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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
2
An old verse reflects on unavoidable life troubles and unseen strength. It notes youth fleeting, sorrow visiting uninvited, and friendships dimming, yet endurance grows with prayer. The lines affirm hope survives hardship and burdens become lighter with faith.
A narrative recalls a bear in rural northwest New York, describing its clumsy antics and public reactions in childhood summers. The piece reflects on a simpler era when bears and wild animals wove into daily life as families traveled fourteen miles to town.
A boy escapes a mother bear while helping a cub in the swamp near a house. He lures the cub, dodges the mother’s attack, then kicks the bear off a hogshead into water. The hogshead rolls away with the bear, ending the pursuit as the animal leaves the area.
The New York Sun explains marks help judge antique watch authenticity and age. Watches date from around 1500 with early pocket pieces all metal, oval forms by 1600, enameling after 1652, balance spring around 1658, repeating and alarm watches in later periods, and minute hands after the balance spring.
An affectionate meditation on trees celebrating their beauty, strength, and variety. It contrasts bare winter trunks with spring buds and summer foliage, praises maples and oaks, and urges planting trees, cherishing them, and teaching children to love nature.
The quote notes the average man muses weekly about finding himself in a "nice boat" moment, reflecting a humorous or wistful self-assessment. It hints at self improvement or ironic comfort in simple status.
A barn cabinet is described as a sturdy home made storage device for farm use. It provides compartments for robes blankets and the cabinet includes upper shelves for holding nails tools and small items. The design aims to save labor and keep goods like groceries and farm supplies organized.
David Minner recently plowed a 600 acre field near Brevoort using a steam plow. McClary declines to move the heavy machine across the bridge. Brevoort land owner to be paid $2 per acre. The inventoried machine reportedly plows fifty acres daily, with Mar McClary's team facing delays and ahead of him.
A Wisconsin design attaches a guiding bar along pitchfork tines with a pivoted cleaning bar and a sleeve system. As the handles move, the bar slides over the prongs to dislodge grass and bay clinging to the tines automatically.
Prof. Vernon of the New Mexico experiment station reports relative value of feeding range steers on winter alfalfa hay alone and with a Lent grain ration of bran and cracked wheat. Two uniform lots of five two year old range steers were tested. Net profit was $742 on alfalfa and grain and $8.40 on alfalfa alone.
The pepper weevil known as anthonomus aenotinctus caused significant damage to all pepper varieties including the pearly type, affecting crops and yields across multiple gardens and fields.
The pest has nearly vanished in the worst districts but was likely introduced from Mexico in recent years. Infested pepper pods show tissue proliferation that slows larval damage, yet severe cases require collecting and destroying fallen pods to protect crops.
Growers should time picking by fruit maturity. Apples: harvest before coloring when seeds are white. early varieties for cooking are picked earlier. Mature fruit stores vary by variety. winter apples keep better after full color. Peaches: harvest when vivid colors appear. do not pick for firmness tests. An experienced picker judges ripeness by feel, not firmness alone.
A garbled and fragmentary provincial page shows various cooking steps, gear notes, and stray lines about New York related items. It mentions fruit preserves with raspberries and tomatoes among other undefined items, with sporadic references to utensils and actions.
A study at the Mansas station with thirteen groups of ten calves found skim milk fed fresh and promptly after separation yields high value, about 26 cents per 1603, with calves valued at 40 cents per 100. Results suggest sweet, fresh skim milk fed within an hour doubles usefulness versus milk from standard creamery processes.
For a permanent pasture Timothy red top and orchard grass are essential. Other varieties may be added but the three should not be omitted. Reseed in fall or early spring with clean seed sown plentifully and lightly scratched in. White clover should be sown on bare spots to aid growth where other seeds fail.
Farmers ship produce to market during peak seasons and buy items available on the farm. They pay transportation in two ways, reducing profits.
Pare the pineapple and slice thin then soak in lemon juice and sugar for two hours. Beat yolks and whites with salt and a cup of theta then fold into the batter and add cream. Fry spoonfuls in hot lard until brown then drain on paper and serve with a sweet syrup. Pineapple fritters make a delicious quick treat.
A recipe fragment describes soaking tapioca in water, heating milk, adding tapioca and salt, then gradually whisking into yolks and custard. Fold in beaten whites and flavoring then chill.
A garbled passage lists measurements and ingredients for a beverage or dish with unclear terms and misspellings. It mentions cups of unspecified components and a reference to serving and tasting, followed by odd phrases about roads and a governing body. The text remains unreadable in parts.
A collection of kitchen hints covers boiling, glazing, and polishing. It discusses making tinea shine with boiled starl and fuvpenttie additives, reheating teat a Sti tide die, and preventing sticking. It also describes soap and ammonia cleaning of rubber rings and fruit jagg revival.
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