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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1904
Page
3
A playful dialogue shows a shy maid and a boastful youth. He claims to have summoned a mechanical genius who can make anything. The maid exclaims in delight, asking to become a professor.
Summer travel guide promotes Nickel Plate Road from Chicago to Ft Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and intermediate points with Niagara Falls and Lake Chaudauqua stopovers. Three modern trains offer coaches dining and sleeping cars with colored porters service. Tickets cheaper than competing lines with full information available from General Agent J Calahan at 111 Adams Street Chicago Illinois.
An odd notice touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer claiming fits are stopped after one day of use. It advertises a free trial bottle and treatise from Dr Kline at 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA.
A Philadelphia Public letter describes a deaf mute couple at a social gathering where a mishap with a glass of wine on the wife’s skirt led to a rapid exchange of gestures. The husband, apologetic, passed a note to a bystander containing a message about the incident and the couple’s good fortune.
The humorist Maceheall recalls an interview with a U S president from Wilder era. The meeting reportedly began with formal pleasantries and lasted about 30 seconds as the artist struggled to deliver his prepared speech.
A Colorado mother recounts her 15 month old son’s pneumonia and brain fever, then convulsions, and how a Kansas City visit led to feeding him Grape-Nuts and milk. The child’s health rapidly improved, gaining strength and weight, and the mother reports continued health for her daughter. The testimonial assigns success to Grape-Nuts and cream with claims of nourishing brain and nerves.
A farmer proposes a homemade wheel hoe combining an old bicycle wheel with two six foot wooden handles and cross pieces. U shaped iron braces are bolted to the handles with two inch bolts and reinforced by eighteen inch iron bracing strips. The frame uses a fron taken from an old buggy tire.
A reader describes building a low cost wheel hoe using a bicycle wheel, cut lumber, and simple braces. The blade angle, cross pieces, and handle width are adjustable to suit size, including a child’s use. Costs are minimal, about one dollar for three blades and 25 cents for the wheel. The device ensures thorough weed cutting and dust mulch in gardens.
In a rural critique J EB Head argues against dual purpose cows, favoring specialized dairy or beef stock. He states the dairy type differs from Hereford, Short-horn, and Angus, and that calves from milk cows should not be raised as beef animals. He urges selective breeding and pure dairy sires for better butter fat and profitability.
The article describes rapid transplanting of large trees using steel pots and movable platforms. A machine clamps around the base, lifts the tree, and relocates it with a screw, chains, and a six foot diameter root enclosure. Added notes discuss scrub cows and turnip soil quality.
An inventor explains a hinged door ventilator for barns to fix sagging doors. About one third of the upper door section is hinged to open from the top, providing light and ventilation without letting animals pass. For winter light, a glass sash can be added inside, though glass is prone to breakage in rough track-door use.
German papers note long standing knowledge of glazing butter with sugar to form a glasslike coating. The method, now used in England for form bound butter, preserves freshness longer, after kneading washing and cooling in one pound forms. Sugar varnish forms on the surface when brushed with hot sugar solution.
A Farmers' Review note explains cows bred for gentleness in dairy breeds, especially Jersey Guernsey and Holstein, becoming household pets with family-like care. It suggests slow milking frustrates the cow and urges hastening performance where possible.
A Sunday Bible lesson on 2 Kings 2 Elijah and Elisha journey from Gilgal to Jordan as Elisha steadfastly follows and seeks a double portion of Elijahs spirit. Elijah is taken up in a whirlwind, leaving Elisha to continue in faith and service.
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