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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
6
A fragment describes three young men serenading a girl on different floors in a street scene in Spain. It notes the spectacle as a common urban oddity and ends with a promotional line about Good Hardware claiming a worker can cut 6,207 cards and earn 40,000 dollars from a long spare-time effort.
The Welland Canal carried 5 037 412 tons of freight from April 16 to December 13, 1924, the heaviest season in its history, surpassing the previous year by over 1 280 000 tons and the 1914 high by about 1 750 000 tons. A Bayer Aspirin advisory warns buyers to look for the Bayer name to ensure authenticity. A proposed European air line would connect Italy, Greece and Turkey over a 1000 mile route each way.
A compact reflection pairing a World War II era quip about desk polishing behind barbed spurs with a note on the miser’s contentment amid gold. The lines echo wartime virtue, memory, and a cautionary financial joy.
A Kentucky stockman lauds cooperative livestock sales for raising animal quality. He notes buyers and sellers compare stock in ring sales, see price differences by quality, and plan to buy better animals. The USDA summarizes farmer feedback from over 630 respondents on livestock improvement efforts.
Barn owls feed mainly on rodents during midnight meals in Ohio. They battle house and deer mice and meadow mice that threaten fruit trees. Known as Monkey-Faced Owl for its white facial disk, it has brownish yellow back and white speckled underparts. Despite reports of hunting, some seek to shoot the bird, though it benefits humans by controlling pests.
The article argues that fresh manure is at its best when spread directly on level ground to the field. It notes typical losses in piles, ammonia release during fermentation, and that manure stored loses no plant food beyond what it contains at making. Fermentation losses occur mainly with high heat, unlikely in winter.
The Rural New Yorker advises growing a few thousand hot pepper plants near cities with sizable Italian populations. Peppers stay clean and marketable for days after picking, allowing a long marketing period from midsummer to Thanksgiving in the Hudson Valley.
The article prescribes strychnine treated oats or wheat or freshly cut carrots or sweet potatoes sprinkled with powdered strychnine as the best gopher eradication method. It instructs applying one-eighth ounce of powder on three quarts of freshly cut vegetables and using an iron tool to probe the hole, then placing grain or vegetable pieces into the tunnel and covering with soil. Fresh mounds are described as fan shaped. probe ten inches in front of the mound and rotate around the outside.
Professor J A Cope of the New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca reports black locust offers a durable replacement for chestnut posts. A grape grower in Chautauqua county notes locust posts can be grown in 15 years and last 16 years, with sprouts yielding another crop in ten years. Locust thrives on alkaline soil, requires restricted planting, and shading with young white pines reduces borer damage and branching, suggesting mixed planting as a viable trial.
A USDA two reel motion picture set in Einey Woods of the South exposes the dangers of burning woods to improve pasture. A woods fire driven by wind razes a farm, trapping the heroine’s mother while the story argues for fire resistant grasses and better pasture management. Filmed in southern Mississippi, the drama highlights reforestation lessons.
The text notes difficulty distinguishing sex in geese, especially juveniles. It cites size, neck, head, and cries as indicators, but emphasizes inspection of sexual organs or mating-season observation. It describes a gander mating two to three females and flocking afterward, with three to five years as best age.
Plan to treat potato seed with formaldehyde or corrosive sublimate and stock up on spray pumps. Bedding for cows improves cleanliness warmth and manure efficiency. Emphasizes pure seed germination and high-producing stock. Swine advice stresses exercise clean dry quarters and balanced rations. Sweet clover can be sown in spring and offers hog pasture if moisture supports germination.
Advertises Tanlac as a natural tonic to combat fatigue indigestion and rheumatic aches. Promises to revitalize blood rejuvenate stomach and add weight, with testimonials of grateful users and a call to enlist Tanlac to halt downhill health decline.
Read aloud by four visitors, a pupil’s wish for wealth to fund college and a teaching career drew sharp comment from Miss Green. The item, part of an otherwise ordinary class exercise, shows contrasts with daily life and the era’s views on work and aspiration.
Siamese cats bred in the royal palace of Siam are attended by Buddhist priests and have become a status symbol among wealthy women. The practice links cats to imperial patronage and Buddhist ceremonial life.
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