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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
6
A broad survey of rural advice covers carpenters and farmers aiming for straight work and rows, irrigation in the west, posts treated for durability, and civic lawn and garden prize schemes to foster youth virtues. It notes dairying limits, hog inbreeding concerns, and the benefits of water pans, lawn spray use, and irrigation to raise value and vigor.
A New Jersey reader questions costs and fit of round tiling versus horseshoe drain tile in the Midwest. Notes discuss tile prices, rod spacing, and long term durability, arguing round tile may be more economical though eastern usage favors horseshoe types.
The piece urges neglected rural cemeteries to gain care through a ladies cemetery association. It cites one town noted for wealth and a poorly kept graveyard, contrasts with the writer’s town where a women's group funds mowing and plant care via dues and donor funds, and notes similar efforts nearby. It emphasizes civic initiative, orderly upkeep, and reverent remembrance.
California offers favorable climate for English walnut cultivation with land values $250 to $300 per acre for undeveloped plots and $600 to $1,000 for bearing orchards. Yields vary by tree age, soil, and care, averaging about 50 pounds per tree and up to 1,000 pounds per acre, with water and cultivation costs around $15 per acre annually. Harvest starts October 1, returning about $100 per acre on a fair crop, as soft shelled varieties replace older hard shells and intercropping like alfalfa aids economics.
A farmed tract of about sixteen acres, cropped for twenty years, shows dramatic yield gains from manure application. A winter spread of nine loads per acre followed by a fall harvest averaged fifty five bushels per acre, nearly doubling prior yields, supporting a method of regular manure fertilization for sustained fertility.
In a tense office scene, Bobby defends the shop when a former operator Brace demands stolen money. Pace refuses, Brace threatens violence but is knocked out by a passing shock from a newspaper blow. Bobby remains smug, praising dime novels, and the staff plan a celebration as Bobby secures a raise for Carter and Mabel.
A London Spectator note recounts St Columba blessing a knife so it would not harm living beings yet the stake proved lethal to wild animals, a dog, and a crow as the peasant moved it across sites. The story ends with the man burning the weapon and returning to poverty.
Nature endows the walrus with stiff three to four inch whiskers that sense ice before contact. After killing the animal, natives pull the whiskers with crude pincers, dry them, and export them as beat packages for use as toothpicks in China.
The late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland is recalled for kindness to pages and staff. A March Senate scene shows him shielding a delivery boy from Aldrich's rebuke, noting his own early page days. Other recollections praise his leadership and humor in public life.
The Charleston will host Secretary Root and family as they sail for a 10 000 mile voyage visiting San Juan Porto Janeiro Montevideo Buenos Aires Valparaiso Callao and Panama. Furnishings exceed 2000 in cost with a grand dining room for entertaining South American representatives. The trip includes a fifteen man band and stops across the Americas before transferring flagship duties in the Pacific.
A prisoner J C Rand at Montana state penitentiary crafted an elaborate horsehair bridle to raise funds for appealing his case. Theodore Taylor of Englewood received it in Denver to sell, with Denver horsemen valuing the piece at about 150 dollars. The work features intricate color designs woven through straps and lines, and includes a heavy bit with side chains.
John M. Bren, speaking to the Men’s club of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Chicago, forecast a subterranean age with underground theaters and factories beneath sidewalks. He argued fifty story buildings are feasible and that future attention may shift to digging habitable holes below street level.
Seattle on Puget Sound is praised as a future Pacific coast port with one of the world’s finest harbors. The city’s population surged from 3,500 in 1880 to 80,000 in 1900, and growth is expected to exceed past rates, with 200,000 residents within its limits by 1910 per Leslie’s Weekly. The population is described as a credit to the town.
A new congressional bill proposes draining the Dismal Swamp of Virginia. The measure cites a prophecy from General Washington a century ago that the swamp would one day be converted into farmland.
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