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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
5
Various measures guard young trees against rabbits and mice. Wire screens are the most effective though costly. Wood veneer around trunks is a workable protection if available. An illustration shows a paper cylinder secured with a cord and to be removed in spring.
An agricultural note extols rapid growth trees for street plantings. The Japanese poplar is highlighted as superior for its fast growth, clean bark, dense foliage, and strong leaf retention, while Carolina and Lombardy poplars are criticized for weaknesses. Catalpa also noted for quick growth.
Apples placed in large bins need good ventilation to keep well. Create two cylinders from laths and place them in a big eight by eight feet square. Each cylinder uses disks twelve inches in diameter with central holes as shown. The method is straightforward.
A guide stresses timely picking and careful handling for fruit growers. It warns against piling apples, favors baskets over bags, and suggests ladders and hooks. It explains ripeness cues for apples pears peaches and other fruits to optimize home use or shipment.
A portable fruit picking bag offers hands free operation and gentler fruit handling. The design uses a cut bottom opening and lap closing method with a button. Suspenders cross over the shoulders and connect with a strap for secure wear.
The guide covers pruning after picking currants and raspberries, gentle handling of early apples, frequent cultivation until shade develops, importance of pollen, use of sorting tables for apples, removing old canes on berries, thinning new growth to three or four, shipping challenges of red raspberries, continual care for strawberries, keeping beds clean, variable cherry yields, fallen fruit removal with sheet or hogs, and mulching with mature strawy stalky material for apples.
In Mary Maxwell Moffat’s Maria Theresa biography the empress recalls Joseph Haydn as a pupil of von Reutter. A Whitsuntide visit to Schoenbrunn led to Haydn and fellow boys scurrying over scaffolding despite orders, prompting Maria Theresa to suggest using the rod to improve memory.
Fencing is the preferred exercise for women with time and means, praised by physical training experts as the best form for balanced development without bulky muscles. Even in summer, many keep up fencing sessions with instructors visiting homes, valuing its slendering and graceful benefits.
The writer enumerates the engineer’s contributions transforming cotton seed byproducts into oil and glycerin, using seed hulls as cattle feed, exploiting clay and shale for brick and tile, and phosphate rock for fertilizers. His work saves pine forests, enables turpentine from waste materials, and improves lumber durability with creosote treatment, fueling a growing southern industry.
During Artemus Ward’s lecture a recess sparks a punning chain. H R Tracey and Washington editor Aman the restaurant keeper become focal points of the joke as the audience spreads the phrase “see Aman” between acts. The gag travels as Ward’s audience erupts in playful repetition.
At the Academy of Science in Paris Edmund Perrier submitted studies by M Danton showing oysters can vary sex within the same animal and that females predominate as conditions change. The male is described as weaker and may transform to female as food conditions shift.
Wisconsin Agricultural College professor argues selling dairy products preserves soil fertility more than selling crops. He quantifies fertility loss per ton of hay corn wheat milk butter cheese and urges readers to attend the National Dairy Show in Chicago for practical demonstrations and expert guidance on modern dairy methods.
Rose Pastor Stokes of New York charity recounts a slum girl visiting a barn yard. The girl, observing livestock and tools, gasps at the sight of chickens “all runnin around raw” in a vivid anecdote shared in an address.
In a playful exchange at a wedding reception a guest explains that the groom was forbidden to kiss the bride. The writer recalls the moment when a card reading A rights reserved was displayed, prompting humor about consent and trademarks.
A reader questions Mise Hammerah about her piece In the Shadow. The exchange notes she struggles to locate correct keys during the performance.
A fragmented clipping blends cheeky quotes on marriage and pockets with old time advertisements for teething syrup and dental products. It riffs on jealousy and sharp wit while promoting Winglow’s Boothing Byrup for Children and a bluing product for laundry.
Dick Quay in Chicago at the Congress hotel mocked a well known politician noting he is self made except for nine thick coats of whitewash from various investigating committees. A correspondent described him as ninety percent self made and eleven million worth.
A newspaper blurb quotes a humorous exchange about women voting in new suffrage states. The remark ponders how matrons will cast maiden votes, reflecting early 20th century attitudes toward women's suffrage. The dialogue highlights evolving political rights with a playful twist.
A promotional note touts Cole's Carboli salve as a cure for burns and cuts with instant pain relief. It claims Noscer and general druggists carry it in 25 and 50 cent sizes, and adds a quip about fortunes and shooting.
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