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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
2
The noisy OCR fragment mentions Frank Staplen editor in Farmington New Mexico with scattered notes on buses, coal, fertilizer, and agriculture. It jumps to headlines about printers and publishers, labor in Japan, and unclear references to local events and market items without coherent context.
The Canonchet estate and Sprague family history unfold from Kate Chase Sprague to Willie Sprague, with a court case, divorce, and a planned sale. Gerrit Wheaton, Inez Sprague, and Stiness ties appear amid Rhode Island power and a looming loss of the Sprague fortune as Canonchet heads for liquidation.
The column offers stewed pears quinces apples prunes and rhubarb with measurement details and steps. It also covers stewed cranberries including sugar and water, orange jelly from crabapples and cranberries, oat and yeast bread buns, and a note on oyster jelly molds as a decorative dish.
In September over a million letters reached the dead letter office with only 3251 dollars and 74 cents recovered. Of 4571 dollars 64 cents were sent back to senders but not enough to cover all claims. A San Francisco tale recalls a grandson marrying his grandmother in a scheme to gain money, while a woman wed her much older grandfather to inherit.
The piece cites Carnegie praising New York’s water gas electricity and transit while noting municipal corruption. It critiques immigration and bachelor maid arrivals, jokes about etiquette costs, and reports a U.S. Army officer riding without fatalities to reassure the public about safety and mobility.
The Sprague family plans to sell Canonchet, the 360 acre Narragansett Pier estate once home to Kate Chase Sprague, after a daughter’s abrupt marriage altered a grand inheritance. Henry Wellington Wack of New York handles the arrangement as the historic property stands for sale.
National Geographic Magazine sketches the Maori in New Zealand from early contact to present days. It notes cannibal feasts of fifty years past, parliamentary roles for Maori members, women voting, and population shifts from 100000 to about 35000. It praises skills in war, fortification, farming, carving, rock art, tattooing, and social advancement through schools in northern reservations.
Rev. John H Denison returned from New Britain near New Guinea with accounts of cannibal chiefs including Tobago who slaughtered five enemies then converted to Christianity and proclaimed love with five stones. He described widespread cannibalism and ritual skulls called tapu signs along with other native curios and tools.
A box of weld jewelry yielded a missing sterling silver pin with oriental filigree. The owner boiled the pin in hot water with bicarbonate of soda for about fifteen minutes, then scrubbed with soap and a brush to achieve a pleasing dull silver tone. Longer boiling or more soda could have brightened it further.
To protect curtains during washing, wrap a two inch or narrower cotton strip around the fabric before washing. Use the selvedge edge to minimize fraying and pin the cotton to the stretchers rather than the curtains to prevent tearing.
Advice recommends placing a paper or cloth under old rugs to reduce wear. It contrasts this with Oriental rugs mounted on soft material that avoid scuffing the hard floor, extending their lifespan.
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