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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1913
Page
2
The piece argues soils cease to produce not from exhaustion of nutrients but from depleted forces like bacteria. It cites 150 million bacteria per ounce in common soil and emphasizes humus as their food. It urges growing legumes and cover crops to build humus and boost bacteria to free plant nutrients.
A Maine farmer planted and cultivated an old apple orchard along a stone wall. He plowed and fertilized the field, applying mineral cultivation. The trees then produced apples last year valued at 285 dollars, and another neglected Baldwin tree also responded with a crop that sold for more than all the corn from the surrounding acre.
Bran is described as a top protein rich food aiding digestion and preventing diarrhea for hens. It should be kept in a hopper for self serve in houses or runs. It is also valuable for young stock as a bone forming material and aids quick chick uptake.
To fatten poultry for market, remove them from the yards and place in a coop with a canvas cover to keep inmates in darkness. Do not feed about six hours after placing in the coop, then feed all they will eat. Feed three times daily with fresh water and a basin of grain always available.
A historical remedy prescribes a daily skin treatment for horses using finely powdered iodine of potash 4 ounces grated sugar 1 pound and common salt 1 pound mixed into thirty-two powders. Feed oats and wheat bran while avoiding corn. Apply tincture of iodine on lumps every second day until the skin softens.
Antoine Cros, a new French conscript measured above six feet six inches and still growing. Asked why he chose the aviation corps he replied that he is not subject to dizziness and is accustomed to seeing things from above.
A nervous curate misreads the banns of marriage for two couples during an announcement. He blurts that the first couple are for the first time of asking and the second for the third time of asking, then laments the error. He closes with And the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
Post Office inspectors found that a Caney man received letters threatening his life if seen on the streets at night. He stopped going out after dark, and investigators revealed the letters were written by his wife as a scheme to keep him at home.
In parts of India where mosquitoes abound, violin music draws swarms of insects. Upon hearing the first notes, clouds of mosquitoes swarm around the player making the band’s movements impossible, as noted by Harper's Weekly.
A concise proverb notes that if promises were always kept people would have no time for other tasks.
Cut a hogs head into four pieces and remove brain ears skin snout and eyes. Soak lean parts overnight to draw out blood and dirt then boil until meat separates from bone. Pick bones drain liquor reserve part for later, chop meat return to kettle cover with liquor boil briefly season, press in a dish with cloth and weight until solid then slice cold and serve.
A favored dish outlines preparing chestnuts by boiling twice and sieving then mixing with candied fruits. Currants raisins cream and egg yolks are folded to form a parfa it chilled with pineapple and vanilla. The mixture is frozen several hours and served with whipped cream.
A vintage method describes making cold slaw by finely chopping one cabbage head and mixing with an egg, vinegar, butter the size of a walnut, celery seed, flour, and salt. Heat vinegar and butter, add cabbage, pour beaten egg, cook two minutes, then chill before serving.
Cream butter and maple sugar, add eggs and sour milk with baking soda. Stir in sifted flour to form a batter that drops from the spoon. Bake in a hot oven on well-spaced tins until crisp and brown at the edges.
Two dozen oysters with onion curry powder flour butter and lemon juice are simmered to a brown roux then combined with oyster liquor. Add oysters, boil briefly and serve with boiled rice.
Boil a pint of milk and pour over bread crumbs. Cream butter with sugar, mix in lemon rind and egg yolks, add milk and crumbs. Bake half an hour until set. Beat egg whites with sugar and lemon juice, heap on top, dust with sugar, and brown lightly.
Roasted onions baked until soft without peel. Peel carefully, season with salt pepper and melted butter, then serve. A simple method that promises a new delight for onion lovers who have not tried them this way.
Prepare a quart of fluffy mashed potatoes and beat in an egg. Form into balls while hot, roll in an egg wash with water, place on a buttered sheet, and bake in a hot oven until browned.
An exchange argues removing hyphens in to day to-night and to-morrow saves energy. The claim: 200,000,000 English writers hyphenate daily, using energy equating to moving a passenger train around the world.
The Bridge of Arta tale recounts Greek workers and a demon demanding a master's wife as a nightly sacrifice to finish a bridge. The wife is lured to death as her husband hurls the fatal stone, her last wish turning to ironlike bridges for all who cross it, with a brother’s future crossing offering a glimmer of hope.
Guards at the International Exhibition of Modern Art grasp the aims of cubists and futurists. The Nude Descending the Staircase is noted for depicting the subject on each step and in other poses. A young woman asked for directions and was pointed to the movies on the right.
A Wichita couple left Probate Judge D A McCanless office with the bride’s certificate. The groom returned puzzled asking for his own copy, only to be told it had been given to his wife. He wondered if they both received one.
Anxious talk between two speakers shows one trying to reassure Rufus that ghosts do not exist. Rufus reluctantly agrees but fears a ghost might force him to change his mind.
The passage features Uncle Sheepskin resisting the idea of fasting and asserting he would rather eat than take a fast train, claiming he can manage travel without fasting and emphasizing eating as his priority.
A German immigrant applying for final citizenship exposed a long overlooked flaw in the Constitution’s opening sentence. He argued that “a more perfect Union” could not exist if the document was already perfect, yet the judge approved his papers without further dispute.
A Tomkins attributed essay extols women as heavenly guides and inspirers, calling them paradise and ladder to heaven while noting a domestic quarrel that leaves the husband with a sling and a wig. A six canto poem titled Woman is a Wretch is in press, rumored to be by Tomkins.
The Roumanian tobacco monopoly under Couza led to his abdication. In 1866 Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was invited to rule, a turning point praised alongside Roumania's queen Carmen Sylva. Bismarck urged the prince to accept, remarking on a life of pleasant reminiscence if he failed.
The piece extols how sniffing a tin lunch box can trigger vivid memories of schooldays and childhood voices. It argues smells awaken secret memories, offering a rare talent to access the past, and laments wasted potential of this sense.
A young woman aboard a boat in a park fell overboard while attempting to change seats. She was rescued gasping as onlookers gathered, and a Jewish boy offered to help find her balance echoing the line Youse loose your balance, lad, I will find it for youse.
An Illinois inventor patent uses an elevated air chamber with vacuum cups to enable a performer to walk upside down. Suction on foot disks holds the weight, and air is pumped to successive cups as the act progresses.
A fragment quotes Stopford Brooke on how harsh demands of confidence spoil life’s charm. The line invites contemplation of self assurance and its impact on everyday experience.
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