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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1898
Page
4
An editor of The Rural New Yorker notes shipping baskets used by marketmen in New York. He describes a southern popular basket, its sizes, construction, ventilation and suitability for fruits and vegetables, and compares it with square-bottom variants for compact car or boat packing.
The American Cultivator notes potatoes show quickly if green manure has been plowed under. Potatoes with green manure stay green one or two weeks longer than those on naked stubble. Early season growth may be better on naked stubble, but after setting and peak moisture demand, green manure shows its advantage, potentially doubling marketable yield with one extra week of keeping green.
A Philadelphia Times quote describes harmless spells among southern Negroes a root chewing track lifting love potions and charms using frogs legs bat ashes and tail tips buried under doorsteps. The Detroit Journal quips on a bachelor marrying a much younger wife and the wife being treated as a daughter or second wife in satire.
Alfred R. Rowley describes the slow bond distribution due to direct to public sales, with over 320,000 individuals subscribing amounts from 20 to 1,000,000. The Treasury staged a large mail and envelope operation in Washington, delivering 6,000 bonds daily via express companies, sealing each with five wax seals, and printing revenue stamps alongside.
A comic dialogue shows Crusty Old Uncle promising not to reclaim $50 from Reckless Nephew and offering it as a gift. The nephew dismisses repayment, claiming no intent to pay. The exchange features snappy exchanges and a mock misdirection about a debt forgiveness.
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