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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
3
A three year old girl named Muriel, deemed too young for corporal discipline, resists a spanking after misbehavior. She faces a stark moment as she proclaims in a clear English voice that she will tell God about the paper knife and the blow.
The mother describes her son Clyde covered with eczema on the head face and neck for a year. After using Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent the child slept better and was “perfectly well” in about six weeks. Doctor recommends Cuticura. Shiloh Ohio June 11 1907.
A garbled page fragment presents dialogue about speech clarity and symbolism with stray names, places, and ads. It includes a mock Sunday school anecdote about summary meaning, a Toledo affidavit about a firm partnership, and scattered ad-like lines mentioning eye salve and cigarettes.
A fragmentary page mix from early papers features stray conversations and portraits, a dolphin lesson tale, literary allusions to Norton and Moody, church donations, and odd ads. It threads snippets about marriage, manners, and child health products with fleeting quotes and curious anecdotes.
A long reader fragment offers practical farming tips from crop care to stock health and market ideas. It covers disease prevention, plow innovations, animal housing, feed management, and the value of early advertising at home for crops like rhubarb and apples. It notes foot and mouth disease controls, quarantine measures, and emphasizes prudent farming practices for efficiency and profitability.
Ole Humphrey of Langemon County describes a successful alfalfa trial at a Tazewell County farmers institute. He credits Dr Cyril G Hopking for inoculation guidance, details soil prep, and asserts alfalfa yields of about four tons per acre over six years. He praises alfalfa as nitrogen fixing, money making, and superior to corn and timothy for livestock feed.
A combined gate hinge and brace made from an old wagon tire is described as simple, durable, and less prone to gate sagging. Ends are formed into hinges, holes bored for mounting, and the one piece iron design is said to add strength, with investment offset by longer life.
Instructions describe building a sled from light wood with runners four by ten feet, includes details on bolsters, belts, a movable front end, and a foldable design to store during summer. It specifies dimensions for boards, side walls, gates, and bracing to create a sturdy, disassemblable farm sled.
The author argues winter roads hinder farm social life and progress, urging state aided road building. He cites farmers and youths losing contact with towns, says better roads improve citizenship, morals, education and recreation, and notes main highways could be upgraded at ten to fifteen cents per acre annually.
The article discusses winter road maintenance by dragging, mowing weeds, and preparing tools. It covers timing before freezes to keep surfaces smooth for weeks, storage of equipment, and painting machinery. It also includes guidance on corn ground preparation with fall plowing and spring disking for better cultivation.
The passage presents a scrambled, fragmented reminiscence filled with distorted phrases and stray names. It reads like a damaged OCR extract from a reminiscence or dialogue, offering no clear events, dates, or identifiable individuals.
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