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Newspaper
Laramie County Times
Location
Wheatland, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
3
The article explains steps for crafting cement tiles using tin molds and a horse shaped form. It covers forming troughs, lining tins, curing the tiles, and shaping external rims to ensure a snug fit. It emphasizes drying slowly with periodic moisture and shaping tiles triangularly to prevent water clogging.
The Illinois state entomologist Dr Forbes provides practical directions to protect seed corn from root aphids. For about 45 acres, mix one pint lemon oil with one gallon denatured alcohol, soak one bushel of seed corn, stir thoroughly, then place the treated corn in a rain sack for drying before storage and planting.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions freeing quantities and harm avoidance, unclear context. It reads as an isolated remark about a person or project named Mik and a plan to keep something clean and free from im quantities, but specifics are absent.
A long account from Farmer's Voice describes practical rotation on a 160 acre Iowa style farm. It details alternating timothy, corn, oats, and wheat with clover and timothy to maintain fertility, noting yields of oats 40 to 60 bushels per acre and the build up of soil health over years while acknowledging the need for fertilizer to replenish plant food.
A simple device shown in the illustration provides a potato chute that runs from a wagon box down into a cellar for convenient storage. The contraption appears as a practical farm accessory designed to drop sacks of potatoes directly into storage.
Prairie Farmer shows a method to widen a narrow cellar opening by using a funnel formed from two boards at the bottom of a potato unloading chute. This creates a controlled drop for dirt and small potatoes through a set of narrow boards with gaps.
The piece advises fighting weeds early as a prudent farmer. It urges daily checks of farm implements and thorough tightening of nuts. It suggests sowing rape seed, noting its usefulness in July and August, and mentions five pounds of seed.
Perewoneet Hall argues Orchard is shaped by mining frontier greed and social failure. He cites insensitivity to pain, moral perversion, and the ruthless gold rush as likely causes, suggesting environment may override innate goodness.
Three year old Harry Yost son of farmer C B Yost vanished near Wellington ten miles north of Fort Collins Colorado. He disappeared while returning from fields with workers and is presumed to have fallen into the Laramie county irrigation ditch where swift water and heavy rains suggest a long drift downstream. Neighbors and authorities scour the ditch and surrounding area as the mother wrings with grief.
In Boston a brick was made from the cremated ashes of Fler Man Unger a traveling man from Pittsburgh who died by his own hand in a Boston hotel May 30. He was Jewish and his supporters hope a cemetery will accept the brick but local Jewish authorities have shown reluctance. Unger reportedly suffered long trouble moody and once believed burial would sprout into a tree.
The old Merchants hotel on Main Street in Deadwood, a longstanding landmark, faces condemnation proceedings amid a citywide drive to clear decayed structures. The structure known as Glack Hille Landmark Condemned and will be slated for assessment and potential demolition.
Florence Colorado anglers along Beaver Creek clash with nearby farmers over water usage. The dispute centers on farmers drawing water from the stream for irrigation, while fishermen allege reduced flow harms local fisheries. Authorities have not issued a resolution yet.
A political cartoon spoof shows a congressman forgetting his wife’s umbrella after a Baltimore trip. His wife scolds him for failing to guard it, riffing on the idea that national affairs rest with a man who cannot manage a simple umbrella.
Gov. Hughes influences lawmakers to avoid major changes in the New York insurance law citing reform gains and cumulative benefits to policyholders. Equitable Life report for 1906 shows lower expenses and higher dividends, supporting the decision to maintain the current framework.
A traveler from Mexico touts wax lucifers with a head on each end, praising double ended matches for reliability. He notes they save one’s record with the Recording Angel and urges buyers to carry a light, as one end lights the other when needed.
A humorous Harpers Weekly sketch notes a young Irishman seeking work in western Illinois. He tries several employers with the line Cradle! repeated, then asks for a job out of dures suggesting patience or timing in a light social observation.
A Maryland woman recalls switching from coffee to tea due to health fears, then adopting Postum the famous food drink. She says her digestive issues and weight loss improved after the change and she regained her lost twenty five pounds.
Denver sees former Colorado state engineer John BE Field cite harassment from red tape and Treasury bureaucracy as his reason for resigning. He arrived from Wyoming to start a private office in Denver and says government service delays waste talent. He notes higher private salaries lure capable officials away.
Private dispatches report a 4 am June 13 tremor in Valparaiso lasting seventy seconds. Thirty nine killed and many wounded as solid structures fell including the custom house. Mare Island observatory expert cites steam beneath the crust and coastal danger as key risk.
Edison, on his sixtieth birthday, forecasts a full electric era with trains, ships, and street life powered by electricity. He envisions mines feeding power plants and cities lit cheaply, ending horse, wagon, and coal dependence.
Fred W. Starr, who assaulted Policeman Berger in Denver years ago and served a 12 to 14 year sentence, had his term commuted by the State Board of Pardons. He is to be released by the end of fifteen.
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