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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1930
Page
3
The Woodmen News notes St Valentine’s Day as the signal of changing seasons. Birds sing of nest and love while warmer breezes lift spirits, urging lonely hearts to join the chorus and welcome spring.
The article recalls old Valentine beliefs such as hempseed on St Valentine Eve to glimpse a true love, bay leaf charms predicting marriage, and a peculiar hard boiled egg ritual. It notes comic valentines faded 40 or 50 years ago while today hand painted cards and decorative boxes thrive and children enjoy assembling valentines for teachers and family.
In its heyday the Valentine festival framed romance as a life partner pledge based on the first morning meeting. Yet the tokens of affection were typically anonymous, making the supposed suitor hard to identify as the letter’s author.
A poetic verse from the Ohio Farmer reflects on valentine love as birds and butterflies seeking true hearts and distant lands. It contrasts endless searches with a single enduring devotion to the beloved, implying lifelong reciprocity and lasting affection.
A Chicago Historical Society collection traces valentines from 1800 handmade hearts to 1851 Howland commercial cards, noting evolving expressions of love. It highlights humorous, sentimental, and wartime designs, including a World War I image by John T. McCutcheon and George Ade verse, and contrasts early vows with 1930s succinct lines such as To my sweetheart.
L I Watts of Canon City produced three times the average Colorado red raspberry yield with 566 crates per acre on one fifth of an acre using the hill system and heavy manure. Lester Hayne of Longmont followed with 518 crates per acre. Despite a tough season, high yields came from well manured patches, with winter protection varying by location.
Winter injury harms shade and fruit trees as delayed ripening from warm wet falls weakens cold tolerance. Low temperatures crack trunks, producing cankers on soft maples cherries elms as new tissue growth from cracks is killed by sudden cold. Sun warms trunks of apples in late winter causing cambium activity that dies back, leaving bark sloughing.
Winter pruning is emphasized as the primary orchard task. It should begin after leaves fall on bearing trees and involves painting pruning wounds to prevent drying and aid healing when growth resumes in spring.
Beautifying the farm home with trees and shrubs is an investment not an expense. A seedling peach tree costs more than a day’s wage. four peach trees pay for themselves. Red raspberries are the hardiest brambles while blackberries are tender. black raspberries are intermediate. Currants and gooseberries are extremely hardy and need no winter protection.
An advertisement extols Cole's Carbolisalve for burning itching and torturing skin diseases. It claims instant pain relief and healing without scars and urges purchase or mail order from The J. W. Cole Co. Rockford Illinois with prices 30c and 60c.
A boy spent a day at the farm with his grandfather beginning at seven. He returned home at six in the evening dirty but happy. He reports a great day after cutting his finger, falling from the haymow, and having a spreader run over his foot.
Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin became a worldwide favorite after his graduation. The remedy is described as safe and gentle, made from herbs and pure ingredients, and still used for constipation, headaches, biliousness, feverish symptoms, and low energy.
A health endorsement for California Fig Syrup touts its vegetable tonic and laxative benefits for children. A Topeka mother credits the product with her daughter Bonnie B’s health and lively appearance, noting repeated use since infancy.
Writers wrestle with conveying a sunset’s shift from gold to violet, seeking a memorable portrayal. The moment carries color, light, and mood that resist precise wording, inviting fresh metaphor and personal perspective.
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