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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
3
Emily Holt advises eco friendly metal cleaning methods from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She covers brass copper kettles and pans brass fixtures and ironwork with vinegar salt oxalic acid and ammonia washes. Guidance includes lime dust on wrought steel for rust prevention and careful dusting before wet cleaning.
Chinese fashionables adopt a festive outfit mixing European and Chinese elements. A light blue silk gown features heavy embroidery and a long robe with a waist jacket. A European collar contrasts with a distinctive Chinese headdress from a Peking tailor.
A leading English society painter specializes in portraits showing the sitter shaded by a parasol. The subject sits in a garden chair with the parasol overhead to shade the face, revealing features clearly. The artist has painted Princess Victoria and a renowned court beauty in this style.
A fragment notes a child urging the mother to speak on Custor kissing Ethel-Ah, seeking her opinion before reacting, reflecting family social norms and consent questions in a domestic scene.
A trio of women discuss the sailor hat as a symbol of youth and memories. They recall hats seen in shop windows and the hats worn on porch steps and markets, linking the headpiece to romance, letters, and summer days in a nostalgic Chicago Daily News style.
Legend of the Mary Stuart apparition recounted from Holyrood. Lady Caithness, aided by the marquis of Hamilton, spent a moonlit night in Mary’s former apartments and reportedly saw the head of the queen, later writing a book for Queen Victoria. Guards intervened and locked her in.
A vanilla bean kept in the sugar box imparts a delicious flavor to the sugar. This simple pantry trick adds aroma, sweetness, and a hint of warm vanilla to everyday cooking and baking.
A movable 12 by 6 foot hen house designed for warm weather. Light construction with tarred paper roof, wheels from a mowing machine, and axles of iron and wood. Favor south exposure, one window, and simple interior for Cochins and other poultry.
Rhode Island board of agriculture notes beekeeping as a potential revenue source. Secretary George A. Stockwell cites beekeeping as a profitable crop, with examples from Providence where colonies yielded comb and extracted honey worth tens of dollars per season. Beekeeping viewed as a joint, low-maintenance industry that can support farmers and help pay taxes.
The article explains balanced feeding for hens and warns that unbalanced rations lead to weak birds. Excess carbohydrates cause softness and weak bones, while excess nitrogenous matter risks rheumatism from high acid levels. It stresses studying ration balance to prevent problems.
The article urges keeping daily farm accounts to determine profit. It advises charging hiens for food and capital, credit sales and family produce, and counting labor value, noting larger flocks reduce labor per unit but family flocks complicate labor estimates.
Charcoal a tonic for hens and pure charcoal from stove wood helps check bowel complaints. If hens lack variety parched grain provides a similar aid. A steady diet of oats corn wheat or bran is readily eaten and helps arrest diarrhea and other bowel disorders.
Coliman's Rural World notes that winter rye ranks among the nation's most valuable forage crops next to rape. It offers abundant fall and spring pasture, early and late growth, weather tolerance, and usefulness as a catch crop. It can be sown after mid summer and into autumn, yields grazing two to three weeks earlier than other plants in spring, and is suitable for milking cows and swine feeding when managed carefully.
Feeding floors are gaining favor with stock raisers to prevent disease and improve health. Elevating the floor three to four feet above ground ensures ventilation and discourages rats and mice, with construction possible from inch lumber in any size.
The text describes constructing a hog feeding floor with a fenced pen and accessible gate, plus a long-handled fork to move uneaten feed. It warns against feeding unclean material and references J L Irwin and an illustrated plan. It also cites Drovers Journal noting high demand for prime pure bred cattle amid a 10 million short supply and rising population.
Leading authorities contend that from 1892 to 1900 the United States had 10 million fewer cattle while population rose by over 10 million. Cattle per 1 000 people fell from 826, with a yearly shortfall of about 1 million cattle. The piece suggests that to maintain current ratios, the industry must expand by about 1 million cattle annually, a factor it says explains why wealthy individuals invest in cattle breeding and range enterprises.
Farmers' Voice explains woodpeckers protect trees by probing for borers and drawing out ants from burrows, using keen hearing to locate prey and employing chisel bills. It notes both woodpeckers and ants injure trees and adds a remark that guineas are not good market fowls.
Admirers of the late William Hamilton Gibson will welcome a forthcoming biography. Austin Dobson, after 55 years as head of the harbor and fisheries department, retires to pursue literature with a regular civil service pension and a special one from Sir Edwin Arnold. A remarkable book in the Imperial Paris library uses cut tissue letters read through a blue sheet. John Morley praised Gladstone’s orderly habits, noting he preserved and dated letters, including a speech at the Oxford Union 70 years past.
A collection of domestic hints covers mold prevention with lavender oil on bookcases, brass kettle upkeep using salt and vinegar, straw mat care with mild brine, ink stain removal with moisture from a sulphur match head, storing fine faces in blue paper envelopes with magnesia, drying fruit stones to scent a room, and reusing soap scraps by drying and pounding then using as bath bags with bran or oat meal in cheese cloth.
Wabasha Minnesota August 19 George Huber suffered kidney trouble and back ache. He was very ill. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured him completely and he is now able to work. He praises the remedy as worth its weight in gold. News notes many cures by Dodd's Kidney Pills in Bright's Disease Diabetes Dropsy Rheumatism and back ache.
Mrs BE Crozier praises Peruna for curing bearing-down pains and headaches within two weeks. Mrs Henderson reports relief from severe female weakness and back pain lasting two years. Dr Hartman offers free treatment to thousands of women during hot weather with confidential records and no charges for care or letters.
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