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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
6
A debated view catalogs alternating prosperity and famine tied to tariff shifts. Papers like the Columbus Journal urge common sense to avoid cycles of plenty and want. The piece notes opposition to Cuban relief as a potential entering wedge against protective tariffs and cites political figures.
A compilation of editorials critiquing tariff policy and its impact on the economy. It argues against overreacting to New York importers and press outlets, warns that Tariff tinkering risks business panic, and cites figures from American Economist and Wheeling Intelligencer on Cuba and reciprocity. It stresses level heads over partisan tariff cycles and questions the Cuba relief plan's harm to home industries.
The Kansas City Star notes that even the idea of generous monopolies is flawed and cites the 1893 to 1896 free trade monoply reducing wages by 40 percent to cut production costs. The Terra Haute Tribune argues bank deposits rose over 700 million dollars in five years, mainly held by wage earners, reflecting national prosperity.
A witty exchange contrasts two views on friendship with Giles praising a loyal friend who supports self-promotion without derision. The dialogue pivots on trust, loyalty, and how friends respond to bold claims.
A New England Homestead item describes a barrel with a movable stave allowing quick content checks without emptying. The design enables uniform air flow and easy resealing. The note cites a farmer’s cows suffering from sour, overheated feed, underscoring the need for proper storage and feed quality.
The text stresses pulverizing and mellowing land before sowing to boost seed germination. Fine soil promotes rapid germination, even moisture distribution, and better root access, while reducing dry air and uneven heating. Investing an extra day to prepare fields speeds growth and increases crop yield.
An inexpensive, easily constructed corn marker for large fields is described with two-by-four runners, a central pole, and a reversible side arm. The device uses a rope attached to a shoe and a single tree, staying taut and protected from stones via a swivel design. Rows are set 3.5 feet apart with a 10.5 foot arm.
The piece explains what qualifies as shorts for animal feed and rejects reground bran that is finer due to wet souring and caking. It clarifies acceptable definitions and excludes regrinded bran based on quality and moisture.
A farm device helps calves and colts learn to drink milk from a pail. Attach one end to a fence, hang the pail in the center, and secure the animal to the outer end for a few feedings. After practice, the calf or colt self-attaches, easing the process. This method aims to reduce punishment and digestion issues from rapid milk swallowing.
A poultry fumigation method is outlined with a tight box holding the bird head outside the box. The neck is packed to prevent smoke escape while legs are tied. Tobacco stems are placed safely to avoid fire, and the process lasts three to four hours to clear lice and insects from infested fowl.
Beans grow best on light loam or sandy soil rather than clay. Warmer soils aid early planting and the beans favor hot weather. Excess nitrogen makes vines grow dense and ground shade, reducing yield and increasing spots on damp soil. Barnyard manure is preferable to stable manure, and fresh manure should be avoided.
Incubating turkey eggs can hatch as well as chicks in incubators with identical treatment. There is no trouble hatching them, but raising by hand is more challenging, particularly for birds with wild ancestry.
A concise guide on rural cooperation during hard times. Emphasizes growing steer instead of horses for those not fond of horses and notes milk as a strong egg substitute. Advises on poultry growth as a key to early maturity and describes English beans as upright with large pods and rich flavor.
Instructions for making scones with flour butter sugar currants egg and milk and for a chicken potpie with dumplings. Directions cover mixing rolling baking and serving hot with buttered scones and boiled chicken with potatoes dumplings and seasoned gravy.
Scald and skin three ripe tomatoes and quarter them. Fry a quarter of an onion in butter, mix in the tomatoes with water to prevent burning, and season with salt cayenne and a hint of mace. Simmer to a pulp. Beat three eggs, cook to set, add the tomato pulp, fold the omelet and serve with tomato surroundings.
A dated recipe describes combining six ounces stale brown bread crumbs six ounces butter four eggs separated yolks and whites powdered cinnamon half an ounce and half a pound brown sugar. Cream butter with sugar add eggs and mix in remaining ingredients bake two hours or longer then unmold and serve hot with melted jam poured over.
A prepared cream sauce seasoned with chopped parsley and onion juice, mixed with one cup chopped meat. Egg yolks are added hot for one minute, then cooled before folding in stiffly beaten egg whites. Baked in a buttered dish about twenty minutes and served immediately.
Soak codfish in cold water to remove salt then dry with a cloth. Broil over a clear fire ten to fifteen minutes. Serve on a hot platter with melted butter poured over.
A historical note prescribes daily application for bunions using a camel hair brush with a glycerine lotion. The mixture includes 2 drachms carbolic acid and 2 drachms tincture of iodine in glycerine, forming a topical remedy.
Practical tips on household cleaning and maintenance. Salt for bruises and vinegar with boiled meats are advised. Turn clothes inside out to protect fabric, sandpaper to refresh knives, and using chloride of lime to renew enameled pans. Soap quality and lukewarm water are recommended for furniture cleaning. A goblet cover protects medicine from dust.
Department Commander Starr of the Indiana G A R releases a full roster of posts and appointments. Names include Department Inspector Jesse H Garpenter of Angola and Judge-Advocate William A Ketcham of Indianapolis with other officers, visiting committees for Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes in Indianapolis and state homes, plus patriotic school exercises led by multiple city and town representatives. The Assistant Adjutant-general and Quartermaster-general post remains filled by Richard M Smock.
Police seek a repeat offender targeting unprotected women in Elkhart. Court action in Goshen seeks return of an $80,000 property deed. Newberg plans a chair factory. North Vernon reports a captive eagle. A Woolen mill death in New Albany and a fatal Cloverdale lumber accident are noted. May oil production hits a record 4200 barrels daily across Indiana. Weather-linked lightning kills 89-year-old Douglas Sutherlin and damages crops. Greensburg woman dies after seeing a stranger. multiple drownings occur at Muskatatuck Creek. A horse killed by fallen wires injures a couple near Wabash. Counterfeit money circulates in Merionne after carnival.
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