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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
7
A Victorian guide summarizes a fattening crate for Ontario Agricultural College poultry with dimensions and feeding troughs, then shifts to dairy churning tips for sweet butter and a cautious, methodical spring start for flower gardens using box sowing, light soil, and proper watering and light.
The article explains horses may bite crops while working in fields and recommends muzzling as a remedy. It cautions to use careful sizing to avoid injury and suggests a heavy white canvas muzzle with eighteen inch strips and two airhole openings braided at the edges for comfort.
The article advises thorough house cleaning to hatch eggs in spring. It recommends fumigating, disinfecting, burning sulphur, washing hens, sealing cracks, kerosene on roosts, whitewashing, insect powder, and liberal use of diluted carbolic acid to ensure a vermin free environment.
A remark notes that most herds contain swine prone to scale or break fences. The device mentioned is said to quickly deter such pigs and prevent fence breaches.
A farming note explains using two rings of an inch or more, two wide straps with buckles, and a strong rope to deter hogs from jumping. Strap over each front and hind leg on the same side, buckle tight, secure rings, then tie rope so hog can walk. Keep device until the hog is fully broken of the jumping habit.
The article describes profitable and inexpensive cattle rations. The first mix uses twenty pounds clover hay, eight pounds corn and cob meal, two pounds cottonseed meal. The second uses ten pounds alfalfa or cowpea hay, ten pounds corn stover, eight pounds corn, two pounds bran.
The text advises spreading manure as soon as it is produced rather than storing it in heaps. Load directly from the stable into a spreader to apply it in the field so it leaches in during winter and avoids losing fertility to the air.
The report notes shifts in output from Minneapolis mills and Northwest wheat, rising coal exports, and a surge in union activity led by Gompers. It reviews open shop attitudes in Cincinnati, Southern rail expansion, a Seattle waiter’s windfall from tide lands, and coastal worker migration of Chinese and Japanese impacting labor and business across California and beyond.
A mild butcher, Spiegelschreck, receives a bizarre telephone order for a porterhouse steak with long white hair and a seven year old collar, mistaken as a lost dog by a series of miscommunications and interruptions from a neighborly mix up at the Bugle office.
Dr Byron Mahoney, missing since 1878 and presumed dead, reappears in Ladoga with no memory of past events. He is unaware he is an older man and father to a baby. His wife had long ago secured a divorce and remarried.
Miss Elizabeth Buchanan of Indianapolis overheard a gunshot from Dr. Ellis Dixon of Frankfort while she spoke with him by telephone at her home. After no reply, she alerted a friend who learned Dixon had killed himself.
Farmers dynamited two toll houses near Vardinsburg and Fredericksburg when county commissioners refused to buy a gravel road. Tollgate keepers were ordered to remain, families moved furniture to safety, and the blasts occurred about two o'clock.
Cyrus Brown an 81 year old inmate at Franklin county infirmary was beaten to death by Thomas Darrell aged TA a fellow inmate Darrell after the act called Cleveland to glimpse the victim and claimed the angels commanded the murder.
Mrs. Davins Sewell of Paw Paw attempted suicide to avoid a disfiguring death. She placed a revolver at the back of her head and shot herself, resulting in a serious wound but she began to recover.
Dr FL W Achilles, a long time chemistry professor at Indiana University, fell down stairs in Evansville while conducting a laboratory experiment. He was about 65 and had previously served as assistant United States consul at Marseilles.
Train No 6 on the Monon derailed at Horseshoe Bend as the engine tender jumped the track on a curve. Ten persons were injured. no fatalities reported as the entire train plunged down an embankment.
Harry Pritchard aged 17 son of Samuel Pritchard of Knightstown died instantly after shooting himself in the heart while his grandmother held him. Authorities say he forged his father’s name to a small check and fled to his grandmother’s home before the tragedy.
Bride from Indianapolis and William Good 74 of Milford Indiana and Mrs 85 Langdon 55 of Indianapolis wed within two days after meeting at Willis Floyd's home in Whitestown and tied the knot in Danville.
A six year old daughter of James Hantey died after being burned before an open grate near Evansville. Ethel Barrett, 17, suffered severe burns when her celluloid comb caught fire, likely fatal.
Brief items report Congressman Gilbert has been offered a judgeship in the Philippines by the President and intends to accept. Other notes describe a mare owned by Dr. B S Rose valued at 500 dollars killing itself by sharp post, a Delphi farmer’s daughters plowing twenty five acres, a child burned to death near Owensville, a Indianapolis man paying 36000 in back taxes after a long probe, and a storefront collapse killing three and injuring five in James town.
A veteran journalist recalls witnessing an execution with a fellow reporter reading the New Testament. The quiet exchange underlines a grim profession faced with horror yet tempered by civility as the men prepared to record the event. The anecdote ends with a dry remark about the rain.
A fragmentary note describes mending a broken plaster cast with thick shellac varnish and flame heating to set pieces. It also opines that after age forty a woman can predict a friend’s career ending like a reader foresees a novel’s ending. The text also hints at mean people withholding street gossip.
The March Charities and the Commons urges Congress to reform District of Columbia governance citing missing compulsory schooling for 10 000 children last year no juvenile court and housing and play ground deficits. It notes child labor in 1900 and calls for a juvenile court while stressing cooperative reform with existing agencies.
Frederick A Burnham and fellow Mutual Reserve Life Insurance officials were indicted by a New York grand jury on grand larceny and forgery charges. They faced bail of 12500 dollars each as DA Jerome's investigation produced embezzlement totaling 8750 and 1500, with forged book entries aimed at concealing thefts.
A dense timeline lists major events: Stamp Act passage in 1165, battles and political upheavals, explorations, reforms, wars, and notable criminal cases through 1905. Entries name nations, dates, and places such as Oxford, Georgia, Lucknow, and Springfield, Ohio, highlighting shifts in power and society across centuries.
The Supreme Court dismissed the case against United States Senator Clark of Montana to cancel patents to 11 000 acres of public domain on grounds the claims were obtained fraudulently.
The Supreme Court ruled against Missouri's request for a perpetual injunction to stop Chicago from discharging sewage into the drainage canal feeding the Mississippi via Desplaines and Illinois rivers. It held that the canal's flushing with 300,000 cubic feet of Lake Michigan water improved the Illinois side rather than harmed it.
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