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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1902
Page
5
A compact survey of high society ironies, scandals and pithy opinions. Hetty Green carries a pistol while Cambridge and Carnegie debate money, patriotism and luck. The column notes volcanic risk, divorces, mock weddings, and stock market tremors with a playful, era voice.
The Marquis plots revenge on Fedora’s husband Livermore as Mazette’s fortunes rise. Fedora, mysteriously drawn to the black-bearded American, faces a web of wealth, danger, and a newly revealed maternal bond. The Marquis’s schemes shift when two children bind him to Fedora.
A New York Times note recalls a dawn mishap on a Third avenue electric car. Two drunken young men, one in evening dress and one a tramp, swapped hats as they slept. A sympathetic passenger swapped hats back, and the men were guided off the car to a cold wash and sobering. The tale ends with the conductor playing a crucial role in the vignette.
The piece recalls Prince Peter of Orleans, a 1860 cadet son of Louis Philippe, who faced hostility from U S cadets when told a Bourbon would arrive. He bore it with grace, later serving as a French navy officer who treated rivals with courtesy. It notes today foreign cadets are not hated and lists the 1860 class members Clark Oregon Cook Brooklyn Wilde Baltimore Leary Mullan Crowninshield Glass.
An army surgeon recalls a Manila assignment causing a regiment to be short of its colonel. A soldier lost an eye in a clash with insurgents while away. In hospital he jokes that he wore the eye out up country while hunting that colonel on the firing line.
London in 1580 housed about 123000 people with John Lyly as fashion favorite and Sir Philip Sidney at court. Edmund Spenser rose to fame as Shakespeare wooed Anne Hathaway in Warwickshire. By 1605 the city reached 200000, remaining England’s hub though smaller than New York or Pennsylvania today. The dead cannot smell the flowers.
Missouri reports show apples with potential about 60 percent of normal, pears holding, peaches reduced by last December’s cold, and cherries and grapes promising though strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries hit hard. Illinois plans extensive southern field work against bitter rot in three large orchards Tonti Flora Tamaroa with spraying trials and a Salem headquarters for horticultural research.
The report covers University of Illinois horticulture work on spraying fruit trees during bloom and its effect on pistils and pollen for fruit set and crop quality. It also notes Missouri and Kentucky horticultural meetings and explains Hessian fly impact on late wheat planting and its relation to weather and frost. It ends with a quip on the value of a ducat.
Alkali soils appear after long irrigation, moving alkali to the surface and harming crops. Flood waters and eight inch flooding proposed to wash alkali from soils. Campbell soil culture praised in arid western states, with trials in Western Kansas showing strong crop results. Porto Rico agriculturists report crops year round with varied planting times and surprising off-season yields.
A Rye Pasturage note from Farmers' Review recounts twenty acres of rye last year and a good crop ahead this spring. The writer saved fifty dollars on feed by fall and spring grazing, valuable when hay and corn costs were high. Rye pasturing aids folks without silos, adds succulence to rations, and may endure despite modern methods. Timber belts bring debates on shade and yields, while proverb-like quips close the column.
The note invites readers to send their address to Zeph. Chas. Felt at 102 Boston Building Denver Colorado for information about grain lands around Romeo and the ongoing harvest efforts.
Street corner storytellers in Japan sustain livelihoods with tables fans and paper aids in Tokyo 600 practitioners. An unrelated Mother Gray powder ad markets nerve remedy with 30 000 testimonials and a 25 cent price. A school rhyme exchange ends with a prompt correction as Tommy and Johnny interact about ringing.
Household medicines and wartime style ads mingle with stray dialogue and travel fare. Mentions Huils Catarrh Cure 7c, Winslows Seething Syrup, Pitoes Cure, and a single fare round trip in rail routes. Also a Mrs Hen talks about a smart set of fifteen eggs in her nest.
The Santa Fe offers round trip fares from Colorado points to Chicago St Louis Kansas City and intermediates plus select Oklahoma Missouri Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin at one fare plus 2. on June 6 7 8 9 10 and daily June 1 to September 12 with a final limit October 11. New and improved train service. Contact your ticket agent or J P Hall Denver CO for details. Tommie truthfully answers a school question in a local exchange.
Louise M. Gibson declares a fatal disease called kidney trouble is real and cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She recalls two years of suffering with kidney troubles and other complications and the relief she found after using the remedy, hoping to regain health and life.
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