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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
7
A poetic meditation on a veteran ruler facing death by a river. He wonders if his legacy is built on iron and battles or hollow relics, as memories of love and loss haunt his dreams. The piece blends war imagery with intimate echoes of a past life.
Jean Nelson, a beloved dormitory figure at Harper’s University, helps friend Kate during a smallpox scare. After illness scars her beauty, George Lockwood’s steadfast affection endures as he accepts her changed appearance and returns a ring.
Article notes Helen Caddick, rare white traveler in central Africa, describes a pleasure trip from Zambesi to the great lakes. It recounts her laundry method where a native boy irons garments by rubbing them on a ground mat with a cloth covering. It also mentions Cromwell pocket Bibles and a bridal idea about a husband’s desk photo inspiring progress.
The Kansas Experiment Station urges wheat growers to select seed from the best heads before harvest. Choose large, well formed heads with plump grains and plant on a dedicated seed plot for successive year improvements. A protected seed plot near the main field reduces insect losses and enhances quality.
The piece notes cutting oats while soft to crush as hay, feeding both horses and cattle well, saving threshing labor, and possibly avoiding rust. It adds a remark that rust on oats and barberry may be connected when sown near hedges.
The article describes cultivating sweet potatoes in wide beds and later in onion-like ground, using minimal cultivation and hand work, with vines harvested as fodder for livestock. It also presents a fix for livestock tipping water troughs using two posts and a wide board to anchor and separate cattle.
The article explains how frost lifts clover from the ground and how rolling the field can press roots back and reduce winter kill. It notes soil porosity affects frost damage and that cattle trampling can help, though the roller is preferred for full field coverage. It then shifts to oats cut for hay, stating nutritive value of oats remains while grain rattling and straw ripening reduce feeding value.
The article warns to repair fences between pastures and fields in spring before cattle turnout and to watch them later when pasture is thin. It notes trespassers may damage walls to access crops and warns fences should be protected and mischief punished, citing stone walls damaged to reach woodchucks or rabbits.
The roan Shorthorn bull Royal Chief is described as January 2 1899. Bred by J Maxtone Graham of Redgorton Perth and sold to D McLennan Buenos Ayres for 230 guineas about 1200 dollars.
For January 1900 exports reach 5759 mules, against 538 head in January 1899. Seven months to January 1900 total 22264 mules valued at 1 047 214 dollars, compared with 4834 mules worth 431 872 dollars for the same period in 1898. Wars favor growers and recovery will take years as supply constrains persist.
A correspondent urges each farmer in 1900 to reserve a plot for testing seedlings or new grape varieties. Starting with a good seed, plant and transplant by year two, and try diverse crops like potatoes corn grapes berries or beans. Cultivating experiments energizes farm life and can engage children in farming.
Sheepmen abandon washing wool on sheep as prices fail to cover effort and cold exposure. Centrifugal washers race competition, offering little buyer inducement. Sales of washed wool unlikely to improve value.
The New Jersey experiment station director reports nitrate of soda as 100, with blood and cottonseed meal about 70, dried fish and hoof meal 65, bone and tank age 65, and leather ground horn and wool waste ranging 2 to 30. This shows nitrate of soda is the most effective nitrogen source.
The New York Post advises constant ice box care like house cleaning. Clear spoiled food each morning, flush wastepipe, wipe moisture, and keep the ice chamber dedicated to ice or drinks only. Cover the chest with newspaper for preservation.
Practical guidance for laundry care including avoiding hot irons on flannels woolens and silks. Boil lines before use to strengthen them. Iron damp table linen with a heavy iron. Embroideries on smooth surface over thick flannel and only on the wrong side. Use salty water to set color for fade-prone fabrics. Do not heat irons to red hot.
The recipe instructs mixing half a pound of flour with salt and baking powder, adding an egg to form a soft dough, and frying small balls in dripping fat. Turn for even browning, drain on paper, and dust with lemon or cinnamon sugar before serving.
Instructions describe making yeast from potatoes, sugar, salt, yeast cakes and warm water. After 24 hours in a warm place the yeast is ready and can be kept cool for long storage. For bread, mix yeast with warm water and flour to a soft dough, let rise, and shape into loaves or biscuits.
This guidance recommends baking pearl barley pudding in a very slow oven to maximize swelling and creaminess. Use two ounces of barley per pint of milk for a soft pudding. a smaller grain-to-liquid ratio speeds absorption and hardens the grain, creating waste.
When ironing a colored waist made of silk or cotton use a not too hot iron and hot enough to smooth without blistering. An overheated iron damages bright colors. for silk place cheesecloth between garment and iron to preserve natural appearance.
A home recipe describes soaking a cauliflower head in salted cold water, tying in cheesecloth, boiling until tender, then serving in a shallow dish with a white sauce of milk butter and flour. Top with grated cheese and buttered breadcrumbs, then bake until browned.
Miss Carrie Duncan aged 19 vanished before a planned June 24 wedding to Alfred Higgins 51. She later told a Louisville sister she would visit friends before marriage, then sent a letter from Great Bend Kansas claiming she and Fred Higgins, son of Alfred, were married. Alfred Higgins is a Kansas farmer with a hired hand son.
A series of storms across Indiana wrecked property and caused multiple deaths and injuries. Union City saw the Odd Fellows hall demolished and Miss Gertrude Sipe struck by lightning. Knightstown reported Charles Estell killed. Linton experienced twenty destroyed houses. Cambridge City resident George Shepman died taking shelter under a tree. others including Nellie Beecher and Horace Hardin faced electrocution risks and farm losses statewide.
Ernest Boulet of New Albany is paroled from the Indiana reformatory after a theft sentence for stealing a bicycle. He inherits $6,600 from his Swiss-based mother, with a draft accompanying the notification. Boulet fled home as a youth, later came to America after his mother remarried, and served time for a bicycle theft while drinking in Indianapolis before earning release for good conduct.
The Indiana Supreme Court in Manufacturers' Gas and Oil Company vs Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company held that natural gas cannot legally be pumped out of gas wells. The case arose from a suit to stop pumping from Grant County wells to distant towns and cities. The decision leaves questions among lawyers about use of pumps along pipeline lines.
The Hurrle window glass factory a twelve pot plant near Hartford City idles due to extreme heat and will stay closed until September 15. Owner Mon Hurrle awarded each employee in key roles a $100 stock block with future dividend eligibility alongside wages.
A digest lists sixteen smallpox cases in Anderson with a decline expected, Booming Connersville growth, and several accidents and crimes including drownings and beatings. Henry Cartmill drowned seining near St Paul. L W Ixibbey struck by a train near Turon. Philip Bullion died from a hayload fall. a Wayne County infirmary birth ash dump loss 4000 with incendiary origin suspected. James Robins beaten in Shelbyville. Geo Green jailed for wife murder. William Dakin killed himself after multiple attempts. Albert Knight heir to 70000 pounds. Clare Hurley missing in Muncie. George Watson Sullivan acquitted in Clara Wagoner murder case. Reuben DeBord awarded damages for false imprisonment. Lola Truss missing. a kidnapping case dismissed. George Laurch dies from heart failure after swing fall. Williard Gibson and stepfather quarrel in Kokomo. six boys drown in Mississinewa river with Edward Klein rescuing five. George Bender 85 notes $1000 life insurance, later found dead by hanging in barn.
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