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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
8
A Prairie Farmer correspondent describes a novel use for worn rake teeth to fashion a gate hanger. The method involves heating teeth, bending them into a large staple shape with a seven inch loop, and inserting six to eight inch legs into holes in gate posts for a sliding gate.
The Agricultural Epitomist suggests a one man swing saw for farmers. A frame built from 1x2 and 1x4 pieces yields a 14 inch width with a center guide. Height can be adjusted to suit. use a common crosscut saw.
The article outlines how farmers must study soil composition to maintain fertility. It discusses adjusting ingredients with lime, sand, clay, marl, and peat, and notes that texture and nitrogen levels determine long term productivity, with overcropping eventually exhausting soil resources.
A farm primer urges thoughtful handling of farm calls and finances. It stresses studying fluids and crops, turning weeds into value, and paying mortgage interest through good practices. It notes saving wagon costs with better corn, protecting wagons, and integrating fowls with grain and skim mill output.
The note urges farmers to provide feed for partridges and quail during February and March when snow is deep or ground is crusted. It emphasizes these birds as valuable for controlling insects and asks readers to post farms and prevent shooting of these birds.
A farmer recalls building a land roller from four old mowing wheels, a steel rod, and rivets after debating buying new. They fashioned maple planks, drilled rivet holes, added grooves, built a frame with a wagon tongue, and installed a shaft safeguard to prevent scraping. The completed roller, costing about $4.75, has served for over a dozen years.
Many mowers that are still good in the year but rendered useless by defects elsewhere are discarded or sold for old iron. Such mowers make excellent powers for light work and would be handy on any farm. Take off the levers seat cutter bar and tongue which are of no use. Then turn the mower on its side with one wheel up and
A fragmented instruction explains rigging an old mower for stationary power. It describes lowering the gear wheel, tightening stake and wire, securing a sweep for horse hitch, attaching tumbling rats to the crank wheel, and claims this yields eight nice power for farm tasks such as building shelters and operating washing machines.
Farmers describe a durable anchoring method for woven wire fences. Between posts they dig 18 inches place a loop of heavy galvanized wire and sink old casting pieces to hold the bottom wire tight. The method creates long lasting anchors resistant to frost and hog pressure, with multiple anchors if posts are far apart.
A sweeping dispatch from London and Tokio outlines growing friction between Japan and China over the seizure of the Tatsu Maru near Macao. Chinese authorities, reacting to a shipment said to be smuggling arms to Chinese insurgents, seized the vessel. both sides cite permits and port formalities amid arming fears. The Sageho naval base concentrates activity as tensions threaten broader conflict.
Boone D T Blodget, the school official indicted for forgery, was acquitted by the jury in the district court term. The verdict surprised many observers and ends the case against him.
Addison Robb a 22 year old bridegroom and John Pitt his friend are in Colville Washington as Mrs Addison Robb formerly Rettia Martin 16 daughter of rancher John Martin in Edendale ponders on events since leaving Feb 25 to marry Robt The groom and his best man are charged with subornation to perjury
An 81 year old man from Daniel 9. Queen Burrell Street Salem Virginia recalls years of back pain kidney trouble and a six week bed spell after lifting a heavy weight. He says Dean's Kidney Pills brought marked relief after prior remedies failed and credits his recovery to the medicine sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Willie Mouse interrupts with a remark about luck and wind.
Three cures of eczema described with Cuticura remedies and patient notes from Mrs Miller and Mrs Lusk, plus assorted anecdotes. A tale from Texas about heaven and hell visions and a Lynchburg court quip on hypnotism and kleptomania, and a quotation about the Invincible Smile by Mazzini.
A Pennsylvania patient recounts relief from chronic indigestion after trying Grape Nuts, praised by his doctor as a gift from the inventor. Within two months he reports clearer thinking and renewed vitality, with ongoing improvement after two years of use. The ad ends by promoting Postum’s “There’s a Reason” and The Road to Wellville in package literature.
An old advertisement claims catarrh is constitutional, not local, and promotes Ayer's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the only constitutional remedy on the market. It promises relief in 2 to 5 drops daily and offers a $100 reward if it fails, targeting doctors and patients with testimonials and at least seven to ten cent price points.
An OCR fragment shows mixed 19th or early 20th century ads and dialogue lines for products including Plymouth Rock Coffee Jelly, Garfield’s laxative, Headache duration remedies, fur trade ads, Winslow’s soothing syrup for children, and generic promotional copy. The content is garbled but preserves multiple brand names, prices, and marketing phrases.
The notice from Salzer’s and Salter Reed Co. promotes Salzer’s Early potato yields and a 100 stamps request for the original seed catalog mailed from La Crosse Wisconsin. It advertises Emperor William Oats Silver King Barley Billion Dollar Grass with claims of high yields and mentions Bainfain dry soil improver and other seeds.
A marginal whimsical remark notes that few authors sleep more than seven hours daily while suggesting their wakefulness fuels inspiration for others. The Herald and Presbyter attributes the line to a literary aside, reflecting on work habits and social reach.
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