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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1908
Page
4
A periodical discusses whether boys should attend college highlighting long term gains in education and life influence. It warns of farm accidents involving young girls and emphasizes careful supervision. Ivy poisoning cures using copper sulfate and a wood ash paste are shared with cautions.
The article discusses orchard practices and crop luck, noting apples turn redder with dry herbage, forecasting weather's role in crops, and urging gratitude for seasonal blessings. It stresses spraying, pest control, and food-law enforcement, plus homemaking order and efficient storage to boost profits and reduce waste.
The article covers pasture plans for horses and livestock, weed control, and farming routines. It notes benefits of short pasture runs, weed suppression, and stock choices, then shifts to melon pest damage from melon lice and management with kerosene sprays. It ends with lightning rods, insurance losses, and advice to hire reputable electricians.
The article defines plurality as the lead by the highest vote-getter over the next candidate, and majority as more than half of all votes cast. It gives examples and notes a candidate can win with a plurality without a majority unless a tie occurs, illustrating the difference with numeric scenarios.
A Times-Democrat dialogue depicts sailors who fear learning to swim. A druggist argues that even trained seamen dread drowning scenarios, preferring not to swim to spare themselves future agony, and discouraging sons from learning.
The London Saturday Review notes that many card packs carried morals and education. Alfred Whitman cites eighteenth century Italian decks with Old Testament scenes and German fables, French packs teaching geography and history, and English cards used as political pamphlets in Elizabethan and Stuart times.
A New York business man cites two distinct signatures as protection against forgery. He explains a forger would need a bank check to act, while a letter or hotel register would be useless to them. He notes two signatures deter tampering and suggests others adopt the practice.
A yeoman at the navy recruiting station notes the annoyance of trousers lacking side pockets. He says sailors habitually put hands in pockets and struggles with the pocketless design after four years in the navy.
A mother and child talk about a curious belief as Clara explains she can still feel pins in her toes from a previous state. The dialogue reveals playful paraseology and imaginative reasoning.
The article notes the president earns 50000 dollars annually and is paid via monthly checks. It details the distribution into eight checks of 4166.67 and four checks of 4166.06, causing one monthly payment to be a cent lower. The text also observes that 350000 is not evenly divisible by twelve.
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