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Newspaper
Our Church Paper
Location
New Market, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
4
A sermon argues that science widens understanding including religion, reshaping views on the afterlife. It contrasts old orthodox fears with a brighter faith where death signals continued work, reunion with loved ones, and life as active, noble toil beyond earthly borders.
A collection of pithy parables on farming and life by George H Hepworth. Advice favors soil, seed, tillage, careful husbandry, and moral observations, with quips on work, debt, weather, and hogs.
An Anderson Kansas resident, Wylie E Stout, describes his self made serviceable rake. He outlines a head from a 6 by 6 inch 12 foot stick with eleven 2 inch teeth and three mortises for revolving bars. Hickory teeth and bars, 4 feet long, with 2 by 4 inch arms secured by an old wagon tire.
The description details a stalk rake with a lever dump mechanism and a mortised piece for a coupling pole. A king bolt passes through the mortise, and a board bolted near the front supports a spring seat for the driver. Indicates winter preparation for ready service.
A new library for Grand Rapids Mica will house 2 000 000 volumes with two assembly halls and several study rooms. Estimated cost is about $20 000 and construction aims to start next spring for occupancy by next winter. Southern Educational Association meeting notes and travel offers follow.
A Post Office Department fraud order targets Carl B. Cline who ran a Columbus based scam selling a wheat called Early Surprise and Crimson Clover. He mailed ads and samples for stamps and cents, collected money, failed to deliver seed, and later bought 250 bushels to fake shipments while under bond to face swindling charges.
William Allen White argues in Scribner's October issue that the successful farmer must be a business man first and a tiller of the soil second. He calls for capital, caution, industrial savvy, daring, and steady labor relations as the measure of future farm success.
Poultry notes advise on safe sourcing of laying hens to avoid lice and disease. Inspect premises and birds before purchase, prefer healthy flocks, and raise your own if possible. In heat, provide shade and grass based feed, reduce rations to prevent vertigo, and use Epson salts weekly. Maintain cleanliness, dusting or soap suds with carbolic acid, dry dirt for dusting, and a balanced grain mix with linseed and sulphur for feather growth.
English farms fatten chickens by confining them in small pens and force feeding via a funnel and piston pump into their crops. Birds receive ground oats and milk twice daily, with no natural foraging, provoking protests over the treatment of the poultry.
The piece explains methods to store apples pears peaches plums and apricots for display and winter use by wrapping each fruit in air excluding paper and keeping them in a cool dark dry place. It notes success with Sweet Bough Red Astrachan Rose and Anjou pears and mentions a Southern Railway ticket deal for the 1902 Nashville event with specific travel dates and an extension option.
A portrait of Mary Antin a fifteen year old Russian Jewish immigrant who left Plotzk at eleven with her mother and wrote a vivid account of her journey from Russia to America. The Boston book From Plotzk to Boston with a Foreword by Israel Zangwill highlights her early literary gifts and perseverance as she studies at the Boston Latin School.
A Knoxville scene shows a boy selling Sun papers on Limpy’s block and a gentleman buying two papers. The piece notes a Southern Railway summer school sale to Knoxville from Virginia lines with specific travel dates and final return limits in 1902.
Henkel & Co publishers appeal to all borrowers and members to return books and magazines soon to maintain an up to date catalogue. Please direct attention to this request from Newsmarket Virginia.
A catalog entry listing poems and religious works by Salyards Rhodes Fox Henkel Boliek and others, with prices in cents and dollars. Includes Life Thoughts for Young Women, Divine Image, Lutheran sermon, Sacred music collections, Shenandoah Valley weekly, and United Service pamphlet.
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