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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1902
Page
10
Sarge Plunke notes mixed views on a Chicago preacher who urged girls to propose to men. Brown recounts his own courting era with humor and warns that modern culture could Erase old modesty. The piece favors traditional restraint and delays in proposals.
A reprint advises farmers on terrace lines and banks before winter plowing. It explains purposes of terracing for erosion control and water conservation, stresses level lines, deep plowing, and reliable leveling instruments for accurate terrace layout.
The text details a methodical process for surveying and shaping terrace banks on sloped land. An assistant uses a staff and peg system to align a leveling instrument along sequential 15 foot stations, then moves to the next section while the operator tracks the target and adjusts the instrument. Emphasis is placed on smoothing the bed with harrow and roller, compacting soil, marking stakes, and ensuring gradual curved contours. It covers building up low spots, filling washouts, and careful grading to prevent water dams, with notes on plowing, turfing, and laying off rows for bedding.
An 19th century style notice offers a free book Know Thyself for men, with six cent postage for mass readers. It cites the Peabody Medics Institute in Boston as oldest in America and advertises The Key to Health and Mupsiness with a fourball Finch Street address. The piece claims forty years of establishment and mentions Boston Herald in a promotional tone.
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