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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
5
The piece laments rising costs of beef, wine, and produce in Paris and the United States. It notes pork at seven dollars per hundredweight, beans at 2.75 a bushel, and butter and eggs nearing steak prices. It comments on labor, dairy profits, and agricultural market planning amid inflation.
The piece notes many residents over ninety in poorhouses nationwide and suggests the poorhouse is the best place to find them. It reports hogs selling in Chicago on September 10 at seven dollars, the highest price since 1882, with expectations of higher hog prices for winter making hog raising highly profitable.
A reflection notes a fatal hog truck accident raises local funerary costs while questioning federal irrigation spending. The writer argues Nebraska lands hold no farming value without irrigation, despite vast acreage and homestead options, urging irrigation schemes as essential.
An agricultural column humorously contrasts feeding boiled milk with pepper to chickens and children. It cites pest control contrasts between monarchy and republic, recalls English potato bug penalties, and argues that continuous surface cultivation would have improved potato yields during a drought.
T F Anthony of Promise City Iowa reports buying Mystic Cure and says two doses helped his rheumatism more than any medicine. The product is sold by D Q Storie Druggist in Chariton.
The excerpt urges fall sorting and thinning across the dairy herd hog yard horse barn and poultry yard. It declares a rigid test of pay to winter and suggests removing old animals unproductive or deformed before the first snow. Each category including old horses aged cows and summer boarders should be sold at the bargain counter.
Writers warn readers about syndicate schemes aimed at draining farmer surplus cash through real estate mining and oil ventures. They advise using surplus funds to buy reliable farm land to preserve principal, even if interest is modest.
The article reports growing interest in a new cheese curing method that moves cheese directly from the press to cold storage. It claims the cold storage approach improves quality markedly versus the old curing method and anticipates widespread adoption.
A farmer with three or four flocks invites townspeople to shoot his birds two weeks before the season opens and claims half the birds. The scenario raises whether this violates game law. The moral issue is debated as a wisdom test for Solomon era judgment.
The two Dakotas enjoy a bountiful year with abundant rains. Wheat flax barley potatoes and corn yield well after prior drought, and the surplus will be in demand at high prices in less fortunate regions.
A fragment describes a sugar bait scheme used to lure grangers with a bargain of 100 pounds of sugar and a twenty dollar grocery bill. The text notes sharp practices and fraud with unclear, partial wording.
The text suggests checking the current market price for granulated sugar in newspapers to judge value. If a deal offers sugar below market price, it is likely part of a questionable or deceptive offer in other articles discussing goods.
A woman with a farm and three hired men devised a plan with one worker to marry and live in a tenant house while she and his wife would board the remaining workers. The man backed out saying he could not risk it, a note on the limits of hired help.
A spring wind broke the central elm limb, three inches thick and ten feet long. Rather than send out a new shoot, a large side limb slowly straightened, lifting itself until August 15 to form the new central branch. This shows nature’s ingenuity in repairing damage.
A colt nearly killed Crescens as a yearling before his owner ordered the animal to be killed. He survived an escape from death, recovered, and grew into a legendary turf king, illustrating how rough beginnings can birth remarkable men.
A. J. Snell of Summer mie s feared stomach pains would ruin a party. A friend recommended Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He bought a bottle and says two doses cured him and enabled him to enjoy the party. The remedy is sold by Dig.
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