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Newspaper
Hutsonville Herald
Location
Hutsonville, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
3
The article discusses a Connecticut beekeeper’s wax tube method for fastening foundation. It compares a glass wax tube with rubber squeeze control to the Van Deusen fastener, noting ease of use, cost, and safety improvements like an air vent in the handle and brass construction for steadier wax flow.
Milton Knight of Nebraska explains in Farmers' Review that two foot rows ease weed control with horse drawn cultivators. He now uses rows under six inches, cultivates close to plants with a wheeled hoe, and finds hand pulling unprofitable though yields may drop per square rod. He plans to plant hills next time to allow two cultivation methods.
Garden scrappings advise planting in long rows and stretching the garden twice as long as wide to improve appearance and yield. It suggests intercropping strawberries with early potato rows and notes a new kerosene emulsion using flour from Prof. F. T. Shutt of Canada, detailing the mixing steps.
A Des Moines letter reports the Hessian fly destroyed at least 5,000,000 bushels of Nebraska winter wheat as the pest advances westward, with Kansas also suffering ravages that will cut its winter wheat crop.
The article outlines practical methods for setting up wheat shocks with four bundles in a row and one in the middle on each side, adding caps from longer straw bundles. It emphasizes wind direction, number and stability of bundles, handling dead ripe wheat, hugging caps, straight rows, and placing shocks away from damp ground to avoid spoilage.
A Farmers' Review article warns many pig losses occur during farrowing due to smothering and mother pigs crushing their young. It illustrates a protective setup with end pieces and boards forming a shelter around the pen, extending around three sides, using light poles or similar material to create a safe space for piglets.
Guidance on pig weaning ages and feeding. Three week old piglets need skim milk middlings and blood meal in a trough away from mothers. eight weeks is preferred. Weaning should be gradual with sows fed wisely to avoid stress and promote even growth. Also notes on letting pigs run with mothers and caution when fall litters require different handling.
Ten heavies weights carried by miners in the Andes are described. A copper mine in a ravine has ore raised 450 feet with an average load of 250 pounds per man. The ore is hauled up ladders formed from notched tree trunks set nearly vertical.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes an inventor asserting a device will let people travel at 200 mph. The interviewer asks if it can be stopped instantly. the inventor says yes. The passenger question: would passengers stop too, and the reply is no, they continue for about 59 more miles.
A patient awakes to find a nurse smoking and reading a novel at her bedside. Startled, she asks what she is doing, and the nurse quips she mistook the patient for dead. A math classroom tale follows with a teacher explaining subtraction in odd terms and a student challenging the setup.
A humorous exchange in an insurance office shows a Hibernian visitor asking to insure life fire and marine, joking about becoming a navy stoker. A Washington Star reader quotes a man predicting a revolution in commercial exchange as gold grows plentiful while food and fuel grow scarcer.
The Boston Transcript reports millinery workers are quietly organizing with plans to strike next fall when styles change, reflecting a feminine motive behind the secret.
An OCR fragment discusses Good Cheese Country Chestnut cheese and geological factors like red veenetone and bowlder clay, then shifts to jokey Weather Bureau style quips about a Phoenix hat and a bolt of lightning at Joseph Jaggard’s barn in Almonesson Pennsylvania, with miscellaneous quotes from Washington Post and Washington Star.
Speedy Cab Horse Lottery, found among London night cab horses and bought for £5, has won eight point to-point races for its new owner, Mr. Tom Taylor of West Molesey.
The oldest pines in Norway and Sweden reach about 570 years, making them the longest-lived trees in Northern Europe. Germany’s oldest oaks survive a little over 300 years, indicating shorter longevity for the nation’s oaks.
Mrs P Brunel of 8111 Grand Ave Everett Wisconsin credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending years of back pain and sleepless nights. After five boxes she reports rapid relief from aching and urinary difficulties, saying she felt like a different woman. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo distributes. Price five cents per box.
In a breezy health pitch a cereal named Egg-O-See is praised as ideal for simple nourishing food. It uses California white wheat kernels brushed cleaned steam cooled flaked and crisped with natural fruit juice and pure grain sugar to deliver strength energy and robust health.
Prouty opposes giving rate making power to commissions or courts, arguing railways must set fair rates as property protected by the fourteenth amendment. Also notes Missouri exhibits at the Lewis and Clark exposition, including a Lincoln home replica and Massachusetts state house front preservation. A light quote ends with a joke about Latin phrases.
A collage of notes on incandescent gas spectra under light pressure forming lines, earth’s magnetic energy decline debate, cost cuts from water gas in Bohemia and Stockholm, and Dellwick’s fuel savings. Also features on the snake’s tongue and sense of feeling, a cryostase compound that reversibly solidifies with heat, a bishop’s Algeria winter joke, a math puzzle about herrings, telegraph pole rights with a farmer’s bull, a bridge game misunderstanding, social vignettes, and assorted witticisms from revivals, authors, and czarist police dogs programs.
A promotional piece praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the universal remedy for female ailments including backache, uterine issues, menstrual pain, and nervous symptoms. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Holmes of North Dakota and Mrs. Cottery of New York, urges readers to seek Mrs. Pinkham's free advice from Lynn, Massachusetts, and claims the medicine has aided over a hundred thousand women.
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