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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
6
An article detailing orchard planting patterns with square, quincunx, and septupic systems. It explains filler trees, permanent triangles, and ideal distances for apples pears cherries peaches plums and other fruit. It notes double planting benefits and warns against mixing fruit varieties in one block.
The article advises light summer pruning from June 15 to July 15 in Wisconsin to encourage fruit buds, pinching back shoots eight to twelve inches to two to four inches, and leaving some shoots to grow. It warns against heavy summer pruning on fruit trees and stresses safe winter fuel handling and proper wood storage.
Rural New Yorker reports that a few entomologists once hoped spreading a disease would wipe out pests like grasshoppers and binch-bugs. The plan appears to have failed after years of research and testing.
The article reports President Roosevelt pushing to take personal charge of legislation at Washington. It contrasts this with English practice where leaders control bill flow, suggesting the president endorse measures through key committee leaders and have leaders postpone other business to gain passage.
The article notes Mrs. Cortelyou, wife of Secretary George Bruce Cortelyou, will take on social duties in Washington. Active in St Margaret's church and rector's aid events, she values home life, church work, and intellect. The couple has four children.
A young writer, once told by President Roosevelt that knowing Spanish could win him a diplomatic post, studied hard after a sharp rebuke. Later, he returned to report fluency, and Roosevelt quipped that he could read Don Quixote in the original, implying a prestigious outcome.
A department official notes a change in official correspondence toward old fashioned spellings with phrases like Referring to the reference hither by your department. The announcement praises simplicity but says the shift gives a strange appearance.
An official circular from the War Department’s inland bureau discusses whether the word past used for a Philippine commission act is correctly spelled. It notes the spelling aligns with President’s 300-word simplified list but questions its use in legislative enactments, with Congress likely to address the matter next session.
The article traces early Colorado farming lessons on potato and corn irrigation, noting dry spells, favorable alfalfa stubble, and expert timing. It explains how modern practices use early and late irrigation, frequent cultivation, and careful water division to boost yields, with four to ten irrigations common on large farms and yields more than doubling over a decade.
Mrs S C Wellock of Everett Massachusetts reports ten years of nervous trouble and locomotor ataxia with tremors pain and numbness. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills she recovers fully and remains symptom free for over a year. Pills sold by druggists or via postpaid from Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady New York.
In a wartime style exchange a conductor asks for car capacity and learns that the vehicle official capacity is 60 while it carries 120, illustrating overloading and improvisation in constraints. The anecdote highlights adaptation and resourcefulness in transportation scenarios.
A man who asserts the world is growing worse travels about with a muck rake as his principal tool, implying he digs up and exposes perceived declines or corruption to persuade others.
Dr J H Rindlaub, specialist in eye ear nose and throat in Fargo North Dakota is noted beside a quotation about a shrewd politician who knows the public’s tolerance and limit.
Prices and shipping terms for furs hides and pelts to McMilay Fur and Wool Company in Minneapolis Minnesota. Details cover per item price rates and handling of shipments to the firm for purchasing season.
In Southern Oregon at Dry Diggings on Rogue River a 70 000 pound five step centrifugal high pressure pump powers a line of hydraulic monitors. Built in San Francisco before the earthquake and fire it meters 13 000 000 gallons daily through a 22 inch steel pipe over 600 feet from 100 feet height to break gold bearing gravel.
The Postum Cereal Co. Ltd pledges all Postum Cereal Grape Nuts and Elijah’s Mania packages comply with the 1906 Pure Food Law. Cited signatures include C. W. Post of Battle Creek Michigan and notary BENJAMIN F. Rem with a 1907 commission expiry. The firm asserts no misbranding and claims ongoing truthful ingredient labeling.
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