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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
6
The note promotes a 10 cent sheet music catalogue and outlines deep plowing, green manures, and crop choices like corn and Irish potatoes to improve land before planting orchards. It recommends subsoiling on lands with stiff subsoil in the fall before trees are planted.
Field and Farm notes grafting peaches often fails and recommends spring cold storage of scions. Buds should be kept warm and damp, with shield-budding as the typical method, using stocks that begin growth in spring.
The article extols practical farming with emphasis on knowledge of agriculture. It stresses that informed farmers who apply accurate facts and learn from both failures and successes become more successful. Observant farmers profit from experience across professions.
The Field and Farm praises wisteria as a top veranda vine. It grows strong and tall, forms a leafy screen, and blooms in early spring when flowers are most needed.
The Indiana Farmer notes two tree types for fruit growing. Standards are generally more reliable and profitable for large commercial plantations, while dwarf trees suit family orchards and yard culture with extra care required for vigor.
A new grape variety, the Sultanina Rosa, is drawing interest in California. The large seedless red grape resembles Tokay with firm texture and rich flavor. Farmers expect it to become highly valuable for shipping and eating.
The piece contrasts rural life now and in the past, noting better roads, rail, telephone, mail delivery, and machinery. It argues Roosevelt’s commission should study these changes and that urban influx must be balanced with improving farm happiness and labor supply.
The Toronto World argues Canada must purge defaced money and adopt cleaner currency. It criticizes worn Dominion and U S coins circulating, urges banks and government to redesign silver money, and favors symbols like the beaver and maple leaf to improve national pride.
The article shows Mrs. Rice earning 100 000 dollars from Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch at about five dollars per word for a 20 000 word story. Barrie earns 2000 per thousand words for Little Minister. Kipling Davis Tarkington and others earn up to 490 500 per 1000 words for short stories and articles.
A humorous, fragmentary exchange in a general store shows a clerk asking what a customer will have and an old farmer mispronouncing items as well buckets. The dialogue hints at rural humor and dialect in a small-town setting.
Forced to vacate their location the C W Halbruge Co launches a Bona Fide sale to unload a massive stock of clothing hats shoes dry goods carpets and furnishings at about one third below cost. Sale runs for fifteen days from January 6 with prices aggressively cut on suits overcoats dresses and boys and men’s wear.
Mrs Margaret Gatty, noted Brattleboro society figure, organized a prank on attorney James H. Hooker that ended with him suing for fees. Hooker, who found only a lemon in a handbag, sent the bill. Gatty faced a sheriff when suit was served, sparking city interest.
A moral tale recounts a Ten Dollar Bill given to the Cash Charity Society by an old maid. The funds fund lavish salaries and perks for the superintendent and staff, a private couch, and investigators, with the remainder used to distribute tracts to the city's destitute.
R G Greeden a San Francisco mining engineer notes eight months in Brazil and calls jerked beef with black beans the national dish. He criticizes South American cooking saying meals are greasy heavily peppered and hard for a tourist to enjoy outside Buenos Aires.
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