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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
8
A farming writer explains a durable trellis system using wire and string for beans tomatoes peas cucumbers and other climbers. It doubles or triples yield versus bush methods, improves ripening uniformity and quality, and notes strong end posts dead man stakes and careful knotting of twine to prevent sag and wind damage.
The guide advises starting hogs on a dry pen with a little green clover and a small amount of corn as the corn grows. It warns that switching too quickly from dry feed to corn causes trouble, so a gradual transition with corn and clover prevents a rapid change.
The article discusses how apple tree head height should suit local climate. In sunny western and windy regions low heads protect fruit and reduce wind damage, while eastern and New England areas favor lighter thinning for sun access. Historical shifts moved from high to low heads as intensive farming and easier harvesting emerged.
A Farm Journal reader suggests an improved vegetable box with a bottom opening covered by stout wire screening for cellar windows. It uses two old hoop handles to swing down, allowing easy washing of vegetables by immersion or by pouring water over them.
English farmers use Dwarf Essex forage rape as a seed sown from April to July or in drills. The crop provides leaves for sheep swine and cattle and is harvested by grazing. An acre grazed by pigs equaled about 2.60 pounds of grain value, urging New Jersey swine farmers to test rape. Use Dwarf Essex seed. avoid Bird seed rape.
The comb serves as a reliable sign of a bird's health, mirroring a person's tongue. A healthy comb is deep red. any other color signals illness or distress in the bird.
A New Era Women's club report from Pittsburgh condemns wives who mortgage homes to purchase automobiles, claiming middle income husbands are driven to bankruptcy to maintain appearances. Mothers neglect children as clubs seek quick solutions to curb social rivalry.
Nine pedestrians die and 84 percent injured in Massachusetts auto accidents over 26 days. 92 collisions involved cars. 13 of 16 cases blame the operator. Safe Roads Automobile Association proposes rewards for convictions and evidence to deter unlicensed or suspended driving and misassigned license plates.
In Mill Run near Addison Somerset county Hiram Frazee found his nine year old son asleep on a bench in the apiary yard with bees covering him from head to foot. The queen bee had crawled on the boy and the entire swarm joined her lingering on his body.
A weary mother laments her son's fixed ways while an old friend suggests steadying him with early exposure to journalism. The exchange hints that stubborn youth may rise to become a strong independent journalist leader in time. The remark reflects hopes for career leverage through newspaper work.
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bridge Street Belting Michigan describes severe bladder inflammation and kidney pain lasting five years. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills she lost 30 pounds but felt better in a week and has remained well. sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An elderly man in a gray flannel suit sits on a park bench watching a quiet boy on the grass. The boy says he is waiting and that a man painted the bench about fifteen minutes ago.
In a country school arithmetic class Jake Boggs refuses to admit his brother could take an apple. The teacher proposes a scenario of giving one apple away. Jake retorts that if that happened it would leave a big fool, highlighting the boy’s stubborn wit.
American interest in China links to Kaifungfu where Chinese Jews settled during the Han era 200 B C to 200 A D. The colony is noted by Marco Polo and Jesuits in 1600 and 1704. Alfred K. Glover writes in Overland Monthly May that Chinese Jews are nearly extinct but their records and tablets are kept.
An anecdote from Lippincott's Magazine recalls an old Black man Mose in Richmond who struggles to collect a whitewash bill from a prominent businessman. Mose approaches the house and the master asks about his gout. Mose replies that the issue is the bill for the whitewash.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a cereal that is fully cooked at the factory to prevent indigestible mush. It claims improved digestion, notes its suitability for both children and nursing babies, and ends with a tagline and a reference to The Road to Wellville.
A Hungarian village tale reports a peasant woman who received 400 kronen from her husband in America and withdrew it after claiming Death demanded payment by the next night. The bank questioned her tale, Death appeared alive as the local judge, and the money remains in the savings bank while the judge is jailed.
A testimonial from Edith Hammer of Morrison Illinois describes cure of head eczema using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with praise for the remedies. The piece also includes a tale from Judge about two colored men and a laundry tip endorsing Defiance Starch as a strong stiffener for fine fabrics.
A terse dialogue depicts a constable and bystander debating a car’s number and a frightened witness unable to provide more details. The exchange captures tension amid an unknown incident.
The notice touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for painful swollen and sweating feet, easing shoe fitting. It claims to be sold by all druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer. Address listed is A. B. Olmsted of Le Roy New York.
A terse Edison quote places human knowledge as extremely limited and vast at once. He claims progress comes from recognizing we know barely a seven billionth of one percent of anything, framing science as an ongoing quest rather than a final state.
A collage of drug capsule ads and cigarette promotions alongside literary quotes including George Sand and Mirabeau. The clipping notes Krause's headache capsules, Norman Lichty Mfg. Co. of Des Moines, a Lewis' Single Binder cigar line, and aphorisms about love and absence.
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