Iowa Girls Homestead on Rosebud Open Prairie Life
About 125 Iowa women from Des Moines and other cities settle as homesteaders on the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota. They farm cattle, build homes, and take up varied trades while adapting to frontier life. Many receive suitors from nearby settlers and some gain fame as guides or professionals.
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Sioux City
South Dakota
Des Moines
Iowa
Rosebud Indian Reservation
Rosebud
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Farma
Iowana
Philips
Iowa Colony
Weclaily
Towa
Dakota Plains
United States
J. D. Kellar
Bonestee
Kellar
Lowana
Arkansas
Rogers
Philippe Watrous
Dow Moines
Watrous
Bonesteel
Posrest
Phillips
Miss Watrous
It Is Easily Managed and Should Be a Farm Feature
A simple home nursery can be profitable and manageable on farms with old orchards. Farmers may grow fruit trees by planning ahead and using quality seeds preserved for budding or grafting. Store seeds in sand or leaves, dry them, and freeze to crack shells for sprouting. Seeds sowing aligns with rows three feet apart and three to six inches within rows. Stocks reach grafting size in one year.
Grafting and Budding Techniques for Fruit Trees
The article explains winter grafting with tongue grafts and summer budding to propagate apples plums and cherries. It covers scion selection from vigorous healthy trees, storage, severing buds, insertion under bark, wrapping, and post graft care for strong growth and eventual transplant to the orchard.
Playwrights Collaborate on a Seashore Romance
A narrator persuades Betty to co author a romantic drama. They draft acts with seaside settings and a glamorous heroine, a dark ambitious hero, and a comic misunderstanding. The unplanned twist arrives as Mr and Mrs Armstrong walk in and the lovers end up tied to the family.
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Betty
Alande City
Hetty
Descripon
Mr. Winton
Harry
New York
Philip Armstrong
Mrs. Armstrong
Dally Stluvy Pub Co
Spade Deeply for Trees in Ground Preparation
When planting trees prepare the soil well using a spade to ten inches deep, deeper than ordinary plowing. For large plantations a plow may be used, but the spade is preferred for mound and root area. Leave a ten foot diameter space that grows with the tree to avoid water pooling and root damage.
Tree Growth Check Causes Late Summer Wood Surge
The text notes excessive late season wood growth in trees reduces fruit bud formation and ripening apples should be picked only after full maturation but before mellowing begins.
Not Bound by an Oath in Essex Arson Case
A dialogue from an old Essex county arson trial features defense counsel H W Moulton and a prosecution witness, a boy who testifies he saw the defendant near the fire scene about nine o'clock. The exchange questions the boy’s clock reading and the duty to tell the truth versus obedience to his father.
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Moody
Essex County
H. W. Moulton
Dimensions of John's Love
John M a pupil in a Maine snail country school excelled at math but disliked English. He was asked to recite poetry and finally answered the famous line with a playful twist, declaring I love thee to the length breadth and thickness of my soul, provoking amused reaction from peers.
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John
John M
Maine
Tie
Bred Contempt
Dialogue-driven snippet describes a woman in a car noting a man’s familiar facial features. The exchange hints at recognition and tension as she comments on the Gibson Girl look and Julia Marlowe style portrait. The scene focuses on perception and discomfort in a passing moment.
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Gibson Girl
Julia Marlowe
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