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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
3
A poetic excerpt by Gerald Massey traces aging love and enduring devotion. The speaker asks for closeness and shelter as time and sorrow press, promising to keep each other warm and supported through years.
A lone rural household on a November night shelters a weary traveler with a bleeding foot. The narrator, her brother Rob, and Aunt Jemima host the stranger while thieves ransack the house. A scream breaks the tension as danger closes in.
A first person recounts a dangerous encounter where a gunman threatened a woman and was repelled by an unknown rescuer. The narrator later learns the rescuer was an enigmatic ally who disappeared at dawn, leaving behind a secret kept ever since.
The Angora goat yields mohair used in serges and coarser woolen goods and bindings. Originating in Africa, it is kept in northern Africa’s Don gola region near the Sudan where British forces subdued the Dervishes. Skins supply leather such as Dongola kid shoes for women, with large imports and growing American interest as flocks form locally.
The article outlines dairy practices for butter making including cream separation, temperature control, ripening with sour skim milk, and proper conditioning for market. It then discusses sugar beet cultivation, noting skepticism about profitability, reports Michigan Sugar Beet Growers' Association concerns, and critiques of beet sugar content and yield per acre.
Mrs Parkington plans a summer reading list while George asserts he must take his leather bound pocketbook printed as a government publication. The exchange blends humor with domestic choices and literary nods.
Drifting through time a papyrus fragment in the British Museum is claimed as the world’s oldest letter. Dated about fifteen centuries before Christ, it records a correspondence with the scribe Amenemapt. The document has survived thirty centuries and remains legible despite perishable material.
A 19 year old with extraordinary arithmetical powers is under medical study at Indiana University. Investigations show a tenacious memory underlies his skill, with rapid calculations built on memorized number relations and personal shortcuts. The piece also notes an amateur concert surprise over stopping points and a remark on dignity and conquest.
The article outlines a greenhouse layout with an eighteen by variable length plan, four foot walls, eighteen inch benches, and seven heat pipes split to north and south. It favors steam heating with a closed loop, and discusses drainage with stone or brick filling, soil depth, and pipe slope for steady water flow. It then reviews pruning knife design, and notes horse demand and diverse small farm profits such as plums in yards, bees, early vegetables, and high labor crops for profitability.
Instructions advise promptly removing milk from the cow or pail, quickly straining into the can, and placing in cold-water tanks or through a separator. If ample ice is available, lower the water temperature to 45 degrees to preserve quality.
Burrell Stephens describes a method to boost first-year growth by cutting vines to two or three eyes, letting a single or multiple canes grow, and pinching back all but the desired cane to promote leaf production. He notes shaded ground and air intake from the pinched canes and claims Delaware vines can reach typical two-year growth in one.
Law grants sparrows exemption from insect-eating bird protection as farmers vow extermination. Experts who dissected many sparrows across seasons report they harm crops by consuming grain and damaging fruits and buds, with insects eaten considered minor.
The article notes cow peas as a top feed for increasing egg production and usable for adults or chicks when cracked. It highlights their high nitrogen content and superiority to corn or wheat. It also mentions rape as an excellent poultry food adaptable to all soil types.
Household pest note urges heavy smoke with sulphur and corrosive sublimate to kill bedbugs. Advice covers room by room treatment, removing pets, sheltering valuables, and safety warnings about poison and eye exposure.
A practical old era guide covers housework chores and kitchen recipes. It lists window washing steps with ammonia rinse, sweeping methods, and stair cleaning, then moves to Egg Pie, Boston Brown Bread, Aluminum Kitchen Utensils, Shirt Bosom Board, Curried Rice, Douzhebouts, and lamp chimney washing tips.
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