a neighbor and others improved after switching to Postum and urges readers to look for the Road to Wellville booklet in each package from Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan.
A rural advice piece urges deliberate planning of home surroundings to avoid unattractive, jumbled yards. It contrasts two yard sketches, showing how orderly, curved paths, grouped trees, and massed shrubs create harmony vs a cluttered layout with isolated plants and straight walks.
A North Dakota writer urges constant cultivation to combat weeds in gardens. He advises harrowing large plots weekly from planting to four inches high, and using iron rake and wheel hoe for small beds. Continuous soil stirring, plowing ahead of first plantings, and weekly weed removal keep vegetables thriving despite drought and winds. Continuous cultivation is key to keeping weeds down and crops thriving.
H B Mitchell explains a wheel-hoe method for planting onion sets. Prepare ground and marked rows. Use teat shaped pins in a strip to form holes, press with foot, place onion sets, then rake with the wheel-hoe to finish. The device claims to double output versus the usual method.
Herbert reads a love letter from Mildred Halcomb inviting him to Palm Beach with bicycles for a group tour to Jamaica or San Domingo. He realizes his lifelong friendship with Mildred has become love as the midnight telegraph orders him to come with his bicycle.
Experts declare that milk from ensilage has all the qualities of milk and butter from green grass. A butter buyer describes the flavor as grassy and desirable for fancy butter. The piece urges more experiments on ensilage as a cheap dairy feed.
The Nature article by Prof Maumene reports experiments by Rou alt showing deciduous trees can be transplanted in full foliage in May or June with minimal injury if done at night. French horticulturists endorse the method as practical and effective.
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