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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
3
A nostalgic verse traces tiny footfalls from a child’s approach at dawn to adults’ busy street, contrasting fatherly wakefulness with morning memories. The poem moves from intimate bedroom patter to grownup footsteps and the sunlit day.
A former detective recalls why he left the Criminal Investigation Department after exposing forgers and decoding a court fraud plot. He narrates his early ambitions, family ties with Rose Ethel and brother Hubert Maitland, and a confrontation in West End too entwined with forged notes and a stern revelation. Rose and Ethel’s pair, Hugh Maitland, and a Portland sentence close the tale.
A Princeton professor notes wild birds mimicry extends to human speech and mechanical sounds. A writer in Bird-Lore confirms a vivid incident of a parrotlike grosbeak in a walnut tree repeating phrases to a startled observer and its mate returning next summer.
An Atlanta Constitution excerpt recounts Brer Williams discussing a hurricane’s impact and providence after a long absence, noting the hurricane’s damage to his house and the people’s reactions. The piece contrasts seeming misfortune with a higher plan as Williams and Brer Thomas reflect on fate.
Abner Roach of Wayne County Indiana sends Iowa Homestead a sketch of his wool-tying box and table used for years. The device is self explanatory and shows an end piece raised to illustrate the tying action. The table rests on a barrel or other support and includes a tie stick.
A 1889 Vermont test on apple pomace feeding showed cows produced 0.2 percent more milk per unit dry matter on pomace than silage, with 1–3 percent less milk and butter. Pomace fed sparingly caused no ill effects, but herd-wide effects on milk quality remain uncertain. Grindstone water drip method explained for midseason use.
The article explains a moisture conserving cultivation method for summer, emphasizing shallow surface cultivation of two inches on well prepared soil, with deeper tillage only when soil needs it. It notes risks to surface roots but argues this protects against soil hardening after rain.
The 1901 year book from the Department of Agriculture lists 685 cabbage varieties 530 lettuce 500 bush beans 340 sweet corn 320 cucumbers 320 table beets 255 pole beans and many other types catalogued in 1900. Many names reflect grower designations or terminology like improved early or late.
The Ohio Experiment Station notes chinch bugs favor millet and similar grasses. Sowing a millet strip beside infested wheat or oats and plowing under the vegetation buries the bugs. A deep furrow across their path traps them, then kerosene emulsion can kill them. sprayer methods can wash bugs from corn outer rows.
The Chairs Choice peach appears promising with large, rich yellow fruit and a red cheek. It is touted as a vigorous bearer adaptable to follow Elberta, now widely planted in peach districts and valued for its quality and season. Also tips on hog pasture, grass feeding, and charcoal for fowls to improve health and fatten chickens.
For small plots cover melon squash and cucumber vines with mosquito netting. Build a light lath frame to support the netting. In a few plants, inspect daily and destroy pests by hand picking, placing them in a kerosene filled tin cup.
Millet can be fed freely as a green food. Millet hay with ripe seeds harms kidneys in horses. Sow millet broadcast rather than with a drill. Success depends on even quick germination, requiring a shallow moist warm seed bed.
In transplanting such plants as the strawberry the fibrous roots should be spread out as much as possible while the root of a taprooted plant like cabbage beet etc should be placed straight up and down and not bent upon itself Compliments like champagne should be administered only in the evening. When Charley Was Away.
The passage explains cement options for china repair. It notes pure white lead ground in linseed oil forms a strong seam but leaves a white line. It offers an alternative using white of egg and plaster. It details steps to reinforce a break with plaster and egg, wrapping the pieces and burying in a sand box for twenty four hours, then a week, to set correctly.
A compilation of recipes and how to prepare tapioca pudding chicken with almond sauce calf's brains saute scraped beef and scalloped potatoes plus practical kitchen hacks. Includes advice on eye washes cleaning kettles preserving flavor of canned vegetables and methods to loosen rusted screws.
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