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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1902
Page
3
The California experiment station compared English and Champin grape grafts using various stock and scion configurations. Two eye scions favored. end to end grafts showed fewer complete unions. Sand callusing produced higher good union rates (61%) vs direct nursery planting (26%), and graft growth favored sand callused plants.
Designers argue curves enhance home approaches. Even in rural settings a curved walkway can improve appearance, especially when street elevation or entry placement allows a slight bend. Flower beds or trees can justify the curve and add ornamentation.
The London correspondent reports a new drummond phlex Heynhold's, a dwarf compact form of Phlox drummondii with decorative value. Beds of the shown varieties are very gay, the type suited to pot culture, and notably dwarf varieties have been developed.
The cause of little peach is believed to be a fungus attacking very young roots. A cross of hardy Japanese with the Florida sweet orange yields a hardiest evergreen orange. Plant breeding now occupies much effort among horticulturists. About 90 percent of Africa date palms recently introduced are thriving in Arizona and southern California. The greenhouse leaf tyer can be controlled in greenhouses by handpicking and destroying infested leaves.
The Rhus succedanea tree, called haje or haze in Japanese, yields wax after five to six years, with mature trees producing 350 to 490 pounds of berries and 70 to 80 pounds of wax. Wax forms inside the berry, melts at 131 F, and is used by the Chinese with or without tallow for candles. The wax tree differs from China’s tallow tree, which contains solid tallow in mature trunks.
A farmhouse mistress scolds a servant for cleaning boots out of turn. The girl explains she believed it was the fashion of the house, saying she did so to fit the household custom. The mistress tosses the boots into water, then repeats the action with the remaining pairs.
The article traces London’s historic names Lynden or Llyndin meaning the city on the lake. It notes a tradition that London was founded by Brute descended from Buenas and called New Troy until Lud renamed it Caer-Lud. It mentions a claim of a preexisting city and the Romans founding Londinium in AD 61.
An advertisement extols two key sectors railroads and Hoatetter’s Stomach Bitters. It touts railroads as crucial to the nation with large capitalization and many workers while presenting the bitters as a fifty year proven remedy for headaches indigestion flatulence belching dyspepsia liver and kidney issues malaria fevers and general debility. The copy highlights the product as a spring medicine and blood purifier and notes the private stamp on the bottle neck.
The text describes silk as a precious material once valued at triple its weight in gold in Europe. A Tiberius law barred commoners from silk, allowing only noble ladies due to its perceived effeminacy. Even by Heliogabalus era, silk usage by men was rare, noted by historians. Charlemagne sent King Offa of Mercia two silk coats in 780 as a valuable gift.
A humorous tale from the New York Herald notes a man draws four hearts and a club, discards the club for a spade, proclaims a hand of hearts, bets $7, and loses to a bettor who calls the bluff. Moral: a wise man calls a spade a spade.
A Franklin Grove Illinois man, J. B. Omer, suffered a nearly fatal leg ulcer for four years resisting doctors until Bucklin's Arica Salve cured it. The ad also promotes the salve for boils, burns, and other skin ailments, with local druggists selling it for 25 cents. The page also advertises furniture pieces and dining room sets at Henry H. Stevens on Sixth Street.
A terse sale notice from Creekside Pennsylvania dated March 1913 offers barred Plymouth Rock and Corish India game eggs at thirteen for one dollar, listed under A G Johnston.
Fragmentary notice from the State of Pennsylvania and Indiana County indicates a satisfaction of recognizance action. Details are unreadable, but the notice appears to concern legal or court proceedings and releases in Indiana County.
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