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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1905
Page
2
In a tense chapter Lang resists joining a vast organized group while a detective reveals a planned cooperation. A former inmate offers ten thousand dollars to help escape and implicates a powerful society, as Lang boasts of his risky bid for wealth and fame through dangerous schemes.
Lang sobered by a shock offers to enter a dangerous plan. Denver outlines a rigorous training regime for Lang including physical, boxing, wrestling, sword and shooting lessons while positioning him as a covert agent. A mysterious detective visitor delivers a cryptic note and fifty dollar payment guiding Lang to begin immediate training as the plot advances.
Sir Thomas Dewar recalls America through a curio tale of youth zeal. He tells of a New York moment where a ragged boy pressed to a toy shop window, accepts a penny, and comments that a cent is needed to stay warm. The anecdote underlines early drive in contests and races.
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A neighbor visiting during a summer stay at Point Allerton recalls Chester who entered the tub area and joked about the bath. The mother scolds him for not enjoying the bath at home and comments the tub was too full leading to a moral about temperance and behavior.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer captioned cartoonish scene shows a zoo dialogue with a ring tailed marmoset and a laughing hyena. The hyena quotes a jibe about laughter, remarking on fools and verse, reflecting a light tone on public caricature of finance and wit.
A Hobson Dobson dialogue suggests a bank president at The Hide and Seek Bank speculated on outcomes. Hobson counters that financiers rarely call it speculation when they win, implying the remark followed a failed effort.
A resident questions locals about a man named Binketoo living nearby. Police, night watchman, assessor, and grocer cannot identify him. The man is described as unmarried, good looking, with some money, and a daughter will be consulted for confirmation.
A script for a Lost and Found column prompts an ad about a wallet with a large sum of money and papers. The dialogue shows a finder offering to keep the money and return the papers with no questions asked or answered, highlighting the irony of such notices.
A dialogue reveals a rough town in Crimson Gulch where a rumor about a local newspaper is dismissed as a “death by own action club” rather than a proper editorial staff. The exchange hints at censorship and community tension.
A New York man asks if the town has a library and a western resident replies yes, noting a circulating library. The visitor presses about circulation and the westerner jokes that their library wasn’t meant for that use but split by two or three cyclones that circulated it widely.
A brief humorous exchange features Flannery asking Mike what’s the matter. Finnegan groans about nearly falling into an open coalhole. Flannery quips about inventing a coal hole that would stay shut when open, delivering a light local flavor.
A humorous exchange teases Miss Borting about her tan claiming she has been in the sun. She retorts that the sun is unreachable by travel and that she has merely absorbed its rays. The lighthearted dialogue plays on common notions of sun exposure and propriety.
A lighthearted moment unfolds as Willie bets he can sculpt the ugliest face while May-You suggests nature aids the effort with a wink. The pair pool friendly boast and humor, highlighting playful yard talk.
Dialogue shows a humorous confrontation where a comment about originality leads to doubt. The speakers accuse each other of misrepresenting the joke and timing, revealing tension over honesty and memory in a comic exchange.
An agriculture note details a dangerous white mushroom often mistaken for edible varieties. It warns that the cap may be white with a greenish tint and a mossy or leaf covered sheath, and cautions against eating any mushroom unless fully known. It also mentions a yellow cousin, less common in the west but present in the east.
Cyril G. Hopking argues farmers should invest in real soil elements rather than high priced fertilizers. He advocates limestone and phosphates with two pounds of plant food per pound harvested to enrich soils for Illinois and future generations.
Farmers continue war on potato beetles using Paris green as the preferred poison. Experiments suggest the spray benefits foliage and plant health, unlike some poisons. Warns against spraying tomato plants during fruiting, but weeds feeding beetles can be treated. End-of-season beetle pressure affects next year’s crop.
The article warns that over cultivating new orchards can harm trees. Cultivate in spring from buds opening to late July to allow annual growth and proper fruit bud development. Avoid late summer and fall cultivation to prevent extra wood growth and blossom formation, which can kill trees as shown by a Maine farmer’s story of 400 plum trees.
Watering trees with a garden hose in hot months is often ineffective. Keeping the soil pulverized improves moisture at depth more than surface irrigation. Most summer showers only moisten soil to an inch or less, washing dust from leaves rather than feeding roots. Washing foliage proves more beneficial than deep watering from below.
The Buffalo tree hopper is a small green insect with a buffalo horn like thorax. It feeds on many plants and mainly damages trees when depositing eggs in August. Eggs are laid in tree limbs such as apple, and orchard cleanliness helps. If many eggs are on a limb, cut and burn the limb in late fall or early spring to prevent infestation.
Orchards can grow in temperate zones but require care. Planting alone often fails in cold winters or dry summers without cultivation, spraying, and pruning. Many uncultivated orchards lose money, while neglectful efforts jeopardize profits.
Fruit trees fall into two groups the useful and the ornamental. The useful trees bear fruit and should be severely trimmed to limit wood and boost production. Planting fruit trees on ornamental stock is not advised as it leads to poor fruit yield.
The text discusses trees with proper shaping for artistic appeal in winter and summer. It emphasizes not only full foliage in summer but also branch arrangement to produce a pleasing effect across seasons.
When a special market for truft can is developed it should be secured because profits in the special market exceed those in the general market.
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