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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
7
A comic dialogue features Howard, a low paid clerk, and Hazel who insists marriage is possible. Hazel reveals she trained at a cooking school three weeks ago, while Howard doubts domestic duties. They compromise on living with one meal daily as a test of happiness.
Mrs Cityflat visits the country and remarks that a horse is much like a man in many ways. Farmer Squash, smoking his corncob pipe, counters that a horse is different, noting that a horse is worth more after he’s broke. Judge.
A collage of playful exchanges from The Caller and Field columns. Dialogues range from legal threats and contortionist digs to potato questions and odd dinner plans. The tone is whimsical, reflecting everyday curiosities and light banter without a single cohesive event.
Dialogues reveal a comic mockery of gender, with Mr Gunny and Mr Tiger trading quips about a rabbit, a wife, and a poet's reference to women. The talk shifts to a man driven to self harm, and a lodge’s thirty second degree tonight, in a breezy domestic vignette.
A critic questions whether chorus performers disrobed on stage prompting the reply that they disrobed before appearing, avoiding onstage nudity while labeling it a suggestive misinterpretation. The exchange highlights debates over stage propriety and decency in performances.
A fragment notes admiration for a scientist and a character resisting a romantic encounter. The lines hint at a scene where the cook is impressed by scientific discourse, while another mentions a person refusing a beau through a screen door.
An elderly barrister clashes with a judge at Bodmin Assizes over court time. He taunts the bench claiming dinner is the real motive. In a separate case he mocks false pretenses as universal among legal professionals, lampooning the judge as rabbit skin.
A light column notes a man in Italy selling his wife to a blind man for 20 cents. Mrs Henpeck laments the cruelty, while Mr Henpeck adds a sharp quip about shame and the blind man.
Dialogue sketches humor and social nuances through quick exchanges between Farmer Corntessa and others. Witty lines touch on advertising from chickens, engagements, and marriage-day expectations, with a judge keeping formality as a subtle backdrop.
A historical quote shows Mr. Growdher advocating women running national affairs. He suggests replacing red tape with pink ribbon, framing it as a bold update for governance and reform. The dialogue hints at broader debates on gender roles in leadership.
A reader recalls a furniture mover with a dramatic flair while assisting a house move. The conversation turns to whether the fellow is acting in films, highlighting a moment of theatricality in a mundane task.
Rankin recalls a new take on The Moth and the Flame. Phyle asks for details. Rankin describes a man's overcoat full of holes left in a closet, so he burns it in the fire.
A citizen recalls a long running dispute about repayment. The talk centers on a past conflict lasting about three years, involving a man who allegedly called the speaker a war. Authorities or formal action are not mentioned.
A bookkeeper recalls a seven year ago week long trial as he asks if his post then could become permanent. The judge notes Uncle Butch is smitten by La Petite Louise and wonders if a marriage could result.
A playful exchange in a boarding house features a theosophist asserting “We become what we eat” followed by a humorous line from a cheerful resident claiming he has been eating hash for a month, provoking light banter about diet and identity.
A brief quotation discusses marriage as the sole path for a man to understand women. It contrasts listening to a wife with considering other women, implying marital study and limited external counsel.
Infectious sore eyes or pink eye affects cattle mainly in summer, often leading to blindness. It spreads between animals, likely through fires, with onset lasting one to two weeks. Treated by confinement away from light, laxatives, nourishing food, and eye baths of boric acid and zinc sulfate in distilled water.
Arthur Davis of Orange County New York writes that Shropshires are the best utility sheep for wool and mutton. He notes a ewe weighing 200 pounds has yielded 6014 pounds of wool in four years, yearling rams 170 to 200 pounds, and a rotation to prevent inbreeding every two years. He details feeding exercise shelter needs worms tobacco dust and pasture rotation as key practices.
Advice on sheep fencing favors woven wire 30 to 42 inches high with five to nine horizontal wires and 16 to 20 stays per rod. A top barbed wire is recommended for 30 inch fences, and posts spaced 14 to 16 feet apart provide solid support. For hogs, add ground level barbed wire and closer, heavier mesh.
A note on planting soy beans per acre using a corn drill with seed in hills 2 3 4 inches apart. The beans are recommended as excellent hog feed. Also advises establishing a colt pasture to prevent colts from following mares in the field.
A local farming note urges hog producers to seek rapid growth as the path to higher profits, emphasizing faster market weight and efficiency as the key to sustained earnings.
Horses relish alfalfa stems and eat the feed with evident taste. Cattle reckoners' refuse proves highly acceptable to horses as a supplementary forage source.
Colonel Sidney Suggs of Ardmore urged a rural schools plan to reach Oklahoma country boys. He described a good road educational movement backed by the state highway commissioner and endorsed by State Superintendent Robert H. Wilson and Stillwater Agricultural College officials. He cited federal farming spending and a shift to teaching new methods to the younger generation through rural schools.
A government expansion urges every rural school to lay out a quarter to half mile of model road from the schoolhouse, plant fruit trees on both sides, and involve students in surveying, drainage, grading, and maintenance. The aim is a statewide educational drive to improve rural roads and consolidate schools, with student clubs leading the work and preserving the project for future generations.
The article stresses clean housing and balanced feeding to maximize milk quality and yield. It advises feeding bulky, cheap foods plus grain aligned to milk flow, using leftover forage for droughts, and avoiding overfeeding. Water, proper exercise, and gentle handling of nervous cows are emphasized for steady production.
The article argues keeping stock, tools, grain, and hay protected from weather saves money. It notes machinery is often weathered out rather than worn out and junk sales thrive when items are not sheltered. Poorly sheltered hay and tools lead to losses, while improvised sheds can help and later permanent barns can be built.
Practical guidance for orchard work including pruning timing for peaches and apples, edging out weeds, undergrowth, and proper spacing. Advice covers turning over old orchard ground, sowing clover, grinding grass, pruning apples late, feeding grape vines against pests, using arsenic and bran mix, and sorting apples by quality for market pricing.
In this report by J N Price from the Experiment Station, flies are identified as a major trouble source in dairy farming. They spread bacteria and disease germs from manure and refuse into milk, posing risks to households. Emphasizes keeping barns and milkrooms clean and removing manure before warm weather to reduce fly numbers.
The note discusses repellents to protect stock from house and deer flies and other pests like horn flies buffalo gnats and stable biting flies. It recommends a mixture of rancid lard and kerosene with caution not to use too much kerosene.
A plain method checks milk purity by dipping a steel needle into milk and withdrawing it upright. Pure milk leaves some liquid on the needle, while watered milk does not cling. Conelder Land Values discuss farm land pricing and productivity.
A brief note suggests integrating poultry with dairy farming to utilize skim milk. It posits that feeding chickens skim milk could boost profits by expanding output and efficiency in a combined operation.
If unsure about silo construction this season, seek the allo approach for guidance and timing. The message favors giving allo the benefit of the doubt and weighing practical factors before proceeding.
A statement emphasizes roads as the essential economic policy facing voters and leaders today. It argues that sound infrastructure drives growth, commerce, and public welfare, making road development the defining governance challenge of the era.
Stable floors even prevent blemishes and unsound legs in colts. Traction engine can replace many teams of farm horses for road work. British Columbia reports four million dollars spent on roads in the last season to improve infrastructure.
A sow that matures fully before breeding yields better offspring and overall breeding quality, making her a superior breeder with higher quality pigs.
A poultry yard warning stresses that heat can kill chicks and that shade is essential. An open shed without shade increases mortality risks, urging immediate protective measures to keep young birds cool and safe.
A farm reports replacing an aged ewe with select ewe lambs to improve flock output. The change aims to boost breeding stock and future lamb yields at the barn facility.
Unionville Missouri resident Mrs Martha Searvey reports severe female health troubles left her nearly unable to walk. After taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovered strength and now recommends it to others. She credits the medicine with her improvement and urges others to seek guidance from the company.
An admiral at Newport during maneuvers tells a garden party story about Old Stingee and a hooded friend. The elder offers a cooling draft by opening a window to let a sea breeze flow through, prompting a delighted reaction from George.
Scadde, owner of a country estate on the Hudson and camps in the Adirondacks, enjoys a lucky status, but his wife refuses to visit these places. She insists he find a new place to spend the summer, keep the seashore bungalow as an option.
A terse exchange renders a candid view of enlistment aims as Boston Evening Transcript notes a stubborn claim by a strenuous objector. The fragment hints at preferences for general roles over specific duties and labels the responder a liar in a sharp, satirical tone.
An Illinois man, once a coffee drinker, describes himself as a monument built by Postum after quitting coffee. He credits Postum with ending dyspepsia, constipation, headaches, and indigestion, restoring appetite, digestion, sleep, and strength. He urges readers to try Postum Cereal or Instant Posturia, sold locally with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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