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Madras Pioneer

Location

Madras, Oregon, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1909

Page

3

Garden of the Gods A Colorado Landmark Featured Attracts World Attention

The article describes Garden of the Gods in Colorado as a premier natural site with dramatic sandstone formations such as Eagle Rock and the Prying Dutchman. It notes its status as a major tourist draw, its elevation about six thousand feet, and geological forces that shaped the rugged landscapes.

Colorado Museum Garth Repubitc Garden of the Gods Blamese Becaume Gulf of Mexico

Garden of the Gods Tour Calls World Famous In Colorado Springs

The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs draws millions of visitors with its towering red and white rock formations. Notable features include Cathedral resembling a church, the alligator and various minarets and spires, plus sentinel rocks guarding north portals and needle rocks in nearby locales.

Colorado Pike's Peak Dlatinoe Ray

Wool Anyhow Seafaring Banter Sparks Uneasy Debate

Fragmentary dialogue from a Birmingham Age-Herald page hints at a nautical debate with quips about rocking boats and wagers over how far one might win. Names and full context are unclear due to damaged OCR.

Suburban Barn Design For Poultry and Garden Needs

A compact stable and barn design by F. L. Marsh offers a versatile outbuilding for suburban residents and smallholders. It features one single and one double horse stall, two single cow stalls, a harness room, milk shelves, medicine cupboard, ventilator, feed bins, a large carriage room, a hay loft, a store room, and adaptable exterior finishes. Watering and cleaning guidance for fowl emphasizes twice daily changes, cleanliness, and minimal contamination, with cautions on carbolic acid use.

Sabarbanu Hara

Building a Farm Shop with Practical Tools and Layout

The guide argues every farm needs a workshop of any size with quality tools and a good stove. It suggests a 10 by 12 foot blacksmith space and a partitioned area for carpentry, stressing safety, order, and economical tool choices for repair work and learning mechanics.

The Silo as Yearround Feed in Massachusetts Mills

The silo should be depended upon for year round use not just winter feeding. It provides succulent summer feed when land is limited or pastures fail in dry weather. In parts of Massachusetts large milk producers claim silage costs about 1 cent per quart less than milk produced without it.

Eays Fontain Massachusetts

Electric Motor Used to Wash Poultry Feet in Nevada IA

A Nevada Iowa poultryman uses a revolving brush powered by a small electric motor to wash the feet of freshly killed fowl before shipment. This novel application highlights early practical uses of electric motors in farm work.

Nevada

Increases in Farm Animals from 1905 to 1909

The Crop Reporting Board of the USDA estimates January 1, 1909 farm animal counts and values. Horses and milch cows rise, other cattle fall, sheep surge, swine gain. Total value reaches 4,526,259,000, up 194,029,000 from 1908.

Crop Reporting Board of Bureau of Statistics United States Department of Agriculture United States

Record corn harvest tally and value surge through 1907

The 1008 Indian corn crop reached 2 643 000 000 bushels, valued at 1 615 000 000 dollars. Prices are unusually high with only two years ever higher, notably 1881 and 1901. The 1907 increase sums to 600 000 000, rivaling national gold reserves.

Packing the fleece for market

This excerpt explains a method to pack fleece by laying it on a table, turning in the head and fall and the flanks, then rolling and tying it with a rope through a light lumber tying box with slots. Wool buyers prefer to use this compact packing to protect quality and facilitate handling.

Baldwin Apple Story and Farm Labor Time Notes

A short item explains the first Baldwin apple tree grew from a chance seedling near Lowell Massachusetts around 1740 and was named by Col Baldwin in 1784. A second note cites Prof Boss of Minnesota Agriculture College on farm labor hours and Prof Bailey on a school ma’am who worked 9 to 4 then 4 to 9 after marriage.

Boss Minnesota Agricultural College Prof Bailey Roosevelt Farm Life: Commission Ma'am Baldwin Lowell Mass Col

Breeding Corn Boosts Wisconsin Yields

Prof. R A Moore notes careful corn breeding raised Wisconsin yields from 25 bushels per acre in 1901 to 41.2 bushels per acre in 1907. He calls the gain worth striving for.

R. A. Moore Wisconsin

Conjuge Compliments and Hidden Class Ties

The excerpt shows Brie humorously noting Maria’s place in Mrs. Sapphire’s class while Brie suggests Ananias could be guided, hinting at social dynamics and clever retorts in a Baltimore American style embrace of wit.

Maria Sapphire

Getting Personal Headline Reflects Satirical Exchange

A terse city column excerpt captures a sharp exchange about social status and pride, featuring a man deriding bread lines and a comment on his wife’s influence, hinting at class tensions in a storefront or neighborhood scene.

Tallest Young Man in the City Noted by Friends

Nan-Ial Garlinghorn proclaims her steady is the city's tallest young man. Fan-She questions the claim as Lil dlwasa was praised for drawing the long beau.

Nan—Ial Garlinghorn Lil Dlwasa Chicago Tribune

The Only Audience at Poetry Reading

A brief exchange questions whether anyone reads real poetry nowadays and suggests publishers skim poems before returning them.

Webster Knocked Out in Theater Prompt Confusion

A brief dialogue scene shows Webster knocked out and a misunderstanding about pronunciation. JinksQuestions eyether versus ayether as Winks recalls John E L Sullivan from Boston at the theater.

Webster John EL. Sullivan Boston

When Music Was Young No Thrifty Canned Melodies

A reflective slice notes how in earlier days music blossomed without mass produced canned versions and cheap artisans to clip songs into stores and shelves. It contrasts heavenly muse with modern consumer era.

Heavenly Maid

Survival of the Attest Reflected in Night School Dialogue

A night school teacher discusses the theme survival of the attest with a shaggy haired pupil who asks about a handsome widow as an example. The exchange hints at resilience and human relationships in a concise classroom vignette.

Tea consumption and claimants cited in public notes

A series of unrelated facts are presented. Tea consumption is given as 680 million pounds annually. A Hague insurer offers lottery loss coverage. New York City has the most doctors per capita in the United States. Sealing wax is described as containing no wax. The Dutch brome is noted to have 41 possible claimants. Potatoes treated with sulphuric acid and pressure are claimed to substitute ivory in billiard ball manufacture.

United States Hague New York City

Doctor and Slobson clash over regular and freak labels

A doctor objects to being quoted about Slobson. The exchange centers on whether Slobson is a regular person or a freak, with the professor insisting regularity and freakishness are mutually exclusive. The dialogue hints at skepticism toward the Mendetteian framework and cautions about careless claims.

Slobson Cid

Teething Remedy Mention in Soubrette Dialogue

A fragment mentions Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy in a dialogue about acting and a mother rejecting a proposed manager change. The tone suggests a period newspaper snippet focused on a theatrical scene and consumer product reference.

Mrs. Winslow

Night School Lesson Shows Masterly Inactivity

A student remarks on a phrase as a baseball pitcher delays a game to force a darkness-called finish. The scene presents a playful critique of timing and strategy in a classroom setting.

Do You Want a Typewriter The Whiteene Sypewrine Sale

An advertised sale offers typewriters at 46 to 76 price range from a local factory making homes. All units claimed fully guaranteed. Readable fragments suggest promotional copy with pricing and guarantees.

Whieenie Sypewrine Sea Bt Fm Ten Mar Ot

Out of It Mrs Brown Defends 500 Button Outfits

Mrs Brown asserts she will not wear a 500 button outfit while discussing fashion. The Detroit Free Press notes her husband has only one arm, a detail cited in the exchange.

Shell Detroit Free Press

Hamlina Wizard Oil Promises Public Confidence

The Younkers Statesman notes over fifty years of public trust in Hamlina Wizard Oil, billed as the world's standard remedy for aches with a single reason for its popularity.

The Rush to the City Wing Worn by Farm to Town Move

Willis explains leaving the farm for town life to escape the odor of his father's automobile. The brief exchange notes the humor of cityward escape and rural roots in a lighthearted moment.

Willis Dad

The California Fig Syrup Co. Remedy Endorsed

The passage touts a wholesome approach to living and arms the reader with a simple remedy for regularity. It promotes the Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a general, satisfactory laxative to be bought only from the California Fig Syrup Co. and available at leading druggists.

California Fig Syrup Co

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