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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
7
A short poem from the San Francisco Bulletin recounts two birds, one nesting high in a tree and the other near the ground. A Shrike notices the lofty nest but ignores the humble one, illustrating a moral about fortune, status, and neglect of the humble.
Cecil Ackerson schemes to derail rival Kenyon Carstairs by sending a secret dispatch. Carstairs travels to Halzund with the dispatch, Nell Gorringe manipulates him, and a mysterious black-bearded companion poisons the plan. The case ends with the dispatch embedded in Carstairs coat and the couple’s marriage in spring.
A Detroit Tribune summary contrasts Japanese practices with American norms. It notes admiration for fat individuals, nighttime weddings, couples eating separately, rare kissing or handshakes, left-handed screw threads, backward carpentry methods, and children strapped on the backs of adults, with seated deference to distinguished men.
E. B. Neeley has served public school superintendent of St. Joseph Missouri for thirty nine years and remains alive. He faced constant criticism from teachers and conflicting interests yet retained popularity and holds the United States record for long service. Neeley began after the Civil War with pupils housed in former stables and today St. Joseph fields thirty three modern schoolhouses and 280 teachers. The piece also reflects on paleontological moon history noting its distance from Earth changing over time.
A government report shows the nobility holding 181 million acres and merchants 86 million, while peasants own 35 million acres. A girl asked, Are we dancing or wrestling, while dancing with a youth who was learning.
A Missouri inventor proposes a portable wagon hoist with adjustable hooks and a lifting lever to free a jammed wheel. The device doubles as a wagon jack and can fit various wheel sizes by adjusting arm lengths. It helps drivers avoid cruelty and keep teams moving.
An illustrated method uses a heavy leather harness strapped behind the forelegs to prevent sows from removing it while allowing access to feed. The design is described as simple, cheap, and adjustable to stop the pig eaters without hindering slop or grain.
Farmers and the Farmers Protective Association of Central New York oppose canning factories over grower prices for produce. The scale set for this year exceeds last year, with some factories granting small increases. In Maryland and along the eastern shore there is agitation and contact between growers and tomato packers.
The heavy work season of the farm causes galled shoulders in work horses. A simple cure is to use a sweat pad covered with white soft oilcloth placed smoothly over the shoulder and sewn securely to prevent wrinkles or displacement.
Onion growers view continued good prices for multiple years with the Southport Globe variety highlighted. The improved globe strain named Southport, including white and yellow, outperforms old globe onions and offers large size, strong keepability, and high yields, though red Southport is less reliable than red Weatherfield.
The 1902 world wool clip is estimated at 2 711 06L57L pounds with regional contributions: Europe 944 244 439 pounds, South America 510 000 000, Central America 5 000 000, Asia 274 000 000, Australasia 510 000 000, Africa 134 425 000, Oceania 50 000 pounds, and North America including the U S and Canada 333 342 032 pounds.
Farmers learn cutting back peach limbs into stump shape stimulates vigorous shoots and early crops while young trees come into bearing. Dairy cows should be slim and angular to sustain milk output longer. To prevent rust on beans spray saltpeter and water mix. Shelter warmth boosts dairy yield as Arizona tests show milk drops after three day cold rain.
A Washington Star poem praising Betty Bakes Cakes and her baking skill. The speaker admires her buckwheat cakes, syrups, and coffee aroma, expressing pride and loyalty amid a wintry morning. The verse elevates Betty above other crafts like embroidery and writing.
Calves liver is more delicate than beef or lamb and tastes rich. Slice the liver and soak in cold water for at least ten minutes to draw out the blood, then fry a dozen pieces of bacon until crisp. In a hot pan brown the dried liver in the bacon fat for ten minutes, arrange the crisp bacon rolls with the liver, and serve without grease.
Cut veal into half inch squares and brown in butter with onion apple and garlic. Stir in curry powder and flour then add meat and stock or hot water with dissolved beef essence. Season with lemon juice and salt, simmer briefly, and serve hot.
Instructions outline a Hollandaise method with two ounces of butter salt nutmeg water and a gill. simmer five minutes. Reduce vinegar by half then mix with bechamel and butter. whisk four egg yolks with water. remove from heat and add yolks lemon juice. strain before serving.
Wash dandelion leaves and cut into inch lengths. Mix dressing with egg sugar salt pepper vinegar and milk then add butter and heat to boil. Stir, add dandelion, boil once, cool in ice and chill. Add two sliced hard boiled eggs before serving.
A collection of tips covers cooling pastries in a warm room to avoid heaviness, cork sizing after soaking, shelling shrimp in a colander with boiling water, turpentine cleaning for zinc, and keeping zinc polished with a turpentine rub. It also advises using a Manila envelope for recipe clippings, storing food in a cellar with a wire safe, avoiding sun-damaged wooden tubs, and maintaining knives with a near-by basket containing a potato a bath brick and a polishing cloth for cleaning and polishing blades.
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