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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
8
The essay from Prof. Ira A. Baker stresses drainage as essential to road durability. It explains underdrainage lowers soil water, prevents mud and frost damage, and extends road life across earth, gravel, and stone surfaces. It argues tiling along one road side, 3 to 8 feet deep, improves stability and reduces maintenance.
A National Rural insight warns against deep spring plowing near trees and recommends limited plow depth and spacing. Orchards should be plowed no more than once every five years with wide unplowed strips, weed control, and spring dishing followed by summer harrowing and cover crops like rye or vetch.
In a Ohio Farmer piece by J. L. Irwin the author argues that spoiled stock arises from poor fences and lax control. Preventive steps include repairing enclosures, keeping animals content, and removing any misbehaving individual before it influences the herd.
The Scott County plan uses license money from saloons to improve roads. Ashes were first used on a rock foundation, then gravel was shipped in. Small rocks were laid on large ones to form a 16 inch deep bed. Later they omitted large and then small stones and built roads entirely of gravel 10 to 16 inches deep.
Report notes ongoing demand for good milk cows and fattened cattle despite hay scarcity. Trade remains active and prices are at their best in city markets, with no observed price decline or reduced demand in years.
A mob of 500 to 600 soldiers from the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth regiments attacked Mrs Powers saloon outside the Presidio in San Francisco. They smashed windows, wrecked the interior, and started a fire after an alleged drugging incident involving Morgan of the Forty-sixth. Harris was assaulted. cavalry and provost guards restored order. Damage估 $2,000. An investigation by police and military officials is pending.
The Texas town of Jasper in Jasper county was destroyed by a Sunday morning fire at 3 a.m. Seventeen houses and all businesses burned with no reported injuries. Robbers had earlier blown open the post office safe and county treasurer’s safe, then fled as flames raged. Loss estimated around 100000 dollars.
A fleet of Charleston fishing boats was swept by a squall 40 miles south of Charleston. Three boats are missing. 15 crewmen, mostly colored, are unaccounted for and feared lost.
Nine people were seriously injured after a car on the United Traction line collided with a train on the McKeesport and Belle Vernon branch of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad in McKeesport. One death was reported as possibly fatal. Capt Howgate Dies in Washington at 67 after embezzling 380000 from the government and eluding secret service for 12 years. National fete in Italy features a troop review by King Victor Emmanuel who grants the premier the collar of the Order of the Annunziata.
June 3. Gov Gage offers a five thousand dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of those implicated in the lynching of five men at Lookout Modoc county on Friday last.
Hendrik Van Zijl elected president of Cambridge University Union. Mrs Louis Botha described as one of Transvaal’s most beautiful and well-read women, with some musical talent. Proposals to raise 10000 dollars for a telescope at Alleghany Observatory in honor of Prof James E Keeler. Gen Catchings, Missouri, reflects on a long congress career and future law practice. Ernest August Renner, survivor of the Napoleon coffin transfer crew, shows Hanover birthplace. Henryk Stenkiewicz, Polish gentleman type, reclusive but literary, smoker of strong cigars.
A collection of short anecdotes notes court etiquette in Charles V era with two ladies claiming precedence Henry J Byron on plays compares a good play to a cigar a young law student asked where to start Mason answers Anywhere John Lawrence Toole humor at a dinner with 80 guests and a famed grace request France Italy Spain vine yard sizes listed as 4.5 million 7.5 million and 4.0 million acres respectively
Goodland Kansas June 3 N E Albertson a leading blacksmith suffered chronic Rheumatism keeping him awake in pain. A friend urged Dodd's Kidney Pills and his condition improved quickly with pain relief and full recovery. Claims the pills cure Bright's Disease Diabetes Dropsy Rheumatism and Heart Trouble even after doctors gave up.
A collage of prominent figures and expatriates with high salaries and fading loyalties. Notes include Joseph Chamberlain photographing in London, Herbert Jenner-Fust’s Cambridge past, Curzon and Minto salaries, Lord Hopetoun in Australia, and Sir J West Ridgeway in Ceylon. Salvadoran ex-president Carlos Ezeta negotiates a loan while hiding from a price on his head. Adolph von Breuning’s restoration to the Kaiser’s favor follows a disputed marriage to Gordon McKay’s widow.
An old reader extols Western Canada for its comfortable farming life and abundant game. The piece highlights duck and snipe hunts, wapiti and moose, prairie scenery, and nearby farms with affordable dairy and eggs. Settlement details are available via Canadian Government agents.
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