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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
5
Community items report church events and visits, store openings, and tax deadlines. People mentioned include Dr. V A Magenheimer and wife, Rev Thomas Brown, and J L Matthews and spouses. Local commerce highlights feature Warren's grocery and Mills Cash Store merchandise and services.
The Ringling Brothers circus draws crowds to Indianapolis with a 25th anniversary program. The show features 375 performers, 1 280 cast, 6 00 horses, 50 camels, 40 elephants, 110 animal cages, and 83 double-length cars. Highlights include the automobile double somersault, the Great Alicza Golem, a head-walker, and a zebra tandem ride in a three-ring, two-stage presentation.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports creameries fail for lack of cows and poor organization. A 28 by 8 foot building costs 809 to 1100 dollars. hand separator plants run about 1200 dollars, whole milk plants about 1850 dollars. Total costs range from 2000 to 4250 dollars depending on refrigeration and labor. The Dairy Division offers plans and machinery lists on request from Washington DC.
The Seckel pear likely originated as a chance seedling on land now in Philadelphia and all country Seckel pears trace to that tree. This pear is spicy in flavor, hardy, long lived, and resistant to fire blight. Size defects can be corrected by thinning and proper manuring. it suits backyards and yields bushels with minimal care.
Saie lists a selection of plants including 1 000 fine Geraniums and many bedding varieties. Roses of diverse kinds, Alternantheras in red and yellow, Salvia Splendens, Vincas, Coleus, Asparagus Plumosus, Asparagus Sprengeri, Petunia and American Favorite.
Nellie Greeson Burris born June 15, 1864 wife of Julio Burris. She joined Mooresville AL HK church in 1893 and mothered thirteen children, eight surviving. husband and father mourn her loss. Her faith and care for family are highlighted, with biblical reflections on burdens and virtue. She passed on April 26, 1968.
Neighbors and friends offered sympathy and assistance during our sorrow for the loss of our wife and mother with beautiful floral tributes. John Burris and family.
The article advises zinc tags cut into narrow strips with tapered ends for labeling trees and bushes. It notes zinc marks resist weathering after lead-pencil writing erodes, and ties can loop around branches. Bordeaux mixture harms zinc, suggesting copper tags as an alternative with different writing tools. Indiana partner listing appears as a local address and names.
Hor Sale offers 1 009 fine tomato plants and cabbages for transplants to cold frames. The stocky plants are described as the earliest and best variety available.
An eye bruise causes a black blue area as blood spreads under loose eyelid tissue. Apply cold compresses, then warm borax or boric acid solutions, and gently massage the area to shorten embarrassment by several days.
A teacher questions a new boy about his name and he reveals a stutter that worsens under pressure. He falters through a comic reveal naming Clarence and Perkins with stuttered echoes. The excerpt captures a shy student’s moment of speech difficulty narrated in a dated newspaper voice.
A public dinner in Edinburgh dwindled to two guests a Scotsman and an Englishman each arguing superiority of their homelands. The Highlander’s logic wins every point and the Englishman’s final challenge about land area is met with a witty Scots reply about rolling hills flattening Scotland to beat England in square miles.
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