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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
3
A Baltimore American item notes that poets from Byron to Burns sang of girls and moonlight and that modern writers echo the same sentiment. The piece emphasizes the constancy of women and the moon, with a sardonic undertone about poetic research into love and fate.
Milly Ranscome returns from a six month visit accompanied by Harry Lawrence a tall stylish man wearing a silk hat. Groton townsfolk scorn his city fashion and call him a swell as Milly’s father watches with disapproval while supper revolves around farming.
Milly’s summer romance with Harry Lawrence unfolds in a close Kansas village. Suspicion and laughter greet his university status and refined manners as Milly hides her strong feelings while confronting social snubs. A moonlit drive ends with an intimate moment shadowed by the crowd.
The article notes striking shirt waist designs with white leading as the trend and black and white combos rising in popularity. Key features include extensive stitching, large front buttons, and tailored effects. One standout uses coarse white linen with four two inch box plaits edged in black, pearl buttons, and a belt of black velvet ribbon.
In a rural scene near Ranscowe a feared drunkard torments a woman at a saloon. A stern, well dressed man steps in breaking the attack, later forming a quiet bond with Milly Rauscome. Milly accepts a marriage proposal as they return home in the carriage.
The text describes a bird confined in a box that gradually eliminates useless actions and focuses on the single effective move. It learns to escape by pecking at a specific location, improving until it consistently targets the correct spot.
Mrs Charles Dana Gibson known as the Gotham social queen rises to the top of New York society. Her beauty voice and charm boost her status despite a modest start as a struggling artist wife. Her Southern origins and ties to wealthy New York families fuel her prominence.
In Ann street a curious lunch crowd of clerks and peddlers debated railways after a New York Central tunnel collision. An Irish peddler argued for public ownership while a law clerk defended private ownership. The Irishman snapped that he was not a socialist but a workingman.
An illustrated riding attachment for a plow is described by a reader of the Iowa Homestead. Figures show the device fitted to a walking plow and the detached attachment. A larger wheel can replace the small wheel for use on a barrow or other implement, enabling a leaning position.
A fragment describes a shaft long enough to place a large wheel at the extreme end, making it less prone to tipping. The context suggests a mechanical device or machine component with stability considerations.
The article advises mowing the asparagus bed in fall and burning debris to destroy beetles and rust. It suggests leaving old stalks to hold snow, but removing seed bearing plants before seeds drop. For new plantings, cut nearly ripe stalks, hang them to dry, and sow seed in a new bed for year-old transplants. It notes preference for yearling plants over two-year-olds.
Professor Edward Thorndyke describes 1896 experiments with young chicks testing their learning through maze tasks and door pecks. Chicks show selection learning, favoring actions that gain food and shelter while abandoning discomforting behaviors.
The article notes 2,000 Mormons in Germany abstaining from alcohol coffee tea and worldly amusements. It later comments on traveler disappointment at stations when no one meets them and that political pulls strain a candidate’s leg.
The corn breeding field is expanding with Illinois growers using over 1,000,000 bushels of seed yearly though demand outstrips current supply. A safety milk pail design from Garrity Alabama prevents milk loss and dirt ingress when tipped. Butter is shipped from Australia to Europe in glass and plaster boxes that insulate temperature, costing 1d per pound for 200 lb boxes.
The paper urges fall setting of strawberry plants noting strong runner growth and ample moisture since fruiting. It claims well cared for plants set in August can yield as many or more handsome berries the same year as those set in spring, with careful management.
The article notes that peach yellows is present in all states where peaches are grown except California, Mississippi, Texas, and parts of Alabama Florida and Georgia. No cure exists and disease severity varies by region, with Georgia and New Jersey orchards showing similar worst-case impacts. It advises selecting budding stock from healthy trees in one’s own orchard as safely as from external sources, barring California pits.
A Farmers' Voice note explains that lambs two weeks old begin eating besides the ewe’s milk. Emphasizes feeding ewes first to boost lamb nourishment, then uses feeding pens to train lambs to feed themselves through small openings. One catch of a lamb into a pen with feed encourages others to follow.
The Early Puritan potato variety has been tested in multiple sections and proven valuable. It features nearly white skin and promising early growth, with strong potential for profitable yields in home gardens and markets.
The Early Puritan is praised as first class with dry mealy tubers that cook well. It stores well and remains a strong point among early potato sorts.
A New York Herald statistician says the city consumes 2 283 eyes per minute and 100 million dozen eggs annually. Hens control the supply via weather and whim, providing animals with food and lodging while owners earn about $20 000 000 yearly from the city’s 342 eggs per resident.
The report notes Bavarian hop cuttings imported last year are planted in US hop districts and are expected to mature earlier, extend picking season, and yield far superior quality than common varieties.
Keep brooms clean by washing in warm suds after each sweep and dipping dusty bristles in the pail. Rinse and dry before storage to extend life and brighten carpet. Salt brightens color but attracts dampness. avoid sweeping from one side to prevent uneven wear. Oil wheels slightly to stop creeping.
From the Philadelphia Ledger comes practical kitchen guidance on economical vegetable prep and a fried orange dessert. Steam or boil potatoes in skins, soak greens in cold salted water, boil with lid off, and waste water outside. Scrub root veg, keep color in cold water, salt per water ratio is one teaspoon per two quarts. Burn parings. A separate note gives a light batter for fried oranges: flour butter salt eggs milk, dip pieces, fry in hot fat until brown, drain, sugar, serve hot.
A printed guide describes sardine sandwiches made with bread or crackers, drained sardines, lemon juice, butter, cayenne, salt, optional tomato, and optional sieving. It also provides a cookie recipe for jumbles: butter and sugar creamed, eggs, vanilla, flour, roll and cut rounds, egg wash, sugar, bake to a light color.
Stir a cupful of granulated sugar in a saucepan over heat until caramel forms. Gradually add hot milk and stir over boiling water until dissolved. Soak gelatine in cold water, add with sugar, strain into a pan, chill, then fold in whipped cream and vanilla. Freeze and garnish with whipped cream and macaroon crumbs.
A historic recipe describes combining sugar flour eggs lemon rind and juice with boiling water to cook a lemon custard in a double boiler. The mixture fills a crust bakes then frosted and browned in a hot oven for a finished lemon pie.
Cut a square piece from the thick part of the ham. Insert a half inch diameter skewer through the meat, fill with a turkey dressing, and tie in a thick cloth. Boil for three to four hours. Cool and slice thin for serving at the table.
Break dates apart wash in cold and hot water drain and cover with cold water cook briefly until tender remove fruit add sugar to the water and boil five minutes pour over the dates and chill to set.
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