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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
3
Poem contrasts two classes the lifters and the leaners. It questions which role each reader shares and urges responsibility for bearing the load rather than letting others carry it. The speaker notes the world’s masses divide into these two groups.
Mrs John Andrews helps Miss Almira Hunter at Brentley rummage sale. Caleb Thomas finds a coat containing a 1882 letter from Mira promising marriage, delivered after twenty years. The reunion ends in joyful embrace as Mira confirms her enduring love.
The Thomas W. Lawson, first seven masted schooner and first steel American schooner, launched at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy. Costing 250000 dollars, built in eight months for coal trade with possible Philippines service. Powered by engines, electric lighting, steam steering and telephone, crew of sixteen. Lengths include 403 feet overall and 368 feet waterline with 86 foot bow sprit.
A description explains how the mucroscope magnifies a fly’s many eyes and head. It notes the eyes reveal details unseen by the naked eye and emphasizes the device’s ability to enlarge structures thousands of times their natural size.
The German Emperor welcomed John Wanamaker aboard a Hamburg American Line ship during a Norway voyage. Wanamaker, a prominent dry goods merchant, impressed the Emperor who praised American enterprise.
A brief exchange notes a visit to the Riviera with a sharply negative tone. The speaker recalls no crowds and only close friends present at the lodging, signaling a quiet and unengaging stay.
Two college girls describe an umpire being mobbed after a class game. One says the umpire was called a mean old thing and told she was perfectly horrid in the exchange.
A sketch of an innovative poultry feeding device uses a bottom trap door and hunger driven release to reduce labor and waste. Hay maturity affects curing shrinkage with early cut hay losing more weight than late cut. moisture retention varies by forage type and region.
The article argues that lime is mainly for soil sweetening and has little manual value, so it should not be mixed with commercial fertilizers. If fertilizer contains ammonia, lime frees and loses ammonia to the air, reducing effectiveness. Losses also occur with other chemicals, sometimes more with nitrogen forms. A second note describes a hog gate design to keep cattle and calves out while allowing hogs through, inviting readers to build a downward swinging two way gate.
Experiments in Europe show nitrogen loss from manure is 63.6 percent with straw bedding and 48.3 percent with peat. Sheep sheds lose about 50.2 percent with straw and roughly half with peat or earth. Earth rich in humus equals peat. A plan is to place earth or peat above straw where manure drops. A German authority says Argentina has 157 million acres suitable for wheat, about three to four times its current area, with potential production over 2.25 billion bushels, which could roughly double world wheat supply.
The paper berry box with moisture proof coating is praised for preserving fruit during long shipments and may beat price of spirit boxes. Incubation success depends on strict adherence to instructions and clock discipline, with whitewash as a cheap disinfectant. Cottonseed meal is effective for horses and mules, better with corn in winter or as sole grain for some.
The article offers advice on selecting fresh fish including bright eyes and firm texture, avoiding stale stock, and notes that Monday fish often leftovers. It gives recipes for seven minute lemon cream pie crust, lobster and coffee cream ice, and scrambled eggs with bread crumbs, plus a list of table manners and dining tips.
Inventor William H. Fredericks of Portland Oregon presents a canning device that exhausts air from jars under atmospheric pressure. The system uses a valve in the screw top and a piston lever to draw air out, sealing the jar and preventing outside air return. When opening, a valve turn admits air to ease unscrewing.
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