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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
7
An Atlanta Constitution excerpt laments a lover’s drift from the joys of spring. The speaker recalls brightness and memory while wondering if true love can fade into darkness, yet clings to love’s enduring light.
A fragmentary scene follows a singer with a gifted voice as a farmer’s daughter Beth faces an imminent departure. Paul pleads, memory stirs, and a note from an unknown admirer tests their bond amid an opera’s opening aria and a fading twilight.
A lone figure recalls a line from a professor that art leaves no room for love. After seven years of silence, Saul knocks on a stage door. A voice asks who is there, and the door opens slowly to reveal the awaited visitor.
Boston Transcript notes a French woman who allegedly recalls Mars, India, and France past lives. Investigators question authenticity while French savants favor the Martian language writing and Sanscrit and Arabic memory. The piece warns against hasty belief and cites Kipling and the Moon Hoax as precedent.
A memoir recalls a reporter urged to publish an exposé of living on weekly wages, dodging prison, and the editor’s stern warning. The piece shifts to Jerusalem artichokes, detailing cultivation, hog feeding, soil tips, and a harvest with profit figures from a canning run and home use.
The Town Improvement Association of Montclair New Jersey is entirely composed of women. Its annual report shows last year’s work was successful with little crime in town, many needed public improvements completed, and a balanced treasury. Australian Bank Holidays Western Australia has thirteen bank holidays.
A Colorado inventor introduces a simple durable hay stacker with no castings. The device combines base frame swinging derrick and stationary standard to lift hay with less power and consistent draft. One horse elevates while the stacker claims 75 to 100 tons daily. Tomatoes as a Farm Crop describes seedling methods, planting dates, spacing, and care for Stone variety with notes on yields and pest control.
A farmer recounts experiments in corn planting spacing from four feet apart to three and a half feet, then three feet, finding more hills per acre and similar yields. He notes wide rows north-south to face sun, one-way cultivation, and a potential half-acre gain, urging careful tests on fertile soil and good care.
The article discusses shade tree value in farming regions with examples from Niagara County New York where maples aged twenty six years were valued at one hundred dollars for thirteen trees and sixty five dollars for nine trees. It also mentions improvements in horseshoe nails to extend shoe life and better road grip. Wool price outlook predicts a rise in five years amid global factors. A Canadian report suggests beheading as egg eating cure but offers alternatives such as dark nests and oyster shells.
A historical remedy guide advises night lime treatment for sore horses, followed by axle grease or sweet oil in the morning. For stiff shoulders, a strong tea from white oak bark is recommended after peeling the bark to the wood, applied twice daily.
Instructions for salting beef with a sugar saltpeter pickle then drying. Mix water salt brown sugar and saltpeter, boil and cool, pour over meat to salt a quarter. After nine days remove pieces, dry Unto a cool place hanging not near fire. If very dry wrap with a cloth. Cut dried beef thick no more than four pieces per quarter.
Slice green tomatoes with salt overnight then drain and chop. Combine four quarts tomatoes three quarts cabbage two quarts onions large peppers half cup horseradish three pints cider vinegar one tablespoon cinnamon one teaspoon cloves allspice nutmeg and half cup sugar. Omit onions if using celery. No cooking needed. keeps well if vinegar is good. Store in glass or earthen jars. keep fully covered with vinegar. If no vegetable cutter grind onions horseradish celery in meat grinder to save chopping.
In a copper boiler 44 gallons water and 100 pounds rendered tallow are melted slowly. Add 1 pound oil of vitriol diluted with 12 pounds water, then 145 pounds bichromate of potash powder, and finally 15 parts water. Let the fire subside. tallow rises to the surface of a dark green liquid, is skimmed, and results in a fine white slightly greenish solid with notable hardness.
A historical cooking snippet provides Boston Brown Bread using graham flour corn meal and molasses with soda, plus butter and sour milk, steamed for hours. It also lists Oatmeal Brown Bread with oats wheat flour cornmeal and a molasses milk mix, then steamed. An entry titled Old-Time Soup describes a broth from a bygone English cookbook with mutton beef stock rice onions peppers and vegetables.
Practical tips for homemaking include preserving green vegetables by rapid boiling and uncovering, using water cress to whiten teeth, sealing towel fringes when damp, adding milk to floor wash for luster, soap on a pencil to quiet hinges, lavender oil near beds to deter intrusions, vinegar in alkali laundry, and a simple baked apple dessert with raisins and optional meringue.
Vernon B. Wheaton of Crown Point died suddenly near home. Morton Cook of Anderson killed by a switch engine at Big Four yards. John Oberline fell from a granary at Osgood breaking his leg. Ex Senator L. J. Bobilya died in Fort Wayne. Frank Miller 17 Shelbyville fatally injured while squirrel hunting. West Hammond electric plant burned valued at 10000 insured 3000. An derson jail escapees named Granger McCoy Chamberlain Hall Wheeler Butler Bone. Wayne County reports no wheat harvests. clover damaged but timothy good. Indiana University trustee Henry re elected for third term. East Converse brick factory burned. Brazil Electric Street Railway sold for 33750 to buyers for Stone Webster. Miss Jennie Creek refuses Paris World Fair charity sales. Mills Sellers 18 dies after accidental gun play with brother Homer. Strongest oil well on Flendenning farm Geneva yields 500 barrels daily. Wilson McCulloch offer 1000 reward for arsonists of Fairmount glass factory blaze. David Cranfield 52 Noblesville struck by lightning with son Clarence injured. Leasure brothers story of suicide by vermin killer in Windfall. James Oliver celebrated 57th wedding anniversary with gold cup gift. Indianapolis incident with toy torpedoes causes eye injuries to W B Robertson. South Bend council okays Singer plant expansion for 1000 new jobs and local street work. Ischneweind Co Kokomo burglary nets 1000 in silks via skylight during John Robinson show. Moorman kills Stevens over daughter. Moorman incapacitated wife. English man Kitsmiller treated after morphine attempt. Flynn killed by barbed wire fence near Roc.
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