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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
6
A wandering applicant in Mi yotee seeks help from a kind woman who offers food and clothing. The man tells his story while Sasha questions the benefit of soap types and proper washing. The scene hints at poverty and improvised aid.
An old advertisement page touts Culicura Soap and Olinement for skin care, offers free samples, and lists an address in Boston. It also includes a boast about Van Smythe claiming descent from a signer of the Declaration and a Denison’s Seminole Coffee promotion with a Chicago address. Several quirky lines mix products and personal asides.
A Baltimore American inspired guide explains drill planting corn for green feed and winter fodder. It details spacing about 42 inches, applying 400 pounds phosphate, four cultivations, and harvesting fodder at the dough stage. Fodder yields four to five tons per acre and stores best when dry and packed as shocks.
The rule requires two clean bedding layers each night and removal of filth each morning. Milk is tainted by foul odors and must be collected promptly into the bucket. Stalls must be scrupulously clean with whitewashed walls, and all dust well crushed to keep the area sanitary.
Manure piles are favored breeding spots for flies and spread of disease. A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin suggests dissolving borax in water and spraying manure piles and stables twice weekly to kill larvae, reducing fly numbers and protecting livestock health.
Joan S. Smith of Recine Wisconsin presents a patent for a cultivator with extra blades that travel in advance parallel to the main blades to slice sod roots weeds and crust. A single lever operates both knives and cultivator blades reducing draft and allowing soil stirring and sod crust removal in one pass. Independent beam adjustments let the blade assembly adapt to various soil conditions.
Farmers waste valuable nutrients when manure is piled in the barnyard and left to wash away. Rainwater leaches soluble plant foods from saturated manure, carrying them into surface waters or the soil, where they are lost beyond recovery.
Those selling hatching eggs should test fertility of eggs from selected matings to avoid sending poorly fertilized eggs to customers. If fertility is low replace the male or adjust the feeding ration to prevent delays in raising chicks for shows.
The article notes farmers lose touch annually due to poor facilities for storing perishable foods. It urges EBrary farm home to have a cellar storehouse and refrigerator to save surplus foods for later consumption and cites inadequate storage as a factor driving speculation.
Deputy Conley and Sequoyah county officers raided the Zach Gossett farm six miles from Vian. They found 150 gallons of mash poured out and 24 hogs reportedly consuming it. The hogs exhibited playful behavior before aging into a mild drunken stupor.
Harry Newkirk is accused of killing Maud Blazington near Summitville after she left him and pursued another man. Blazington had lived with Newkirk as a common law wife then filed for a peace warrant after a white slavery claim, and later traveled toward Summitville where Newkirk allegedly killed her and then died on the railroad tracks. The case centers on a disputed marriage, abandonment, and alleged vigilante style act.
The Nebraska State Journal argues free land is ending in the nation as Amele Sam opens a 4000 acre North Platte tract signaling a shift to internal settlement. It notes high U.S. land prices, rising speculation, and Canada offers 160 acre free grants plus cheaper lands, urging readers to consider Western Canada for farming opportunities.
London a new policewomen force shows progress after six months with positive public reaction. Atypical reports describe how officers calmed a street brawl between two drunken soldiers by clearing the crowd separating the combatants and guiding them to return to camp.
A naval officer mocked critics during a Washington reception using a joke about shirred eggs. He contrasted alleged naval ignorance with a humorous, improvised recipe that described peeling six eyes and sewing yolks into egg whites, ending with a flamboyant, theatrical image.
A brief dialogue shows a mother questioning a child Willie about hand washing. The child asserts compliance, and the exchange ends with the mother asking to see his hands, highlighting trust and insistence on hygiene. The tone resembles a domestic vignette from a vantage of family life.
A terse dialogue unfolds between a mother and a young man as she warns against kissing her daughter. The exchange pivots on a grim metaphor about climbing a ladder with no further rung, implying impending consequences.
Louis N Raphael and Viola Raphael, once divorced last year, have remarried using their old wedding ring. Mrs Raphael said we just couldn't get along without him.
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