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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
6
Practical farm guidance covers cattle stocking, honey bee forage up to two miles, and choosing honey supplies on warm days. Advice urges timely hay, young plant cultivation, honest talk with hired help, and removing tough mustard to deter pests. Emphasis on road-building theory and practical work to support communities.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent extols a plank drag made from overlapping two by eight planks as the most effective soil dragging device. It works in dry soil and, with adjustments, in moist soil. easy to make and usable almost anywhere.
The description outlines a simple field drag built from two 2x6 planks of seven to eleven feet for multiple horses, with 2x4 supports and a draft chain. It explains angled joints at 30 degrees, bolt secured joints, and two short boards for the driver to stand on. The drag is strong, offers rough handling, and aids leveling soil though it cannot replace a harrow or roller.
Keeping out flies, gunny sacks are nailed over stable windows but left loose at the bottom to allow air. The design shields animals from pests while preventing heat buildup and stifling conditions inside.
A sandy loam soil tends to produce higher quality potatoes with smoother shapes and easier digging. Heavier soils may yield larger tubers due to greater fertility, but raise brown rot risk in and out of soil, reducing quality.
Howard H Gross argues good roads depend on proper drainage and durable top surfaces. He urges consulting highway engineers, using crushed granite for the top layer, and applying early maintenance to prevent costly repairs. The piece citesWisconsin granite and trap rock as ideal wearing surfaces and notes the next day repair philosophy from a Paris congress.
A new seed sorting machine from Michigan features a wooden frame and a longitudinal conveyor feeding trays with blades. Operated by a treadle chain gear, the shallow trays cuff refuse over the sides while beans ride to a chute and are dumped into a receptacle below.
A description of girls' dresses for twelve, ten, and six to eight year olds. The twelve year dress uses pastel blue serge with a sacque coat, embroidered neck, stitched sleeve details, straw hat with rose. Materials include serge, silk lining, and satin. Also describes a butcher blue drill sailor style for younger girl.
Readers learn to fashion weighted yarn boxes from cretonne or silk with a top opening for the skein. Boxes use a shot-filled pillow for weight, can include sachets of herbs or perfume, and lines vary from round-topped to square designs. Soft lining prevents snagging, with china silk or soft sateen as ideal interiors. Twine boxes are repurposed as yarn cases, especially perforated silver ones for wooden holders.
A step by step home treatment describes ripping front seams on both sides remove steels soak in soap jelly made from yellow soap dissolved in boiling water. Soak five minutes brush wash rinse hang dry iron inside reinsert steels and sew firmly for a like new result.
Shirring of net over satin rattall graces many lace and net dresses. The color shows through attractively and is hand sewn to avoid pulling. This technique aids shaping the lingerie dress at home, drawing the full skirt around the knees or below as a late panier development.
The text asserts no adulteration in honey types despite chemical differences between honeydew and nectar honey. Both are natural products stored by honey bees and are free from adulteration in the usual sense. They may be used without fear of containing commercial glucose or other added sugars.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes unprecedented nationwide activity for good roads. This historic push involves government officials and citizens nationwide, underscoring a major era of highway construction and road improvements across states.
The article notes a trend toward bright, experimental tones with brilliancy. It highlights mignonette, green, scarlet, and iris blue as colors that pair well across fabrics and are favored this season.
A faded blue lace walking dress features a deep pointed yoke, braided trims, and braided cloth below the yoke with black panne folds. The bodice uses cloth Bretelles braided at the edge, plain sleeves, and a straw trimmed toque with ostrich feathers. Materials required include seven yards cloth one-half yard lace six yards braid three quarters yard panne eighteen inches wide.
The guide prescribes scalp rubbing with lemon juice for five minutes, then washing with warm water plus borax. It instructs applying egg yolk to the hair for fifteen minutes, rinsing with tepid water, washing with soap, and drying by fanning section by section.
New leather belts and girdles announced, featuring supple patent leather with heraldic ornamentation in gilt or silver. They are described as brilliant in appearance and suggested to be worn with dashingly styled gowns rather than white linen or sarge outfits.
Sumner Falloway, returning early from a business trip, finds his family home empty and discovers a scarlet fever quarantine in the house next door. A misdirected call to the Bremers leads to the revelation that relatives occupying the Fall away home were there for quarantine due to a visiting sick child. Sumner ends up in quarantine, blaming his brother Fred for the prankish mix up.
An excerpt explains veiling among Turkish women as an old custom not strictly tied to religion. It traces origins to Tartary when men abducted women for wives, causing conflict. By the second century after Christ Turks settled that women should live veiled and secluded in harems from about age eleven.
C B Clovis operates as a general law practitioner specializing in estate matters. His office is located over Melcher's in Atlantic Iowa.
T B Swan handles wills drawn and probated with reports for administrator and guardian and secured appointments. Pro bate practice is a specialty and general law business is transacted. J B Rockafellow admitted to practice in state and federal courts Atlantic Iowa.
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