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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
8
A garbled reminiscence recalls a doctor discussing vocal tones and distinct pitch. The passage references memory, misread lines, and a mix of phrases about Caruso, Castoria, and a controversial engagement, conveying a blurred, oblique scene from school days and a theater of voices.
Women face nerve strain and health shocks after childbirth. The article urges preparation and proper care, endorsing Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for the female system and invites letters for confidential advice from Lynn Mass.
In a village Libby Arliss is teased as a sour old maid until a prank letter plan about William Tabor backfires. The lovers reveal real affection, Libby ages younger, and the town learns of the ruse as pears ripen in her garden. The tale ends with a humorous twist on imagination and fate.
The piece warns that violins and cellos are highly sensitive to atmospheric changes and artificial heat. Hanging a violin on walls, metal cases, or poor storage harms varnish and pitch. It explains false aging from bichromate varnish and how improper coloration can petrify wood, dulling tone and utility.
City men succeed as farmers by applying business methods to farming. They understand buying and selling, consumer demand, prices, and transport and sale facilities. The piece argues city experience can yield profits in crops like onions beans potatoes ducks and carnations, illustrating the case with example yields. The quotation is from Q Bowsfield Making the Farm Pay.
The article outlines corn club aims to educate rural boys through improved farming methods, seed selection, soil building, and crop cultivation while guiding vocational goals, observation, and broader education. It promotes club work as a lab for members, a link between home and school, and a drive to develop head, heart, hands, and health.
The Illinois agricultural experiment station recounts chinch bug behavior from spring 1912 and offers practical control methods. Suggestions include surrounding fields with a thick road of yield and post holes, using coal tar where available, and applying tobacco preparations diluted with weak roapsude to kill bugs on corn without harming the plant.
The poultry industry in the United States is described as the most thriving stock sector, growing 27 percent while others decline up to 35 percent. It has risen steadily for years and is now recognized as a billion-dollar industry by people and government.
A brief note explains pork production may yield profit when corn is supplemented with a concentrated seed but warns against relying solely on concentrated supplements for gains.
W R Gilbert advises prudent sheep feeding emphasizing abundant dry hay, balanced rations, and avoiding roots alone. He stresses shelter, separate troughs for young lambs, small portions, removal of leftovers, and immediate treatment of any ailment to prevent lameness spreading from ewes to lambs.
Amos Mendenhall of Salem Nebraska describes a practical corn tester for incubators. He outlines a galvanized iron tray rack with six inch fencing, cross wires, and drain hole, designed to test kernels from an ear. He notes costs around one dollar for the tray and advises placing kernels in cups inside the rack squares and maintaining about 70 degrees with moisture as needed.
A fragmentary farm note emphasizes judicious feeding and care. It covers pig and lamb management, tail cutting and castration timing, horse handling and head carriage, water versus slop, and the link between farm profit and economical team management. It warns against overusing the whip and stresses practical husbandry.
A luncheon tale shows President Wilson’s tact in managing visitors. he recalls an overstay by a busy lawyer who told him to visit again after a brief chat. The piece also notes Australia’s census card woes and quirky self-descriptions from respondents. A Parisian-tinged moment ends with a plateful of light, flirtatious misunderstanding at a New York roof garden.
Advertising expert F Irving Fletcher spoke at a Woolworth Building dinner in New York offering a sharp definition of economy. He said economy is a way of spending money without getting any fun out of it.
A terse exchange questions a doctors ethics quoting a quip about being an euleetic versus a teetotaler. The dialogue unfurls with a maxim that all human virtue hinges on truthfulness and benevolence, attributed to Arian.
An 1860 account notes the Empresa Mugene’s voyage toward the Suez opening and the first Christian sovereign lodging at the Sultan’s palace. It recalls the Princess of Wales staying at Dolma Baghtche during her eastward journey, and in 1880 Abdul Hamid hosted the German empress en route to Yildiz Kiosk, with the empress later spending an evening in the harem.
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