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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
8
A broad array of agricultural musings. cattle breeders in Argentina pay for quality bloodlines while farmers defend crops from gunners and pests. The piece urges better roads, irrigation info, sensible wage checks, and prudent seed choices for robust farming.
An editorial urging community involvement in rural education. It argues that country schools build character and future success, praising uniform textbooks, better wages for teachers, and active parental support. It urges visiting schools, meeting teachers, avoiding gossip, resolving disputes, and maintaining schools and grounds.
A ten acre soft maple grove adds about $500 to prairie farm value. Plant six feet apart in a prepared field, grow from seed or transplant nearby trees, cultivate two years, then thin in five years to yield tall straight poles and fuel quality timber.
The piece contrasts American poverty with conditions in older countries where hunger is chronic and meat is rare. It notes laborers seeking eight hours while English crowds rely on public relief for no work. The author laments the supposed paradise of the United States to some immigrants.
A seasoned horse buyer notes that driving horses rarely paid enough to buy a draft team. Variations in scratch, gait, color, or disposition can trim prices, while a solid draft horse of good size and weight, even with flaws, finds buyers who need a workhorse regardless of soundness.
The piece argues that converting vacant city lots into truck patches run by the very poor’s children improves urban appearance and provides food. It lauds thrift, warns against waste of land and resources, and predicts that rising land prices will spur more efficient use of urban spaces.
Society in Baltimore hosted a baby ball by Mrs. Alexander Brown turning the ballroom into a nursery. Debutante Miss Harriet Brown rode in a baby carriage as a black mammy pushed by a maid. Guests wore knickerbockers and short frocks while toys and nursery rhymes sparked games. Supper featured milk bottles and toy-themed music followed by dancing into the morning.
The Rev. Frank B. Heater of St. Mark's West Orange urged using a "good, strong right arm" to curb insolent trolley car conductors. He proposed a "Society For the Amelioration of the Condition of Street Car Passengers and the Suppression of Brutal Conductors" and called for orderly action to protect women and riders. He warned national decline if order fades and urged fair seating for women.
A young woman from the Hub starts a unique plant care venture in New York, serving as a visiting indoor gardener and plant doctor. Her work with yellowing palm leaves began after meeting prominent New York women who keep potted plants, and she now tends homes to revive their greenery.
Alfred Lockabill of Crawfordsville Indiana sent a sugar bowl gourd with five spoon prongs as a unique gift to President Roosevelt. The Washington special notes the gourd is unknown to government scientists and will be named the Roosevelt gourd.
A rousing poem-like piece celebrates bold explorers undertaking a polar quest. It extols strength and daring as travelers face ice floes with dauntless zest, seeking glory beyond known seas and leaving a stirring name in distant lands.
Robert Butts and George Bridgewater, both white youths from New Pittsburg, Ohio, died of wounds after an incident Monday night in Columbus. They allegedly forced George Donovan, a Black man, to dance a clog before firing their revolvers and jeering him. Donovan shot them, then was jailed in Logan. Akron councilman Jeremiah Amundson was fined $500 for soliciting a bribe from a sewer pipe company as related in local notices.
The undersigned will offer at public auction on the Geo D Harter farm two miles west of Canton along the Canton Massillon car line on Wednesday March 7. Six head of horses six head good cows seven good sized shoats McCorrah bin jer mower corn planter cultivator Imperial plows spring wagon harness many other articles too numerous to mention Sale to commence at 12 o'clock.
Washington Feb 28 the pure food bill as passed by the Senate would label adulterated whiskies as white and make meat from saltpetre prohibited rendering beef gray and olives pale green peas would lose their green shade frankfurters kraut and wursts vanish from production cucumber pickles would cost more due to vinegar costs residues like benzic acid in crane berry threaten legality when used without a label Congress shows reluctance to cede chemistry bureau power and House likely to modify standards.
Two massive railroad running autos depart Oumabe Nebraska for southern California on the Union Pacific route. President Underwood of the fire railroad plans return to New York, covering about 3500 miles. The high speed machines feature electric warmers and run on extra trains with telegraphic dispatches. The party will traverse San Pedro, Union Pacific, Northwestern, Chicago, Erie lines with limited night travel.
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