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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
3
A Chicago man from 66 West 4th Street recounts severe kidney trouble in 1919 weighing 136 pounds with paralysis on his left side. After three weeks of Doan's Kidney Pills he passed a large gravel and gradually recovered, claiming the medicine cured him.
A disjointed set of anecdotes describes a small town tale where a couple, choosing a humble church two blocks away, discovers they are the only white attendees. The piece then shifts through a string of vignette-like lines about juries, village life, a new baby, and domestic pressures, all in a clipped, humorous newspaper voice.
A Shanghai traveler recalls a voyage down the Yangtze amid cholera fears and a dinner calamity with the consul. He describes Hankow, Kinkiang, and Nanking stops, vivid streets, strange vendors, and a final drift toward Shanghai, noting crude humor and cosmopolitan scenes along the river tale.
Mrs. Duddy, needing a tie for her husband, seeks advice at a shop. A fellow customer and staff weigh colors blue and brown, both praised for harmony with red hair. The final choice is the brown tie, as she prefers independent judgment. The episode ends with her noting the benefit of having advice. The piece juxtaposes this with a London Morning Post portrait of North African Arabs. It cites Phillips as describing Arabs as capricious and unable to endure settled routines, noting ruin of cities, aqueducts, and agriculture after contact with civilization.
J F Ward of Massachusetts offers a cheap plan from New England Homestead to build sap bucket covers. Using bug sheet steel 23 gauge in bundles of ten, each sheet costs 33 cents and yields 14 covers. Sheets cut to 28 by 96 inches produce pieces to form a 3/4 inch hole and a bent end, hung on the spout. A simple iron pipe edge tool and tin snips finish the job, promising durability, rain and bug protection, and better sap quality.
The Popular Mechanics describes a French spraying method where two compressed air sprayer tanks are strapped to a horse’s back. Liquid is discharged through a pipe with six spray heads, supported by two supply pipes at the rear of the horse.
A grower notes five to six harvests are needed to reach prime Yellow Transparent apples. They compare five eights baskets and boxes, favor Red Willamette late and Yellow Transparent early, advise shipping to multiple dealers and markets like New York and Baltimore, and recommend planting some early varieties for profitability.
Guidance to protect apple trees from rabbits and mice by boxing trunks or wrapping with galvanised wire screen to about 20 inches, preventing sunscald and reducing replacement costs. Advice notes grounding snow to deter mice under snow and crust.
The article notes that low headed trees three feet for apples and pears and eighteen to twenty inches for peaches and bum are favored in stormy areas. Low heads resist wind, reduce fruit loss, ease picking from ground, and lower costs for pruning, spraying, and harvesting compared to tall trees.
An Australian Hawkesbury Agricultural College trap is shown catching sparrows efficiently. Over a year more than 1,000 birds were netted using a three by eight foot frame, three-inch holes, and a soil-covered floor with scattered crumbs. Birds enter through three bottom holes, then are guided out and disposed of via doors at each end.
A Fruit Belt warning discourages winter mulching of strawberry beds with manure. Large farmers avoid it, but some general farmers spread horse manure in late fall to boost next year’s crop. The plant stores food in spring, so manure applied after growth ends adds no usable nutrients. nitrogen volatilizes as ammonia while potash and phosphoric acid must be plowed in to benefit the soil.
Horticultural notes urge thorough spring prep. Use coal ashes as soil lighteners on heavy soil. Sweeten old apple trees by top working and grafting. Ensure ample sunshine, roll up shades, wash glass, and prune for a regular fruit garden layout.
In the den off the living room a man riffs on an old song and mulls a bold plan to fund a system of free laundries for the poor. His sister questions the feasibility and equity of beneficiaries while he vows to test the idea in the streets. A New York Press note frames the scene as a casual, thoughtful exchange.
Averé liquid bluing is promoted as a superior product in a vintage advertisement. It touts red cross ball blue as the blue that stays blue and promises more washing power per package. The copy urges shoppers to buy a large package for six cents and to ask their grocer.
George and Suffering Samson clash over a quip about the aristocrat Mrs Pingleton and her twenty year old daughter. The exchange notes time passing and suggests a breach of tact, highlighting social friction at a gathering.
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