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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1906
Page
6
The notes critique farming practices and land tenure while promoting better moisture control, cattle and poultry care, alcohol's potential price effects, irrigation in Hawaii, food quality assurances, and dangers of neglectful ages. It warns against migratory workers, praises diligent management, and condemns substandard farm labor and careless personal conduct.
The article advocates economic self reliance in farming, praising hogs and wool prices, clean stables, and the shift from Wall Street speculation to buying locally. It cites hay production, tile drainage, and seed planting as paths to sustainable prosperity, urging tree planting tax relief and careful land stewardship. It includes anecdotes on a Plymouth Rock hen and practical farming tips.
A dairy health piece argues tuberculosis in cows largely stems from poorly ventilated winter stables and limited air. It cites Illinois trials showing cows left outdoors with clean feed and dry, open sheds for rest prove healthier, with better milk and butter yields. The article urges widespread use of fresh air and sunshine and advises culling infected animals while improving quarters. It also notes hogs require clean, ventilated quarters and connects dairy controls to broader agricultural society reforms and corn grinding economics.
M Debcaysse plans a U S visit. George D Moulton recalls long life. John D Rockefeller pledges 250000 for San Francisco library project if funds matched. Clarence Eddy conducts his wedding march then weds. Major General Mansfield named harbor and land commissioner for Massachusetts. Ida McKinley donates four memorial windows to Canton M E church. Lord Wolverton rises from poverty to vast wealth and title. Nathan Hawk, veteran, recalls Calif gold start near Folsom. Perry Belmont elected honorary member of French Jockey Club. King Edward among few American members. none admitted before. Mrs Wilhelmina Paton Fleming joins Royal Astronomical Society. Harvard connected astronomer and Dundee native 27 years with observatory.
Pearls are measured by the grain and carats. A feldspar and mica mine opens on Alton Hibbs farm in Hebron Maine, no mica specimens found yet. Lockes Mills Maine lacks legal officials and is nearly debt free. A St Louis society matron pays 500 in damages for slapping a hotel waitress. Bridgewater to join New Milford’s 200th anniversary celebration. Kickapoo Indians install a female chieftain and renounce U S allegiance, settling in the mountains of Old Mexico.
A New York Post item notes the year’s fashion rage toward ribbons and linen coats over lingerie frocks and sheer fabrics. Denim skirts and colored crashes replace heavy wool, with coordinated waists and ginghams by French makers. Satin foulard returns as a versatile accent for any frock.
Berlin notes report a cigar dealer in the palace area. Germany paid 111,860,090 in benefits under compulsory workmen insurance last year. A Bochum worker attempted self harm by dousing, lighting, and leaping from a third story window. Germany's railway tariff revision multiplies tickets with a Basel bound family journey requiring sixty tickets and many luggage checks.
A collection notes 5400 square miles of coal fields in Great Britain and electric light in the Tower of London Beauchamps tower. The Lancet reports poisonous yellow stamp covering under official investigation. A Cirencester tree trunk yields a bird nest with four eggs suggesting nearly a century since laying. Birmingham's city council expands women health inspectors from four to twenty after strong results in homes and factories, while police receive first aid training.
The New York Post notes the Long Island Railroad company is proving that waste regions of Long Island can yield vegetables, small fruits and trees. Experimental plots near Wading River progressed from stumps to rye and vegetables with minimal fertilizer, relying on irrigation and manual labor.
Miss Rockwell will lead woman for Richard Mansfield next season. Reginald De Koven rests in Newport outlining four new comic operas to submit to Henry W. Savage. Joseph and William Jefferson prepare a modern comedy Playing the Game by Cleveland Moffett and Hartley Davis for next season. Louise Ford reengaged by Savage for Mrs Primley Dalzelle in The College Widow. Jesse Lynch Williams wrote The Stolen Story, manuscript stolen and recovered by detectives. Jess Dandy, famed Hans Wagner in The Prince of Pilsen, to star again next season.
A collection of satirical lines from papers including Topeka Capital Chicago Record Herald New Jersey postal oddity New York Press Boston Transcript and Chicago Inter Ocean. Snippets joke about farming Russia deer and city pride reflect press tone and wit of era.
Two loon eggs found abandoned on a Georgian Bay lake platform were moved to a hotel in New York by Tra Veatl of Columbus Ohio. A damaged egg hatched and a chick emerged in a suitcase, then both were nurtured by the Bronx Zoological Park curator and thrived under care. The experiment tests instinct in birds deprived of parental loon life.
In New York City 488 million gallons of sewage enter the harbor daily. The New York Clearing House handles about 2,000,000,000 in annual clearings, more than twice any other U S clearing house. The city hosts three life saving stations within its borders at Rockaway and Coney Island. Money drives much chatter, with seventy three conversations per hour in a car, street, shop, and office, and sixty four about money.
A quip from the Atchison Globe ponders the old fashioned man in bedticks and a woman who never says mattress, noting the humor in Victorian slang. It recalls the waxworks tale at a country church and a child who attends church meetings twice each Sunday, with travel etiquette in the Pullman.
A quirky survey notes Grecian women have notably long feet while Australian brides are pelted with rose leaves. Bekimo women are described as the shortest on earth and a claim cites that a woman's brain declines in weight after thirty. New York reportedly has 27,000 women who support their husbands.
After fifteen years in Marquette prison the former bandit Holeday has shown improvement since a 1910 operation at Ionia hospital. He served as prison librarian and editor of Progress. A pardon movement in northern Michigan is led by ex warden B H Dosher. The New York Times reports a history of train robberies and terror from this once infamous outlaw. The Hawaiian witness name Kaikinakahiiilikea Lonoikainakahikiklapuokalani, with eighteen and twenty seven letters in the two names, was entered in court records.
The oil magnate John D. Rockefeller delighted a crowd at Euclid Avenue Baptist in Cleveland. He joked with a six foot six reporter, praised big men, invited him to play golf, and complimented newspaper men as a charming, sincere class during a lighthearted encounter after a Sunday service.
Montana Senator plans an elaborate Fifth Avenue nursery for his two daughters. The Clark mansion walls feature mosaic tiles illustrating nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Tiles blaze with Mother Goose stories as painters decorate the ceiling, aiming to reduce storytelling.
Reeve, of Eeho near Port Jefferson New York, dug up a large stone chair shaped like a Morris chair. He set it on a stone sled and hauled it to a bluff overlooking Port Jefferson harbor. He believes cushions would complete the primitive seat, noting the makers likely lacked adjustable features.
The czar has a new motor car built in Hungary costing $20,000. Nearly the size of a railway carriage it includes a workroom dressing room and servants' department and can travel at sixty miles per hour.
The Atlanta Constitution remarks that splitting the Russian army could hinder or help moves toward independence. The piece suggests a favorable time for the Russian people to push for a republic and self rule amid wartime fragility.
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