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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
6
An earnest clerk, after a spring and summer of egg laying and raising a hundred chicks, builds a modest operation. He keeps his job, expands housing, selects 25 breeders, and by next spring his poultry business grows into a true occupation with profits gradually increasing over the years. The piece also notes humane pest control practices and predators to protect gopher populations.
The plan shows cedar posts set less than eight feet apart with two by six planks across the top and bottom, and seven lateral wires. This describes a compact hog yard fence construction using boards or wire.
The article extols experiment stations for their practical demonstrations of agricultural and breeding advances. It urges collaboration between scientists and practitioners, notes free bulletins, and urges readers to subscribe to stay informed about new discoveries and ideas from these stations.
The Nebraska Experiment Station reports on methods to destroy pocket gophers. Researchers compare effectiveness and cost of various approaches to control the pest population.
Practical notes describe poultry water pans with multi side drinking openings and a cone top to reduce filth. also a squash bug overview detailing egg color and location on leaves, plus remedies such as saltpeter solution and sawdust saturated with turpentine applied around plants.
Miss Alice Miriam Gailin of New York, superintendent of the evangelistic department of the State Sunday School Association, is celebrated as the Children’s Evangelist. She has studied children's evangelical work, using simple direct methods to reach boys and girls and make Christian teachings attractive to even the careless child.
Miss Gamlin native of Worcester Massachusetts trained for religious work. She has spent five of seven years in New York sessions and conducts summer meetings in tents seating 3800 to 500. Her natural ability and magnetism are noted in the report.
Secretary James Wilson of the department of agriculture will establish a denatured alcohol school in Washington with a compact distilling setup. The aim is to provide no practical demonstrations of denatured alcohol to visitors while Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist, heads the project.
A collection of humorous social observations from the New York Press. Remarks touch on aging, stage life, manners, gender roles, boarding house talk, and fantasies about dukes with a satirical tone. The quotes highlight how people misjudge competence and happiness based on appearances and ideas.
The guide urges harvesting with morning dew for superior flavor and advises picking beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, peas, radishes, and squash before full size. Do not let seed ripen on plants or yields will decline. beans must be picked dry to avoid rust.
A humorous anecdote from the Atlanta Constitution depicts Bill at Billeville post office as the postmaster reads a sequence of letters including one from his aunt another from his uncle and a bill for lumber. Bill explains he will be away fishing for a week while the postmaster urges payment and patience.
A child named Small Willian days off from meals as he eyes his sister’s food. He wishes to eat bacon and eggs while longing for a grapefruit. His sister mocks the wish and jokes about her own fruit choice.
Nan questions why she keeps all of Jack's letters as he repeatedly adds a postscript urging to burn the contents. The exchange hints at secrets or a hidden motive behind preserving the correspondence.
Mrs Frank Stroebe of Appleton Wisconsin writes that after months of poor health and nervous strain Peruna restored strength and improved sleep and appetite. She says Peruna changed her outlook and she regards it as a tonic and strength builder.
The column promotes local Milan Tennessee truck farmers and cattle dairy tips. It describes a Colorado railroad running potato specials to teach better potato farming. It notes U S honey potential to ship long distances and advises on milk can cleanliness and dairy calf development with oats grass and corn. It mentions a 1200 pound draft horse as a profitable asset and suggests sulfur in seed corn to deter cutworms.
A brief exchange quotes a disagreement on letter salutation in a note to Burroughs. One party chides the use of Dr Sir as slovenly while another defends the abbreviation as acceptable in this case. Tie reportedly owes money to Kansas City Independent.
A parent explains to a child why Santa gives richer households more, saying he aims to please everyone and that wealthier families are harder to satisfy.
Merritt asks how the new rich prove they are not gentlemen. The tailor answers by saying he pays cash for everything he buys.
A remark notes that an unschooled youth gains many lessons that schooling misses. It adds that even a dull person can become full through practical experience.
In a Sydney Bulletin excerpt a maid named Sarah Jane tells her mother she fell and broke her neck. The mistress responds that whatever was broken will be deducted from her wages.
A Chicago Tribune note cites Mrs. Lapsling rejecting any medicine with whisky for children calling it poisonous. It contrasts this with Mothers urged to use Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething relief, as a preferred remedy despite controversy over ingredients.
In a playful Chicago Tribune exchange Mrs. Chugwater asked about the apothecaries weight and the interval before a prescription is filled. The joke rests on interpreting the word itself to hint at the measure and timing.
A humorous Punch snapshot features a stage exchange where Sir Philip Sidney laments a boy's amoking remark, the boy replies with feigned distress saying he is dying, reflecting comic dialogue and period style.
Uncle Allen Sparks notes that many politicians disdain the vice presidency despite lacking the distance of a million miles from it. The Chicago Tribune quotes his sharp take on political ambition and perception.
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