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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1910
Page
10
The page offers a satire filled column from June 22 1910 with diverse items. It jokes about Harvard athletes, Chinese fashion, Munsterberg experiments, cactus rubber, pulque, comets, and backyards gardeners. It notes Halley's comet every 75 years and quips about census costs abroad versus the U S It also mentions Wrights bachelorhood Paris elections in France and a 90 year old New Jersey man who saved money by never shaving.
western prairie plum growing guide discusses propagation by budding or root grafting, ideal stock choices for American plums, planting times, spacings of 18 to 20 feet, and challenges like late winter damage and poor fruit color due to dense top growth. It highlights varieties such as Golden, Marianna, Mirabalan, and Miner as stock or cultivar references.
A writer from the Baltimore American explains how quack grass appeared in a spring pasture three years ago during a wet season. He describes planting cabbage across the affected ground, hoeing thoroughly all summer to suppress the weed, and using a strip of corn the next season to finish the job. He reports no quack grass remaining after careful cultivation with the cabbage prior year.
An old dairy note says production costs are unclear with big guesswork. Recent experiments indicate about 80 cents per 100 pounds of milk, covering feed and labor, equating to roughly 1 1/2 cents per quart.
The Onfo experiment station Siberian, Sixty Day, Improved American, Imois, German, Jeanette, Green Mountain and Big Four topped the 25 oat varieties in productive capacity. Five-year average yields ranged from 68.34 to 70.46 bushels, with Siberian highest.
An 1890s note cites Yellow Belleflower as a standard apple with six specimens illustrated by Orange Judd Farmer. Size varies, many are too small for market, and scab susceptibility is noted. Tustras is praised as a good grower, hardy and long lived, thriving on warm, well drained soils. The Home Garden urges reliable home production for winter meals.
In Kenosha a judgment of 2500 dollars was ordered against Milwaukee Electric Railway in a suit by Enoch Kline who claimed injury on a car between Racine and Kenosha. Ed Krueger of Oshkosh faces fines after a driving incident. A Me regor fire destroyed multiple facilities in Prairie Du Chien, with 60,000 dollar losses. Shawano hosts a fourth class postmasters meeting, while Sheboygan plans a beacon near Reiss Coal power plant. Darien bankbreak-in scare ends with fled suspects. Racine retailer groups push county option opposition. Beaver Dam and Appleton report fires and a fatal train accident impact. Local alcohol enforcement increases in Depere. Madison man found guilty of selling liquor to minors. Ripon trustees elect new officers and successors at Ripon College.
A lioness attacked trainer Peter Taylor during an animal act at Coney Island on the first Sunday after opening. The crowd panicked as police and fellow trainers intervened and Taylor sustained a deep arm wound later to be cauterized. other animals remained quiet.
A traveling circus encamped near Berlin suffered a wild incident as animals broke loose after nearby explosives were detonated. Sixteen elephants charged their tethers, lions roared from cages, horses and zebras bolted, geese fluttered, while camels remained calm. Keepers tranquilized the elephants, averting potential catastrophe in the streets.
A quip notes that when a forty year old woman praises herself as twenty five she is behaving as a sixteen year old would. The remark underlines vanity and the mismatch between claimed age and behavior.
In a humorous household tale Mrs De Payste explains firing William the chauffeur for laziness. William shirked tasks from washing windows to dishwashing, slept at odd hours, and even snoozed in the car after late returns, prompting social embarrassment for the club and its visitors.
A drummer visits a physician who misdiagnoses appendicitis after a brief exchange. The doctor demands five dollars, and the drummer protests he is not a millionaire, asserting he only wanted a cure for cramps. The humorous dialogue ends with the bill settled.
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