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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1923
Page
3
Fashion column highlights black velvet frocks for young girls with capelets and fur trim. Describes beaver collars, plaid accents, and new capelet winter wraps, noting youthfulness in embroidery, color, and decorative borders. Mentions Paris influence and metal thread embroidery on coats.
The United States Department of Agriculture describes analyzing cost records and farm management on 28 000 farms to reveal factors behind efficient farm business. Costs are rising, and many farmers profit only if they track accounts, study costs and returns, and optimize livestock management and labor use. Special farm account books are available through extension divisions.
New York state college orchard experiments show heavy pruning of young pear trees in varieties such as Kieffer Bose Seckel Clapp Favorite and Sheldon cut yields by up to 25 percent by age ten. Open head pruning may help when trees mature but results vary and further trials are needed. Moderate pruning benefits older trees with tall limbs and crowded top growth. Keep trunks and main limbs free of spurs and sprouts to reduce fire blight risk and improve long term tree health.
Farmers face rising costs and seek top quality seed to ensure marketable produce. Experiment stations breed high yielding strains, grown under college supervision, and labeled as registered or certified seed with official tags. Buyers should demand the registration papers to guarantee seed is truly certified.
Testing cattle for tuberculosis under the area plan is popular across many parts of the country. The approach tests all cattle in a county or area at once, attracting buyers to disease free regions and reducing costs compared with smaller herd testing.
A four year study on the Better Sires Better Stock movement notes Pulaski county Virginia led by E. C. Grigsby shows 57 pure bred stock owners and a 150 percent increase. The report lists 23 active states and 28 counties with pure bred sire operations, 12 000+ cooperating owners and 1 368 732 breeding stock as of Oct 1 1928.
J M Rolfs of Oklahoma A and M College advises applying lime to garden soil in winter to aid growth and manure decay. He notes most gardens benefit from about twenty pounds per square rod, using crushed limestone or air slaked lime, but some crops like strawberries, watermelons, and potatoes may suffer from lime.
Dwarf Essex rape is praised as a top forage for swine, usable in the same season as seeding. Experiments show 387 to 609 pounds gain per acre, influenced by pig age and ration, with best results when tankage is fed with corn. Plant in early spring and consider two alternate plots for season-long pasture.
An article notes each corn patch faces a unique problem but commercial fertilizer can make it profitable. It cites Gear. 'gia experiments recommending 100 pounds of nitrates per acre when corn stands two and a half feet high to maximize yield compared with planting time or later growth stages.
After the ground is frozen and dust settled the winter is an excellent time for painting buildings. Usually more time is available and the paint holds its appearance as well during winter as under hot sun.
A brief witty fragment shows a playful dialogue about sweetness and charm. A speaker praises an Adonis with a sweet tooth and promises clever ways to make sugar slip down, framed in lighthearted tone.
A cold night staple chowders including clam lobster corn and codfish detailed with steps. Recipes cover clam chowder with potatoes milk butter and crackers lobster chowder with liver and onion, corn chowder with pork onions milk and crackers, and codfish chowder with salt pork onions potatoes and hot milk.
A historic quote attributes to John Ruskin the belief that every person must discern and enhance their own gifts to aid others, emphasizing self-improvement as social duty. The maxim frames personal talents as public service and moral obligation.
Instructions describe hubbard squash baking without peeling and compare favorably to boiling. Also outlines Pimento, Spanish potatoes variants and Baked Indian Pudding with cornmeal, raisins, suet, nutmeg and molasses baked slowly. serves hot with or without sauce.
Miss Plainniug breaks off engagement with Mr. Lightfoot to save face as he plans to leave town. Russ Tarte comments that she cannot blame him for recalling his limited reputation.
Ad advertises Cascarets for relief of biliousness constipation sick headache and indigestion. Drug stores carry the product with a box price of ten cents. Ends with a Wendell Phillips quote about awakening intellect and discipline of the mind.
An ad touts Brandreth Pills as a safe reliable laxative made in America for vitality years and entirely vegetable with claims of consistency and effectiveness for everyday use.
German ex-royalists apply for pensions by military rank including the former crown prince of Bavaria claiming a general pension. Cotton and linen prices have doubled due to the war. A garbled note touts Red Cross Ball Glue in laundry services and grocers advertisements.
A quirky claim paints London as the only city where a man can eat a penny bun in the street without attracting attention. The remark highlights street life humor and urban resilience in the British capital.
An advertisement claims Wright's Indian Vegetable Pigs will stimulate a sluggish liver to aid digestion. It promotes the product as a remedy for poor food assimilation and cites its availability at 372 Pearl Street.
A reflective note argues for recognizing effort over harsh blame. It contends people deserve credit for attempting, proposing a kinder approach to judgment and progress. The tone favors constructive critique over ridicule and shaming.
An 70 year old standard external remedy Allcock's Plaster continues to be sold worldwide. The ad touts its universal use for pain relief and highlights its long standing market presence in civilized regions.
A terse philosophical musing contrasts personal burden with social impact. The speaker notes that treating life as a burden may imply being a burden to those nearby, inviting contemplation of responsibility and community.
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