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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
7
The verse longs for enduring peace and a rare rapture as fishermen cast into the gulf of despair. It contrasts sorrow with silent seas and the doom of striving, noting belief, mind treasure, and truth beyond science. Faith offers victory and light as envy yields to virtue.
Tom Averill Jr. impatiently awaits a Chicago train as he plans a dramatic romance with Miss Upton. He recounts a troubled childhood, hinting at a long life shaped by wealth and estrangement, and schemes to reveal his past before proposing.
A tall wandering Englishman confesses a ten year quest for Marguerite Upton. He reveals wealth gained after her Westward departure and plots to win her as his wife, aided by Dick’s letters and a staged dinner plan at the Uptons’ residence.
Tom plans to propose to Marguerite but delays to gauge her reaction. The reception room scene ends with Marguerite returning his affection and a family gathering forming around them as they share a hopeful moment. Dick, previously away, is revealed in letters as the unseen influence guiding their romance.
The piece explains Monaco and Monte Carlo as adjacent yet distinct, with Monte Carlo built around the Casino industry. Gambling began in 1856, expanded by Blanc, now funding the prince through the Casino Company which pays $250,000 yearly. Shares trade at $100 par and about $300 market value, inviting investors.
The article surveys ice strength by thickness, detailing load capacities for two to fifteen inch ice including corps, artillery and rail use. It cites Trautwine Ludlow Gzowski and German tests with crushing strengths from 142 to 889 pounds per square inch and notes ice density around 0.92. It also notes water expansion during freezing.
In Algeria a river of ink forms where two streams meet one carrying fron and the other draining a peat bog with gallic acid. The tron and acid mix to create ink. The success of a test often depends on the digestion of your audience.
A Massachusetts Ploughman endorses the weeder as valuable even when weeds are scarce, noting its ability to cover acres quickly. It aids soil crust breakdown after rain, improves moisture absorption, and reduces labor compared with hoeing.
Dressing capons keeps feathers on neck legs wings rump and tail. Dry picking is required for capons to avoid scalding which lowers price to common fowls. Other chickens sell better scalded in the market while turkeys sell best dry picked per P. S. Sprague in Poultry keeper.
The article notes yearly grain pests in bins and cites two remedies. Raising temperature to 140 degrees destroys weevils but is often impractical. Bisulphide of carbon, poured at the bin top or in pans and covered, sinks through the grain and kills pests without harming the grain, requiring twenty four hours to act.
Butter makers oppose farm separators while farmers push for better calf-raising using separator skim milk. The piece argues that pressure will grow until separators are installed on trial, with farmers paying about $100 and then sending cream to factories if quality milk is not improved.
European dairymen buy large quantities of American feeding stuffs. Experiments are under way to compress bran into bricks for easier export, aiming to improve shipment efficiency and expand trade opportunities.
The exchange remarks compare red clover varieties and alfalfa, noting mammoth red clover is less preferred than common or medium red. Cattle dislike coarse stalks, yields vary by land quality, and drought harms it. Suggestions include increasing clover seed from ten to twelve to fifteen pounds per acre and avoiding timothy with clover in favor of orchard grass. Alfalfa is best on strong soils and once started resists drought, with three to five pounds of seed per acre used where grown.
The New York Tribune notes 1890 census figures show maple sugar made in 27 states totaling 32 952 927 pounds. Vermont led with 14 125 921 pounds and New York with 10 485 625 pounds. Syrup production favored New York at 457 658 gallons versus Vermont’s 218 252. It also mentions tree yields and tapping practices.
An exchange describes a farmer who usually yields 50 to 60 bushels per acre. His 12 year old son used an acre, studied potato crops, planted quality seed, and harvested 225 bushels per acre. The piece suggests careful cultivation beats careless seed selection, though names are not provided.
In Mexican flocks of about 2000 sheep, a dozen old billy goats serve as leaders and protectors. The goats fearlessly confront dogs and coyotes, while the sheep stay behind them, gaining safety and better feeding as the goats lead. This suggests goat leaders could help farmers deter dog depredations.
Beardlesas Barley notes barley as a superior feed grain for hogs sheep and poultry with growth and lean meat advantages similar to corn. Traditional beards deter some from growing it but beardless barley is praised for good yield of thirty to forty bushels per acre on fertile soil.
Farmers note cows dislike bean straw but when eaten it is bright and clean and provides more digestible protein than corn stover and timothy hay though less than clover hay. Sheep readily consume the straw and any remaining beans. The author cites a dairy cow with strong milk production that fed on beans and straw.
A Philadelphia Times note advises treating stains with boiling water immediately after table use and sprinkling salt on stains to aid removal. It suggests varying the cloth center crease to prevent wear from repeated folds, moving the crease slightly to spread wear.
A collection of practical tips discusses stain removal with raw potato and vinegar soak for beef heart. It suggests rugs for floor cushions, blue in water to brighten glass, eggs for ill children, orange peel odor control, lamp oil to clean sinks, Missouri’s frogs legs production, oil cloth as wallpaper substitute, wrapping ice in newspapers to slow melting.
The instructions describe making Consomme Chasseur with butter onions carrot celery turnip thyme parsley bay leaf and game bones with giblets. Simmer covered half an hour brown not black then add stock boil and simmer four hours strain chill skim fat strain and reheat for serving.
Pare three potatoes and soak in cold water half out then boil until soft. Mash and blend with onion celery and milk then season with salt cayenne and celery salt. Strain, boil again, thicken with butter and flour, and serve hot.
A traditional plum pudding recipe using suet raisins bread and flour to form a stiff dough. Boil three hours in a pudding bag and serve with sauce of water sugar butter and brandy or vanilla. The pudding and fruit cake both keep for months.
Wash and cut French turnips into half to three quarter inch slices, slice strips, and cube. Cook in salted boiling water until tender, drain, and pour white sauce over them. Served this way they please those who dislike turnips. with roast pork they are often mashed with butter salt and pepper.
A simple fritter batter uses one egg half a pint of sweet milk flour to thicken half a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of baking powder Beat the egg well then add milk and flour until thick enough to drop from a spoon Do not run from the spoon Serve with hot sugar syrup or hot maple syrup.
Blanch and dry one cup shelled almonds and toss into a syrup made by boiling one cup sugar and a quarter cup water until it spins a thread from the spoon. Cook a few minutes then remove from heat and stir until the syrup thickens. Some of it will cling to the cooled nuts.
A historic recipe describes making a citrus dessert. It lists ingredients: water, juice and pulp of two lemons, sugar, corn starch, sliced oranges, egg whites, and vanilla. Boil liquid, thicken with starch, then pour over oranges and top with beaten egg whites and vanilla.
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