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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
7
A lyric recounts a lover’s joy in a maiden’s eyes and heaven in her presence, followed by grief when she leaves and the soul breaking free beyond sunset and stars. The speaker, once worshiped, finds the heart’s cleft liberates a god and elevates him to king of the world.
Basil Raymond offers to cut a road through Winstead’s wood to the shore and wins over Constance Blaketon. He reveals he must not become duke, urging marriage to Constance while keeping Lord Winstead as her betrothed. Constance learns true affection and vows to brave scandal for love.
Ruskin, an only son, grew up under a powerful parental shadow with a wealthy, protective background. His fortune funded art, publishing, museums, and even his criticisms of modern life, but at home he remained childlike, deferring to his mother and covering his paintings on Sundays to please her.
Four year old Josephine studies a picture of Charles Dickens and asks who he is. Her mother explains the name Dickens. Later the girl shows the book to her sister and calls the man in the picture Mr Darn, thinking it a swear word.
Lord Dufferin marked a wall line at Bel fast castle in Ireland before leaving for India. Upon return the ruin had vanished and steward Dan Mulligan confessed he pulled the castle down to build the wall. A later line notes a woman enjoying bargain sales by buying unnecessary items.
The article discusses soil fertility, crop rotation, and nutrient cycling, stressing soluble ash ingredients and rest melioration to restore exhausted soils. It covers livestock management practices, barn lots, manure handling, and ventilation for cows, plus implications for on farm nuisance reduction and soil health. It also includes an anecdote about a skin condition and a testimonial for Cutiura Remedies from S. P. Keyes.
The text explains crop rotation adapting to soil types, noting beans and clover on clay soils with rye grass, turnips and beets on dry loams, and recommends a five year rotation: clover, clover, corn, oats, wheat. It emphasizes pasture periods for grasses to restore fertility and reduce weed growth.
The article advises maintaining disease free trees to maximize profits, with manual grub removal to control borers as sprays fail. It notes winter spring painting of lower stems with ready mixed paint, wood veneer strips, and wire gauze as protective measures. It also describes black rot as a fungal disease affecting fruit, foliage, bark and branches, with leaf spot forms causing substantial damage.
Instructions describe arranging cattle in clean, orderly pens and placing cows where they will be milked each morning. Emphasizes neat surroundings and sanitary conditions to ease the milking process.
The article notes widespread use of traction engines and gasoline power for plowing and harrowing on farms as small as 680 acres. A 20 HP gasoline engine on one ranch replaces twenty horses, plowing four 14 inch gangs with a 2 horse harrow and double harrowing the tract, proving cost savings despite initial expense. It also mentions crop rotation ideas, manure use, and fertilizer practices for corn and potatoes.
A jumble of ads on remedies and products mentions Allen's Lung Balsam promising cures where others fail with 21 bottles advertised. Also notes Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry and a satirical slot machine concept linked to a Baltimore talk on Calvinism and life’s meaning.
In Berlin a waiter union seeks compulsory tipping with a published tariff. A customer paying 3 shillings would tip 12 percent, bills over 3 shillings yield 10 percent, and larger restaurants with £5 bills would see 8 percent. Restaurateurs oppose the plan citing business interference.
This antique ad touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children promising to cure feverishness headache bad stomach teething disorders regulate bowels and destroy worms. Claims to break up colds in 24 hours and to be pleasant and harmless. Sold by druggists 25 cents with free sample offer from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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