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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
An earnest farm note describes building a vine covered veranda with simple materials to gain shade and comfort. It contrasts practical veranda plots with warnings against “book farming” and urges adopting practical, neighborly farming while avoiding criticism and overreliance on science.
The piece mocks farmers who resist becoming book farmers and suggests avoiding farm accounting, prices, and cost data. It urges reading only selective agricultural material pushed by trade, favoring nontechnical sources and steering clear of agricultural institutes and lectures.
A correspondent from the Indiana Farmer outlines a 160 acre farm diagram in eleven divisions designed for mutual farmer support. The plan features a two sided road front, ten acres for buildings, three 40 acre cultivation plots, and flexible permanent pastures with wind breaks. It argues reduced fencing costs and movable fences to adapt pasture and field layouts, noting a 30 year timbered origin and a three year rotation possibility.
Pattern explains forming a multi star crochet motif from a 12 chain ring, detailing rounds with double and treble crochets, chains, and stitches to join stars into a center connection. It outlines step by step construction, joining, and fastening off for an ornamental crochet design suitable for daily use.
A guide to color choices for women based on hair and skin tones. It recommends color palettes for colorless blondes, sallow complexions, black haired red cheeked types, and red haired women, detailing which hues enhance or dull each complexion and noting Parisian influence on gold and yellow accents.
The note hints at gardening and farm tasks such as counting jars of fruit, building gates before spring, and ensuring pig pen sanitation. It mentions dry farming challenges and instructs to direct hired help, compare Alsike clover with medium red, and references seeing Ne.
A New York Holstein breeder raises pure-bred cattle and keeps a smaller Jersey herd. He combines the milk from both herds to create a mixed product, boosting wealth and the reputation of his establishment.
The article notes dress gloves in long lengths resembling winter styles with back stitching forming crows' feet and wrist closures via two large pearl buttons. Apricot and champagne tones are fashionable, lavender is fading, and yellow gloves appear mainly with carriage costumes. Street gloves match street costumes.
A fragment describes a desk light with an incandescent bulb under a green shield aimed at a white ceiling. The light diffuses pleasantly across a room, creating soft, shadowless illumination when the bulb is strong enough.
A Boston physical culture instructor reports great success teaching round-shouldered girls to stand erect by a simple head rule. She advises throwing the chin up to lift the head and shoulders back, noting mountaineers stand straight due to constant upward posture and that stooping is impossible when following this rule.
A fragmented notice describes an underslip for pinafore bodices with a cheap yoke under the arms and puffed sleeves ending above the elbow. It notes a batisté edge band fixed to the under-bodice with safety pins and mentions frilled bands and insertion details though text ends abruptly.
Moose Jaw reports Mr. 8 K Rathwall says his 600 acres of wheat averaged 22 bushels per acre. 120 acres of oats yielded about 50 bushels per acre. Early wheat sold at 85 cents per bushel, later frost-affected wheat valued at 60 cents. He expects about 18 and 13 dollars per acre respectively, with oats around 17 dollars per acre. He notes market prices and limited rail cars affect shipments.
A West Philadelphia woman, unsure if the clock had stopped, sent her five year old son to check. He returned with the verdict that the clock was not running but standing still and wagging its tail, a vivid image captured from a Sunday afternoon scene.
A dialogue frames Mildred’s view of Mr Ketchley who called on her last evening. The prudent mother urges respect for a sensible well connected man famed as a rising business figure. Mildred replies she would endure him if he didn’t take so long.
A Washington woman credits Postum with vastly improving her health after years of nervous trouble. She stopped coffee four years ago, began drinking Postum, and reports she now manages her household and cares for two children with renewed cheer and energy. Cresk, Mich. "the Host to Wale ville," to. phan, o Ree.
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