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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
8
F A Walker argues that shifting blame reveals weak character and aborts progress. Admonishing fault-finders, he calls for honest self critique to build strength, resolve, and cheerful success, warning that blame fuels despair and harms relationships.
A short verse excerpt by Edgar Guest extols a homeward road leading to rest and joy. It envisions a castle of rest and a path where love and cheerful children await at day’s end.
Basic pie making guidance for hot weather detailing shortening, flour ratios, salt, water, and methods. Includes one crust and two fruit pies Currant Pie and Blueberry Meringue Pie with steps for preparing crust, filling, and meringue topping, including baking times and temperatures.
A child observes her father’s repeated saving efforts then impulsive spending on schemes. The piece urges prudent saving over quick riches, arguing that true value lies in where money is stored, not in flashy promises. It cautions against untrustworthy bonds or bank schemes and promotes steady bank savings.
A recipe paragraph about making a meringue topping for a pie is followed by a chilling eyewitness account of a translucent, cloudlike entity hovering between ceiling and table. The figure moves around the room, triggers screams, and causes a rapid, panicked family reaction throughout the house.
The Bassett lineage links Cornwall to New England with Norman roots via Thurston Bassett, ally of William the Conqueror. Prominent English members include Sir Francis Bassett, sheriff of Cornwall, and a baron who opposed American independence. In America, William Bassett sailed on the Fortune in 1621 and settled in Bridgewater, with descendants like Richard Bassett, Governor of Delaware, active around the Revolution.
In Charles G. Harper’s Haunted Houses, he recounts Edward Lenthal Swifte’s 1817 evening tale inside the Tower of London Jewel House. Swifte describes a candlelit supper when a cylindrical, gliss-like figure appeared, chilling witnesses and fueling a famed royal haunt.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture, the article urges growing vitamins in home gardens and fresh fruits. It lists vegetables such as spinach, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, beans, peas, tomatoes, greens, and root crops, emphasizing freshness, inexpensive bulk, and easier daily use. It notes gardens boost vegetable intake, aid diet balance, and recommends planning for storage and canning.
The text urges steady, practical farming growth through experimentation and better inputs. It highlights sowing for winter crops like celery and late cabbage, emphasizes humane work rhythms, and notes that investments in superior seed, machinery, and balanced fertilizers boost returns. It promotes long garden rows and asparagus as easy care crops while stressing planned farm labor use and crop season awareness.
The New Jersey State College of Agriculture, New Brunswick, offers a guide for farmers choosing tractors. It stresses selecting proven models with local dealer support, adequate service, and features such as friction-pulley belts, a mechanical governor, kerosene operation, dust-resistant air cleaners, a reliable magneto, proper hitch compatibility, enclosed moving parts, and appropriate plow capacity for typical New Jersey fields.
The article explains flushing as extra feed or better pasture beginning ten days before mating to improve ewe condition, increase the chance of early conception, and raise twin lamb outputs. It also advises trimming wool around the deck to prevent poor breeding results.
The passage notes rape can grow on poor sour soils and helps feed hogs. It suggests better yields on sweeter land and recommends plowing first then disk harrowing before sowing for improved establishment.
Sweet clover boosts soil health and supports future grain or corn crops. It grows best on non acidic soil with feeding. Buckwheat helps soil when plowed under but is less effective than sweet clover as a legume.
Pears gain favor as a year round market fruit and grow in use for desserts as canned pears. The fruit’s history traces back to early settlers as it spread from the northeast and southwest regions of the United States.
The Duck Hawk stands on a ledge above the earth and parades his strength and pride in his huge feet. He loves bare ground and rugged life. He boasts of fearless, open country, and vows to outfly all ducks in pursuit of prey.
Advice on freeing chicks to graze early while keeping a warm retreat. Ensure a runway to the heat stove so they can retreat when cold and return to grazing as needed.
Collecting broomsticks from neighbors provides sturdy stakes for heavy, growing plants. Any neat sticks can be stored as stakes since they are in high demand during the growing season. Stout stakes for terustoes will be needed.
A collection of light riddles and puns about friendship and common sayings. The clues mix wordplay on phrases like in need and Athens with playful answers about timing and objects, presenting brief humorous contrasts in a newspaper brief style.
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