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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
4
The article discusses the winter outlook for 40 cent corn, drought impacts across the corn belt, and the challenges of soil erosion on hill lands. It notes weed management by clover and farming strategies to reclaim meadow ground, including a farmer using a “Sage drove” method to clear weeds, level strips, and improve hay worth.
The article discusses price extremes over five years for farm products, noting that limited rainfall in right timing can support crops. It describes western North Dakota birdlife, migration swans and ducks, and then laments timber loss in northern Minnesota. It advocates land sale at low prices and urges cooperative farming, especially bread making and laundry work, in rural communities.
A fragment describes Russian origin settlers in North Dakota living in dugout homes made of sun dried bricks from slabs and straw. They herd livestock for income and sustain themselves with buffalo grass, ground corn, and stored stockyard fuel, while government moves to remove them.
A western community debates whether milk from cows infected by a dog with rabies could transmit the virus. The article notes rabies as a blood poison and questions if milk during the incubation period could carry the disease, citing veterinarians and authorities with divergent views.
An inquiry by Gregen discusses deformation and uses of a tough wiry grass from the northwest peat sloughs. It notes wide applications when properly processed, including twine and baskets, and mentions Pacific coast grass as possibly different and less valuable. Prices cited: about 12 to 30 per ton.
The article extols Angora goats as a low cost solution to clear brush and timber on Blue Grass region land. It claims three goats per acre can convert brush within five years, producing smooth bluegrass pasture. Goats eat shoots and roots, reducing grub growth with minimal probing and allow later plowing.
A partial fragment describes barn swallows and a creature named Accolony of Tatra swaleavs in a barn yard. The owner of the tany trots Melia dower as birds and builds a deme pole to deter swallows. A potential conflict with local efforts to drive them away remains unresolved.
In Smithville Tennessee on August 3 a mob of about 25 dragged Chaley Davis from the DeKalb county courthouse and hanged him following a clash as a witness attacked the defendant's character. Davis had faced charges of criminal assault on Miss Kate Hues and attempted escape during the confrontation.
In Leeds, Alabama, Charley Bentley confessed to the murder of Jin Vaan alias Wiikins, after a jury verdict held him responsible. Bentley was hanged by a mob in a tree near his home with Vaan’s wife and child asleep nearby during an early morning attack.
State Veterinarian Knowles seeks governor approval to lift a quarantine at the Dakota line to stop anthrax spread after cattle in several South Dakota counties show infection reports. Northwest cases mark a first, with direct contact noted as a transmission path.
Cresceus trotted a mile in record time at Columbus Driving Park, shaving about a quarter second from the world mark. Despite a delayed start caused by wind, the stallion unleashed a fast time as the crowd roared at the performance on August 3 in Columbus, Ohio.
A July 5 London dispatch from Standerton Transvaal reports Walter Kitchener met Louis Botha and De Wet by appointment near a border area. They carried Kruver's reply to Ho thia's surrender proposal and indicated Botha De Wet Pelarey Steyus Con nue dightine Allevington will be sent when needed.
The Texas secretary of state sent Attorney General Bell a list of 103 foreign corporations authorized to do business in Texas that failed to file any anti-trust affidavit this year. Bell will sue all except a few that tried to comply but were rejected for irregularity.
In Erie Pennsylvania a large group of over one hundred men from the Erie Klue trig Motor company, including conductors, struck yesterday after dismissals of five union activists. All trolleys were moved off their routes and no settlement is in sight.
Thomas Mathyy, long known for playing Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin, was yesterday ordered to the Rochester insane asylum. The judge cited excessive Uncle Tom influence on his mind and his belief that Simon Legros is stalking him with bloodhounds.
Fire swept the Grand Trunk Railway elevator at 61st Street and Central Avenue in Chicago late last night. Damage was estimated at 350,000 before crews controlled the blaze and forced occupants from an adjacent frame building.
Walter Harrington of South Bend, manager of the St. Louis branch of the Gliver plow works, died from injuries after stepping from a waving streetcar in St. Louis. His remains will be brought to Denton Sul? for burial.
Jolson reports poor corn prospects in Indiana after state tour. He cites damage from continued heat and drought as the main cause and notes widespread deterioration in condition across fields observed during the trip. The assessment underscores a challenging growing season for farmers statewide.
Mead Street's trade review notes copious rains lift spirits and activity uptick despite heat and drought. It cites corn prospects in western states as weak with late corn saved, wool orders rising, steel strike prospects improving, and a generally cheerful tone for the economy abroad and in the United States, with a tally of weekly business failures.
Indianapolis August 2 secretary of state's office collected about 82 000 in corporation fees yesterday. The American Tinplate Company of Edwood and the American Sheet Steel Company of Muncie New Jersey corporations each with 50 000 000 capital stock paid on capital represented in Kiddana the former on 1 760 000 and the latter on 300 000
Mrs Denny Doster of Converse died after a bathing incident on August 2. While trotting she grew overheated and loosened her dress at the neck then bathed her shoulders and breast with ice water. She collapsed and developed lockjaw, dying last evening.
On Nate Butts farm near Winchester August 2 the Monet Gas company drilled a well that produced a strong flow of both gas and oil. After sealing the well the company believes both resources can be saved.
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