This publication grew out of frustration with conventional medicine and a health system that dissuades natural, home treatments. The information sources, then, are not so awkward. The cures are used on myself, or informally on acquaintances. They are original, usually successful, and arise outside conventional medicine in veterinary clinics, American boxcars, and around the world in contracting and recovering from 65% of the diseases in the Merck Manual. I selected the world's common ailments and wrote uncommon 'Kures.' A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by options of alternative medicine,...

Hobos are America's historic backbone. Reams of books describe how townspeople, and even RR bulls during the Great Depression, helped them get to the fields and orchards to get the crops to market and feed the citizens. The definition of a hobo is a train rider who rides from jobs to kind words and helping hands. He knocks apples in Washington and plucks oranges in California but no longer cuts ice from lakes in Wisconsin. The RR bull turns a blind eye during harvest seasons if the hobo doesn't spend his wages on alcohol and can speak polysyllables on the way to the boxcar. A King of the Road...