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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1910
Page
7
Practical guide on using a road drag with two horses, positioning, and angle. Describes boarded flooring, spacing for dirt to fall through, and adjustments for traffic, hitch length, and soil moisture. Notes that benefits appear after a season and emphasize improvements for light vehicles and overall road quality.
A farmer living on a good road is a free man able to sell stock grain and fruit at best market prices regardless of weather. Railroads must serve those who can reach a shipping point any day. The note ends with a line about cows not preferring the same food for best yields.
Sweet peas feature $6 divisions and about 300 subdivisions. California hosts a 500 acre dedicated seed farm and yields around 350000 pounds yearly. Even with smaller farms, demand outstrips supply as sweet peas remain America’s top home garden flower save for nasturtiums.
Instructions describe using carbon bisulphide to kill woodchucks in cultivated fields by placing it in a hole and sealing other holes. It warns to keep the chemical away from fire and to avoid inhalation.
The article argues that money spent on road improvements yields returns for farmers comparable to investments in stock sheds grain cribs fences seeds or other productivity boosters, stressing roads as a sound farming investment.
The hare s ear mustard is named for its leaf shape resembling a hare s ear and is also known as rabbit ear or hare s ear cabbage. A weed widespread in the West it grows a fleshy young leaf and a wiry stem. it flowers creamy white late June and seeds ripen August through September. It crowds other plants and drains soil moisture, signaling its environmental impact.
Advertises Resinol Ointment and Soap as universal cures for skin troubles from eczema to burns and hemorrhoids. Claims rapid relief, overnight cures, and inclusion in every home medicine cabinet, with a free booklet and availability through drug stores and the Baltimore company.
Tests at experiment stations show cheaper phosphates like finely ground phosphate rock yield comparable or higher total output at about half the cost of soluble forms. Slag phosphate meal outperformed bone meal, while ground phosphate rocks gave especially strong results for grass and reseeding plowed lands.
The text gives farm advice on pest control using borax for cabbage worms, early storage of potatoes, watering crops to prevent sunstroke, weed and rubbish cleanup to deter insects, shading tomato vines to reduce sunscald, mulching for rhubarb and asparagus, summer fallowing and fall plowing to curb grasshopper damage, potato variety Alureka, fertilizer value, and sowing wheat early to establish before cold weather.
The London Globe reports locals in Lewis ham witnessed globular lightning or fire ball lasting several seconds. It is described as less bright than ordinary lightning with a red hot iron hue, always spherical, and it falls from clouds under its own gravity sometimes rebounding after ground impact.
A quirky anecdote describes fish secretly fond of gasoline and the odd idea of soaking worms to boost bait appeal. Two gasoline tempted fish explode in a pan shattering a kitchen window and splattering mashed potato on the cook, while the teakettle flies into the flour barrel and stewed tomatoes splatter the ceiling.
A four year old, Guinevere, plans a walk with a beloved young woman when a dusty street gust rises. The companion admonishes her to keep lips closed to avoid crobes. Guinevere then asks what crobes are in a curious moment captured by the National Monthly.
A Cincinnati commercial traveler credits Grape-Nuts with curing his prolonged illness and rapid weight gain. He recounts losing 40 pounds, suffering headaches, and then restoring health after adopting Grape-Nuts, noting improved brain clarity appetite and overall well being. The letter claims authenticity and urges publication.
Mrs. Ray Trusner of New Albany Indiana describes severe kidney disease causing bed confinement and swelling. After using Doan's Kidney Fills she recovered in six weeks, with marked improvement and renewed vitality. For sale by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A traveler recalls an old negro preacher who provides a grand metaphorical sermon. As the discourse ends with "Twenty-third and lastly, brethren" the preacher imagines the Almighty guiding humanity along untrodden paths and leaves a lasting impression with his elaborate figure.
An advertisement touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a long established remedy for women's ailments. It promises quick and permanent results and notes sale in drug stores. A dispatch from the penitentiary reports convicts strike for pie twice daily in protest.
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