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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
3
William A Radford presents a practical compact house plan focused on efficiency and safety. The design features a 12 by 23 living room, 3 bedrooms with triple windows, two porches including a sun parlor, and a brick foundation with brick porch rails. It emphasizes ventilation, natural light, and economy for busy households.
Training to stakes improves yields for many vegetables and some flowering plants. A good supply of large and small stakes helps keep plants off the ground, saves garden space, promotes air and sun exposure, and keeps beds neater for multiple seasons.
A gab-box shop anecdote notes a woman ordering many records for a phonograph business. She recalls her maid using the music room and dusting cabinets, then her French heels damaged several records leaving only Abide With Me intact.
In Tokyo a rare soap bubble vendor draws crowds of youngsters with a battered can, ladle, funnel and bamboo reeds. He sells bubbles to boys and girls on busy streets as rainbow spheres drift above stone balustrades and temple steps.
A told anecdote recalls a farm childhood when a preacher's family visited at dinnertime. The narrator, a boy of ten, watched the preacher's son eat six pieces of chicken, leaving none for the siblings, which soured the romance.
Advice urges frequent weeding to keep gardens free of weeds. Early removal prevents weeds from taking hold as they absorb soil life and hinder growth. Regular cultivation every few days is recommended for vegetable or flower beds to maintain a proud garden.
Bees perform a vital role in pollination by moving pollen between plants. Two or three hives in a backyard garden can prove a valuable investment for fruit trees, flowers, and vegetables. If bees and birds are scarce, wind is the only other pollination option.
The article urges early spraying to control bugs and diseases in gardens. It cites the U S Department of Agriculture and explains Bordeaux mixture as a fungicide and flea beetle deterrent. It provides home and purchased preparation methods using bluestone, quicklime, and water with detailed mixing steps.
Sidelights on the home garden advise digging and soil drainage for success. It notes that a small plot can supply all family vegetables with careful planning, thinning, and crop selection, detailing Jerusalem artichoke planting and tuber use.
An old advertisement extols California Fig Syrup as a gentle remedy to open the bowels in sick children with promise of preventing illness. It urges mothers to request the genuine product from druggists and warns against imitations. Also promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry whiteness and ends with a wry slogan about two swelled heads.
The experiments with a form of the gyroscope show promise to correct mariner compass errors and could replace the compass in submarines. The device uses a gyroscope’s tendency to keep a fixed rotation axis, with a rose showing ship course and deviations detected by the instrument. An electromagnet lets the unit function as either magnetic compass or gyroscope, independent of magnetic influences.
Mr and Mrs Noyes of Victoria Nova Scotia welcomed triplet boys two weeks ago joining their five existing children. The household is described as abundantly blessed with multiple new additions.
A succinct aphorism notes that a married woman must balance coaxing with nagging to maintain harmony. The line between affectionate urging and faultfinding is seen as a delicate skill in partnership.
A concise note hints at readers judging crops from stubble to infer harvest yield, reflecting rural routines and seasonal uncertainty in agricultural districts.
A woman seeks tincture of myrrh in a stark white drug store that once was a barroom. Clues of odd architecture and a prickly feeling arise before the clerk reveals the space’s past. The piece mixes a Chicago Journal scenario with a Harper's Magazine vignette about a worried aviator.
A short dialogue humorously contrasts a backward dinner with pie in a brisk exchange. One speaker jokes about starting with pie while the other admits a stomach upset, highlighting a playful misalignment of appetites.
In Ireland years ago an Irish American faced a judge on a charge of suspicious conduct. The arresting officer described the defendant as wearing a so called republican hat. The counsel asked if the judge knew what that was and the judge replied it may be a hat without a crown.
A misquoted fragment from Richmead Times Dispatch describes a woman named Mary answering questions about card requests. She claims one man refused a card, so she swiped his hat and pushed him off the steps, noting a bold name on the sweatband.
A compact aphorism notes that true flight lies in not harming what is dead, reframing the art of flight as restraint. The line hints at ethics of life and the fragile balance of movement.
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