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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
8
Pocket gophers inflict severe damage across western farms by eating roots and plowing soil into extensive mounds. The Biological Survey endorses poison with strychnine, sugar syrup, and raisins, or trapping methods, with carbon bisulfid as an alternative, stressing coordinated community action for lasting control.
A U S Geological Survey report cites more than 40 percent of examined farm wells polluted paring typhoid fever risk. Rural water quality lags cities, with contamination often from nearby drains and improper well placement. Farmers trust long‑owned wells despite signs of contamination and disease risk.
Statistics claim 21 000 colored school teachers in the United States split into 7 700 men and 13 300 women. A curious note asserts blind horses never err in choosing their diet, with scent guiding their food selection unfailingly.
The caaba in Mecca is re covered annually with damask sent by the Sultan or Khedive. A single covering has at times cost 76000 dollars.
The text notes typhoid fever could persist in rural areas while people continue to sink wells in convenient but unsafe spots, a habit common in country districts. It highlights how water source safety impacts disease prevalence and public health.
David G. Fairchild reports Japanese persimmons are firm like Northern Spy apples when eaten, not ripe to a squashy texture. Japanese curing stores fruit in sake beer casks, heads replaced to seal air tight, curing in 0 to 15 days depending on weather, producing firm edibles ready for market.
Experiments show best rhubarb results come from forcing one year old plants grown from seed. Drying roots yields the same effect as freezing, both acting as a long rest. The method produces a more vigorous product.
When grown in darkness rhubarb shows greatly reduced leaf blades and absent green color. The texture is crisper and more delicate due to less woody fiber, the skin is thinner, water content rises by 6 to 10 percent, and the flavor improves. This forced rhubarb commands a fancy price.
Strong light hinders pollen tube growth in some plants, explaining why tomatoes and cucumbers fail to bear fruit in midsummer Arizona. Direct sun yellows leaves. strawberries turn yellow for about three months under shade. North side shade from sorghum or cotton keeps plants green and vigorous year round.
The article notes telephone expansion into northern and western forests enhances travel, logging, and river dam operations. It highlights how forest telephones replace relay shouting, improve dam gate control, and aid firefighting by wood wardens in remote regions.
A large man resembling a former president checked into the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago as Grover Cleveland of Princeton New Jersey. After accepting a luxury suite, he signed the register as F L MacElroy of Lafayette Indiana explaining it was a bet to double his salary. He then swapped to a modest room and left to collect his winnings.
James Lick, born in Pennsylvania Dutch country, rose from a poor early life as a piano-maker to become the founder of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose California.
With scarce high quality timber, match production increases as manufacturers roll paper into spirals and dip the cores in wax or stearine to extend supplies. The practice aims to keep candles and lighters stocked despite dwindling timber resources.
A man should weigh thirty pounds per foot of height. Rag dolls employ many women as a popular department store item. Vast elephant herds roam Abyssinian lands along the Upper Nile. Menelik of Abyssinia recently sent President Roosevelt a massive elephant tusk.
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