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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
8
A rural education proposal argues training country children to grow two bushels of corn where one grew before, using farming in math, reading, and grammar. It envisions germination tests, rations, records, poultry, crafts, cooking, and practical farm topics. Social events at the school would boost community life.
A London school trains parrots as teachers for other parrots using objects like whistles and a telephone. With a bird perched near the instructor, the device transmits sounds so Polly can distinguish words, and the bird supposedly pays strict attention amid the odd spectacle.
The illustration shows a primitive wolf trap with two circular fences and a gate. A lamb is placed in the center to lure the wolf inside the outer circle, then the wolf pushes the gate closed by spring, trapping itself with no escape.
Mr Raymond confronted his neighbor at dusk in a towering rage threatening the neighbor’s dog Nero. The neighbor said Nero is a puppy belonging to Johnny and hoped his manners would improve. Raymond insisted the issue was the dog’s nature after he claimed the dog bit him on the leg. Johnny replied that a small dog can’t bite a large man, in a wounded tone.
A concise excerpt from a domestic scene shows Tommy repeatedly asking for a drink after bedtime. The mother sternly refuses, urging sleep, then threatens a spanking if he does not comply. After pauses, Tommy coquettishly asks if a drink could come with the spanking.
A garbled comic column offers a string of riddling questions and puns. It includes lines about a pastry cook versus a billeticker, a hungry man versus a glutton, and references to famous writers. The passage also contains misprints and playful mispunctuation.
Advice from Prof John Willard Bolte on placing and styling garden arches to harmonize with surroundings. Emphasizes using arches as gateways between distinct scenes, choosing materials, and guiding view direction. Stresses lawn care as the garden’s foundation and offers practical tips for lawn maintenance and edging.
Practical guidance for summer plant care indoors and outdoors. Move safer houseplants outdoors when safe from frost, enrich soil with manure, transplant into beds or boxes, water regularly, and prune to direct blooms. Handle tropical plants carefully, watch for pests like plant lice and red spider, and use tobacco water spray as a remedy.
The Michigan experiment station notes that stock should usually grind their own grain to save feed costs, though grinding or soaking may be needed in some cases. Barley should not be fed whole and dry, while soybeans are best ground or soaked. When mixing with cottonseed meal bran or middlings, grindings may be preferable, but no strict rule applies due to narrow margins.
Ground oats with hulls removed make an almost ideal food for young pigs. Scattered oats on a dry ground provide excellent feed for brood sows. Crushed oats as slop can form one third of the ration for brood sows or growing pigs until fattening, though oats are not profitable for fattening hogs.
A historical notice explains a brutal method for decapitating fowls using two spikes driven along a block of wood allowing the neck to slip between them. The device holds the bird in place for a single swift strike.
A satirical excerpt contrasts ad hominem quips with a keynote on economy by ad expert F Irving Fletcher at a Woolworth Building dinner in New York. The piece touts fake remedies and teases advertising puffery while promoting the Herbal Remedy from Tompkins Corbin Co for kidney trouble as a dire medical hope.
Andrew Carnegie spoke at a reception in his Fifth Avenue home overlooking Central Park. He quoted a millionaire who lamented loneliness and lack of happiness from wealth, then asked whether to pauperize or to crawl over.
A London joke about Lloyd George circulates after King Edward’s death. An English traveler in Wales tells an elderly Welshman the king has died and that George is king now. The Welshman recalls George as a little lawyer from Criccieth, expressing surprise at his rise.
The account notes Empress Eugene visiting a Sultan’s palace during the Suez opening in 1260, the Princess of Wales staying at Dolma Begthe during an eastern tour with her husband, and 1880 events where Abdul Hamid and the German empress rode together to Yildiz Kiosk with an evening with the harem ladies observed by Pall Mall Gazette.
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