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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
6
An illustrated, though odd, description outlines forming a standing arch with spinal columns and leg supports using bones, arches, ligaments, and pulleys. It details joints, ballast, ball bearings, and a basin-like top for waste, presenting a grotesque, speculative skeletal construction.
In western New York a lone flower, folsa gromivell, blooms yearly on a grave linked to 1814 murder of Connecticut soldier Jon Alexander. A muttered mystery persists whether a letter or fate connected the plant to the fallen man as troops bivouacked near Sacketts Harbor.
Prepared by the United Water Department of Agriculture this piece explains cabbage yellows caused by a persistent soil fungus. It covers resistant varieties Volga, Houser, Wisconsin Hollander and others, seed disinfection with corrosive sublimate, safety notes, and planting on disease free land as the main control.
Depredations by various garden pests are outlined with suggested remedies. Leaf hoppers attack potatoes tomatoes strawberries and beans requiring nicotine sulphate dust or plant tea. Flea beetles feed on radishes cabbages turnips tomatoes potatoes and eggplants and are best treated with nicotine dust or Bordeaux mixture. Cutworms and grasshoppers are managed with poisoned bran mash. Asparagus beetles and other potato beetles respond to lead arsenate spraying, as do tortoise beetles horn worms and fruit worms that threaten tomatoes and cabbage crops.
L J Call reports Sudan grass is the most satisfactory summer pasture for all Ilva stock in Kansas. It retains succulence in dry weather and endures drought better than other pastures. Sweet clover lags alfalfa for hogs but suits cattle and sheep. Orchard grass stands as a reliable permanent pasture, easy to establish and palatable through grazing season.
A fragmentary report notes agricultural yields and costs, labor-saving broom equipment to ease farm drudgery, and the gap between research results and executive action. It suggests farmers lack power to implement experimental findings and calls for stronger action to realize scientific data for farming.
The Charleston was included in the Ulster Amateur Dancing championship in Victoria hall Belfast with a separate competition. All Ulster amateurs could enter and a loving cup donated by the Belfast lord mayor inaugurated the event three years ago. Judge Katherine Watson of Derry noted Belfast dancers were superior to Derry.
A cigar shaped hydrogen filled balloon supports an aluminum bicycle like frame with handlebars and pedals to drive a propeller. Land Savers' Service Bureau offers full information on owner name and address of an 820 acre dairy hog and alfalfa farm with modern barns at a reasonable price and terms in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Annette-fun line about marriage plans appears in a breezy, humorous blurb. The piece centers on Nanette and Annette with a playful tone over a marriage proposal. Specific names and a light domestic vignette are included.
A playful exchange notes that a wife talks more when she has less money to spend, with Gregge joking about ongoing chatter and Hanks confirming the idea that women discuss shopping more when finances are tight.
A garbled quotation mentions Drummond and Royce about prejudice as the main barrier to progress. It references a farmer growing grass and questions understanding why people struggle with urban or social issues due to bias. The readable text is fragmented and lacks clear context.
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin offers a gentle natural laxative to establish regularity without gripes or upset. Claims to suit chronic constipators and even sick children, promoting easy bowel movements with harmless, pleasant effects. Free sample offer by mail from Monticello Sindle.
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