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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
6
Excerpted verses by Arthur W. French and Thomas Moore praise returning home to childhood memories and the serene Vale of Avoca. The poems celebrate home love, mother figures, and the comfort of friends, with refrains affirming memory and enduring affection.
A New York Sun piece discusses how familiarity breeds memory quirks when recalling details like home addresses. Examples include a man who overlearned numbers to the point of doubt and a wizard demonstrating arithmetic intuition with blocks and digits.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt notes a man who avoids conversations that trigger long weather monologues. The piece praises the stubborn authenticity of “the boys” who dislike sham small talk and pretense in social exchanges.
A historical overview traces the Morrill Act's creation of land grant colleges in 1862 and recalls early farming attitudes. It notes advances in soil chemistry plant breeding and seed selection, plus methods like spraying and whitewashing for housing and orchard improvements.
The article extols scientific agriculture as the key to improved yields and progress in farming. It notes that agriculture now relies on classified knowledge, experiment stations, and college instruction, guiding husbandmen to apply laws of plant and animal life for pleasure and profit.
Prof Sir Oliver Lodge describes experiments in England testing electricity to boost plant growth. Wires span fields with one pole per acre, supplying about 100000 volts positive electricity and direct earth negative electricity. Wheat yields rose 30 to 40 percent and crops overall improved. Regular lime washing of henhouses advised for poultry keepers.
The article notes that German regions like Saxony lead in humane slaughter laws forbidding bleeding before unconsciousness. Cattle and other animals are stunned by a direct blow or by humane devices, with public abattoirs in German, Italian, Swiss cities under municipal supervision.
The Kansas City Journal recalls kerosene once cost three bushels of corn per gallon. Today a bushel buys five gallons of oil and sellers report three cents change, illustrating a shift in value between corn and kerosene over two decades.
Practical farming guidance emphasizes avoiding waste, matching feed to stock, and selecting profitable husbandry. It argues that plant foods must be soluble, underfeeding hurts growth, and profits depend on production cost, time, and price received. It also includes a sermon about courage and moral integrity in New York.
The notes emphasize Clover as a companion to apples, proven orchard profits, tree-by-tree care, and strong aims for first class fruit. It covers pruning, white lead stub treatment, accounting, soil fertility, and selective limb removal to avoid injuries.
A spectator comments on the season’s dress trend, praising the clinging soft Tibelasine sheath gown and noting latecomers disturb others with rustling silk. The speaker prefers quiet elegance and rails at tardy arrivals. Also mentioned is a bore hole in Silesia reaching seven thousand feet.
The essay argues happiness comes from inner character not external circumstances. It notes the heart creates its own climate, with joy found through high thoughts, deep roots in great passions and ideals, and the ability to brighten any day by choice.
A sermon-like meditation contrasts Zacharias prophecy with daily faith. It likens Christ to light dawning gradually and urges small daily beginnings, prayerful habits, and living faith over public virtue. It closes with cautions against private vice and the need to keep faith with others.
A mixed page offers practical cleaning advice from boiling water for sealing fish to ammonia softened water for marble tops. It also shares quirky items on canaries diet and a humorous tale about Artemus Ward and a roach, with short notes on rail, industry, and local legends.
The passage guides selecting a medium pumpkin with dark orange color and solid pulp. It describes scooping, boiling to evaporate water, preserving flavors, then preparing a deep pie with nutmeg salt cinnamon and ginger, sugar, one egg, and three cups of rich milk, baked about an hour.
Two cups of light brown sugar, one cup water, the white of one egg, flavoring to taste. Roil the sugar and water until it will mold, but not until it is brittle and yet not as soft as for ordinary fudge. Have the white of an egg beaten a tiff and pour in the syrup slowly, beating constantly again until stiff. Drop on pans from the point of a spoon, giving a pointed appearance to the top of each of the can diles.
Soak two cups of beans overnight. In the morning boil with a pinch of soda and drain. Fry onion with pork or bacon. Add tomatoes chili salt and enough hot water to cover. Boil ten minutes then simmer five hours in the cooker.
Lift one quart of white corn meal with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder add three tablespoonfuls of melted lard salt to taste beat three eggs add a pint of milk or enough to thin batter Beat all hard for two minutes and bake quickly in a wet well greased pan with a little dry meal sifted Eat immediately.
Recipe style notes describe making marshmallow candy by boiling brown sugar and milk, then adding marshmallows and walnuts, beating until thick and spreading in a tin. Also includes a baked potato entree layering sliced potatoes and onion with crackers and cheese, then baking with milk.
Select large green peppers and prepare by removing seeds and washing. Grind pre cooked meat with chopped raisins and nuts, season to taste, and stuff peppers. Dip in an egg and flour batter, then fry in hot fat.
A concise historic recipe explains washing and scraping parsnips, boiling until tender, cutting into strips, dipping in molasses, draining, then frying in butter until brown on both sides.
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