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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
4
An assortment of old advertisements touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers and Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for dyspepsia, Foley’s Kidney Cure for kidney disorders, and Banner Salve for salt rheum. Testimonials praise remedies, while quips about wealth, anarchists, and a red ink joke punctuate the copy.
Salesmen to tota Sella salesmen to tota Sella Choice Iine of Nursery Stock steady Work and EXTRA INDUCEMENTS to the right persons All stock Guaranteed Write NOW For Terms and secure a good situation for fall and winter Address The Hawks Nursery Co Milwaukee Wis
A wheat grower reports Hessian fly damage in Ohio wheat sown before Sept. 24, with relief where 200 pounds per acre of prepared fertilizer were applied. Fertilizer stimulated regrowth from the root and larvae persisted in damaged stools. Some drills with no fertilizer saw total plant death. Professor Webster’s parasite may offer rescue. Ohio State Journal excerpts.
A collage of humorous lines and notes from newspapers features Broncho Bob and a famed tragedian on world as a stage, a mock injunction remark, a jailed lawyer quip, staged stories of cherry pie kindness, and a misdescribed milking stool.
The passage describes a wooden stool construction using inch pine and bored holes, then shifts to agriculture with notes on Henry Oxnard and the sugar beet industry. It includes a cornu of irrigation timing, cost of acre onions in New England, a hay crop outlook, asparagus rust control with Bordeaux spray, and a wheat harvest update from The Hook.
Agricultural notes praise the American hen as the top money maker beside cotton corn and wheat. Growers advise lone for peach trees and methods to combat borers and curculio. Bee pastures and unripe honey odors are discussed amid farm trivia and humorous clippings.
A Chicago Record-Herald item reports a playful exchange where a boss orders a bookkeeper to whistle a fragment of a coon song ten times before returning. The gag underscores workplace humor and odd instruction.
The article explains thinning fruit to improve quality and yield. It recommends spacing fruit from four to six inches, doing much thinning by hand, and keeping tree tops pruned. Benefits include more high grade fruit and easier grading at market. H P Gould from Maryland cites practical steps and timing.
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