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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
10
A collage of ringan observations from The Marshfield Times includes wit on football ending season and undertakers, travel quips, astronomy notes, and a mix of political and social humor. Mentions of Constantinople, Nebraska, Indiana, New Jersey, France budgets, and moon craters frame a nostalgic year in review.
A guide to positioning evergreens as trees along a yard edge. Recommends keeping trees 10 to 40 feet from structures, spacing spruce 20 feet apart or 10 feet apart for initial plantings, and cedar or spruce hedge options. Advises hedge formation, front terrace clearance, path and grass, and potential shrub screens. Transplanting this spring is suggested if soil is ready.
The text explains girdling damage by wildlife or tools and outlines grafting responses. It describes forming a bridge graft around the wound, using slender wedge shaped scions, and methods to insert them under bark. The goal is to protect the tree while wounds heal with painted exposed surfaces and proper wrapping.
Farmers visiting Ohio State University learned about farm accounting systems. The aim is to compare methods used on different fields, with experiments needed to determine profitable land handling. Accounts are kept to show results of various methods across fields.
A Kansas City pure food inspector found a sack labeled 112 pounds of potatoes contained 98 pounds of potatoes and 14 pounds of dirt. The state board of agriculture will prosecute the man who sells dirt as potatoes.
A study details increases in corn output across North America including Mexico Central America the West Indies and Canada with quantities listed in bushels.
The Racine Common Council moves toward action against the Racine Water Company for neglecting to extend mains, insufficient fire protection, and high charges. A complaint to the state railroad commission is planned, urging investigation of services and meter rents.
The piece extols Central Canada lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, noting 40 to 60 bushels of oats and 40 to 50 bushels of wheat per acre, with some reaches to 100 bushels for oats and 62 to 63 pounds per bushel for wheat. It highlights homesteaders, purchases, rail lines, schools, churches, towns, and elevators as signs of rapid rural growth on the Grand Trunk Pacific route from Winnipes to Edmonton, urging readers to contact Canadian government officials to consider relocation and contribute to a northward boom.
A collage of jokes and sketches features a wife’s biscuits outshining heavy labor, a courtroom quip where a man feigns theft of a doctor’s watch, and a wry note on airship commerce predicting cheeky mischief.
A fragment shows a flirtatious exchange between a speaker and Rosalie, praising her almond eyes and velvety cheeks likened to peaches, and noting a playful guess about her occupation as a flower gardener.
A reader from Cleveland reports long months of dry eczema improved after using two applications of Resinol. They claim it gave more relief than other remedies and would recommend it widely.
An OCR fragment mocks moral bounds with Kipling and jokes about a “godd cigar.” It markets Hamlina Wizard Gil as a throat remedy for tonsillitis quinsy and diphtheria, claiming pain relief and inflammation reduction. It touts piles cure in 6 to 14 days with Pazooustment, blends ads and tasteless quips, and ends with assorted silly lines about gossip and children’s remedies.
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