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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
3
A detective narrator recalls the strange cry Parrot yell echoes as Tom Galgwyn, heir to Uncle Joe Branch, commits suicide after a life of debt and misdeeds. The case links the uncle’s murder to Galgwyn's death and a long held mystery surrounding the family. The parrot’s testimony from the scene provides the pivotal clue.
The Nedjo region drives Abyssinian gold trade where washers bring dust and nuggets to brokers who test ingots by malleability. Abyssinian cotton called aboudjedide serves as money, with 30 yard pieces worth about $2 used in coffee purchases. When American cotton prices rose, wholesale merchants increased bale prices, but farmers in Harrar faced falling coffee prices and hardship.
A brief mocked history cites an outrageous encounter from Encounters Between Famous Men showing George Washington in Rome as flames rise Nero plays a violin on the city wall. The Ohio State Journal tags it as authentic through family memory.
A concise meditation on prayer suggesting that sustained devotion would continue endlessly if God heeded every plea. The line frames prayer as boundless, inviting reflection on faith and endurance without concrete events or figures.
The article notes the cosmopolitan mix in New York City and tracks shifts from 1890 to 1900. It cites total populations, native and foreign born counts, and changes across nationalities including Russians Italians Poles Hungarians Swedes Norwegians Bohemians Chinese and Germans, with Germans as the largest foreign born group.
The text presents a health code urging regular living and frugality. It advocates eight hours of sleep, open ventilation, simple social obligations, a cheerful modest home, and drinking only water or milk. It condemns alcohol coffee and tea as poisons and warns illness as a punishment for excess.
Wisconsin round-up presenter C P Goodrich recalls his boyhood New York farm where ridges kept in grass prevented erosion. He contrasts a dilapidated field lost to gullies and weeds with a fertile ridge preserved by pasture and grass, urging soil binding cover on slopes.
A collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century views on womanhood cites Wordsworth Wipling Maeterlinck Meredith and Isobel Stevenson. It notes varying labels from ideal beauty to mystic and even vegetable traits with a Yale professor remarking Mrs Stevenson as about the perfect woman. The anecdote ends with a tutor asking about her mother's specialty and the reply that she can roll cigarettes and talk to men.
Mrs Oliver Ames provides at her own expense a full brass band for Oliver Ames High School in North Easton Massachusetts, an institution of her planning and provision.
A. A. Hodge argues that social rules embody the matured outcomes of broad experience, shaping behavior and norms across communities. The remark notes how adherence to manners and expectations stabilizes daily life and preserves order.
A. C. True reports that crop rotation increases yields and soil health. Continuous grain yields less than rotating grain with grass and clover, with gains of 6 bushels corn, 7 oats, and 6 wheat per acre and significant percentage improvements across crops. Wheat after cultivated crops shows 75 percent more than wheat after fallow.
Vermont Experiment Station studied sap flow and composition in sugar maples over four years. Despite poor seasons, data shed light on practical and scientific questions such as which tree side yields more sap. In 1901 four trees were tapped on north south east and west sides to compare sugar yields.
Measurements on four trees reveal south facing sides produce more sap than north and east or west. Tree 4, a large open-standing specimen, gave the richest sap due to greater leaf area and sun exposure. Sunlight and leaf area drive maple sugar production. sugar percentage in sap remains similar across sides.
A circular from Sinois Agricultural College outlines pruning methods for black berries red raspberries and black raspberries including tip nipping in summer three to five canes per hill pruning back laterals and removing old canes. It also covers annual currant and gooseberry pruning and notes common pests and mildew such as currant worms and strawberry blight with sanitation tips.
Fred H Rankin argues that raw pork eating by some societies and certain Europeans has kept trichinae knowledge confined to labs and classrooms. He questions protecting raw pork eaters, notes cannibalism exists domestically, and urges strict cooking to safeguard American pork in global markets.
Farmers report clover yields with oats on corn-stalk ground and thick sowing to avoid thin stands. The text notes a dry fall affecting success and urges heavier seeding. Cheese exports from the United States fell in 1901 compared with 1900, while butter exports rose significantly in value and pounds.
Fred H. Rankin urges breeders not to chase fashionable stripes but to favor vigor, digestion, and robust constitution. He warns against refining bone and lightening frames, calls for sturdy limbs and good feet, and emphasizes strong backs ribs and ham. Intelligent breeders seek to combine these traits for a good herd.
Investigations at experiment stations show corn supports fattening but limits frame growth. Clover and grass build the frame at low cost, with milk as a strong frame builder. Roots play a minor role. as fattening nears, switch gradually to whole corn for pork quality.
Hundreds of farmers in the Ozark hills of Missouri and Northern Arkansas face winter shortages after last summer's drought. They have refused aid until planting season, then will accept seed secured by Arkansas Governor Dockery with borrowed funds. Missouri lawmakers may authorize seed distribution through the Free Seed program to relieve these families.
Prizes in the annual live stock judging contest were awarded: first prize $25 to Geo W Hamilton Fulton Missouri, second prize $15 to W L Schubert Rockport Missouri, third prize $5 to E A Loomis Meadville Missouri. Awards covered best beef cattle grades and essay on The Most Profitable Type of Beef Cattle. The event is a highlight of the Short Winter Courses in Agriculture. new live stock building and judging pavilion will be ready by September 1902.
In Jersey County Illinois C B Bartlett notes little success against Hessian fly. Late sown wheat often yields poor crops and current remedies have shown little profit. He now grows cow peas and soy beans instead of wheat.
The London Chronicle notes the Helen's Tower in the park at Clandeboye County Down, built by Lord Dufferin in honor of his mother fifty years ago. The miniature house contains a silver lamp given by his mother and a wall tablet with verses for his coming of age. Browning and Tennyson referenced the tower. Lady Dufferin was Sheridan's granddaughter.
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