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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
3
The winner of THE OPINION Summer Outing Trip this year will have an opportunity of visiting the country estate and enjoying a guided excursion with hosts. The prize promises a memorable day of leisure, sightseeing, and social events from the organizers.
The Opinion announces a summer contest giving one Mills county young lady a chance to win a Pan American Exposition trip or other rewards. Votes accrue by subscription payments starting December 1 1900 with premiums for new subscribers. The contest runs until July 1 1901. unmarried candidates only, with monthly ballot tallies through May.
A cluttered page lists travel routes to Buffalo via the Nickle Plate road with faded notes about through cars and sleeping facilities. It advertises Dr Nicholsons Institute and a deafness cure, a premium newspaper offer for The St. Louis Globe-Democrat and The Opinion, and a mix of local sales notices for peaches, seed potatoes, a driving team, cigars, gas stoves, harness, Morley s Little Liver Pills, and Howell s Anti Shawl cough remedy with various merchants and addresses in Glenwood Iowa and Pacific Junction Iowa.
A horticultural notice explains the leaf roller moth infesting strawberry plants. It describes the lifecycle from eggs pale green on the leaf underside to larvae feeding on upper leaf surfaces and folding leaflets with silk. It advises growers to spray with arsenical poisons such as Paris green early, repeat a week later, then again a week after, timing around moth appearance in May and early June, and to avoid spraying when fruit is well advanced.
The New Pea Pest described as a destructive aphis is reported to have infested two years of heavy damage. Brown cannery interests in Maryland Delaware New Jersey New York and Connecticut face losses. Michigan and Wisconsin also report suffering while some scientists say it mainly harms clover.
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