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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
6
U S Department of Agriculture chemists warn farmers and manufacturers about dangerous fertilizer combinations. Ammonium salts raise soil acidity and can lock up phosphoric acid unless proper liming with dolomite is used. Dolomite supplies magnesia and avoids ammonia loss, improving soil balance.
A Popular Mechanics description explains a home built organ using a dishwasher motor old keyboard tin cans and a loud speaker. A photo electric cell receives light through revolving disks while a film soundtrack rephotographed onto the disks is converted to sound, reproducing the original virtuoso tone.
A quirky exchange questions turning the Sahara into a potential golf course. A voice argues no use yet, while another predicts an enthusiast may someday lay it out as dunes and greens. The remark playfully frames future ambitions amid barren sands.
A brisk exchange hints at domestic tension with humor over a misheard social clash. A husband Mr Wilkins counters his wife in a brief domestic vignette implying an affair rumor or social mix up. The dialogue style echoes a period newspaper snippet with wry tone.
Field mice threaten orchards by feeding under sod in winter, girdling trunks near soil, with meadow and short tailed pine mice most damaging. Inspect trees for runways and damage, use wheat bait laced with strychnine, and remove grass and weeds under trees to disrupt tunnels.
A Heard's Dairyman writer explains that heaves or emphysema in horses results from overfeeding dusty timothy or threshed clover hay and then working the animal right after a meal. Indigestion irritates the pneumogastric nerve, affecting the lungs and causing difficult expulsion of air with abdominal effort. Once established, the disease is incurable.
The item notes wind and water erosion as a major soil enemy, and cites 25,900,000 bushels of corn yearly for corn syrup. It mentions Wisconsin dairying as key on 181,767 farms, farm fire losses averaging $16, and rusting barberry roots potentially eight years in soil. It also reports 5,000 Ohio 4-H members active in winter, and advises winter feeding for heifer calves to ages ten to twelve months.
Little Miss Molly exults over pockets and a self chosen style as she proudly parades outdoors with her brother Tommy. Her mother admires puffed sleeves and the inverted pleat in the dress.
A sewing pattern note explains pattern 9195 may be made with the sleeve's lower portion omitted. It is offered only in sizes 2 4 6 with size 6 needing 254 yards of 36 inch fabric. Send fifteen cents in coins or stamps to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 232 West Eighteenth Street New York NY with name address style number and size.
A fragment from a vintage dialogue features Jack commenting on a new frock bought on an installment plan. The pair discuss returning it to fund further installments for a more respectable party.
Cactus Joe explains the board of trade aims to transform Crimson Gulch into a magnet for criminals. He argues that drawing bandits would render the town a global money center, reflecting an audacious strategic idea.
A social clash over women entering traditionally male roles and winning seats on street cars. The remarks frame women as taking jobs and political or civic space, reflecting heated attitudes about gender and public employment.
Detroit News reports a humorous plea about verse and verse poet's wife urging another poem as the fire dwindles. The playful line captures a newsroom mood and literary whimsy in a city edition.
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