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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
3
A Cornel station report details years of potato culture trials across state farms. It stresses maintaining humus and surface mulch to conserve moisture, warns against over tillage, endorses Bordeaux mixture spraying, and notes pruning is not beneficial. Machinery progress is urged for large-scale production.
A rural correspondent details California fruit picking and handling methods. The report covers picking gear, bin design, sorting by quality, packing into ventilated boxes, and transporting fruit from orchard to dryer, with notes on almond harvest and canvas ground sheets used under trees.
Experiments from multiple stations show hay cut earlier loses more weight during curing than late cut hay. Early cut Pennsylvania hay sheds about 29 percent, late cut 21.5 percent. Timothy cut at various stages loses 75 to 57 percent moisture. Michigan reports 60 percent shrinkage in curling clover. New York meadow fescue with clover loses 62.68 and 58.23 percent. Atwater notes moisture retained varies: New England timothy 12 percent, clover 14 percent, corn fodder 25 percent. Wide-ration feeding at Geneva station suggests energy level in the diet influences milk yield more than protein changes, with nutrient quantity driving output when energy is ample and steady.
The bean weevil can develop and brood in stored beans across many sections of the country. Even when only a few beans are affected, the pest survives in storage and may cause damage to the crop if conditions favor its life cycle.
Isaac B. Potter urges every country district to own a road machine and stone crusher. Good drains and proper material cut costs, improve permanence, and reduce labor. A few hundred dollars and smart use of local stone can yield macadam roads far more cheaply than manual methods.
Fragmentary OCR note urges road improvements as cost-saving policy. Mentions evaluation of infrastructure benefits and long term savings. No clear dates, places, or proper nouns confidently readable.
A New York Times report quotes a general store clerk lamenting the lamp wick dilemma. He notes thousands of wick types and sizes, customers guessing at needs, frequent returns, and mounts of unsellable wick despite effort to educate buyers.
The method boosts lung power and vocal range by repeating the syllable ah on mid vocal notes. Start with a clear single note, then gradually explore neighboring tones to build purity and resonance without strain, avoiding rote piece learning and ensuring grasp of notation and vocal resources.
The Youths Companion notes a postoffice rule forbidding postal staff or their families from disclosing patrons addresses. It argues government should not reveal residents whereabouts to protect debtors, avoid harassment, and shield individuals from unwanted attention.
The late Dr Samuel Row Gardiner described as patient and indulgent by a student of Toynbee Hall. He noted Gardiner’s mild temper and a satirical edge, joking that when perplexed he seeks Froude’s view though cautious of his faulty conclusions.
A Philadelphia Times note recalls a customer in the wrong department asking a clerk why feathers cost ten cents each to clean. The clerk suggests a bulk discount if she buys many items, and the customer declines, saying two beds full would not allow counting.
The article discusses when to use named for or named after in English with examples from United States and England usage. It notes common practice and clarifies that both forms can be correct depending on origin and emphasis.
In Nuremberg a room displays torture devices from the middle ages including thumb screws helmets bridles and a spike wheel. The wheel carves many wounds on a bound victim as it is rolled along the back with number of rolls depending on the sentence sometimes delivered death and sometimes using heated spikes for added torment.
The article explains how votive pictures in Japanese temples evolved from an old custom of honoring departed warriors with sake and rice before graves and tombs. Wealthier temples kept white horses for spirits, while poorer shrines used horse pictures called yeme. The practice spread from Shinto to Buddhism, with yeme becoming a generic term for shrine pictures.
M Guignet reports a dramatic duel between a hedgehog and a viper. The viper tailed away, the hedgehog seized the tail, rolled up, and defended while the viper attacked. After bloody assaults the snake died, and the hedgehog began feeding on the tail, avoiding the head.
A yellow square box containing a hard black waxy compound was presented to a Shanghai police court. The item, about two ounces, was described as a Chinese medicine made from monkeys' toe nails boiled and buried for years. It was stolen from a native apothecary on Nanking road. Monkeys' toe nails are cited as a remedy for stomach troubles.
An old Turkish belief prescribes picking up any bread on the ground, kissing it and carrying it to a hole to insert it. Stepping on or leaving bread is a grave sin, said to doom the offender to hell with a horned ox goring them endlessly.
A college-like exchange in New York gossip columns shows a suitor teasingly accusing Benedict over the baby’s teething. The bachelor retorts that sleepless nights with the infant keep him tired and cites the missing belt of sulfe as a quip.
In a Philadelphia Press clipping a debate unfolds over chivalry and seating on street cars. Mr Crabbe responds that men are tired of being blamed for never giving up seats to women, while a bristling exchange emphasizes social expectations and courtesy.
A garbled survey of literary lines mentions love and ownership of acres, comparing a future lever to spring. The text cites Chicago Tribune and New York Herald as sources, with fragmented references to dates and calendars and a tone resembling Victorian commentary.
Blocky ad lists BLUM SERGE Ready-to-Wear Suits at varied prices and styles. It promotes OUTING SUITS, skeleton coats, cuffs, blue and gray coats, office coats, alpaca coats, crash suits, barbers coats, white duck pants, and a large line of washable children’s wash suits and men's summer underwear.
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