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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
10
The Department of Agriculture urges farmers to grow willow on wet land to produce durable rods and secure a market. Willows thrive on swampy corn land with close planting, careful hoeing, and winter peeling to yield straight rods and reduce waste.
Secretary Wilson returns to Washington to report expected record wheat yields across the western sorties. He predicts larger harvests than last year, with wheat exceeding 20,000,000 bushels and desert-region crops improving. He notes meat prices may ease as cattle production remains profitable, while farm profits hinge on later season outcomes.
Instructions describe boiling hops in water, cooling to warm milk, adding salt susie four, mixing with flour and liquor, letting stand to day three, then adding potters bone and mashed, stirring, and cooking in an earthen vessel. The method claims spontaneous fermentation and long shelf life up to six months with proper cooling.
Dr Harvey W Wey chief of the Bureau of Chemistry tours Europe studying food production and purity. Professor Wiley urges strong pure food laws and consumer education while government shifts Panama Canal oversight from War to State Department under Root. Secretary Taft faces workload tradeoffs as policy moves unfold.
A Portland Exposition report describes a giant corn stalk reaching near the windmill rope, a boy climbing to the cornstalk top, being left dangling as his father and brothers cut the stalk. He survives by steadying himself and later crafts four bushels of cobs into a pipe display for the exposition.
Before 1789 the Speaker of the House of Commons received a daily salary of pounds and earned a fee of 1 pounds for every private bill passed.
Geology professor Wright from Oberlin argues that earth’s surface has continually changed, once covering Central Asia and the Jordan valley with water. He cites sun-shell remains on high peaks and large dried regions like the Gyhi Desert proving vast ancient floods and shifts in land levels.
The Conscience Fund of the U S Treasury began with a letter to President Madison reporting a $2 fraud and asking restitution to clear a guilty conscience. Since then donations range from a penny to large sums, totaling over $100,000 received from individuals who defrauded the government and sought restitution.
In Charleston, Hon George and Legare recount a humorous scene as a pettifogging attorney cross-examines an old Black witness. The carpenter joke ends with the witness insisting a jack-leg carpenter is merely no more than a fast-class carpenter, mispronunciations and all.
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