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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
2
The article urges roadside care to improve impressions and reduce maintenance. It favors removing rubbish and smoothing excavations while planting grass, trimming brush, and preserving shade trees. It highlights trees as cost savers and windbreaks, recommending suitable species and spacing along MA roads.
Farmers increasingly see timber growing as a solution to the post problem. Black locust offers durability comparable to mulberry while growing faster, and can thrive on poor soils or in pastures. Posts can be cut from older trees with three posts per tree, costs about $16 per 1000 two feet high, and stock protection is needed to allow sprouts to form tall slender trees.
The New York Farmer urges persistent use of traps and occasional poison to curb rat depredations. Forethought in farm building design minimizes harborage, and city cooperation in rat warfare is essential and strongly urged.
Gardening note advises planting currants and gooseberries in rich soil with light shade and thorough mulching. Fall planting supports early growth as the plants begin their spring surge.
The article argues pasture care boosts profits, urging mowing in late summer or early fall, soil disk harrowing, reseeding with diverse grasses, and withdrawing stock in September to mulch roots for winter. It links pasture health to obeying nature and cites England's diverse 20 to 30 grass types as ideal.
The piece argues top soil is often misunderstood compared with subsoil and deterioration from wind and especially water causes lower lands to be more productive. It urges plowing along slopes, maintaining grass roots, and minimizing field work during erosion-prone seasons.
Prairie Farmer advises improvised knee guards from worn boots or felts cut and slit to cover the knees during weeding or harvesting. A strap or cord can secure them. even cloth can help guard clothes and joints against dampness and rheumatism.
An expert from the United States department of agriculture reports aged eggs preserved in water glass for four years develop unpleasant taste and odor with pink liquid white. After six months they taste like fresh eggs. One year shows hardly any change. Of 384 dozen eggs stored April to June and sold October to December only five dozen were bad.
In my opinion foul air from poor ventilation overcrowding and filthy housing causes roup and weakly living birds. Inbreeding irrational feeding and lack of exercise are likely factors behind the vulnerable stock.
Fontanet, Indiana, was wrecked by the Dupont Powder company explosion. Five hundred residents were wounded or displaced as seven mills and a 40 000 keg magazine blew in three blasts. At least 25 to 50 dead, 600 injured, and the town left in ruins. aid rushed to the scene and damaged buildings strewn across fields.
The Pettibone trial, charged with complicity in the assassination of former Governor Stuenenburg, was postponed yesterday and rescheduled for October 28 in Polse Idaho.
Dr. Lee De Forest and assistant spoke from the deck of the battleship Virginia at Norfolk to the incoming steamer Hamilton of the Old Dominion Line 22 miles away by air line. The wireless operator heard the message clearly but had no telephone to reply, then wired back to confirm the transmission was heard.
A 12 year old girl named Rachel pens a composition praising arbutus liverwort sowing beauty blood root and other dell and dale blossoms. Her editor father points out she wrote on both sides of the page and she counters that he prints on both sides of his paper.
After typhoid confinement the Irritable merchant awakes hungry and envisions a balanced meal. A nurse provides tapioca and the doctor insists all acts remain in proportion. He then asks for a postage stamp in a demand for measured reading.
The New York Sun reports a dealer recalling requests for the tobacco mixture used by Edwin Booth. Patrons from across the country seek strong, famed blends, and the dealer notes a wide interest in reproducing big names’ preferred tobaccos, even as many cannot tolerate the potency.
St Louis earns the nickname Mound City from the many elevations observed by early settlers. The mounds are linked to the ancient Mound Builders. Limestone bluffs provide a solid foundation for downtown business structures.
A stranger halts an automobilist on a country road with a raised hand and orders a return to town. The driver questions the lawman’s identity while noting the weather and town hustle, and the farmer passenger exits with a curt farewell.
A Delaware boy tested the bell-on-a-rat idea, but the bell unsettled the household and attracted many more rats drawn by the music. The experiment failed to deter pests and instead caused nightly noise and a growing rat presence.
The husband confirms consent to accept the nomination and praises his wife’s merit. He warns of vilification and sensational rumors from opponents as politics bring strain. She questions past engagements before their marriage, expressing quiet curiosity.
A small boy who had just passed his fifth birthday rides with his mother. After the conductor asks the age for fare and learns the correct number, the boy remains thoughtful and then shouts to the conductor from the far end, And mother's 31.
Joel Chandler argues in Uncle Remus' Magazine that real success should benefit humanity. He contrasts real scientists who believe in the divine with skeptics who abandon inspiration and write books that gain fame but little earthly value.
Kay Spence of Mexico Missouri, a famed horseman, won $1,000 at a Louisville race after a perceived hunch. He noticed a Chinese laundry ticket and noticed Wing Ting at ten to one, backing the outsider to claim victory while Joaquin went off as favorite. The result sparked superstition about Spence being the seventh son.
A defiant defense by a Divinity Doctor turned editor weighs in on the Collier's Weekly libel disputes and its attacks on the Religious Press. The piece argues Collier's uses sensational tactics to provoke public outrage and outlines Postum and Grape-Nuts as safe, non medicinal foods amid the controversy.
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