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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
2
A verse from the Atlanta Constitution extols patience and hard work. The speaker urges seeing the sun rise each morning as a sign of striving toward the Promised Land. It links toil and reward with nature and repeated refrain.
Lavinia Higginbottom frets over a surprise marriage as William brings home Harriet, a tall confident bride. The mother learns to accept a loving daughter in law who vows to be a daughter to Lavinia. Family bonds deepen as Harriet steadies the shy mother, and the couple receive warm, if awkward, acceptance.
Leslie's Weekly reports the New York State water supply commission urges sanitary regulation of statewide water systems. It highlights education on pollution dangers, remote rural water risks, and a proposal for state certificates of purity for drinking water to boost trust in rural and urban supplies.
A mock obituary for Hon. Dodd Gast prompts a pessimistic editorial note from the Allegash Weekly Agitator. Prof. Twiggs admires the piece while the Old Codger dismisses the sentiment, quipping a bird dog loss would be likelier lamentable.
A discussion on the word row tracing its roots from rouse and rouser to possible French rouge and later to row de-dow a phrase meaning noise. The note cites Todd’s dictionary critique and Shakespearean usage while weighing false singulars and historic spellings.
In the Boston Transcript a column questions the fate of tin horn gamblers, focusing on a missing man and the widow of Rounder. The piece probes uncertainty about the whereabouts of the wandering boy and the social impact on his widow.
A method to stop mud around watering tanks involves digging a six foot deep pit sized for the tank, filling with broken stone, and mounting the tank on brick or stone foundations. The overflow pipe is centered to spill water over the top and seep through porous subsoil, with an illustration showing construction.
The article discusses soil care through cow peas to fix nitrogen, proper watering to avoid mud, and layered seeding with lime and cover crops. It advocates practical soil chemistry education for farmers, noting genetics, soil nutrition, and the value of ash and bone meal as soil amendments.
A collage of clipped opinions from multiple papers mocking graft scandals, Panama Canal supervision, suffrage debates, tariff rhetoric, stamps, and imperial misstatements. Notable echoes include Count Boni, Senator Dillingham, and various editorials on governance and public policy.
The instrument uses ash runners with 1x4 oak tops and spruce 1x6 crosspieces. It marks rows at 214 8 344 or 4 feet, guided by a pole that swings either way. Cultivator teeth behind each runner sit one inch below the iron shoe, bolted to the oak bed to create a soft seed bed.
An experienced grower notes that young, vigorous orchards receive better care and yield returns, while old orchards are often neglected and decline. He finds value in timely cultivation, pruning, and spraying to keep marginal orchards productive and profitable.
A brief old fashioned tip advises preparing a salt solution to combat Canada thistle. Mix half a bushel of salt in a barrel with hot water until the galt dissolves, then add water to fill. Apply the solution when the season allows for weed treatment.
A short guide describes a method to trap English sparrows using a wire screened box cage baited through a funnel. Birds enter through a central hole then pass through the funnel to reach bait, though poisoning is warned as dangerous.
Professor Kennedy outlines draft horse values at Missouri Association meeting. He notes heavy drafts weigh 1600 to 2060 pounds and are worth at least 260, with price steps per weight. a 2000 pound horse can reach 500. Light drafts fetch 125 to 200, carriage horses 200 to 2000, roadsters 200 to 300 up to 1000. over ten years Iowa and Missouri drafts rose 25 percent.
A historical note discusses Germany's 1905 horse consumption totaling 96 834 horses, 15 522 more than 1904, and 407 more dogs eaten. It argues for high quality butter, claiming skilled farmers can produce better butter than creameries, given the right facilities and effort.
Two German scientists Zeigmanry and Siedentopf of Jena University introduce the ultramicroscope. Placing an ordinary microscope at right angles to a light ray allows view of dust particles and disease bacilli far smaller than prior microscopes could reveal.
John Burroughs, the naturalist author, reports a flock of over a hundred passenger pigeons seen this season in the Hudson highlands. Once common across American woods, these migratory birds vanished from haunts, becoming a mystery. One theory suggests they may have been swept to sea by a violent gale.
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