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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
3
Mary Thayer seeks funds for her brother Henry's college and discovers a vanished promissory note. After a fruitless hunt, a park worker points to a bird's nest with a $500 placard. Mary retrieves the note from the nest, verifying Bent's debt in a surprising twist.
Flora and Mary recover a note and bring a friend to Bent. He blandly confirms the document’s genuineness and, ignoring his prior denial, pays the full amount immediately. Mary remarks the windfall feels like money from the sky as they head home with their treasure.
A man with a German accent and a fierce red mustache enters a Chicago bank to open an account and exits with the signature book containing depositor names, claiming it as his receipt for $500. A well dressed woman then fumbles signing, finally using an X after the cashier directs her to do so.
In New York City a dinner described as a marvel by M. E. Montrose featured nineteen guests and a per plate cost over 90 dollars. The host, recently turned thirty and with a $400,000 inheritance, paid the $1,864 bill without hesitation, drinking aged Burgundy as if cheap beer.
In an Atlanta Constitution retelling, a deacon quarrels with a brother in the omen corner over a Bible tale. The deacon insists Moses asked Joshua to command the sun to stand still, then ejects the correcting brother from the room. Older brethren hesitate to intervene as the moment unfolds.
Eastbourne Maine physician prepared a patient draught with strychnine instead of chloroform. When the patient fell ill he swallowed half the bottle to prove safety, then died after failed attempts to treat the poisoning. He used a stomach pump but perished from the toxin.
A Sunday rule in Toronto requires street cars to not pass churches during church hours at more than four miles per hour to ensure churchgoers' safety and minimize disturbance.
A terse, reflective line notes that men who work near dry goods stores become highly critical of women, hinting at social tensions without detailing incidents or individuals.
A New York Tribune description outlines a cow stall with sloping hay partitions and interlocking chain hitches that limit excess movement. A raised platform guides cows to eat while returning to a manure gutter when lying down. Night checks and occasional droppings removal keep beds dry. neck chains offer controlled mobility without harsh stanchions.
A farm wagon setup uses hind wheels a coupling pole and a chain with a ring or hook. The chain loops around the post and the axle rests against the post to lift it by pulling the pole toward the ground. This method raises the post about a foot and loosens it for removal.
Farmers are urged to avoid oversized draught horses and favor lighter horses or two on the farm due to efficiency and hay costs. Rye is recommended as a winter crop that suppresses weeds, enriches soil, and provides a green forage for cattle, benefiting soil fertility and topsoil nutrients.
The crop withstands the coldest winters and serves as a wood destroyer while excelling over late crops. It does not exhaust the land when grown as a green manure, occupies land when few crops can, and costs less relative to its benefits than any other farm crop.
A Kansas Farmer describes curing hog meat with brine and dry salt methods. It details hog preparation, salting, brining for three weeks, smoking with hickory to a chestnut color, and dry salt steps for hams, including proportions of saltpeter sugar and salt.
The article reflects on changing views of plowing once prized for turning furrows to a level surface. Harrows, cultivators, and advanced equipment now allow soil pulverization and level surfaces with less reliance on traditional plowing. Some farmers favor leaving furrows on edge and mellowing soil, arguing this yields better crops than upside down turning.
The article explains that potatoes fed to hogs yield little starch and are mostly water. Only about 20 percent of a potato is starch, and the 80 percent water makes them bulky in a hogs stomach. Unless used minimally to aid digestion, beets are a better, greedily eaten alternative for hog feed.
The article notes some small fruits that pay well for labor are neglected. Currants and gooseberries sell quickly when others are abundant, as carloads of strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries flood the market. With extra care, these fruits can be profitable for growers.
The passage argues farmers overstock stables, causing poor animal health and higher feed costs. It links crowding to increased winter food needs, noting warm, proper shelter saves food, reduces cold exposure, and prevents stunted growth in young stock.
The article urges farmers to identify a top cow as a standard bearer and measure all others against her. Sell inferior cows promptly as calves from the superior cow replenish the herd. Use pure-bred sires and avoid outside purchases to steadily raise quality.
Swine mange is caused by a tiny parasite that burrows under the skin and is hard to cure. Thorough scrubbing with warm carbolic acid soap, rinsing, drying, and applying a four to one mixture of lard and kerosene two or three times, plus clean quarters, can make the mange disappear.
The article gives advice on ironing and fabric care. It warns against hot irons on flannels and woolens and recommends ironing calicoes, ginghams, and chintzes on the wrong side. It explains how to treat lines, table linen, embroideries, linen whitening with borax, and using salt water to set color.
A short guide to perfect rice pudding explains common issues with grainy textures and offers a textured recipe. It instructs using one quart of milk nine teaspoonfuls of rice a pinch of salt two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and nine teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar. Bake in a moderate oven for two hours and chill until serving time.
The Chicago News notes that Elizabethan fashion included sea gulls as food and dishes like pickled goose with cloves and ginger, soused turkey boiled in white wine and vinegar and baked for a month. Pear puddings used chopped fowl or turkey with currants and cream shaped like pears. Hartshorn jelly and quince cheese were among delicacies.
The article advises using the best brushes with at least 100 strokes daily. Bristles should be firm but not harm hair, and brushing must include the scalp for effective growth. Slow strokes are useless. vigorous, intentional brushing yields a bright, healthy gloss.
Instructions from Ladies' Home Journal describe folding a coat flat with the wrong side down, smoothing sleeves, and folding back to the elbow. The revers is folded, then the coat is doubled along the center seam, ensuring no wrinkles, and tails are left unfolded unless space is tight.
A recipe explains purifying sausage gravy by saving a quart of fat in a spider then cooking thinly sliced potatoes in the fat until they rise or brown. The fat is reused for pie crust or shortening, noting sausage fat is less useful if the flavor remains.
Ink stains are to be treated with starch paste or blotting and milk, then cornmeal for twelve hours. Dry ink stains are soaked in milk and repeated. Insomnia relief is via breathing and head tilts learned from a sleeping man. Carpet fasteners eliminate tacks using spring-headed cups. A pudding sauce combines butter sugar and sherry with a gently heated yolk.
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