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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1922
Page
7
The article advises selecting high quality seeds from reliable firms and planning purchases early. It explains starting early plants indoors or in hotbeds, including tomatoes cabbage peppers and more, with detailed hotbed construction, ventilation, and gradual hardening for strong, quick garden establishment.
Colonial style farmhouse feature with integrated garage and sun porch. Describes first and second floor layouts including three living spaces, a washroom with lockers, compact kitchen, four bedrooms with ample light, a sewing room, balcony access, and an attic that can convert to extra bedrooms. Emphasizes affordability and suitability for farm families with emphasis on family life and utility.
Many homes use basements as miniature greenhouses with southern and eastern light. With heat to prevent freezing, residents can grow radishes onions and lettuce indoors. A long tray setup supports tomatoes peppers cabbage and other plants until outdoor planting.
In basement flats the newly emerged spikelike plants need occasional hoeing. Light loosening of the soil near the tender roots aids development without causing damage.
The article urges starting plants in a window box and planning gardens on paper. It cites Pliny the Elder and advises digging deep, manuring well, and frequent work. It notes bean poles and tomato stakes cut in winter and stresses ordering seeds early to secure the best supply.
The article advises planting bulbs indoors in flats or pots for bloom in early summer, late summer, and fall. With proper care these bulbs reach a pleasing size by the time outdoor ground warms and danger of frost is gone.
A butler Tim misreads instructions from Mrs Smythkins causing visitors to be told the wrong householder is present. The intended line My mistress is out, but the dowager is within becomes the old badger is within and prompts amused reactions in London.
Fragmentary quotes present a mock royal exchange about a creditor. The dialogue evokes a monarch dismissing a debt, suggesting a noblesse attitude toward financial obligation. No identifiable people or places are provided in the readable text.
Tem ple Manning reports from the north of Greenland that the Eskimo economies rely on meat as currency. Trade is based on hunting and fishing yields with repayment of lent meat and strict honor. Social status comes from hunting prowess and women contribute by processing skins and sewing garments. The community is small, peaceful, and values self-respect, morality, bravery, and honesty despite slow civilization.
Confucius born 551 B C in Lu Shantung sought to reform states by teaching virtue and wisdom. His teachings with Mencius and other works formed the Chinese classics guiding education and public promotion for centuries. A schoolteacher harbors exacting standards while a young reporter mistakes the word secure in a theater call.
An editor jokes about a Christmas crowd comment misprinted as calves, saying a typographical error led readers to imagine cows rather than his "better halves" on Main street. The quip, cited by the Birmingham Age-Herald, ends with a pun about love and money.
The article describes two orchid species: Spidendrum Radicans known as Dutch Shoe, an odorless orange orchid common in Central America, and the Monkey orchid with greenish flowers on dead lagoon stumps in Gatun Lake. The Monkey orchid blooms fragrance only three days after domestication, while a white violet mimic has violet scent at late afternoon. It ends with a caution about will power.
A brief vignette describes ten individuals who retreat into quiet, rural spaces to savor solitude, only to later yearn for the energy and company of a gathered crowd. The piece contrasts isolation with social hunger and hints at a cyclical need for interaction.
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