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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1928)
“AS NECESSARY AS BREAD" * Mrs. Sk&han’s Opinion of Pinkham’s Compound Baugua Centre, Mass.—“T hav» taken 10 bottles of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and would no more be without a bob tie in the house than I would be without bread. It lias made a new woman of me. I used to be so cross with my husband when I was suffering that I don’t know how he stood me. Now I am cheerful and strong and feel younger than I did ten years ago when my troubles began.*’—Mrs. John Skahan, 20 Emory St., Saugus Centre, Mass. Old Timepiece Still Record Passing Houn Six thousand eight hundred and ninety years of ticking! That’s the record established by the contents of four drawers in the wardrobe depart ment of the Paramount studios at Hollywood. These drawers1 are given over to ancient watches which are used in the making of pictures. They have been gathered from all parts of the nation during the past 15 years. There are 121 of these antiques and all are in perfect working order. Of men’s watches there are 43 sil ver and 20 gold ones. These are aug menieu Dy 9- silver ana 10 gom watches for women. The men’s col lection contains one one hundred fifty years old, six one hundred years old, 17 made more than seventy-five years ago, 21 which are sixty years old and 18 used for forty-five years or more. The two one-hundred-fifty-year-old watches are the prizes of the collec tion. One is a Swiss chatelaine watch worn at the belt. Cotton Statistics The Department of Commerce, which has been investigating the pos sibility of finding new uses for cot ton, has discovered that there are al ready 1,090 uses for the 135 base fab rics mude wholly.jor in part from ttie staple. Some 150 different articles made of cotton are used on farms, 100 in households, 43 by railroads and 20 in industry, yet per capita consump tion has gained only slightly in the last decade. No Place for Him A negro was offered a job feeding sharks. “Nah, Sail, boss, me and sharks ain’t friends." “Why, boy, sharks don’t eat black meat." “Ah know, but it’s just mah luck to meet wid one dat’s blind." The Real Thing “Something mannish in a hat please.’’ “Here’s the very thing!” “But it isn’t mannish enough.” “But that’s a man’s hat, madam.”— Philadelphia Inquirer. Many Springfields According to the postal guide there are 24 cities in the United States named Springfield. Kissing is like salt. Too much spoils any situation. ctmrLEAiUN IMPROVED . QUICKLY Carter’s Little Liver Pills Purely Vegetable laxative move the bowel* free from pain and unpleaaant after effects. They relieve the *y*tem of constipa tion poison* which many time* cause pimple*. Remember they are a doctor'* preacriptio.. and can he taken by the en ire family. All Druggist* 25c and 75c Red Package*. CARTER’S ISu PILLS poison ivy Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh ftftomry hark for flrri bwtt*n !I not Muted. All dw m Kill All Flies! ra^r Plnrod unywberr, DAISY FLY k.l l.RR nttrnrtr and fcailn nil tboa. Neat, eie no* ornament ;«J. eonvt nttM and -a ch« at L.HMtt hi! fit a IMB. Ma. f rt»n I rp i or tip over; ■ will not mil or Injure i rir)i: 'n t.i.u'Hi'Uio IwM upon DAISY fl.Y klLLEF , Imn rout dtalvt. ] HAROLD lOMBR* tr**kl|* N V I • Jityul'J^wilTTTrW I 1 Mww lerful and Ban- d«l.< »««ir »kt» ^■tuT *1f llwrurw WIMM "nn | Ml »ik».rM..in»<inl'nila I'wd H W,o« f«r*f r<*lf fill sad •* Kasai* 1 . ^ bwAlatasat fr*» A>4 lauiuaakarw »>IM PAKKIK'S 1 HAIR ilAI.SAM I n/.m •’TON MIAMPOO Mr*! *rr *•• a twwam4U «t nidi I •<!*» * lia r Fpft« HMnIIm W t*jf\ Ilt4 •*»#? IS s M« t*f Mtii «»f It 4t tr£. f«at« Weft*, llUki iut, II- f. •IOUX CITY pro CO, NO. *ft - Hr-S I — — BY LOUIS N. ( RILL, Secretary of Agriculture. Traveling 456 miles on the Mis souri river in South Dakota, one gets some new impressions of the advantages along this great system. The immense timber growth along the shores in that distance is sur prising. J. Maughs Brown, state engineer, who was keeping close tab on these resources, estimated that there are 60 square sections of timber land on the Missouri bot tom lands, between the North Da kota state line and Yankton. The prevailing species is cotton wood. with elm and oak in good quantities in many places There are also many pines on the hill sides. There are thousands of acres of willows on the newly made sand bars—enough to make all the wil low-ware the country could use and this resource opens up nev/ possi bilities for manufacture. At this season of the year, the beauty of the wild roses growing on the banks of the stream is beyond description—miles and miles of Grand, Cheyenne, Moreau, Teton, White and Niobrara rivers, where they join the Missouri, are beautiful sights. Hundreds of wooded ravines and creek valleys add more splendor to the scene. Then miles and miles of chalk cliffs, in their variegated colors, fringed with pine trees at many maces from Chamberlain to Yank *on. make this valley one of the scenic spots of the world. Wild fruits also are in abundance. Thousands and thousands of bush els of wild grapes grow in tnc tim bered sections along the stream more prolific than at any other place known. Patches of wild plums and choke cherries are seen in profusion in valley and on hill side. Wild cucumbers and hops, both commercially valuable, make a vine clad network and entanglements of gorgeous beauty in many places. Wooded islands—a hundred of them—add a picturesqueness to the landscape. oucn scenic Deauues ca»i» along this great stream were not meant to be hidden from the view of human kind. As soon as our main highways are completed, steps should be taken to build a river road from Sioux City to the North Dakota state line, skirting the valley, winding around hills agid cliffs, climbing to heights of landscape beauty, passing close by natural parks, crossing bridges of architectural beauty, making it for future generations one of the scenic routes of the world, as well as a road of great commercial value to large strips of territory now without adequate highway accom modations. I am also convinced that a type of boat for passenger and freight traffic will be invented that will make travel on this stream safe and practicable. It would seem with the perfec tion aluready obtained for the cater pillar tractor principle of motor power that a lixe attachment for boats coming in contact with the sandbars would solve the difficul ties so often experienced in navi gating that stream. A week’s trip en the Missouri river yn a beat equipped to offer splen did accommodations for those seek ing a vacation period, would, no doubt, become very popular. Another asset of the Missouri riv er is its supply of catfish. Many fishermen, fish boats and fish traps were seen along the shores on this trip. The “Old Muddy” is the catfish paradise. “Millions of them,” as one of the boat crew said. “And if you could catch them all and sell them at the market price, doubtless there tvould be enough to pay off the rural credit shortage.” Fanning Still Attractive. From Omaha World-Heruld. Tire deflation of agriculture and the subsequent long period of de pression complicate the process of adjustment and stabilization follow ing the disappearance of an arable public domain open to settlement There is no more fertile land to be had for little more than the effort of clearing it and putting it under the plow. What is left is too rough, too sterile or too arid for cultiva tion. New areas may be opened by Irrigation, but their extent will be negligible compared with the whole farming area of the country. Not only is tne iree ianc gone, but the pioneer, the original home steader, has nearly disappeared. This changed condition has been accompanied bv certain definite phenomena. The urban population has been rapidly overtaking the ru ral, farms have been passing into the hands of absentee landlords and tenantry has been increasing. The acquirement of land by the previ ously landless entails the neces sity cf heavy financing and the pil ing up of an enormous mortgage debt. These phenomena are not suffi cient of themselves to be alarming. So long as the tenant can look for ward to ultimate ownership and so long as the farm can earn a money return adequate to carry the financ ing required for changing owner ship. American agriculture will at tract and hold a type worthy of the traditions of the pioneer ancestors. There never was a time when fanning, aside from its economic aspect, appeared more attractive. Science and invention havp given the farmer machinery which takes much of the load from his back, they have brought him into closer I touch with town and his neighbors and they have made it possible for him to possess many of the com forts and conveniences of the ur ban dweller. The land wants only an economic stabilisation compar able to that of mechanical Industry to save it from reversion to peas antry. And the Garden? Prom Passing Show. Husband (who. during hours cleaning time has to shift lor him •elf)—I say. dear, where the drucs can I find a knife and fork? Wife--Don't be silly. Harold. You know they are krpt In the side board. Hu-band—I It tow, but where U th* 'tdeboard* Wile—Oh. it's In th* gardes. q Ha* the name of Germany arm changed? E. 8 _ A r* r'drlat name la Duets- J rhes Reich In EnsU*h U la laliad ) 1 Use Oent.au Republic Out Our Way ’_ By Williams /vsMA-r DOES ?\A°0 SHOULD Y WES , BV ALL ME^S\XHA-HA-lEACHlvj' \ (t , , _ _ \ fsp AGV(£0 BACK" AM ASvC Y AM EMGLlS1-1 MAM Y V/JMEM pH COWS>| ^ \AjaA-r' MiM—VJOT COVMS? ) EMGUSH • 1 MAD COME. 'OME. J ^-w;waT ^me o5ws nesEt? a nawFul. TmE meam ? HI < CC^S ? COMES HuM-AFIW WHEM I FOISV AwsHEO IM CW5 ARE com T'CHICARGO/COME OUE3 FROM VNHEM HI MIGHT OlfFROUT, 1.0,,“ , Cl1LJ y WALES. I LAHOIO V HEvpeer a Rise Woo v<m// >M noowo>k foist, \ MlsJ ME pl-AWNO -- ~ " V. (| 1HEM E?AVNSTiM 'E GW L/E ME A \/ZhES APPy, VQO SHOULpX U MAWStCHOOStTS AM^ HAWSTS GLAWNCE : II / I LEAFtisT 7 FbRR'H^ c- lll^o?L0 kSJ wHic^yl Amwoo,* 'H 3 veers. " PAMPAS. llpjrw N> ^T'-X _ _ _ *4 is 9 4 /' ■ JOUNM\E BULL AMO TV\E BULL. ^ - - — »i-i* e <•». BY MU StHVIC* INC. __4 In Nicaragua. Prom United States Daily. Plans completed by the marine :orps provide for sending an addi tional force of 958 men and 28 of ficers to Nicaragua to assist in su pervising of Nicaraguan elections in Dciober, it was announced orally June 14 at marine corps headquar ters. The reinforcements will relieve come of the fighting line from duty so that they may study Spanish and familiarize themselves with Nicara guan customs in preparation for Election work. A school for this tui tion has been set up at Leon, Nic aragua. The marine reinforcements will be mobilized from detachments afloat. Detachments from the battleships New Mexico, Pennsylvania and tdaho already have left from Puget Sound, Washington, on the am munition ship Nitro. The detach ments from the Texas was dropped at Corinto, June 13. Other detachments will be taken out of San Pedro, Cal., by some ves sels of the tattle fleet, starting probably July 5. Detachments mak ing up the force are as follows: United States fleet, battleship Texas, 95; battle fleet, battleship California. 95; battleship division, West Virginia 79, Pennsylvania 69, New York 77, Arizona 74. New Mexico 67. Idaho 71, Mississippi 72, Colorado 69. Maryland 82. Tennes see 74 and tender snip Protyon 34 Three officers each will go from the detachments from the Penn sylvania, West Virginia and Cali fornia, one from the Procyon, and two each for the remainder of the craft. To Kill Dandelions. L. H. Pammel, Des Moines. Most people like a green lawn, and do net care to have it inter spersed wiih dandelions. Therefore, the dandelion is a most troublesome weed. What can be done to ex terminate it? In the lawns in the cities of Colorado, it is not infre quent to see parts ploughed and cultivated, then freshly sown with blue grass in order to exterminate the dandelion. Irrigation rapidly makes a good lawn again. This is not practical in Iowa. One may also destroy the dandelion by the use of a spud or a knife, cutting out the roots a few inches below _ . .« . ___j rru i n lilt SUUttLC SJi. liiC fiuuuu. method is laborious. The dandelion does not produce new buds from very far underneath the surface of the ground. The cheapest way in Iowa is to spray with iron sulphate. The writ er and Miss Charlotte M. King in 1907 and 1908 carried on an ex tensive series of experiments in the extermination of the dandelion and other weeds by the use of iron sul phate and other chemicals, and since then other experiments have been made by us showing conclu sively that Iron sulphate will ex terminate the weed. Young seed ing plants can be killed in a single spraying, and now is the time to spray for these. The solution used in our experiments was 108 pounds of iron sulphate to a barrel of wa ter. Even half-strength solution de stroyed completely the dandelion. We found, for instance, that the young dandelions may be killed by a single spray but older plants cannot be destroyed unless five or six ap plications of the spray are made and these applications should be made in the afternoon. The Ontario agricultural college experiment station states in a re cent report that, after three years of experimental work, they found as we did that soon after the appli cation of the solution the leaves of the dandelions were blackened and burned. They found it necessary to spray six times before the dande lions were completely killed Ac cording to their figures over 90 per cent, of the dandelions were de stroyed by spraying six times with ilrokerV Loan*. Chicago Journal of Commerce Whatever warrant there may have been for alarm over the Increase In the amount of brokers' loans ought to be quieted by the substan tial decrease In the amount during the last fortnight The diversion of the country'* li quid capital Into stock speculation ha* bn-n lessened by forte* arising out ol this very speculation on June d broker* loan* reached a rec ord total 34* Wo On June 13 the amount had decreased to M * 4J7.091JJW, and on June 30-1 ur Gist of Democratic Platform on Problem of Agricultural Equity in tliat part of the democratic platform devoted to the agricultural problem, there is extended discussion of the causes leading up to the existing inequalities, properly enough, and reference to "broken promises" by the repub lican party. These phases are quite legitimate, but the^ real interest in the middlewest applies to constructive suggestions for establishing and maintaining economic equity. Note the positive pledge for action. What may be termed the heart of the democratic position on agriculture, therefore, is con tained in the following extract from the platform adopted at Houston: Farm relief must rest on the basis of an economic equality of agriculture with other industries. To give this equality a remedy must be found which will include among other things: (a) Credit aid by loans to co-operatives on at least as favorable a basis as the government aid to the merchant marine. (b) Creation of a federal farm board to assist the farmer and stock raiser in the marketing of their products as the federal reserve board has done for the banker and business man. When our archaic banking and currency system was revised after its record of disaster, and panic under republican administration, it was a democratic con gress in the administration of a democratic president that accomplished its stabilization through the federal reserve act, creating the federal reserve board with powers adequate to its purpose. Now, in the hour of agriculture’s need, the democratic party pledges the establishment of a new agricultural policy fitted to present conditions, under the direction of a farm board vested with all the powers necessary to accomplish for agriculture what the federal reserve board has been able to accomplish for finance, in full recognition cf the fact that the banks of the country, through voluntary co-operation, were never able to stabilize the financial system of the country until government pow ers were invoked to help them. (c) Reduction through proper government agencies of .the spread between what the farmer and stock raiser gets and the ultimate con sumer pays with consequent benelits to both. (d) Consideration of the condition of agriculture in the formula tion of government financial and tax measures. We pledge the party to foster and develop co-operative marketing associations through appropriate government aid. We recognize that experience has demonstrated that members of such associations alone cannot successfully assume the full responsi bility for a program that benefits all producers alike. Wc pledge the party to an earnest endeavor to solve this problem cf the distribution of the cost of dealing with crop surpluses over the marketed units of the crop whose producers are benefited by such assistance. The solu tion of this problem would avoid government subsfdy to which the democratic party has always been opposed. The solution of this prob lem will be a prime and immediate concern of a democratic adminis tration. a 20 per cent, solution of iron sul phate. The material used is known as sugar sulphate of iron. If used for large areas, 100 pounds can be emptied into a barrel of water, thor oughly mixed and then applied with a spraying machine. The spraying should be done under pressure. For smaller areas, two pounds of sul phate of iron to a gallon of water will be sufficient for a lawn 20 by 25 feet; or five gallons for a lawn 25 by 100 feet for a single applica tion. The plants will turn blark the next day. the grass will be slightly brown. The processes should be re peated in a week and five or six sprayings should be made for the season. Please remember consid erable force should be used to apply the iron sulphate on the plants and do not spray on bright, clear, sun shiny days because we found in our experiments that we had better suc cess when a dew followed the spray and when sprayed In the afternoon. ■ . ■ ... ,-»+ ■ - Money Jugglery. The unrest in France is the same sort of unrest we had when we had the same problem. The holders of money and of securities payable in money were hoping against hope that the franc might be brought nearer to parity. They have stout ly resisted recognizing the franc at the 4 cent value. That is why j Poincare has waited so long and which a report has just been made •—the amount had dropped to M - 289 590.000 This is a decline of nearly $390 000 000 In two weeks. It Is fortunate that the decrease In the amount of money which tlw i banks have loaned on call vhculd ! occur at just this time, became the July 1 settlement is the mo*t impor i tsnt settlement day of the year A j huge amount will be paid out in : Interest, dividends and other settle ' menu, and for this purpose an un ! usual total of bank credit U neces The decline in brokers* loans Is 1 not due in any Important extent to [ the calling of loans. It la due at why he feels his way ,«iO cautiously. There are plenty of economists who believe the United States would have acted more justly with its peo ple if after inflation we had faced things as they were and stabilized our money at the inflated level. De flation did not right the wrong done by inflation, it merely added an other wrong. If deflation had come to those who benefited by infla tion, one hand might have washed the other. But deflation did not hit those who had profited out ol Inflation It hit a wholly new group One has to only go to any of our thriving county seats in the de flated farm area to see what deflai tion has done to a generation ol bankers and land owners. We are now getting readjusted here in the Mississippi valley. Q. Was long hair ever a sign of rank? A. C. R. A. Homer speaks of long haired Greeks by way of honorable dis tinction. The Gauls considered long hair a mark of honor for which reason Julius Caesar obliged them to cut off their hair as a tok en of submission, for all slaves were .•horn The Ooths considered long hair a mark of honor and shorn hair a sign of thraldom. For man* centurle* long hair In France wa* the distinctive mark of kings and nobles and in the time of Charles II the cavaliers gloried in long hair most entirely to an Inevitable liqui dation in the stock market. The decline in the value of stock* has resulted in less margin being re quired by customer*. Also, the de cline In the value of stocks has compelled or persuaded numerous customers to get out of tlie market And the decline In the value of stocks was the inevitable result of a realisation that stork had been pushed too high by speculation The increase in brokers' loans was an accompanying factor in over speculation. The nverspeeulalton ultimately reached its peak .md was followed bv liquidation, which in* votved a decrease in broken* loans. , I Cute in a Baby 'Awful at Three -and it’s Dangerous fey Ruth Brittain Thumb sucking does look sweet In • huby, but It Is disgusting In the threw year-old and sometimes it hangs o*s until fifteen or sixteen! The habit may cause an ill-formed moutb or to rture adenoids; and It always Inter feres with digestion. Pinning the pleeve over the hand; attaching mit tens, or putting on cardboard cuffs, which prevent bending the arms at the elbows, are some of the ways to stop the habit Another bad habit—Irregularity to bowel action—Is responsible for weak bowels and constipation In bnhiceL Give the tiny bowels an opportunity te act at regular periods each day. 11 they don't act nt first, a little Fletch er’s Cantoria will soon regulate them. Every mother should keep a bottle ol It handy to use In case of colic, choL era, dlunhen, gas on stomach an^ bowels, constipation, loss of sleep, or when bnby is cross and feverish. Its gentle Influence over baby’s system enables him to get full nourishment from his food, helps bltn gain, strengthens his bowels. Castorla Is purely vegetable and harmless—the recipe Is on the wrap per. Physicians have prescribed It for over 30 year?. With each package, you get a valuable book on Mother* hood. Look for Chas. H. Fletcher’* signature on the wrapper so you'll ge* the genuine. Woman Howe Admires I am specially admiring another woman. She married a half worth less sort of fellow, and not much war expected of her, as she caine from m shiftless family and shiftless neigh borhood. But she Is surprising every one. Her new kin, at first suspicloua, are acclaiming her. Her half worth less husband not only loves her, but site is making a man of him. She la tlie reigning sensation in the littia town where she lives, stie is so ador able, sensible, womanly and worthy. Her name Is Lizzy. I have heard bo much about her tHat 1 should rather see Lizzy than Ethel Barrymore.— K. W. Howe's Monthly. Fire Ball Caused Panic When a fire ball fell in a held at Murtle, near Aberdeen, Scotland, where a picnic was being held, many children and adults were thrown pro* trate, und panic ensued. One boy wan temporarily blinded. Another bore the imprint of a fern on his thigh. On u woman’s arm was n mark resembling twisted wire. Some of the children were so terrified that they injured themselves by rushing heedlessly nguinst barbed-wire fences. A Career “I hear Briefless is going to marry a millionaire's daughter.” “Will lie give up the law business?** "Oh, yes, lie's going Into the son in-law business Instead.”—Montreal Star. Pleasing Belief One of the most valuable qualities which the average man possesses la the belief that lie Is above the aver age.—Ottawa Citizen. In the good old days there w»» always something horrid, if you re member. ---—_ _ _ _ £3 I j DON’T suffer hraclarhes, or any of those tains that Bayer Aipsrin can end in a hurry I Physicians prescribe it, and approve its free use, for it does not affect the heart. Every drug gist lias it, but don't fail to ask the drug gift for Bayer. And don’t take any but the box that says Bayer, with the word genuine printed in red; s«rMs Is iu »srt st Sun __ •t UvsssoititsiSMUr s' »sUrf»t*«*at
