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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
2
A collage of humorous anecdotes and vignettes. A widow’s wealth with a marriage condition leads to love, then reconsideration. An attorney probes Mr Wig gle dy a vinegar maker in a playful courtroom exchange. A sage jokes about naval destroyers and tongue twisting. A missionary and cannibal chief exchange quips about climate and cooking.
An exchange in Europe features a traveler and a supposed brigand discussing a ransom. The brigand offers cash in advance and insists on speed as the traveler reads a prepared lecture and magazine piece. A side dialogue about a daughter who paints and plays hints at a broader social scene.
A humorous dialogue unfolds over a newspaper want ad for a clerical job partly in store and partly outside. The shoe clerk jokes about the position, while readers weigh the strange combo and social jokes in a light, old time tone.
A police magistrate offers the prisoner thirty days to decide guilt or innocence after a dissipation episode. In a separate scene, a fireman rescues a girl named Iphigenia from a blaze, reporters noting her name and prompting a pronunciation cue.
A whimsical jumble of quotes shows a cartoonish humor about human nature and domestic life. Vignettes include a man drilling for a nail with comic misadventure and a heroic woman risking herself to save a child, a playful exchange about marriage dreams, and a sprouting blade of grass addressing a bud in lighthearted chatter.
A rugged stranger vows to teach the West a lesson in high life claiming wealth. A Mexican monte dealer taunts him about danger. In a grim twist a mob hints at burning a Negro but officials doubt guilt and hang him rather than condemn.
A brief exchange features Mrs. Van Upperton claiming Mayflower ancestry and Mrs. Suddenrich retorting by noting her ancestors waited ten days for a boat, reflecting light social humor on heritage.
A vivid claim suggests Nebb-Is Biffer is skilled at golf while a separate report alleges he knocked over a distant caddie. The details imply a controversial figure rather than a formal sports victory.
A Senate discussion reveals Jones is torn between introducing a woman suffrage bill and risking a hostile reception or waiting. A colleague notes his wife in the gallery and foresees he will proceed with the bill.
An evening speaker proclaimed live and let live but was challenged by the Amalgamated Order of International Undertakers. They rose as a group and ejected him for unprofessional conduct.
Clara comments on not caring for tragedy as she grows older while Maud notes the young enjoy tragedy more. The exchange hints at shifting perspectives on sorrow and entertainment.
Reports from multiple states give varied fruit prospects with apples pears and cherries promising in some regions while peaches are damaged or fail in others. Vermont and Addison county urged cultivation of orchard ground with plowing regular as best practice. experiments show Bordeaux spraying reducing apple scab and bitter rot in Ben Davis Huntsman varieties. Continuous wheat and fallow risk nitrogen and humus loss, degrading soil fertility over years.
The Missouri Fruit Experiment Station under Prof. John T. Stinson reports in its first year about forty acres cultivated with twenty in test orchards. It details strawberry crossing experiments and spraying trials on a commercial scale.
The Department of Agriculture reports two years of trials showing American red clover seeds outperform European varieties under U S conditions. Supplemental tests across major clover states aim to confirm results in key regions. Path of silage adoption noted as slow worldwide, with Illinois and Wisconsin highlighted for silo prevalence and economic impact.
The article describes cow pea variation in seed color ranging from black to purple and combinations, shapes from round to kidney shaped, and ripening periods from sixty to over two hundred days. It notes planting time and rainfall influence ripening, and high soil nitrogen can slow fruiting and maturity while boosting vine yield but may reduce pea yield.
The oleomargarine bill passed the Senate 39 to 31. A ten cent tax on colored product and a quarter cent per pound on uncolored oleomargarine were kept. The measure extends police power controls to substitute butter or cheese not produced from dairy milk and cream. Amendments were made and sent back to a conference committee.
The writer details European gardens from Rouen to Paris with vast cauliflowers sweet cherries and extensive vineyards noting neat stone houses and abundant roses. In New York the February milk supply rose to 7.2 million gallons from 6.55 million a rise driven by higher prices paid to producers. The piece argues creamery sales benefit farmers long term as skim milk supports producing veal pork poultry and eggs.
The article argues summer fallow harms soil by drying humus and suggests crop rotation including legumes as better. It cites Prof. Soule on Hessian fly in wheat, noting thriftier wheat suffers fewer attacks and sowing date and soil quality influence injury. It also covers broom corn planting time and cocksfoot grass suitability in shaded, rich loams.
A New York social leader Mrs. Albert Edwin Tower killed her 14 year old son in his room and then shot herself after telephoning her husband to return home. The Tower family lived in a mansion at Poughkeepsie and Newport with a yacht and ample wealth.
Noted stage figure Marion Manola Mason lies gravely ill in a Boston hospital. Once famed for portraying male roles and for a high profile divorce from Henry S. Mould, she married “Jack” Mason in London a month later, a union that drew much gossip.
Sensation rises in Japan over a reported trade in human heads used for medicinal decoctions. Investigations near Nihonbashi Tokyo uncover heads allegedly removed from crematoria and boiled or steamed. One head reportedly sells for about 30 yen. Faith in traditional remedies for illnesses, notably consumption, appears to persist.
An epidemic of self inflicted crises grips Madrid with twenty seven reported cases in a week. Lovers and financial pressures appear to be the leading causes behind the tragedies.
Movable scenery first appeared in Italy in 1508. It was invented by Italian architect Peruzzi, marking a milestone in stage design and theatrical productions of the era.
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