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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
A New Orleans wedding suspense unfolds on a delayed southbound train. Katrina Sheplar escapes an unwanted match and encounters William Trescott the mayor of Redville who reveals a plan to flee to Tennessee for a quieter union. The couple decides to elope aboard a different train to dodge the ceremony.
Prof. Osca discusses crossbreeding to fix milk production traits. He notes that offspring may inherit dominant traits from ancestry yet blend away direct characteristics. Backcrossing to the sire or mating to diverse strains can fix higher production, with closer relation yielding more permanent results.
A man on Lexington avenue abandons his plan to sublet his seat after learning of a new Harlem Sit Scull Club membership. He says he joined the group and would be expelled if he violated its pledge, then offers to resign and join the club on the spot. The note follows humorous quips from contemporary papers about fortunes and social aims.
A New York Sun snippet notes dentists joke about wedding cake causing cracked teeth at East Side weddings. Bakers allegedly mix charms into cakes provoking dental injuries, prompting talk of a petition to omit gritty ingredients. The piece also mocks wedding ad rhetoric and fraying social banter.
A description of building a combined comfort and utility board using a 20 by 10 inch base board and auxiliary pieces. It explains attaching two 10 by 1 inch boards as lets, securing a front board, adding a 3 by 10 inch handle, rounding corners, adding a projecting edge strip of barrel hoop to keep a pail from sliding, and fitting a triangular third leg under the base.
A farmer argues for individual basins for each cow in winter and running water in summer. He notes many farmers water cows outdoors, groundwater temperature affects intake, and warming water in winter boosts milk production. He prefers basins over barn troughs and suggests warm water increases consumption and yield.
The article urges dairymen to rely on intelligence over luck, selecting cows with good udders and appetites. It emphasizes knowledge of the cow, the value of linseed meal and bran in ration, and notes manure piles as a valuable, often overlooked profit factor for the dairy farm.
A farmer faced two bean plantings ruined by frost first in spring then in fall after dense seeding. Despite losses the rank growth was plowed under enriching the soil, and the land was left to be replanted next year with plowed antler beans proving to be great soil improvers.
Thorough tillage creates a fine mellow seed bed rich in plant food and moisture. It improves germination, speeds seedling growth, and helps crops resist adverse weather. Early tillage loosens and warms soil, reduces weeds, and enhances nutrient availability for young plants.
A DIY cattle stanchion that is easily operated and remains fixed when set. The post B is positioned by the lever A to fit the notch, then lever A is turned to position C and the pin D is inserted, securing the setup as shown in the illustration.
A Wisconsin institute speaker urges quick milk cooling to 60 degrees or below to cut spoilage. If ice is unavailable, well water can cool to about 50 degrees. Placing cans in cold water with stirring achieves the target. however busy milkers may fail to chill the milk promptly.
The article notes plans to lay out a transcontinental boundary between the United States and Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific with a long barbed wire fence and cement or granite monuments. It describes surveying work led by J B Baylor for the United States and G C Rainboth for Canada, costs, and the slow pace likely spanning nearly a decade once begun in New England and Maine.
Waterbury Connecticut report tells how Postmaster Joseph Widmer and his wife preserved their daughter's body in an iron air tight coffin with a glass cover. After fifty years the body was exhumed and the face remained calm and unchanged as on the day of death. The coffin was re buried and the Widmers believe the earthly form will defy time.
Rural French districts provide soup for pupils each morning. Children bring vegetables to wash, cook them with pork in a kettle during lessons, and receive a bowl of hot soup at 11 30. Richer students contribute a small monthly payment to cover fuel and meat costs.
The excerpt comments on private life dangers. It notes some are slaves of servants, others live in anxiety due to capricious rich relatives. It discusses imperious husbands and perverse wives and says one person's folly or vice can make many miserable while wisdom or virtue rarely brings happiness.
In a Sunday Magazine piece old Hiram recounts a superstition about thirteen at a table. Mary and twelve diners share a meager meal as the tale notes the omen's convincing power with a hungry Jerry arriving.
New harbor work at San Pedro California advances with a two mile breakwater construction. Piling is set at the open end as crews push the ocean barrier outward from the shore.
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