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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
5
A Brooklyn businessman complains about irregular mail delivery despite a punctual postman. He buys a post card the day before, mails it to himself, and receives it with the postman's whistle and doorbell. The anecdote highlights strict morning routines and reliance on mail delivery.
The text surveys a range of topics from military bullet development in Switzerland to historical anecdotes about J. Adam Bede and President Cleveland. It notes German and French bullets’ strengths and weaknesses, while describing Swiss efforts toward a uniform long and short range cartridge. It also touches on bee hexagonal cell theory, Tartars’ ancient customs, and U.S. cotton mill growth and productivity.
A compact four pound table attachment shuffles nine of ten cards to ensure a square deal. The article notes Ken Norris Brown as the new Nebraska senator, Carl Schurz memorial lectures, California medical board mandamus suits, Japan's copper output, William F. Letchworth's park gift, and various curiosities from wildlife to California politics.
A vintage home guidance compiles steps for Date Jelly Date Sandwiches and Spiced Date Cakes, plus vegetable prep tips for boiling onions cabbage carrots and turnips. It also covers keeping Cut Flowers fresh renewing stale rolls and renovating fabrics including silk wool and velvet with simple household remedies.
A fashion overview notes triangular and lozenge jewels for rings and necklaces, coarse leghorn hats trimmed with fur, lace-free corsets with front clasps, and pale palette shades in party frocks. It highlights chatelaine jewelry, moleskin gray with golden brown, and a shift toward fine machine embroidery with Swiss beadings and minimal ribbon for trousseau garments.
A farmer warns of a skunk cabbage patch while noting how certain plants emit strong odors. Stapelias resemble carrion to bluebottle flies. The rafflesia of Sumatra excites buzzing flies with a glue factory like odor. Cactus grandiflorus and Pedaria foetida are noted as extremely foul smelling tropical blooms.
Use prompt early feeding to ensure pigs keep coming and profits rise. Provide a low trough in a separate pen to encourage self-feeding. Feed sweet milk thickened with middlings or ground oats. soak shelled corn and feed sparingly. Give pigs early rye and clover pasture access and avoid overfeeding. Profit hinges on management over the next four months.
The article warns buyers about heavy demand for grass and clover seed leading to sellers passing off foul and inferior seed. It stresses land weed control, notes a price differential of about $1 per bushel between mixed grades, and urges buyers to avoid ungraded foul seed and insist on purity regardless of cost.
Growers overlook smut in oats as affected heads hang lower, causing total loss of grain. Prevent by using clean seed and treating with hot water or weak formalin solution before planting.
Indiana is noted for home produced butter not from professional makers but those who churn year round and sell near home. One producer contracts with a local grocer at a fixed price yearly, allowing winter deliveries in prints and summer packs weekly. The plan yields steadier income though less per pound than city shipments, with grocery bills offset.
A collection of practical advice covering cooking, cleaning and household management. Tips include soaking raisins, citrus treatment for fish, preserving butter, cleaning silver, and organizing clothing drawers with compartments. Includes quirky observations about manners and daily life in a bygone era.
Advice for chronic billow attacks advises against tea coffee and sweets and suggests baked apples ripe peaches and dark grapes once daily. It recommends a glycerine listerine rose water facial lotion, hot cloths for bruised eyes, horseback rides and iron rich foods to restore color, and proper teeth cleaning with mouthwash to prevent decay.
A fragment advises rubbing cocoa butter or mutton tallow around nails nightly to tighten the nails and gently remove adherent skin away from the pools, noting the hangnail will soon disappear.
The article outlines spring apparel trends with bikinis of brilliantine styled shirts, alk and tinsel veil designs, enamel buttons, tan and mulberry red or coffee with rose color combos, dotted nets over stiff taf feta silks, and both pony jackets and tight tailored suits. It notes white fur turbans with pink or blue roses, new waist collars, elastic braids, bold buckles in silver or gold, patterned chiffons with floral borders, red coral and raspberry shades, orange velvet bows on white lace waists, soutache trimmed lace waists, wide back empire belts, princess gowns with tucked waist lines, simple green leaf hair wreaths, elk dress shields, new shoe racks, and evening wraps with elaborate materials.
A collection of old time tips covers remedies and household practices. It discusses white or egg mixed with mustard plaster to prevent blis kering, lemon juice for dandruff, dietary avoidance for rheumatism, eye care with salt water, Suge tea as a hair conditioner and tonic, vinegar for facial cleansing, a salt and cold water Russian cure for colic and indigestion, olive leaves as fever tonic, and mahogany furniture care with warm water and soap followed by polishing. It also notes softening hands with warm olive oil and talcum powder.
The text describes saline remedies for catarrh with a lukewarm salt milk mixture used thrice daily, eye care with a salted water solution, and a strong salt application to sprains and bruises. It also mentions malt poultices to deter swelling and a salt and white of egg mixture to prevent felons.
An excerpt urging openness to learn from daily school life. It champions receptivity, love, and fearless understanding, framing education as a path to gentleness and moral growth through attentive, affectionate effort.
In New York at the Knickerbocker Hotel on Broadway and Forty-Second Street, Violet Blossom Conrad, 28, daughter of the late Major Casper H. Conrad, wed Charles Ridgely Ellicott during her birthday dinner. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Henry Maresh Warren as guests toasted and celebrated the surprise nuptials.
The Columbus street railway operates at seven tickets for 25 cents with universal transfers and a planned eight for a quarter once annual receipts reach 1,750,000. The company offers six months to dividends, profit sharing, uniforms for eligible workers, Christmas turkeys, annual picnics, and extensive street maintenance funded by the railway.
Geneva reports Mircheens, a Vaud canton village at the Jura foothills, owns land forests and herds. About 10 villagers live prosperously with no local rates, receiving free produce such as wood cheese milk butter and occasional meat from communal Hamper deliveries, while farming is largely managed by guards and locals born there.
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