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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
7
San Francisco visitors press police for the origin of the Barbary Coast nickname. Officers offer jokey barber shop stories and hints that seafaring men likened the tenderloin to Africa’s pirate coast, while locals debate the true derivation.
The Liberty Bell suffers a serious metals disease says Alexander Outerbridge Jr of the Franklin Institute. Met metal experts advise against transporting the historic bell to San Francisco for the Panama Pacific Exposition due to the deteriorating crack and risk of further damage.
Elma Iona Locke offers garden tips urging near house beds with net fencing to bar pests. Use coal ashes and sand to mellow clay soil, keep soil surface moist, and scatter soot as slug deterrent and plant food. Bonemeal aids vines and fruit trees. timely cultivation relieves weeds and aerates roots.
A farming guide explains that potatoes left in ground until mature resist rot better than green dug. It covers digging methods using forks or horse diggers, drying, crate packing, and methods to pit or cellar store, with tips on drainage, chutes, and direct delivery to cars to reduce labor and shrinkage.
Blackwells Island hosts a distinct social set in the women’s wing where four commitments to the workhouse equal acceptance. Two or three commitments leave a woman in parvenue limbo while even a single penitentiary term fails to erase stigma. An official recalls a tearful inmate whose first offense was tenement house law and who is shunned by others yet finds a fragile sense of belonging in the workhouse.
Guidance on feeding fowls with greens and meat substitutes, maintaining water and clean vessels, avoiding confinement with turkeys, securing tight poultry houses, avoiding damp floors, and using dry bedding. Warnings on winds in spring and pig scours from sow feeding changes and spoiled fruit.
Pullets hatched in time to mature will begin laying in October or November and are reliable for a good share of winter eggs.
The article notes ribbon trims as a leading detail on new hats with narrow and medium black fairles and maires popular, and very wide widths gaining appeal. Two models feature large flaring bows of wide black moire, while narrow fairies form pasted bows curled into horn like shapes with bindings bands cascades wings and tassels used on wide flat sailors.
The article urges digging out odd bits of fur from garrets to trim ready made coats and jackets. Fur trimming is popular on outer garments and can be touched up at home.
Stephen Graham journeys through Kopal to Arazan and on to Abakum Sarkand and Lepsinsk telling of Cossack villages Kirghiz camps deserts and river gorges. He describes weather rocky passes, jade-blue gorges, caravans, yurt life, and a ground glass window view on Mongolia.
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