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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
2
London education committee reports a Peckham schoolboy nearly 13 years old who has learned only two or three letters and cannot write or calculate. The committee decides to expel him from school.
The prince engineers a scheme to sway a coin test with English guards posing as Americans and Hawthorne confronts treachery at the palace. As the crowd riots, Hawthorne rallies support and reveals the guards' betrayal, ending with a demand for abdication.
Alfalfa campaigns are organized through cooperation between local communities and Prof. P G Holden of the Agricultural Extension Department. Communities must request assistance and provide expenses, 10 to 20 autos daily, meeting venues, local advertising, and a photographer if possible. The department supplies advance organizers, lecturers, literature, educational articles, and field staff to follow up.
A Sparta Michigan grower shares detailed alfalfa guidance. Use 15 to 18 loads of barnyard manure per acre, plow deep, plant corn or beans first year, then lime and fertilizer, disk in, sow alfalfa on a cloudy day, and expect one hay crop first year and three or more the following year.
A North Dakota reader argues alfalfa properly cured yields as much feeding value as bran. He describes sowing barley nurse crops, cutting two to three times with four tons per acre total, and notes bran often costs about 20 dollars per ton while milk cows gain from alfalfa. Editor adds that three cuttings can protect through winter in corn belt regions.
A. P. Grout of Winchester Illinois argues alfalfa yields strong income. He claims six percent interest on $1,000 per acre, compares alfalfa to wheat bran feed, and asserts one acre equals six of timothy while corn nets $15.80 per acre. alfalfa nets about $50 per acre. He urges farmers to grow alfalfa.
Fragmentary quotation about modest decorum and sincerity. Expresses distrust of pretense, urging genuine cheerfulness and honesty over hollow piety. Source language reads like a vintage New York period tone.
The Oregon Journal announces a Western Information Bureau promotion. For 50 cents, readers receive six months of the Semi-Weekly Journal plus a free 144 page illustrated booklet detailing Oregon resources and opportunities. Address Oregon Journal Portland Oregon.
Trustee Jos Starkey announces weekly Saturday office hours at his residence in Cates Ind for the transaction of township business. The Fulton Township notice states the trustee will be available each week.
Notice from Charles Dickens trustee of Troy Township that meetings will be in the Gre foct office room at the K of P building on Wednesday and Saturday each week to transact township business.
The article describes white wicker double wardrobes for babies with six drawers four pull out and two stationary sharing a top dressing table. It also promotes white palm nursery hampers shaped like tiny trunks with internal trays and a canvas cover option to function as a baby’s trunk while away.
White cotton crepe curtains brighten guest friendly rooms. Hem or trim with ball fringe. Fleece lined pique covers for dressers and bureaus works well. Cut to size and edge with scalloped buttonholes. Keep two sets ready one in use and one clean for arriving guests.
A prosperous man who frequents a Liberty Street cafe for two years staggers to the bar daily, then sits for lunch and shakes once to decide whether he will be a gadfly or not, never interacting with others.
The term dichotomy is borrowed from botany to describe a form of illicit business in medical practice. It refers to the division of fee between the geometer specimenist and the practitioner who refers the patient.
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