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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1912
Page
4
Miscellaneous kitchen and household tips cover extended stockings life and fruit fritters with ham. It explains beating egg whites before yolks, reducing gas bills by cautious appliance use, a minor burner mishap, and a humorous Punch cartoon snippet about a missing dog and a tired hunter.
The dialogue features a quirky exchange between a book agent and a man, delivering wordplay on a famous title. The banter highlights comic misheard titles and playful misstatements, capturing a humorous moment of confusion and wit.
Upper Sandusky Ohio woman reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She describes long illness including back and stomach pain, headaches, and fatigue before starting the remedy. The letter endorses the product as a standard female tonic.
The director of the office of public roads reports Indiana has the most improved road mileage, with Ohio a close second. Most roads are gravel, often laid by farmers paying taxes, with inadequate compaction. New York shows significant progress due to bond funding and expanded state highway funding, potentially overtaking Indiana and Ohio.
A barn north wall offers a cooler, sheltered area for storing implements with less stock protection needs on the south side. An open drive-through square shed with doors gives direct access to tools. Drafts affect machinery less if the shed is soundly built and well painted for year-round protection.
Guinea as a forager fowls a great forager and destroys many tasecta that the hens will not touch. They roost near the house and their peculiar noise reveals egg-laying spots, enabling familiar keepers to find eggs. They cost almost nothing to raise and create alarm if intruders appear.
The season’s ribbons display rich variety from pleat edge and metallic ribbons to brocaded patterns with silver or gold thread. Designers use ribbons as borders on crepon frocks, for ruchings and parasols, with boudoir fashion leaning toward feathery boas and long ribbon ends.
As summer ends, fashion advises long sleeves that cover the hands and extend from shoulder to fingertip. Skirts grow longer and straighter, trailing the floor for most outfits, with street wear also extended. The trend emphasizes thinner silhouettes and eliminates the figure’s fuller forms.
Autumn millinery trends are not yet finalized with mid August forecasts. The Romney hat appears in a new revival with round velour and straw underbrim, popular for the holiday season and expected to stay in vogue through winter. Gainsborough shapes also promise fashion, along with a drooping capeline in folded satin worn with satin charmeuse.
A fashion note describes footwear harmonizing with facial tone using lace patterns on hose and crystal slippers for evening wear. It highlights the season's extravagance with gold or silver slippers veiled with red, bead embroidered lace, and unique designs that make no two pairs alike.
A simple adjustment to pig feeding troughs places the trough against a fence and adds an inner board to shield the trough from the fence. When pouring slop, feed from the opposite side so hogs stay away while keeping the feed in the trough as usual.
A brisk collection of wedding fan fashions and quirky nursery anecdotes from an era. It notes fans in ivory celluloid or mother of pearl for brides and multiple thematic fans for other occasions, while drifting to poultry yard shelter tips and a humorous exchange about a doctor’s baby and a prompt Egyptian telephone operators piece.
Advice on whitewashing poultry houses with disinfectant mixed into the whitewash to restrain mites. Also notes that feeding sheep into Canada thistles or troublesome weeds helps them clear the area. Emphasizes sheep as farm helpers.
A rural publication presents sectional drawings for building corn cribs using elevators. It describes a 24-foot crib with a ten foot central driveway and a grain bin over the drive, adjustable lengths from 25 to 200 feet, and emphasizes a minimum 45 degree rake for the root slope.
Describes a half pitch roof design for a corn crib, detailing structural measurements. It specifies peak to plate distance, rafter and stud sizes, spacing, braces A B C, sill dimensions, and a tie rod across the building. It notes guide boards for even distribution and warns not to wall in until conveyor is installed, with a recommendation for a composition roof.
The article outlines how to determine sand clay mix ratios for road building using a water-displacement method, notes proportions around eighty percent sand and twenty percent clay, and discusses adapting mixing to subsoil type. It then shifts to fencing, arguing for high quality, preservative treated posts, and cautious use of woven wire with top barbs to deter stock damage. It also references a government road report listing leading states in road improvement by mileage.
The Rural New Yorker cites Henry Little of Marsachusetta describing a tomato support using three 2.5 foot stakes and two hoops from sugar and flour barrels. Staked in a circle around the plant, hoops lock in place to hold the plant upright. After harvest, stakes and hoops are stored separately for reuse, with the devices lasting five seasons.
A cut article describes a practical pole drag built from three hardwood poles seven feet long and six inches through. The poles are chained two feet apart with a board seat bolted to the first pole, extending beyond the last. An old mowing machine seat sits atop the assembly, allowing independent pole movement and easy housing.
Alfalfa is praised as a superior forage crop for various livestock, offering higher digestibility and hay quality and often yielding more than clover hay. Also advises digging Irish and sweet potatoes promptly as they mature to ensure better storage and to sort diseased tubers quickly.
report notes that controlling fly population relies on removing breeding grounds by carting all manure away to the field, reducing the pests on the farm through sanitation and waste management.
Agricultural notes discuss crop care and fieldwork techniques. Advice covers weed control, dew and rain handling for beans, clover growth, protein content in crops, seeding rape and turnips, sowing clover, shocking grain, cucumber picking, vine seed maturity, and soil cultivation frequency to reduce weed growth.
London Chronicle notes the Elizabethan banquet celebrated on Midsummer day with peacock pie as a centerpiece though other birds like heron crane crow stork cormorant and bittern were favored in earlier centuries while hare and partridge were disliked by the wealthy.
A Norwegian company patents a machine that assembles matches by logging wood wrapping paper and packaging into hundreds of boxes. A Rennes boy, seven, astonishes as a future musical prodigy composing symphonies at a genius level. A color blind person sees light as gray or black due to distinct nerves for light and color. a quip on marriage from George Eliot’s Missouri Parlor humor.
A short Chicago era advertisement argues hair loss cannot be avoided or hair retained without effort. It promotes Ayer's Hair Vigor as a premier hair tonic that keeps hair soft and smooth and notes doctors take an interest in hair care products. The copy mentions Lowell, Stam and AYER OO in its branding.
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