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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
3
An illustrated Popular Mechanics article notes a Milwaukee Wisconsin company now manufactures rheostats for vacuum tubes. Two styles exist one with vernier adjustment for detector tubes and another for amplifier tubes, both covering zero to four ohms.
A short exchange reveals the inmate humorously explains the bars on the window are there to keep mosquitoes out, while the visitor wonders about confinement. The tone suggests casual dialogue amid captivity.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls four year old Betty scolding Auntie after a minor misdeed. Betty proclaims she does not care for Auntie, and Auntie offers to skip the planned ice cream cone as a bribe. Betty counters with a playful quip April Fool, ending the exchange on a light note.
The excerpt satirizes Bolshevism and the idea that reformers always err between extremes. Wells cites a French restaurant joke about a man repeatedly touching menu items and ending with toothpicks, illustrating misreading choices and unintended consequences.
The remark notes prices of cotton and linen doubled by wartime strain and advises lengthening their service with Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry cycles. Advertisement from grocers.
A father offers to give up his daughter Carrie while the mother calls her a puzzle in a line from the Boston Evening Transcript, reflecting a domestic exchange framed as a cryptic riddle.
The article stresses clean dairies and impervious concrete floors to prevent contamination. It details concrete mix formulas for stall construction, floor leveling, and barn layout, then shifts to potato storage guidelines: keep 35 to 40 degree temperatures, provide ventilation, exclude light, keep tubers dry and dirt-free, and avoid deep bulk storage without vented shafts.
Instructions describe using dry arsenate of lead to kill chewing insects. Four to six tablespoons per gallon of water, applied with a sprayer or watering pot. All insects that bite and chew their food may be killed. Another method mixes arsenate with air slaked lime to dust on tender plants.
Making beet top silage does not require cash outlay for materials. Natural earth sile and stacking above ground are effective. Concrete side retaining walls are advisable under certain conditions.
A short note links small farms, small yields from crops and stock, and scrub livestock as three conditions closely related to low farm income.
Farmers in Illinois adopt storing bundled grain in the barn and threshing in fall or winter. The small outfit stays set up and few extra hands are needed while straw is fed to livestock. This slows the rush season and keeps work steady, turning the barn into a profit source.
The beet grower should spread pulp over the beet top silo to seal the silage mass. Heat from the silage warms the pulp speeding curing and reducing handling issues from frozen pulp.
Summer feeding for egg production differs little from winter feeding. A good grain ration uses corn and oats in equal measure. Feed little in the morning and provide the hens with feed at night.
The article stresses feeding hens the proper feed amount to maintain laying. It notes farm neglects this, causing reduced laying and early molt. It also covers artificial watering in hot dry weather and the need to water deeply to reach root tips.
The Mammoth Bronze turkeys are rugged and healthy with strong foraging. they resist disease and reach immense size when fully grown.
Canadian National Railways survey for the week ending July 22 reports favorable conditions across Manitoba and the prairie provinces. Southwestern Manitoba near Brandon expects yields close to the 1915 bumper harvest, with rye and oats showing strong output and grasshopper damage minimal. Saskatchewan districts improve from prior drought with strong spring moisture aiding grain quality. Alberta, especially the south, enjoys good rains while northern areas near Edmonton face moisture shortages. overall prospects are satisfactory with new dairying and silage developments noted.
Indifference is not good nature. Cuticura for sore hands. Soak hands in hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Cuticura Ointment. Remove surplus ointment with tissue. This is one of the uses Cuticura offers for all toilet purposes when using Soap Ointment and Talcum.
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