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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1901
Page
6
The correspondence discusses seed potato demand and pricing, seedling beds, hog markets near $18 each, and pasture crops. It notes feed costs, oleo substitutes, and a Jersey cow ideal for pasture. It speculates on dairy policy, fruit and vegetable market trends, and Christmas thresholds for poultry.
The piece discusses milk quality and dairy rules, beef and calf management, and the economics of wheat exports. It notes a Wisconsin cheese issue from a single diseased cow, rising beef prices, corn and hay prospects, and shifting peach belt expansion north. It ends with lawn tree pruning and field observations.
A rural column laments weeds along highways and poor shocking of corn. It urges stricter weed control and fencing laws, notes railways improving rights of way as landscape examples, and mocks Sunday excursions by farmers while joking about chicken-stoning as a pious act.
The text argues women resist homemaking tasks, while men take pride in hard work. It blames lack of practical home management education for girls and says reform is needed for the benefit of women, husbands, and children. It questions societal aims and urges better training and mindset.
The Mississippi River dumps vast fertility into the Gulf as erosion from hundreds of thousands of farms continues year round. Winter slows the process in the North while the South loses soil fertility steadily, a grand larceny by pilfering waters. Grass and trees are proposed as the remedy.
Uncle Bill confesses a kitchen joke gone wrong as Ellen and neighbors mishear a city doctor’s wheels in his head remark. He schemes to fix it with fake gears, causing Helen Baxter to panic and chase him from the house, ending in a chaotic burlesque of a rural joke gone awry.
A newly arrived Frenchman in Chicago confuses English words while shopping for poker chips in a Michigan Avenue boarding house era. He asks for sheeps and sheep to play wiz, mistaking toy sheep for poker chips, and is steered through toy and ship counters before a passerby explains he wants poker chips.
Memdouh Bey, a noted Turkish poet and staunch legitimist, has relocated to London after editing Paris based Le Liberal Ottoman which the French government later suppressed. A former Smyrna foreign affairs official, he has endured multiple exiles under Abdul Hamid and now travels within Asia Minor. In another note, near Denver a rare seed harvest of Rocky Mountain conifers draws child labor and elder earnings, with seeds shipped to botanical gardens worldwide and to German and American forestry offices.
A number of Ashburnham manuscripts were purchased by the French Bibliotheque Nationale from the Barrios collection, a noted bibliophile and archivist who accumulated over 709 medieval French history manuscripts. Some items entered Barrios through Libri, and Lord Ashburnham, after confirming the manuscripts’ identity, returned them to France.
Albany Argus notes objections to women voting with claims they will rush into offices. Examples include Mamie Morris named colonel on Governor Candler's staff in Georgia, Bartelme as Cook county public guardian, and Mary Kincaid chairing San Francisco school board. The piece cites many women in public roles across states with varied suffrage status, arguing women already hold offices in several areas.
Admiral Crowninshield reports that virtually all Navy personnel are American citizens. Among petty officers 61 percent native-born, 32 percent naturalized, 5 percent with intentions, 1 percent resident aliens, 1 percent nonresident aliens, 93 percent citizens. Among enlisted men 72 percent native-born, 11 percent naturalized, 9 percent with intentions, 3 percent resident aliens, 5 percent nonresident aliens, 92 percent on track to citizenship. Apprentices are 94 percent native-born, 6 percent foreign-born. The trend shows alien sailors eliminated in favor of American youths.
The Agricultural Department reports a total corn yield of 1 250 597 000 bushels nationwide. Nebraska will provide 103 367 000 bushels despite July drought, over one tenth of the total. The piece lauds Nebraska soil and notes the state’s growing wealth and population.
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