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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
3
A collection of aphorisms on politeness, self help, trust, love and envy. It notes how help often comes from oneself and how information daily grows into education and morals. The piece cites quiet warnings about ignoring danger, attributed to Ed Howe in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
A collection of pithy quotes explores advice, foolishness, and gender irony. It contrasts ignorant and educated fools, notes the wise avoid excess talking, and laments flawed marriages and social pretenses.
A playful collection of curiosities and trivia questions about cobblers, cob blers, subways, moles, worms, London thoroughfares, condors, opals, and sociological contrasts. It poses quirky observations on language, animals, geology, and crime rates in a compact, magazine style.
A collection of witticisms contrasts practical thrift with folly. It notes half a loaf beats a railway sandwich and that ignorance may seem bliss yet wisdom lies in fools. It quips that a good wife helps a husband and a self-made bad husband punishes himself.
A collection of humorous saying fragments comment on marriage and human folly. The notes toy with social norms as a blind man gains sight after marriage and warn against relying on confidence men while teasing reform and self reliance.
Government data show world wheat output at four billion bushels last year with a large year over year gain. Innovations include a respirator for medical and service workers and an antiseptic mouthpiece. New Zealand builds a multi mile tunnel for rail links. German lithographers electroplate paper with varnish to prevent bath contamination. Spiral glare reducing headlight plates are introduced. A submerged oak forest is found by Russian dredging crews. US coal regions cover about 310k square miles with 160k more believed underlayable.
A reflection on value and happiness contrasts wealth with simple comforts. It argues that true wealth is freedom from worry and loyal friends, not luxury. The piece suggests a worker spared from care may be richer than a millionaire with riches but loneliness.
Practical guidance on cooking and home crafts including bread crusts for baking, a baby floor exercise trick, oven moisture caution, crackling shorting cake, pineapple pudding with bread crumbs and fruit, and spice pudding with dates and nuts. Tips emphasize thrift, simple methods, and moderate baking times.
Oatmeal forms the base for wholesome cookies and cakes. The guide stresses thorough baking for proper digestion, browning like old coffee roasting, and grinding oats for oatmeal bread. Recipes include Scotch Cookies and Oatmeal Drops with oats, flour, butter, eggs, sugar, spices, raisins, and walnuts.
A reflective line from Chicago America notes peace and comfort come from inner state rather than money. It argues that lasting happiness is tied to mind and body, not the accumulation of wealth, and suggests choosing misery away from riches if needed.
A McClary's Magazine reflection satirizes self deception in wealth display and trust. It mocks business talk that ends with proposals and warns against overpromising. The piece suggests telling troubles twice won t resolve them and warns against gilt edged appearances inviting poverty.
A satirical reflection from Atchison Globe on patriotism, plain talk, cold feet morality, jury duty, friendship, propaganda, and reform movements. It critiques public rhetoric and personal loyalty in civic life with concise aphorisms.
A Judge reflects on small daily annoyances and inconveniences that persist, from late dinners and depleted finances to creaky stairs and a boss in an elevator during a shared lunch at a lodge. The piece blends humor with common workplace and home rhythms.
The article extols flavorful vegetable cookery and offers practical methods. It argues water-bleached vegetables lose nutrients and share tips for mustard greens eggplant with tomatoes cabbage and onions sautéed radishes and a fresh vegetable salad with a crisp dressing.
A historical collection of kitchen tips and salad ideas. Uses bread bowls for salad, onion scoops, cabbage cups, and rose garnishes for wedding displays. Includes methods for marinating fish, butter garnishes, curled celery, and decorative sugar molds.
London reports 73500 miles of overhead wires and 921000 miles underground. Sweden tests tar based carbons for lights. Lake Baikal risks losing depth lead to Tanganyika. American syndicate opens manganese mine in Panama. Bath tub curtain patent approved. Greenland whale averages 100 tons. Four per car implies 8,000,000 daily motorists. Chinese province exports 150000 tons of peanuts annually thanks to missionary seed. Paper umbrella patent granted. Typhus more deadly to Germans than Russians. Flag whipping is a piracy tactic harming neutrality. penalties small and uncurbed by Sweden and Denmark.
The article argues red clover sustains soil nitrogen in principal eastern and central farming areas, with caveats. It notes clover boosts humus and some phosphoric acid and potash but is not a universal cure for farm problems, and that lime, drainage, and rotation adjustments are needed to sustain vigorous stands and counter pests and diseases.
The rhubarb bed should be lifted and clumps cut into pieces with one or two good eyes. Replant in a new spot or, if space is tight, on the old site in a thoroughly enriched bed. Rootbound soil traps feeding capacity. replanting is the remedy.
In pruning raspberries and black berries trim to about three canes for raspberries and five feet height for black berries. Stop growth by pinching out the tips of the canes and replace fruiting canes with new growth for next year.
The White Plymouth Rocks are praised for unsurpassed table quality with yellow skin and legs and plump, fine grained juicy meat, meeting the high standards of even the most fastidious.
A dairy science note states protein is the key nutrient in milk for growing calves and remains intact during skimming, underscoring its essential role in development.
A simple feed combination for calves uses equal parts corn and oats by weight with timothy or prairie hay plus clover or alfalfa. The mix aims to balance energy and roughage for healthy growth.
Advice to buy seed corn locally and test it ear by ear to ensure quality before planting.
The article explains building a hog trough with a hollowed V or U shaped interior and a heavy boxed exterior. It covers forming, leveling, shaping with boards, thick top edge, dry mix tamping, cement glaze, and installing 2 foot gas pipes held by bolts and strap irons to keep hogs out, with pipes spaced 12 to 16 inches apart.
Barnyard manure has value beyond fertilization by improving soil structure, aiding chemical and bacterial processes, absorbing water, and aiding aeration. Its indirect benefits can rival its nutrient content. valued around 2.50 per ton, with animals producing five to seven tons per 1000 pounds of live weight annually. Best practice is to haul manure from barn to fields to minimize loss.
A Wisconsin Agriculturist illustration shows a hog catching device. One end of the wire loop attaches to a chain in a metal pipe handle. the loop tightens and locks by pulling the chain and passing a link through a slot. The device also suits sheep calves and poultry.
The usefulness of a horse depends on early training. The colt's first year shapes disposition and future character. Proper training in the first months yields docile, tractable, and gentle behavior, while future vices arise from mistakes now.
The article explains that early hatched pullets mature before cold weather and that a matured pullet will use extra energy for winter egg production if given the chance. It emphasizes the impact of early maturity on laying in cold seasons.
Raise well the heifer calves from cows that for generations have produced milk and butterfat, ensuring continued profitable dairy herds and steady farm income through improved cattle care and feeding practices.
Early-hatched pullets produce eggs in fall and early winter when prices are high, driving seasonal egg production.
A veterinary advisory warns farmers to guard flocks against vermin mites and lice to maintain vitality. The guidance stresses early inspection and preventive control measures to prevent rapid declines in poultry health.
Western Canada shows a thriving cheese industry driven by wartime demand and high prices. Alberta and surrounding ranges promise large future production, with hogs and dairy profits backing settlers amid cheap land and strong feed, as Calgary markets echo rising prices.
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