Social News From St Meinrad And Nearby Towns
Mrs Edward Link of Huntingburz visited Mrs Jacob Ruxer for the weekend while F X Rickelman and relatives called on the Ruxer family. A fishing expedition was chosen as a pastime and visitors included Rev Father Cryostomus and Father Philip of Jasper College. The play David and Jonathan drew many attendees from Tell City Rockport and Huntingburg despite weather.
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Edward Link
Huntingburz
Jacob Ruxer
F. X. Rickelman
Jos. M. Sturm
Jasper
Father Cryostomus
Philip
Jasper College
Josephine Muth
Mount Vernon
Tell City
Rockport
Huntingburg
David
Johnathan
College Hall
Local births and events color Jasper social scene
News from Jasper reports a newborn son to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Eckert and another baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Flick. Oscar Haller resumes hotel duties at Indiana hotel. A bass weighing 44 pounds was landed below the mill dam. Jasper College to stage Major John Andre with special scenery June 6 and 15. Ignatz Kress and Miss Henrietta Nicholson wed at St Joseph church. Ignatz and family praise the union. Sebastian Anderson narrowly escaped a serious accident at Jackson street railroad crossing when a freight car on a nearby track caused his buggy to jolt but the horse bolted free.
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Jasper College
John Andre
St. Joseph’s Hall
Sebastian Anderson
Jackson Street
Mr. Anderson
Local Seed Selection Tactics for Profitable Cropping
The text argues choosing seed varieties by local conditions and market demand. It notes seed catalogs offer many varieties differing in season, shape, color, size, and firmness, and stresses selecting crops that fit soil and buyer preferences, using banana as a counterexample. It also suggests starting a wood lot on marginal acres to avoid wasted cultivation.
Cost of Raising a Cow Turns on Feed and Growth Rates
Department of Agriculture summarizes a station’s experiment tracking 13 heifer calves from weaning to 16 months old. Milk types, ground flaxseed, middlings, and grain feeds were measured by cost per hundred pounds of gain, with weekly gains ranging from 4.12 to 11.8 pounds and costs from 28.3 to 65.1 cents. Four heifers pastured later yielded a total gain of 313 pounds from July to October 1897.
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Department of Agriculture
Enlarging the dairy herd for better profits
A Michigan Farmer writer argues larger cow herds improve efficiency and earnings. He says 10 to 20 cows still require modest extra labor and enable feeding roughage on the farm, producing milk profit and richer land fertility through manure. He contrasts small herds with bigger, noting better management and investment returns.
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Michigan Farmer
The Tomato Rise in American Gardens
A Kansas Farmer writer notes tomatoes shift from ornamental love apple to universal, valuable crop. Though tropical by nature they thrive where sun reaches maturity, yielding longer seasons and higher quality fruit in temperate zones. Tomatoes suit many soils and uses, explaining their growing popularity in homes and markets.
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Kansas
Ap. Wi
Farm Notes and Practical Feeding Tips
Farm notes advise seed corn on the ear if possible and to tear its vitality. Avoid feeding musty hay to horses or feeding dry hay. wet hay reduces stomach injury. Gradual seed changes for horses and avoid abrupt corn heavy meals if oats were usual. Inspect gardens in wet weather and plan tiling and drainage. Lime application after draining is recommended. patient hatchings are needed.
Improving Herds and Egg Testing At Home
Advice on farming practices covers boosting butter output from cows to 240 250 pounds annually and keeping profitable herds. It also details transplanting seedlings, ewe and lamb care, and building a simple at home egg tester to identify incubated eggs using a lamp and box method.
Mare Fellow Returns to Atara After Straps
A young man from Mare rode once or twice on our cars and could only get straps. He left and went back to the atara.
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Atara
Two-Year Twins Baffle Brown and Smith
A humorous exchange features Mr Brown asking the age of twins and Mr Smith replying two years. Brown wonders about their birth timing, and Smith points out there are two of them, clarifying the math.
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Mr. Brown
Mr. Smith
Phonetic Exchange Sparks Biblical Language Question
A fragment shows a Sunday School teacher asking children about Balaam and his horse speaking in what language. A child answers with a quip about Syriac language, reflecting playful mishearing in a classroom exchange.
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Balaam
Hip
Harry. Green
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St. Meinrad
Fred Wagner
Mike Verne
Lena Mehling
Mike L. Mehling
Annie Tuscherer
Ferdinand
Leo Wagner
Anna Hubers
Newton
Theodore Fischer
Wm. Fischer
Mt. Vernon
Prof. Brackman
van Dyke Pianos
Leo Eckert
Oscar Haller
Indiana Hotel
Geo. Wachner
Mrs. Gun Flick
Wm. Gardner
Opera House
Ignatz Kress
Henrietta Nicholson
St. Joseph’s Church
Mike Kress
The
Ferdinand Loundry & Machine Works
Ferdinand, Ind
SFE
Reckmann & Sauer
Kentucky
Indiana
Mathias Olinger
J. A. Sondei
Iann
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