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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
3
A memorial poem fragment evokes memory and peace as the speaker recalls songs his mother sang. It blends sea imagery and rural evenings with hymns and lines like Jesus look with pitying eye and Rock of ages. The piece closes with a devotional tone attributed to Edgar L. Wakeman.
In a speech filled with rural humor, storekeepers discuss Jed Quimby's reform and earlier mischief. Washington Hancock recalls Jed’s hard luck and vanity, noting his pension, farm success, and stubborn pride alongside anecdotes of rain, crops, and a broken buggy whip.
The tale follows Jed Quimby’s string of misfortunes from a barn fire to escalating losses. He schemes with insurance fraud, suffers floods, disease, and lawsuits, then gains a windfall when his son Ellery uncovers coal. Jed finally concedes his luck has shifted for the better.
The piece explains Dinugislwayo's adoption of Zulu crescent formation for attack, with regimental colors and ixwa spears. It compares the tactic to Boer use in Natal and Lord Roberts's Orange River advances, detailing horned flanks, a detachments head, and brutal no quarter policy in TaYa ka era combat as described by the South African Sun.
A lady hosting Leigh Hunt at dessert warned him against eating an orange. He replied that he would, but feared he might tumble. The anecdote captures Hunt’s polite wit and the evening’s light humor.
Philadelphia Record notes a new clerk displays low self confidence provoking debate. First business man questions his leadership and the clerk’s ability to manage the business, while the second suggests he doubts himself.
A commentator notes Smothem as a successful politician despite being described as cold-blooded. The remark ties his perceived ruthlessness to his political success.
An old method describes digging a six foot deep pit the size of a stock tank, filling it with broken stone, and mounting the tank on brick or stone foundation. A central overflow pipe directs windward water over the top and into porous sub-soil, preventing mud around the tank.
The article outlines farming methods to restore worn soil using cow peas and crimson clover with fertilizer rich in potash and phosphoric acid. It suggests sowing five pecks of cow peas per acre, plowing under mid summer, and reseeding with crimson clover and rape for a productive following spring. It also describes a farm marker with ash runners, okou top, spruce crosspieces, and cultivator teeth for soil bed creation.
An essay argues farmers neglect understanding soil needs and advocates one year of practical soil chemistry for improvement. It cites ashes as orchard dressings, noting lime and potash benefits from wood ashes, while suggesting supplementing with phosphate sources like bone meal rather than acid phosphate with ashes.
The article argues a young vigorous orchard yields better returns than an old one. It notes experienced growers believe orchards not too old are worth care through cultivation pruning and spraying, while neglected older orchards pay less.
It may be a trifle early to discuss Canada thistles but clip this and keep it ready. Put half a bushel of salt in a barrel and hot water enough to dissolve it. Stir until dissolved and add water.
English sparrows become a nuisance in many areas as a rowdy flock disrupts gardens and feedings. Community residents seek practical control measures and cooperative efforts to reduce the birds' impact.
An instructional note on making a sparrow trap using wire screening and a funneled cage. At a Missouri Association meeting Prof S Kennedy discusses draft horse values and weights, noting price ranges from 125 to 200 for light horses and up to 2000 for high carriage horses, with overall price trends in Iowa and Missouri.
A sensational German statistic claims Gapmany ate 96 8354 horses in 1905, 18 522 more than 1904, and 407 more dogs were eaten, excluding privately slaughtered dogs for table use. The piece argues a steady demand for first class butter and praises dairy skill, noting farmers can produce excellent butter at modern creameries depending on individual ability and facilities.
Four quarts ripe tomatoes are combined with six halved lemons sliced thin one cup of raisins and four pounds of sugar in layers in a preserving kettle. Heat slowly to boiling then simmer until the mixture resembles marmalade. Seal while hot yields about two and a half quarts.
Stew one pound of prunes until tender and drain. Soak half a package of gelatine in cold water until dissolved. Combine prunes, juice, gelatine and half cup sugar to boil five minutes. Add one teaspoon vanilla extract, pour into a mold and chill. Serve with whipped cream. Delicious.
Prepare pure tart apples and slice. Cook chestnuts till tender, cool and mix with apples in equal quantities. Dress with vinegar oil pepper and salt, and heap on a lettuce lined dish. Garnish with lettuce hearts. Optional variation uses equal parts shredded celery and chestnuts in the same manner.
Dissolve five ounces of gum arabic in a gill of cold water then add a half cup of powdered sugar and boil until a soft ball forms in cold water. Pour syrup over stiffly beaten egg white, whip steadily, flavor with vanilla, and spread between cake layers with a hot knife.
A recipe instruction describes softening gelatine in water then steeping in boiling water with orange juice and rind. The mixture cools to stiffen, then beaten egg whites are folded in, whipped into a froth, sweetened, and chilled to set.
A recipe fragment describes mixing mill with blackberry batter and frying in hot lard, then serving with powdered sugar. It also lists a butter and sugar creaming stage with eggs, lemon peel, flour, baking powder and milk to form a plum pudding like batter for baking in a moderate oven.
A straightforward batter combines one cup sugar two eggs one half cup butter one pint milk and three teaspoonfuls baking powder with enough flour to make a thick cake batter. Pour into greased pans bake about twenty minutes with melted butter sugar and cinnamon on top.
A collection of practical home guidance detailing recipes for cookies and compotes, pantry storage with quick lime, and cleaning methods for enamel tubs copper and silver. It includes a basic nut raisin cake batter, tea set care, radish salad suggestions, celery root preparation, and copper cleaning paste.
Captain Boyd Alexander of the Alexander Gosling expedition reports a living okapi from Angu district on the Welle River in the Congo Free State. The animal, first described from a dead specimen, features a giraffe like head, a short neck, varied sepia to black body tones, red chestnut forehead, and striking white hindquarters with orange and purple markings.
A collage of odd facts and small wonders travels from fashion and industry to natural oddities. Notes on sealing wax, sea otter fur, high pin production in Birmingham, and a Neapolitan oyster extinction mingle with a peculiar Manx judicial oath and a French “colored rain” episode near Angers.
A Fort Sill genius aims to recreate Vesuvius next spring on Mount Signal, 1,000 feet high, using an artificial crater and patent explosives to emit fireballs that ignite the grassy slopes, creating a blaze visible for about 100 miles.
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