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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1911
Page
4
The text offers gardening guidance for farmers and home growers focusing on garden planning, farm life philosophy, and practical steps. It advises talking with a spouse about tasks, painting metal roofing, maintaining a cheery mindset, and prioritizing careful project planning to manage workloads. It covers seed treatment for potatoes, asparagus sowing, Palmetto variety planting, seed sourcing, and drill spacing for horse cultivation.
The article advises timing for setting geese eggs under a hen and warns to avoid inbreeding in turkeys. It notes the growth of the baby chick trade, stresses giving hens eleven eggs at setting for proper coverage, and urges wind-tight but light admitting brood coops. It warns about lice during bad weather and their harm to chick vitality and disease resistance.
In a brief dialogue from Woman's Home Companion for March, Jes sie Warrington explains a naming tradition. A teacher asks how the child bears the surname Alien while the mother’s name is Brown. The answer notes the mother’s remarriage and the child keeping the original name.
Mrs. Florence Kelley investigated working conditions in a New Jersey glass town. She found factories operating at full blast all night with no children under work age. The proprietor showed the plant and explained fires were extinguished at night.
A doctor argues coffee causes headaches in a chat with an Irishman who insists whisky explains his woes. The tale segues into a moral: starve anger and master self control, quoting the Bible about ruling one’s spirit and noting the lasting harm of temper, then warning that temper’s outbursts resemble a bursting steam boiler and may be beyond remedy.
A manager tells his wife the office boy died today and suggests sending flowers. She questions the gesture, noting the boy had been eating the lunches she prepared for him for the past month.
A terse quip contrasts money with health, noting that wealth cannot buy well being while money may support a doctor’s duty. The remark implies physicians’ integrity remains essential beyond financial means.
An American narrator recalls inviting English Lord Lyttleton to social clubs to woo Miss Auchincloss for a title. The plan unravels as Miss Auchincloss accepts the proposal but later reveals the romance was a social ascent, funded by the narrator’s loans. The Englishman’s visit ends abruptly and the scheme collapses amid gossip and shifting loyalties.
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