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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
3
An old man asks for charity as a passerby hears a tale of youth and finances lost. A sexton wakes during a sermon to slip candies to the pulpit, prompting jokes on generosity and expense. A note on allowances and marriages ends with reflections on frugal losses.
United States Department of Agriculture guidance emphasizes preparing silos before filling. It covers tightening hoops on stave silos, repairing defective wood, ensuring doors fit tightly, inspecting roofs for watertightness, and painting concrete silos every few years. It notes machinery readiness and harvest timing for optimal silage quality.
After clearing the asparagus bed apply a good coating of manure in spring. This helps prevent freezing and thawing, enriches the soil, and enables fertilizer to work, improving bed condition for the plants when growth resumes.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines three potato crop seasons in the South due to latitude and altitude. Early truck crop, late main crop, and fall crop. long growing season allows planting and harvest in most months. bulletin notes packing and shipping needs and offers a free Farmers Bulletin titled Potato Production in the South.
The United States Forest Products Laboratory reports split and round fence posts last about the same when heartwood and sapwood percentages are equal. Increasing sapwood makes split posts less durable, while more heartwood improves durability. Treated posts favor round posts for preservative uptake and durability.
Nebraska extension news reports farmers in Hamilton County saved 586 dollars by marketing eggs cooperatively in April and May. County agents and the farm bureau organized collection at a central point with packing and shipping coordinated to reduce costs.
Stewart Lockwood of the North Dakota Agricultural College cautions that crickets chew grain sheaf twine, risking grain laws. He advises using new twine and soaking in turpentine and pine tar days before use to deter pests.
Cleanliness governs home butter production as described by a farm bulletin. The process emphasizes washing equipment, using cream with about 30 percent butterfat, cooling cream promptly, ripening at 65 to 75 F, and holding mildly sour cream before churning. Temperature control, timing, and careful handling yield quality butter and proper packing guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin.
A man who cannot sing now plans to sing later, drawing attention to his vocal abilities. The statement argues he should be muzzled to prevent disruptive noise.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It notes a sworn purity statement with each bottle and offers a sample by mail to readers. Also mentions dolls for Greenland campaign by Captain Donald B MacMillan distributing American dolls to Greenland children.
Caution to guardians to check every Castoria bottle for the proper signature of Fletcher's Castoria, a remedy used for over 80 years for infants and children, as concerns about counterfeit labeling arise and child health is at stake.
Fragmented reading captures a gossip filled exchange about Sinclair Lewis with a reporter and guests at a dinner. The dialogue questions media influence and public taste while referencing Lewis and social pretensions of the bourgeois. An advertisement for Cuticura follows amid stray quips and humor.
Readers express frustration that kindness alone does not satisfy their needs as they seek tangible rewards and better treatment. The sentiment contrasts abstract goodwill with material outcomes and personal gain.
Advertisements warn that genuine Aspirin bears the Bayer name and only Bayer tablets are safe as prescribed for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain. Bayer is described as a monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid and boxed twelve tablets cost a few cents. Also notes on druggists selling larger packages and a soap powder claim from Red Gross Ball Blue.
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