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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
6
A fragmentary narrative blends poems about Old Man Rain and Old Mis' Wind with a domestic scene. A husband neglects his health, is found in a swoon, and his absence weighs on worried children who long for their father at the seaside.
A meek wife Kate defies her autocratic husband John Hacker to take their children to the seaside for health and happiness. After a severe rift, she leaves with the children. he falls gravely ill and she returns to nurse him, yielding forgiveness and a transformed marriage.
A farm owner should plan dwellings, barns, lanes and trees with permanency in mind. Begin with necessities, add comforts, then pleasures as land allows. Emphasize curved driveways, varied trees, and careful air circulation around a sheltered house.
A brief public notice quotes a light hearted verse from the Milwaukee Sentinel urging optimism and harmony. The lines encourage smiling when faced with conflict or awkward social moments.
Instructions for constructing standard live poultry shipping coops with dimensions 48 by 30 by 12 inches for chickens and ducks, 13 inches for turkeys and geese, using specific lumber sizes, nail types, and lath frames. It also covers broiler coops at 10 inches high and 24 inches wide, credited to P. T. Sprague.
The piece argues farmers and their families struggle to afford bathrooms and furnishings. It urges a nightly bath during hot months, proposing a makeshift bath using empty oil barrels cut open to hold water, offering a frugal solution for rural households.
A historical note discusses freezing whole milk by brine submersion to a dry ice like state for transport. Proponents claim extended shelf life, unchanged taste after thawing, and even mixing of cream. Feasibility hinges on fresh clean milk and new freezing facilities at creameries.
Weevils in wooded country hibernate near field borders and in woodlands, with barns and outbuildings offering protection. In 1903 a Texas study found over five times as many weevils in cotton near a barn as in other nearby localities. Numbers are higher near gins, and loose soil with rubbish allows winter survival in cotton fields.
In Gunten on Lake Thun a natural tree fountain emerges from a poplar trunk used as a water pipe. A spring was channeled through a shaft into the trunk, which rooted and grew, producing a tall, splendid growth where water streams from a high spout.
Regular feeding and variety are essential to animal thrift. A single food item cannot supply all nutrients and irregular feeding harms growth. Providing consistent, seasonal meals yields better results and healthier animals.
The mixture of coal tar and sifted coal ashes forms a stiff mortar that is plastered around leaks. It hardens like stone and resists weather, claimed to endure indefinitely, especially on slate roofs and paper rooms.
The excerpt advises implementing drainable feed floors for hogs to save feed and improve hygiene. It links cattle tuberculosis campaigns to colder stables and blankets, suggests spraying salt on sprouts and weeds for sheep, and stresses dry poultry yards with no puddles. It warns against feeding sick hogs and criticizes comfort-focused farmers ruining market outcomes.
A compact list of events notes milestones from France and England wars, colonial actions in America, peace conferences at Utrecht, Franklin's stamp act questioning, Greek independence, notable assassinations, tech advances like gas street lighting, and imperial moves across Canada, the Philippines, and Denmark.
Craftsman editor urges federal aid to extend the Department of Commerce to help small farmers develop home arts and crafts and find markets for the products. He cites Hungary and Roosevelt's push for institutional and social farming movements as a path to reduce factory unemployment while preserving homespun work. Rugs furniture pottery and allied home goods emerge as principal crafts.
Richard A. McCurdy former Mutual Life Insurance president has returned to Merrietown New Jersey after two years in Europe. He dismisses the million dollar restitution suit as not worth discussing and says his lawyers will handle it. The real question, he states, is the longer case.
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