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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
3
A collage of disjointed scenes appears from a controversial era. A barber jokes about a ball and a map while discussing growth limitations. A fund drive to combat white slavery is proposed by a magnate offering two players for payment. A child’s disciplined scene contrasts with a suffrage query and a mother’s blurred intent.
A Chicago Tribune blurb recalls a bourse philosopher professing pessimism yet recounts a test where Miss Smythe fails to react after a mouse crosses in front of her, illustrating how human nerves can mislead under stress.
Fragmented OCR text resembling an advertisement or notice from the Tribune. It mentions New Shoes, Allen's Pool, powder, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing toe and bunions, opests and ahoo steres, and a free address offer by S. Olmsted. A retired auctioneer speaks of a son as a chip off the old block.
A fragmented text shows characters discussing an upcoming marriage in June. Maybelle confirms the news, while other lines mention names like George and Tas, with stray phrases about concentration and a terse response from Mr. Tucker. The garbled style requires cautious interpretation.
A fragmented note blends stray phrases about vacation days and work with odd social observations. It references Harvard, marriage averages, and social standing, but the meaning remains unclear and largely nonspecific.
An earnest guide urges immediate action to rescue a failing garden by cutting weeds, burning debris, plowing, and replanting. It contrasts orderly, productive plots with neglected ones and warns against overextending effort. It also explains cows stop milk due to nervous disturbance, not voluntary control.
A home made corn cultivator design is detailed with dimensions for oak side pieces 5 feet long and 3 inches wide, rear piece width adjustable, teeth from forty 60-4 spikes driven to the head, an iron ring on the front, and handles repurposed from an old plow. The note from F B Treadway in Farm and Home endorses it as the best cultivator he has used.
A description from Agricultural Epitomist explains burning sulphur in a vessel with wood above the fuel to produce a blue flame. It also outlines a disinfecting method using turpentine tar and kerosene, with corncobs ignited and passed around roosts and cracks to kill lice or germs. The process should be repeated weekly for a month or more.
Details of a King ventilation system show outside wall at A and opening at C while D marks an outside opening and BE the inside opening. A BH valve regulates fresh air. Also includes dairy notes on feeding young cattle with hay and grain, and goats for milk with 77 registered and 187 on record by the American Milk Goat Association.
Agricultural Epitomist argues farmers lose value as middlemen set terms. Without organized selling force farmers in Missouri lose fruit to Chicago buyers, while peaches rot on the ground. The columnist foresees agents at each market hub to handle products and bring better returns to producers.
The Farmer's and Drover's Journal warns the United States wastes about 50 million dollars worth of timber annually over forty years, urging a national movement to conserve forests and land fertility as Uncle Sam cannot fund universal farming. Texas could support 80 million people if all arable land was cultivated.
The Inter Ocean notes horned cattle and sheep are vanishing as corn belt stock turn hornless. Mountain and plains herds rely on horns for protection, but settlement reduces the need. Breeds such as Galloway Angus Red Poll and Polled Shorthorns gain popularity with polled Jersey and Hereford rising. Horn growth can be prevented in calves using caustic potash.
The article argues that close confinement and impure air harm cows as they do people. It warns against dark stables and no exercise, noting such theories are misguided and harmful. It calls for moderate outdoor exercise and sunshine, applying homecare measures to cows as for a family's health.
A collection of old agricultural notes covers pasture use for calves and swine, orchard income from Delaware, chicken hatchery timing, barn access by driveway, and feed mixtures for young stock. It notes rising prices for eggs and milk and cites the Connecticut Experiment Station on using eggs within five days for hatching.
George Meredith, English poet and novelist, died recently at his Box Hill cottage. Born February 12, 1828 in Hampshire, he faced poverty early yet published works by age 15 and 20. His novels include The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and The Adventures of Harry Richmond. He was praised for narrative skill and wit, admired for his portrayal of women, and named dean of English letters. He married twice, his second wife dying in 1885, leaving two children. He lived in seclusion at Box Hill, received the Order of Merit, and was honored by British writers on his 80th birthday. American admirers included Norton, Twain, James, Gilder, Cable, and Howells.
A farmer endures long hard days to raise crops but finds relief when his team is hired to haul a busted auto back to town in a rural workers snapshot from the Los Angeles Express.
A reader notes two titles in a Tribune bookstore listing: Housekeeping Made Easy and Moving Made Easy. The exchange hints at a catalog of practical guides. No author or publication details are provided.
A girl beneath a waste basket asks Pulsatula for the secret of her remarkable blonde hair. The other girl, hidden under a coal scuttle, promises to share the method only if confidentiality is kept, naming two relatives who resemble her.
In the Baltimore American the play is described as clean and proper. The author claims the hero is a white wings figure while the heroine is a washerwoman, framing the story with sharp social contrasts.
Fragmentary remarks discuss fashion notes and social claims with a nod to police women seeking rights. A distant figure notes the ratio of newspapers to population, citing one paper per 82,900 inhabitants in the world context.
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