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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
2
A reflective verse contrasts quick starts and flashy talent with lasting stamina. It argues that initial brilliance fades without persistence and disciplined effort, urging steady effort over boastful rushing. The piece likens endurance to steady pursuit of quarry and warns against overconfidence in early speed.
Tom Arnold pursues an exclusive interview with Hon. J. D. Bowers to boost his career and win a raise. A ruse with a reception committee, dress clothes, and cunning ties him to a pivotal political moment in the city, ending with a triumphant first-page copy and a marriage proposal to The Girl.
London Gardener's Chronicle reports the new pear named Roosevelt by M. Charles Balet of Troyes France. The pear is large and productive grafted on quince, with white melting flesh and sweet flavor. Season in Northern France runs September to November with October peak.
On August 16 1896 Skookum Jim washed out his pan on Rabbit Creek triggering the Klondike gold rush that brought thousands to the territory and enriched the world with about 120 million in gold.
A Washington Star snippet records a policy holder challenging a life insurer about being deemed a good risk. He insists he was not risky but a sure thing, prompting a pointed exchange about the company’s assessment.
The article lists enormous 1906 production figures for American farming including corn, wheat, oats, rye, flaxseed, potatoes, apples, cotton, tobacco, and more. It estimates milk and dairy values from over 17 million cows totaling hundreds of millions in value, plus cattle, horses, mules, and sheep and swine, with eggs expected to reach 1.86 billion dozen next year.
A reader shares a fencing tip by Roscoe Torbett about making corner posts from a forked small tree. The fork is shortened, placed in the ground, and braced with a rock to brace the prongs inward, creating a post that will not pull over on hills or banks.
The text explains that when cows fail to chew the cud it signals illness rather than lack of cud material. A cow not chewing is a sick cow, and once the animal recovers its health, its cud-chewing urge returns.
The Secretary of Agriculture reports U S crops reached peak production and value. Corn tops at over 2.7 billion bushels valued at 1.216 billion dollars, followed by oats or tay with 605 million, cotton about 575 million, while wheat faces a short year.
The text extols the Aylesbury duck breed noting sunlight exposure affects plumage and beak color, with breeding ratios for exhibition birds and market stock. It then promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, including a testimonial from Mrs Fannie D Fox and a general invitation for sick women to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Farmers should favor barn storage over stacks as exposed hay loses more and feed wasted. Damaged hay worsens with weather and animals. Un housed cattle suffer comfort loss and food is wasted on maintaining heat, reducing future efficiency. Selling hay not hold in mow is advised to avoid weather risk.
The Michigan Experiment Station studied inoculated nective methods and found nodules raise protein in soybeans. Fields with and without nodules showed no yield or color differences, yet nodulated hay averaged 18.52 percent protein versus 9.56 percent in non inoculated hay. Cowpeas showed a similar result.
Wisconsin experiment shows pigs raised solely on corn become dwarfed and unhealthy. Lot 1 pigs gained weight but failed to mature, developed hair loss and scaly skin, and grew increasingly listless and uneasy as the trial ended.
A chair used by Napoleon Bonaparte at his exile on St Helena was auctioned in London and sold for 58 dollars. The buyer and auction house details are not disclosed in the brief report.
A Rhode Island deputy sheriff and city police chief, famed for staunchly honest persona, is described in a Boston Herald writer as seeking information on Joe White who sought store credit. The storekeeper recalls exposing prior arrests for theft and subsequent acquittals.
A Newark woman testifies that Dr Williams Pink Pills cured her three year rheumatism after other medicines failed. Her husband confirms she now moves with ease and no longer needs a wheeled chair. The ad blends multiple notes and a recipe task from a separate item. Copyright notices and scattered copy follow.
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