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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
3
A short, playful verse about a baby who measures twenty pounds and stands six feet four, fooling his proud family and guiding a group of adults toward the gate of heaven, as featured in Good Housekeeping.
A titled British secretary aged thirty with twelve hundred fifty dollars income seeks Aunt Meg through The Daisy column for love guidance. He has fallen for a woman earning more by two hundred fifty dollars and worries about risk to his modest funds while awaiting a reply after sending his letter.
Martin Armstrong designs a hand portable telegraphic teaching unit for Kenny Texas that allows a learner to obtain letters by tracing a stylus over wood strips. The device delivers Morse code via a sounder and battery and can be used on trains to report wrecks without telegraph knowledge.
A muddled romance tale unfolds as Mildred Ellington and Harry confess amid Aunt Meg’s Daisy advice revealed by Milly, while an unrelated boiler theft and a comic Irish marriage tale appear, showing reporters’ mixed clipping content and humor.
Col. Dan Turner of Memphis describes a crime mindset among Western men while recounting a Tennessee railway tale. A traction engine delivered road material to a mountain worksite and was left idle beside the road for months, later found in fragments when cleanup began.
A German journalist discovers autograph Wagner letters repurposed as jam pot covers in the home of two elderly sisters once close to the author of Parsifal. The parchmentlike covers reveal the identifiers, and the journalist notes the curious domestic reuse.
A DIY clover cutter built from an old table and knife blade is shown with a wooden trough and slot guiding the cut. A small plant sprayer guide explains various spraying outfits from hand atomizers to wagon and steam sprayers, plus cost ranges.
A farm sketch shows using a cast off cartwheel with a thick rim and wooden strips to drive a treadle powered churn grinder or hand separator. The article also advises preparing ground years ahead for strawberries by sowing sod crops to rid soil of white grub before planting.
The Northwest Live Stock and Wool Growers Journal notes a surge of alfalfa fever in Montana and highlights Minnesota’s strong showing at the international live stock show in Chicago. The piece argues that stock can be profitably grown and fattened outside the corn belt, citing Minnesota prize winnings as proof.
The article discusses keeping small fruit plantations weed free and using careful plowing and mulching to boost yields. It cautions against feeding dairy animals fattening foods, suggests comforting feeds like peas and oats, and covers dairy management from butter quality to cow milk production and calf feeding.
A vintage cooking vignette covers a Lenten macaroni and clams recipe with steps for boiling pasta, making clam sauce, and baking. It also showcases an invention for a combined mop and brush with a wringer, plus simple baked treats, cider preserving tips, anchovy toast, orange honey, and a detailed weights and measures glossary.
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