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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
5
Armchair of Lafayette is seen roaming the capitol alongside Gen. Logan who returns to monitor the military committee. Vice President Wilson’s death room is said to echo with his wanderings. The demon cat tale endures, a tabby that grows monstrous, roars with a fierce yow, and leaps over observers.
A towering basalt pillar called the Gobron Dutsi or Solitary Rock rises near the Fulani city of Wase in British East Africa. Over a thousand feet high, it is said to host a river at its summit and inhabitants, though locals warn climbers may never return, with only pelicans and marabou storks observed on the rock.
A Paris resident’s will discloses a fortune left to a griffon dog named Hengarian. Angry heirs contest the estate after the owner’s death, which includes a house, horses, a carriage, and an annual income of 2000 dollars for the griffon’s maintenance. The dog was the owner’s favorite.
Carl Blakeley of Muncie Indiana complained a borrowed shoe pinched his toe and he found 1206 dollars in bills inside the shoe. He reported the discovery to local authorities and requested help returning the money to its rightful owner.
The piece recalls a prank at the Capitol where a cat with walnut shoes frightened night watchmen, feeding legends of spectral footsteps in Statuary Hall. It mentions a haunt in the rotunda linked to an early construction death and the wraith of John Quincy Adams.
Twelve men with twelve good eyes and twelve glass eyes attended a dinner in Muncie Indiana hosted by one of their number. Each guest wore a glass eye during the meal and at the end twelve glass eyes were removed and sent to the hotel proprietor to report and return. He opened the package before the telephone girl who fainted.
Twenty two workers were moving a 29 foot iron bar at the Pittsburgh Steel company Monessen plant when a lightning bolt struck the bar at the foundation site. It bent the bar into an S shape and knocked the men unconscious, injuring two internally.
A heavy windstorm toppled the tail spire of a church on Town Hill New Hartford Connecticut nearly a century old. The falling spire pierced the roof in a dramatic accident as shown in the illustration. The nearby paper headlined death by own action, though it resembled murder.
The article warns that animals and careless cultivation can severely injure or kill fruit trees by bark damage. It suggests fixing three or four stout stakes around each tree and nailing crosspieces, or wrapping trunks with woven wire fencing to protect the bark and deter pigs.
Rural New Yorker contributor Bawin Haight describes a whif fletree with a flat back edge and rounded ends. A heavy strap or trace runs along the back and around the end, with an 18 inch to two foot end holding an iron ring for tracing. He notes a long enough trap to hook directly on the handle for smooth contact with trees.
The soil must be well drained and deep enough for roots to reach subsoil. Surface soil should be cultivated and cover crops used to provide plant food without overreliance on manure. When orchards yield large crops, fertilizer use becomes essential. soil fertility requires careful, varied practices per site.
A simple pulling device uses a five to six foot round wooden stick with a single tree attached at one end and a trace chain at the other. The chain loops around the sapling and hooks to the pole. When a horse pulls, the roots are cut on the opposite side and the tree is uprooted quickly.
The article notes soil adapted to white potatoes generally suits apples. It adds apples tolerate more gravel or broken stone than potato fields, with the only practical limit being cultivation. The emphasis is on stone content and how it affects orchard management.
Plant a simple vine each year along the base of the dwelling and care for it. Watch it grow and mature through the growing season. In autumn it blooms with fruit and foliage, rewarding effort many folds and serving as a lasting, beloved plant through winter.
Advice on grafting fruit trees explains top-working healthy trees to combine early medium and late varieties. A family observed a large grafted tree providing valuable harvest and versatility with small time and money.
A peach census from Orange County finds thorough cultivation more crucial to peach trees than pruning or spraying, and suggests the most profitable life period for a tree spans four to eight years.
Fruit can be harvested at half the cost from sun headed trees. Fall is best for planting deciduous trees and bushes. Dry land suitable for farm crops will grow cherries. Apple growing looks bright today. Lime-sulphur spray gains with arsenate of lead. Grapes may overbear. do not let them set all fruit. Old arsenate of lead may remain usable if not dried into a lump. San Jose scale makes currants undesirable in the orchard. A small sprayer cannot handle large trees. use a barrel pump. Bordeaux mixture 4 lb bluestone 4 lb quicklime 40 gal water. Use Bordeaux before leaves open for scab and diseases on apple peach pear plum cherry. If apples bloom during cold wet spell, spray with Bordeaux.
The piece notes duck raising can be highly profitable with second year ducks yielding better returns. February to May show peak fertility. Indian Runner ducks lay year round. Hallock cites 12 cents a pound to raise ducks to market age with excess as profit. John Weber advised starting small with $1,000 capital for incu bators, 30 ducks, and breeder housing, stressing careful, principled growth.
A light wood carrying box for hens eggs keeps eggs from different pens apart during gathering. The simple box holds thin eggs and can be numbered to match pens. Useful for other farm tasks such as transporting tables from the garden and similar chores.
Practical guidance on poultry keeping notes feed before water and the role of ventilation over grain. Warns against oyster shells and fine gravel while advising sharp material for grinding feed and ash disposal in the house. Mentions egg fertility timing and balanced feeding for ducks and hens.
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