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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
2
New Mayor Blankenburg launches a reform drive as saloons and speakeasies across Philadelphia close or raid. Fully 600 dens shut, clubs also silent, and a citywide bid to create a model, well governed metropolis faces German opposition to Sunday beer bans.
At a New Year reception at the Kiysee palace diplomats gathered including American envoy Weteg Mehert Hacon and Sir Francis La Bertie. They discussed Taft aimed treaties with Prance and Great Briain and the return to arbitration as a path to civilized progress. President Pullers pledged U.S. support for international dispute resolution.
Theodore L. Weed chief clerk of the postal department and Postmaster General Hitchcock's senior aide has been named director of the postal savings system at five thousand dollars a year He will assume his duties immediately The new executive aims to grow deposits to over fifty million dollars by year’s end and to make the system self sustaining The current deposits exceed fifteen million Chicago leads with seven hundred seventy seven thousand five hundred forty two New York follows with four hundred eleven thousand Boston three hundred sixteen thousand four and St Louis with one hundred nineteen thousand six hundred six The Postal Service plans to establish postal banks in about two thousand four hundred four class post offices that handle money order business
Neber Perkins Beas, Hampshire governor, engaged to Milas Edith Mid, with ties to East Walpole and the Norful Hunt club. Rumors place Beas as a progressive ally, possible vice presidential nominee, noted for forestry work and leadership in the New Forestry Association. brother of famed war correspondent John Poster Bass. Robert P. Bass born in Clinton September 1, 1673.
A first person travelogue aboard a Yangtze river steamer recounts Hankow, Kinkiang, and Nanking passages with cholera scare stories, street observations, odd Chinese curios, and a burlesque touristic impression of Shanghai near the trip’s end. The narrator notes river scenery, local trades, a monkey skeleton vendor, and a dinner with sherry aboard.
Mrs Duddy seeks fashion advice at a shop. A stranger counsels blue for its red-hair harmony, yet Mrs Duddy settles on brown, pleased with the result. The tale ends with her remark that advice always improves shopping. The excerpt also notes a London Morning Post view of Arab instability and ruin after their arrival in North Africa.
Plan for a practical lifting device from Farm and Home using two eight foot planks with alternate holes, bolted ends, and a lever. A brace stabilizes the frame while a chain or rope raises the load via a trunnion pin mechanism. A trial is recommended.
A Missouri farmer describes a cement manure pit, pump, and tank system to spray liquid manure over clover and berries. The illustrated setup uses a wooden top, a cone valve pump, and a distributing box to spray via rear outlet, claiming benefits over solid manure and saving solids for other crops.
The Institutes, held in your community, feature practical farmers who have succeeded. While you know your own farm best, learning how others operate can help you increase profits and enjoyment.
Farmers differ in fertilizer aims. Proponents view fertilizers as permanent soil improvement for sustained yields. Others use them to extract short term gains from poor soils, enabling small extra sales.
A brief note outlines the challenge of spreading manure when ground is hard and frozen. It advises using easier methods and proper timing to ensure effective distribution without damaging soil.
Ansistant Agronomist of Idaho Experiment Station urges buyers to obtain or rent a good gravity seed mill to clean and grade seed grain before sowing next spring. Grading uses screens and a blast to remove foul matter and wild oat, producing uniform kernels free from chaff, dust, and most wild oat.
A Wallace's Farmer writer outlines a fodder rack design using 4x4 corner posts and 2x4 sides with a two foot feeding gap. The bunks have six cross 2x4s per side, are lightweight, movable by two boys, and require no bottoms. Used stalks serve as bedding and manure. A brace of Yxts across the top provides strain resistance when tipped.
A writer notes alfalfa thrives on rolling ground and soil with three prior crops since sod. He suggests sowing thinly to avoid black gumbo soils and observes blue joints grow well on suitable soil. The neighborhood has small alfalfa acreage but may expand this year per the writer.
A collapsed slice of agricultural guidance covers crop care and soil management. It notes that oats are a weaker nurse crop for alfalfa than barley, suggests using trellises for tomatoes, praises clover and alfalfa as winter greens, and advises timely manure spreading. It also covers fertilizer response, spring sowing, soil moisture retention with mulch, and wool ashes as an amendment.
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