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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
3
The speaker compares three women to types of books: Marianna a dull untitled volume, Isabelle a careless cookery book, and Araminta a controversial tract, while Daphne embodies a vellum volume of wit and poetry with human joys and woes. The verse ends with praise for Daphne’s wisdom and love.
The old man Hezekiah Edgars, facing foreclosure at eighty-some, hoards a trunk of letters and recalls a stern portrait of Jonathan Edgars. A rough but kind visitor, Jim Hapgood, finds him near death’s door as the household tumbles into poverty, prompting reflections on lineage and blood.
An aging recluse Hezekiah Edgars guards a horsehair trunk filled with letters from famous women long dead. Hapgood fans a plot to extract value, but Edgars ultimately destroys the letters in a flame, choosing honor over wealth as his conscience and the portraitly framed ancestor look on.
Young diplomat John Barrett, appointed minister to Siam by President Cleveland at 27, pursued a one million dollar claim. Advisers warned against threats. Barrett chose persuasion, saying he tickled the Siamese government almost to death before they paid.
A brief city note from Philadelphia reports Milkkman and Popley at an early morning setting with a doctor confirming uncertainty whether the newborn is a son or daughter. The exchange hints at anticipation and local interest in a hospital birth.
A farmer shares a compact wheel mounted platform for spraying. The design shortens the axle to four feet for tight spaces, with a six foot axle for three to three and a half foot potato rows. The barrel is secured by iron bands to the side mounted pump.
The system uses a pump mounted at the barrel end secured by four rods that hook over the cask chine and bolt to a platform. It is light, strong, and easily driven among trees and vines, with one or two lines and a walking driver to operate the pump. Prof. 5. T. Maynard notes its higher daily output than other outfits.
An Indianapolis News excerpt discusses the Hartshorn pear as promising though scarce, likely a Bartlett Winter Nelis cross with large fruit, late ripening and good keeper. nurseries charge high prices. It also covers meadow fertilization, urging field-specific plans and stable manure top-dressing, plus best egg shipping methods using baskets and excelsior for hatching.
A craftsman describes stretching a muslin cover over a half bushel basket and sewing it to the edges to tighten the top. He labels the basket plainly to ensure careful handling and notes that fifty eggs fit in this packing method.
The piece argues that city influence pushes for drastic farming reforms and gimmick crops, but real progress lies in steady, traditional methods. It warns that overreaching trends like specialty crops and new technologies may prove impractical, with broad agricultural prosperity unlikely to hinge on freak farming.
Farmers are advised to ease cows from dry feed to pasture. For milk cows the shift should be gradual, especially with lush spring grass which contains much water. Continue dry feed and reduce it over two weeks after grazing starts, including wheat and rye pastures.
Agricultural guidance covers raising stock and optimizing feeds, milk handling, and waste to value. Practical tips discuss alfalfa pests, hog feeding economics, memoranda for farm tasks, clover bay timing, and equipment for women on the farm. Orchard spray schedules use Bordeaux mixture and Paris green against canker worm and moths with repeated applications.
Turnips are peeled and boiled until half done then topped and hollowed. They are filled with minced year onion parsley and a few truffles or mushrooms, tied, baked in broth with butter, and simmered until tender. The sauce is thickened with egg yolk and poured over before serving hot.
A recipe directs mixing flour baking powder salt and sifted. beat fat and sugar with brandy and spice. add sultanas candied peel and eggs then fold in dry ingredients. Bake in a tin for an hour and a half to two hours and finish with almond paste and icing if desired.
A recipe describes making five or six plates of rich paste with butter and flour, using ice water and layered butter folds without touching the dough by hand. After baking the pastry and cooling, cherries are prepared as for tart and layered with the pastry, then covered with whipped cream for a decorative, delicious dish.
Cold Peach Pulding halts with lemon rice mixed with sugar peach pulp and almond, then heated and poured into a buttered mould. Chill on ice and serve with whipped cream.
Instructions describe Stuffed Tomatoes baked with buttered cracker crumbs and optional sugar, Mutton Pie with potato paste crust, and Delmonico Hashed Potatoes using raw diced potatoes baked in milk with butter.
Practical instructions for cooking and sewing including puff pastry, knife care, ammonia blues for clothes, ironing tips, fruit cake filling, silk repair, stain removal with oil and cotton wool, treating grass stains, and an ant killer using hot alum and water. The tone is instructional and focused on everyday domestic tasks.
Indiana bureau of statistics reports show 8,620 retail liquor dealers paying federal tax in 1901 but only 4,695 paying state license, indicating 48 percent operated illegally. In 1902 nearly 10,000 felonies arrests with only 1,257 convictions. rape arrests 98 with 17 convictions, murder 125 arrests and 26 convictions, highlighting gaps between arrest and punishment.
Multiple Indiana incidents reported. Joseph Wolf struck and killed by street car in Vincennes. George Pierce aged 10 drowned in White River. Wabash merchants form association against adulterated food and monopolies. Sieber farm barn destroyed by electric bolt near Camden causing 2000 loss. John Porter Lagro dies after swallowing chicken bone. Daniel Dalton killed at Hammond railroad. F C Huff’s home near Laporte burned. missing owner feared cremated. Oscar Tansey 50 Sedalia beheaded by broken bass saw. Garry Barder Lafayette killed by train. A horse flees at Evansville injuring Henry Gruntmann. Fred Albaugh Elkhart crush injuries at Gordon press. Guy Canby North Judson loses ear in rifle mishap. Governor Durbin to issue naturalization oath regulations to curb anarchist ties. Bedford sewer cave-in kills Millard Phelps. John Pearcy nearly suffocated. Noblesville Street Carnival injunction considered by Circuit Judge Neal. Ministerial Association backs injunction.
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