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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1894
Page
4
Poem exhorts readers to say "glad to see you" sincerely. Reflects on expression's impact from a lover to a mother and child, urging genuine deeds to accompany words. Quoted lines attribute the verse to J Edmund V Cooke via N.Y. Sun.
Bess Conway, cashier turned designer, loses her job to Gordon & Co. but redefines success by secretly crafting a show window for Saunders Brothers. The display, a peaceful dusky bedroom scene, draws crowds and boosts Saunders while infuriating Gordon. Bess then negotiates a new path, balancing rival firms and honoring her father’s stand.
The article notes Scotland’s traditional habit of using a single large sheet, doubled and open at the sides and top but closed at the feet. Early observers like Wyena Moryson in 1508 and John Ray describe the practice, with accounts of sleeping in a sheet as large as two sheets folded. The custom persisted into recent times, described by the writer as a boy sleeping in a sliver of the bin, with homes called sheets and the newer coverings termed holt shoale by antiquaries.
A Harper's Young People piece explains the microphone as a versatile device revealing the sound world. It describes how tiny motions create audible signals through a simple contact arrangement using nails and a battery, producing remarkable, often uncanny, reproductions of movements.
The piece argues the Chinese army relies on antiquated theories and weak training. It asserts officers are selected by favoritism or purchase, lack military knowledge, and lead with corruption and cowardice. It critiques civilian views on command and cites Sun Tzu while noting the British system could be improved if its leaders were top scholars.
The piece describes Somalis as alternately docile and savage, mostly merry yet prideful when idle. It notes their work ethic in Aden, hunting cattle and plundering, and details distinctive hair, religion, and a peculiar head covering.
A column from the St. Louis Republic discusses castor beans as a field crop in Fulton Missouri. It urges a minimum of 10 acres, details soil, weed control, planting density, row spacing, and popping ground setup, and warns price quotes are unreliable early in the season while stressing experience as the best teacher.
A Colman's Rural World note argues Missouri roads affect time and money, urging better highways. It notes improved routes boost property value and marketability, and suggests adding shade and fruit trees to roadways as lasting civic improvements.
A short note from Orange Judd Farmer describes using dyed cloth strips as a blanching aid for celery. The cloth, torn from cotton, is dyed black and attached to slender sticks. Strips are laid along celery rows to shade them, reducing need for earth or boards though some celery varieties still require traditional methods.
The text argues a sound stock requires self-sustaining vigor and freedom from disease, with strong heart, lungs, digestion, and bone. It notes wild animals possess these traits abundantly and that humans cannot surpass them. It urges breeders to study nature to understand what they aim to achieve in improving stock.
West Highland cattle, known as Highlands without horns, originate from Scotland and are prized for beef. Ceatharnach Buidhe, bred by John Stewart of Scotland, won at Inverness and Stirling. The breed thrives on western Scottish islands, crosses with Galloways rarely distinguishable, common in the Hebrides, slow to mature but yields top beef. Historically starved for feed, many perished from starvation.
An old breeding note describes how severe winters thinned flocks, half perished, while remaining stock gained vigor through hardy selection. After stricter winter care, 5000 animals proved their worth, responding quickly to better conditions and proving superior resilience.
A Germantown Telegraph letter advocates a multi crop rotation for gardens. New gooseberry and strawberry beds, clover on old strawberry ground, and scheduled plantings of corn and potatoes in larger fields. Two years of potatoes exhaust soil. follow with clover and two corn crops, then replant potatoes. Rotation reduces manure needs and improves soil fertility.
Instructions urge digging sweet potatoes when ground is dry and sheltering in hills of 30 to 100 bushels with dry pine straw. Apply straw evenly, cover with dirt, and keep the harvest dry to prevent spoilage. Open the hill at use time and remove the cover to access stored potatoes.
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