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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
7
An Indianapolis News item describes a DIY grain box built from dry goods boxes with legs and vermin guards to store grain. It also covers guinea fowl breeds, the pearl and white varieties, their egg production, nest habits, and insect control benefits with notes on their temperaments and nesting behavior.
American seed corn breeding drives higher yields and better seed selection. A U S company shipped 1 860 bushels to Egypt and exported 10 000 pounds of seed corn to Australia. The corn belt supplies the world as others imitate American methods.
Describes the White Pekin duck known for its distinctive upright carriage due to rear-set legs. Size reaches about twenty pounds per pair, with delicate flesh and status as top table fowl. Lays 100 to 130 eggs per season, non setting, hardy, and quick to mature.
The article urges trying an unfamiliar crop in your area, such as peppers cauliflower spinach or eggplant and notes squash can be profitable when local supply is limited. It suggests researching demand, then planting next year to meet city market needs when fresh produce is scarce in winter.
The article argues that well kept calves thrive, reaching two years old yields more beef than neglectful two year olds, and even more by extending thrifty care to four years. It emphasizes long term gains from careful feeding and management rather than short term savings.
Girdling grapes, done a month before ripening to enlarge clusters, removes bark below the fruit to hasten maturity by one or two weeks. Sap flow stops at the girdle and feeds the grapes, with some injury risk below the girdle making large scale use uncertain.
A Canadian farmer endorses the winter method of breaking colts using a jumper. The contraption uses two long saplings shaved near the bottom to allow sagging under load, with the seat on four posts and the horse placed in the shafts. He asserts this technique prevents a colt from flipping backward.
A rural veterinary remedy advises a pig tonic mix of wood charcoal sulphur sodium chloride baking soda sodium hyposulphite sodium sulphate antimony sulphide mixed and fed as a large tablespoonful per 2090 pounds of hogs daily. If very ill pour the mixture into water.
The South African goat Sultan sheared eighteen and a half pounds of mohair at one clipping, a national and likely world record. Judges barred entry at St Louis Fair for mohair grown under rules, while at Portland Fair the same animal won the grand prize for best buck. Sultan is said to possess strong prepotent power.
A farmer explains he rehid a plowed fence row after sowing timothy and clover. He notes a warm rail fence shaded under the rails created a sunny spot and vigorous grass, three times thicker than areas without shade. Heat may have burned seedlings, causing failures to grow grass from seed without protection.
In foal mares require no special quality food but should receive more quantity. Oats are ideal. shorts and bran can supplement. Occasional mashes and cooked feed at night three times weekly are recommended where possible.
A New York Herald Washington dispatch reports widespread price increases in Europe and beyond. Bacon cheese eggs and butter are scarce and dear in England due to demand from America and Germany. Germany raises costs for raw materials and labor while Austria and Prague see higher prices for celluloid wares leather and footwear.
The piece explains that in China a yellow riding jacket is an official insignia of rank rather than mere clothing. It details annual attire changes, including six seasonal outfits, cap styles, and the extensive wardrobe shifts across the empire, noting tailoring activity and perceptions of Chinese jacket design.
A humor item notes Dr Cutter intends to operate today as the patient improves so quickly that a surgery may no longer be needed by tomorrow. A second quip remarks that aging shows in preferring old furniture over new.
Admiral Rojestvensky was acquitted by a Kronstadt court martial of surrendering at the Sea of Japan. Four Bedovi officers were found guilty of premeditated surrender and condemned to death, with sentences to be commuted to dismissal due to extenuating circumstances. The Sea of Japan battle, May 27 28 1895, decided the Russo Japanese war with heavy Russian losses and near destruction of the fleet.
Judge W P D Robinson sitting in Terre Haute as special judge dissolves the restraining order. He rules the City Council acted legally in ousting Mayor Edwin J Bidamin. Buckingham, formerly comptroller, became mayor after Bidamin's removal. the city has been without an official head and municipal business is tied up.
Alfred Tarson of Viobart received a bank draft notice for a $1,000 traction engine and thrashing machine ordered from a catalogue. His son Harry, 12, says delivery was due at the Pennsylvania depot. A mistaken catalogue and "hurry up" order led Loy to fill in the blank form and the firm promised to cover freight both ways.
W C Ecfort, agent at Tippecanoe for the Nickel Plate railroad, has run the office for twenty three years with no change in administration. He became deaf years ago yet still operates the telegraph, using a bluezer whip stock to feel the instrument ticks and read messages.
Fragmentary 19th century report notes a coal mortgage filing in Vigo County. It also mentions drownings, gunfire during a burglary manhunt, a self defense discharge for a Terre Haute wife, young deaths from explosions and poisons, and a judge limiting divorces on immoral conduct amid county political turmoil.
Nearly 1 000 wage earners among 2 000 students at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis supplement college funds with spare time jobs. They range from office work and clerking to singing in churches, gas meter reading, dishwashing, and paper routes, with many students employed in campus shops and local trades.
Berlin announces a twenty six mile municipal canal connecting the River Navel to the Spree. The canal will be owned and operated by the Teltow City Council as Berlin expands its waterways.
Less than usual shutdowns in Chicago’s industrial branches slow renewals yet boost forward demand in steel rail equipment and shipbuilding. Harvests meet expectations as holiday retail activity hits new city records and wholesale preparations surge for visiting buyers next week.
Regional market listings show cattle hogs and sheep with varied price ranges. Multiple cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York and others report bids for No 2 wheat corn oats rye and dairy products with occasional creamery butter prices and livestock quality notes.
Charles Cunningham 40 kills Minnie 28 in Philadelphia after a dispute. Police in Elyria Ohio engage with four officers during a confrontation with three men believed to be robbers. An upcoming wage increase will affect most Rhode Island cotton mill workers. The State’s grand larceny case against Judge William A Kerr was dismissed in Minnesota for lack of evidence.
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