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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1906
Page
2
A reflective verse laments changing times and fading youth. It contrasts bygone golden chances with present dullness, noting warmer days, sweeter songs, and aging couples holding steady beside a failing fire as love remains a dream.
Eight year old Harry visits the yard of Fairview Express as his father Bob Sutton prepares Big 92 for departure. While the crew is away at dinner, Harry climbs into the cab and touches the throttle, daring to test how a small movement could wake the mighty locomotive.
A young boy loses control of a runaway locomotive Big 92 and tears from a yard toward a main line. Station staff and a desperate Belton Harbor plan to switch the engine to a siding to avert a likely fatal collision with an oncoming passenger train. The clock ticks as danger mounts for Suttons son.
Chicago Daily News recounts how Fairview Railroad Superintendent Sutton recalls his injury from being thrown from a wild engine at Belton Harbor as a child. He credits the left arm crook with saving a whole trainful of people, a tale the narrator notes may be retold but is mostly captured here.
The battleship Texas completed in 1895 is retired and sent to Charleston as a station ship. Once famed for valor at Santiago de Cuba under Captain Jack Philip its misfortune earned it a hoodoo nickname. After repeated accidents and damage its guns are removed and it will rest in the naval graveyard.
Mrs Faraway recalls the anxious night as Professor Faraway spoke before a national scientific society. After a poised address the couple returns home, and she reveals his audience noticed his odd pose and gleefully applauded the professor’s talk.
In the absence of the cook the young mistress and a green waitress scrambled to prepare Sunday's luncheon. The maid admitted she had not washed the lettuce due to a faulty coffee machine. The mistress urged continuation and asked where the soap was.
A cashier and patron clash over a meal in a Philadelphia Press quote, with the patron urging forgiveness and forgetting. The item comments on aging and jealousy, noting time and temper in daily life.
A method to keep hens and chicks healthy by building a coop that provides ample air. It suggests sloping the roof, front slats with a lower corner door, and a screen frame covered in wire netting to protect from prowling animals while maintaining ventilation.
The article describes a coop screen secured by side pieces and long wire nails, with end stakes and holes to lock the screen in place. It details the hinge and latch system and how the nails fit when the hitter is positioned to prevent loosening. It then discusses the cost of raising a heifer calf, citing Alabama data. A calf born at 56 pounds consumed large amounts of milk and grain in the first year, costing $12.85 and reaching 435 pounds, then 665 pounds after the second year with total feed cost $21.95 by maturity.
The article explains that freshness drives egg value for grocers and farmers. It warns buyers dislike aged storage and stresses prompt marketing to sustain demand and high prices. It notes refrigerated eggs improve with months of storage compared with pantry kept eggs.
A traditional guide weighs watering before feeding versus after with emphasis on horse welfare. It notes drink when thirsty, warns against excessive cold water after heavy exertion, and suggests tepid water allows larger intakes to reduce digestive problems.
When a cellar smells bad, close doors and windows and burn sulphur to fill the room with fumes. Leave it closed for a couple of hours, then open. Whitewash walls and ceilings with two coats. Sulphur gas is heavy so agitate air on a windy day. Sulphur fumes destroy germs.
Insect pests infesting truck gardens can also harm field crops. The piece notes pest extermination methods that fail over large areas may work best in small patches with intensive cultivation and higher output value justifying higher costs.
A fragment describes mixing one half pound of soap one gallon of boiling water and two gallons of kerosene with a force pump for a makeshift device. The text is incomplete suggesting a kitchen or workshop setup.
A correspondent asks for a versatile poultry food that promotes laying hens, sustains chicks, and can be used for later fattening. The article notes beginners seek shortcuts and highlights corn as a common ingredient but improper as a sole diet for hens or chicks.
A humorous look at chasing hogs, where pleasure turns to duty. The hog’s round, slippery body resists capture and only the tail offers a rare hold. The chaser remains handicapped by the animal’s frail, shrinking tail and tricky escape.
The inventor, a Towa man, explains that the implement attaches easily to a hog’s nose without difficulty. Once clamped, the device allows simple control to lead the animal to any chosen location.
A Georgia farmer is described as the pioneer of watermelon sirup. He halves melons, scoops pulp, mills juice, and boils the liquid twelve hours to yield about thirty gallons from 270 melons worth $5 to $6 wholesale. He sells at 50 cents a gallon, with the residue fed to hogs and cattle.
Weeds that appear in August and September produce seed early, stocking the ground for the next year. Neglecting the garden late in summer leads to more work later, while keeping weeds down prevents labor in growing fruits and vegetables.
Growers note cauliflowers need rich soil and top care. Watering helps crop quality though it hinders field culture. blanching is aided when leaves cover the heads. Prices often reward the extra effort.
The article recounts John Paul Jones heritage in Scotland with market gardeners in Kirkbean. It notes his birth family, apprenticeship at age 12, self driven study of navigation, voyage to America, leadership after the captain and mate died, and his rise to sailing master.
A billionaire shovel salesman recalls failing to sell shovels to Britain after a Waterloo era encounter. Jones, a live soldier then, aided Wellington by delivering a message, later earning a government contract for the firm Smith Jenkins & Jones, supplying all British army and navy shovels.
A wealthy church worker, leaving a large building on a stormy night, asks a newsboy for a match. The boy, wary, asks if it is a demand or a request. The man answers with a humble request and tips the boy, then boards a cab.
A brief exchange about giving a man a small amount of money and realizing the speaker knew him less well than thought. The Philadelphia Press references the dialogue as part of a larger conversation.
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