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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
7
A young couple in a domestic scene hide their romance as a knock at the front door interrupts their moment. The improvised plan to claim engagement unfolds amid playful tension, while a nearby editor’s note touts Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy for children.
A dramatic exchange depicts a charitable upper class woman noting a man’s decline. He responds with sharp self awareness, claiming to be far below the submerged tenth and currently employed in gambling on an ocean steamer.
An esssentials note extols a trusted health product the Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a wholesome family laxative. It urges buyers to choose the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. formulation sold by leading druggists and backed by physicians and world wise endorsements.
The article outlines cabbage worm control using paris green and pyrethum dusts, kerosene emulsion sprays, and tobacco decoction with guidance on timing to prevent leaf curling. It also discusses loco weed losses, treatment with strychnine for cattle and Fowler's solution for horses, plus dietary laxatives and magnesium sulfate as antidote aids, noting no immunity develops.
In Peoria H H Gross secretary of the Farmers' Good Road League and special USDA agent said forty years of highway funds have been wasted on dirt roads in Illinois. He urged building hard roads on the black land belt as in Massachusetts at a moderate annual cost to landowners, not likely greater than current road taxes.
A Connecticut inventor creates an automatic dump wagon shown in an illustration. The wagon box pivots on the axle with most load behind the pivot. The forward end is held by a lever behind the driver's seat. The driver dumps by turning and releasing the lever from his seat, saving time.
Field drag breaks down clods and yields a fine surface, usable with spring tooth harrow or disk. The drag consists of 6x6 inch pieces, 6 to 10 feet long, laid edgewise and bound by cross pieces of 14 percent 4x6 inch lumber.
The article explains that when horses suffer sore front feet the forelegs mainly support weight and hinder propulsion. To reduce pain they adopt awkward gaits, often starting with a single foot and progressing to pacing, with the example of a horse named Jay Hye Lee noted as pacing due to forward lameness.
Connecticut's Southport Globe onions are acclaimed for size shape and flavor and dominate fine onion districts in Ohio and New York. A yellow variant exists. Eastern growers prize the white globe for top market prices in New York. The article also covers disk plow advantages in soil handling and a study linking pasteurized tuberculosis milk to 80 percent protection in pigs. Prof Herbert F Roberts plans Europe travel to seek hard wheat varieties for Kansas.
New Zealand reports high demand for Shorthorn bulls of the milking strain. Kangaroo rats threaten Santa Cruz vineyards by devouring young buds and vines. Secretary Wilson predicts bumper crops nationwide with favorable conditions for record yields. A Connecticut farmer uses the incubator system to start potatoes, sprouting seed in a warm room before field transplant. Washington, Pa. notes a sheep-killing horse that repeatedly drove into a flock and dragged dead sheep away until stopped by the farmer.
Oregon State Grange meeting at Eugene on May 14 1908 unites to push codified water law. It calls for a central registry and measurement basing rights on beneficial use with a 25 year cap for power rights and a state administered distribution system.
A Cheney letter asks if bacteria research aids Inland Empire agriculture and how Northwest fertilizers are used. The station reports some cultures work in labs, inoculated alfalfa soil aids stand, fertilizers tested modestly to improve soils, and soil poisoning theory notes excess elements harm vegetation requiring chemical fertilizer countermeasures.
A traveler asks about observances and learns the locals marked the day by a ball park gathering. The native explains the last of the old generation died a year ago and no new arrivals have yet appeared, highlighting shifts since earlier celebrations.
Brief mentions of a dance and nervous conditions appear with names and scattered phrases. The fragmentary text references St. Philadelphia and a quotation about age under oath. The source also advertises Allen’s Foot-Ease with free sample details and general cure claims.
A pimply faced youth threw a pop bottle at the umpire and was seized by a policeman who measured his head with a tape line. The officer warned him to behave or be sent to the asylum for the feeble minded. No further bottles were thrown in that section.
A terse exchange from the Boston Transcript recalls Stryker accused of chronic borrowing and a quarrel over financial support after the speaker's marriage. The anecdote highlights tensions over lending and domestic life.
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