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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
2
A reflective poem urging rest and trust in divine order. It speaks of sowing and eternal days, the soul touching the infinite, and finding peace in sunset as God’s quiet power. The cadence emphasizes stillness and heavenly light over dusk or death.
Daniel Lang borrows to buy into Rosencraft petroleum shares after Maria warned him against the scheme. The scheme collapses when the market dissolves, wrecking the Langs finances. Maria’s warning proves prescient and Daniel admits his error, while both reconcile.
The Panama City walls built by Spaniards aimed to protect Pacific trade. Workers were coerced, and the project cost at least eleven million dollars. Legend recounts the King of Spain lamenting the walls should be visible from his palace windows.
The Philadelphia Press quotes a child named Tommy debating parental affection with a visitor. Tommy claims to love his papa more than the visitor, while noting his father only loves him when he behaves. The exchange reflects a humorous, domestic vignette about family love and discipline.
A student cites Solomon as the wisest man and Mr. Meekton quips that many wives gave him much advice, reflecting a humorous exchange from the Washington Star.
The Scots Parliament once decreed golf and football would be banished, and now the institution no longer exists while football and golf have risen to global prominence, as noted by the Wainburgh Dispatch.
An illustrated note describes the yellow neck caterpillar as a common summer pest attacking fruit and ornamental trees. It details its life cycle with eggs laid on leaves in July and caterpillars feeding on foliage, plus control methods using paris green spray or kerosene-soaked rags applied to infested limbs.
Consul George Lift reports on German appetites for dog and horse meat in 1906. Thousands of dogs and horses were slaughtered for human food, with widespread advertising of dog meat and private slaughter operations surfacing in Cassel and Chemnitz.
A newspaper opinion praises scientific farming advances from Louisiana on boll weevil resistant cotton. It argues that formal study at state farms and agronomic reports replace old almanac wisdom, promising increased profits for cotton farmers and broader societal benefits from improved cotton production.
A New Jersey inventor introduces a fruit gatherer with a feather receptacle attached to the urn forming a scoop shaped open end. As pickers harvest berries or cherries, fruit drops into the receptacle without hindering movement, and it prevents fruit from falling out.
The New Mexico Experiment Station issued a bulletin on cactus feed value noting prickly pear and other cacti. Spines are removed by torch singeing. Air-dry protein ranges from 2 to 10 percent while fruit is richest. Cacti compare well with many forages, with spines previously limiting use now overcome by torch removal.
The disease known as black rot or stem rot has risen in prominence in recent years and hinders cabbage cultivation in several states. A farmers bulletin states there is no cure once established and emphasizes prevention as the sole strategy. The illness also affects other mustard family crops, and long crop rotation is urged to remove it from a locality.
A Virginia man designs a two knife hedge trimmer with numerous cutting teeth and pivoted handles. When grasped by both hands the tool allows one foot of hedge to be trimmed in a single cut, producing an even surface and greater accuracy.
The passage describes unseen earthworms as countless workers shaping all soil and arable land. It portrays their role in transforming fallen leaves and decaying matter into fertile earth, enabling cultivation and harvests. It also presents killing an earthworm as destroying a noble agricultural laborer of the most respect.
Mechanical World advises dissolving half an ounce of camphor in one pound of hogs lard remove the scum remix with black lead to form an iron colored mix. Rub iron and steel goods with this compound and leave for twenty four hours then dry with linen to keep clean for months.
An elderly German physician prescribes a home remedy combining two tablespoonfuls of Epsom salts, two of linseed oil, one of black pepper, and one of turpentine in a quart bottle with water. After about fifteen minutes the patient’s bloating reportedly disappears.
The article notes most growers prefer the matted row system for strawberries but suggests training the first runners to grow in the rows and cutting off late runners to keep rows from becoming too wide.
A compact readerly fragment passage contrasts Scottish exile longing with distant lands and colonial imagery, linking Robert Gilfillan's lament for Scotland to strolling cadences of a rosebush through love and loss, ending with a German-sourced elegiac verse about death and memory.
A reader recounts vanished London rivers and brooks once weaving through streets now paved and crowded. Excavations at Cheapside and Wellbrook reveal ancient channels and artifacts, while the River Fleet left gardens, bridges, wharves, and anchors buried beneath modern London.
An Indian Territory editor who printed the motto We tell the truth was confronted by several gentlemen who objected to the truth. The motto disappeared and a note was inserted stating Until we recover from the injuries recently received this paper will be just like the rest of them.
Wrynell notes Curt Ascopm-Rimer as a clever poet while Philadelphia Press remarks that many have promising futures but few manage to catch up with him.
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