Mortgage trouble pulls Zelda into family bank deal
Zelda Cameron learns her father holds a two thousand dollar mortgage on Olive Merriam to pay for Olive’s education. Zelda offers to take over the notes via trusteeship, hoping to relieve the Merriams’ debt and keep them in their home. Meanwhile Ezra Cameron eyes real estate schemes as Jack Balcomb plots bold urban ventures in Mariana.
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Zelda
Ove
Olive
Harrison Street
Rodney Merriam
Mariona
Istra Cameron
Mrs. Forrest
Cameron Block
Zee
Olive Merriam
Merriams
Cameron
Joe
Polly
Burton
Ife
Thomas Merriam
Miss Cameron
Tyi
Jefferson Street
Balcomb
Arthur ‘Bilcamb
Mariana
Commercial Club
Jack Balcomb
Flere
Jacek Dalcomb
Tradcomb
Shalvomb
Patoka Dama and Improvement Company
Wall Street
New York House
Pareles Land and Improvement Company
Ble
Ile
Patoga Land and Improvement Company
van Cleve
High Street
Ripple Creek
Arizona
College professor seeks explanation for American unhappiness
A Cleveland Plain Dealer piece features a professor questioning why Americans feel unhappy. He suggests professors may talk too much as part of the conversation on national discontent.
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Smiler
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Delicate Light Weight Sparks Blunt Harsh Joke
A Kansas City Journal quip questions a speaker as delicate and light weight while jesting that a spark will blow him to atoms if he steps on a match.
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Kansas City Journal
Many Benefits Of Spraying In Horticulture
An agricultural writer notes spraying orchards yields clear benefits. Farmers who sprayed saw their trees thrive, while non-sprayers lost trees and faced nuisance sap sprouts. Proper pruning and open, low-headed trees improve fruit color and size, with timing of thinning and bearing age discussed.
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Pennsylvania
Proper Method of Pruning Apple Trees
The article explains pruning to maximize sun and air exposure by thinning the top and center. It advises delaying pruning until age five to seven, removing sap sprouts and long limbs to encourage stocky growth, then thorough pruning by cutting out larger limbs while leaving fruit spurs and center growth to bear the first crop.
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J. C. B. Heaton
Farmers’ Review
Small Fruits Profits and Planting Tips
Raspberries and blackberries are desirable, profitable crops but avoid excessive nitrogen to prevent soft growth vulnerable to winter kill. Do not cultivate late, fertilize with bone meal and potash. Currants and gooseberries are less profitable. prefer vegetables instead and rank asparagus peas strawberries raspberries blackberries pears and possibly apples for best earnings.
Spraying Fruit as Preventive Measure
Spraying is a preventive not a remedy. Some diseases and insects can be destroyed by spraying, but protection must precede damage. The plant repairs itself after injury, so spraying mainly aims to prevent further harm and should be done early for better protection.
Largest Cherry Tree on Henry Sharf Farm Snohomish Wash
The largest cherry tree in the world is on Henry Sharf's Snohomish farm. Its trunk is 12 feet around, 55 feet tall, with a 70 foot branch spread. Planted in 1857, it yielded a ton of fruit in 1905 and recently no one has been able to pick the full crop.
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Henry Sharf
Snohomish
Wash
Window Garden and Orchard Advice for Winter Care
The column urges early cuttings of flowers for winter bloom in the window garden and cutting back blackberry vines after harvest. It cautions against planting crops in peach orchards, notes skin punctures on apple pickers can cause rot, and advises timely orders of evergreens. It also warns to pinch carnations to prevent flowering, protect sun exposed trees, and explains prune scab causes. It ends with soil enrichment if tree shoots grow only five to six inches yearly.
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Oregon Experiment Station
Currant Worm Control and Poison Options
The first currant crop can be cleared by hand into a pan and fed to poultry. Three effective poisons for currant worm are kelebore slug shot and paris green. Recent experiments favor poisons dissolved in water with paris green prepared for apple trees as a likely application.
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Zelda Cameron
Meredith Nicholson
Merrill Co
Jack Batcomb
Jefferson ‘Street
Ezra Cameron
Ruby Street
Pruner
Ney
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