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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
12
Indiana farmers are urged to adopt silos to save two-fifths of corn feeding value lost as stalks and husks. Purdue bulletin cites silage reducing fattening costs and boosting profits, while preserving palatability and winter feed, with benefits for cattle sheep and horses.
Purdue University guidance urges farm households to beautify home grounds with hardy trees and shrubs, emphasizing low maintenance, informal landscape plans, and mass planting. It offers practical rules for scale, borders, seasons of bloom, and blending with house and street views to increase property value and curb appeal.
An American farmer Lew Palmer of Staveley Alberta visits the city. He moved from Duluth Minnesota ten years ago with four cows and three horses. He homesteaded in Staveley now owns 480 acres, $5,000 in implements, 34 Percheron horses, and earned $1,000 from hogs last year. He produced 7,000 bushels of wheat and 6,000 of oats, 12 acres of potatoes, and 18 tons of onions. His farm and stock are worth $30,000, all built in ten years.
Dr. Eliot criticizes U.S. and English education as behind European theories. He questions how to reform a wasteful system to develop individual talents and promises a practical plan in a future article for the Pictorial Review.
The poem Narcissus by Robert Bridges, the English poet laureate, drops all punctuation enabling adjectives to stand as distinct qualities or as modifiers. Bridges favors exclamation marks and liberal dashes while using colon and occasional question marks and a period.
A dove perched on a ten inch gun during a Monta cruiser voyage through fog from Virginia shores. More than 100 blue jackets, their terms expired, are glad to be home. A yellow swallow, blown from Cuba, stays aboard near Vera Cruz. New York Philadelphia Times correspondence.
An aphorism notes the ease of inviting worry rather than removing it, contrasting the permanence of trouble with the effort required to resolve it. The line frames anxiety as a habitual burden that grows when unchecked.
The piece urges spring cleanup to fight flies mosquitoes and mesquite pests. It notes the need to act now to prevent future nuisance and disease carriers with tools like swatters kerosene and cleaning implements. The tone stresses practical household pest control.
One hundred years ago Dr Thomas Fanshawe Middleton became the first bishop of Calcutta in London and sailed to India. In Calcutta he founded the Bishops College and established a consistory court before dying of fever in 1822. The Christian population in India remains about one percent yet wields outsized influence.
A gifted speaker challenges a chairman who admits they boosted his stature to appear important. The exchange mocks local vanity and the fabrication of reputation. The chairman concedes the town’s collective appetite for recognition despite known anonymity.
The article cites a belief that the average unit contains enough lime in its system to whitewash a fence. The lines imply a humorous take on Egbert suggesting many men are seen as “on the fence” due to this lime reference.
The article warns about preventing tuberculosis spread with strict hygiene such as lysol solutions for sputum and handkerchiefs. It notes Mr Thomas Morris of Westernville Nebraska as the world’s oldest Welshman at 120, born 1794 in Montgomeryshire, recalling Britain Ireland union and Lincoln assassination.
A Washington clubman laments a persistent golf hoodoo as nine drives miss the ball while spectators vanish from the veranda. He notes the instant relief when the ball finally travels, then finds the veranda empty. The tale ends with a proverb about misplaced faith and money.
Mike a Tat terrier owned by William Bailey of Georgetown was found mothering two stolen neighbor kittens. He carried them home by the neck and comforted them, showing distress when they were returned to their mother.
A light exchange features Miss Young asking for best marriage time and Miss Elder replying that it is when the man is willing. The witty banter reflects social views on courtship and gender expectations.
Mrs. A. O. Price of Morgantown West Virginia is to have 250 square inches of skin grafted.
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