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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
9
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A young heir to a Pittsburgh fortune vows to abstain from drinking for a year. Two days later he enters a hotel bar with a stated intention to prove it by eating ice made cocktails, as his father watches. The scene ends with the youth consuming frozen cocktail pieces.
New York Board of Health bacteriological department reports contagion plays little role in pneumonia spread. The high winter death rate is attributed to cold weather rather than contagion.
Henry James has come back to America after years abroad and is regarded as the leading American novelist by younger writers. He receives praise when visiting Rye and a visiting American novelist on a European tour asks for his verdict. James candidly tells him he writes too much and may not reach posterity with so much luggage.
Gloucester cod inspires leather for shoes and gloves. Egypt uses fish skins for sandals. Russian uniforms feature turbot skin trims. European bookbinders bind volumes with eelskin.
State Fish Commissioner notes Indiana lakes attract many visitors with Winona Lake near Warsaw drawing over a quarter of a million last year. Winona Assembly becomes the nation’s most visited summer gathering, funding year round schools for struggling boys and expanding a growing summer city around the lake.
Seed corn testing described using kernels from ears, Geneva tester for germination, and water filled box with canton trough folds. W J Hesse of Newark NJ notes success with inoculated seed and awards from the New Jersey Horticultural Society after orange blooms in Jimme and July.
In Sonoma County California the poultry industry concentrates on small farms yet shows rising totals. The Petaluma area supplied over 3.4 million dozen eggs in 1903, implying about 549 thousand fowls near Petaluma, highlighting disease risks and the need for sanitation to protect profits.
Such strong manures are best adapted when applied to leaf crops like spinach cabbage kale and Swiss chard. Being highly nitrogenous they induce leaf growth. They should be applied sparingly to fruit crops such as tomatoes peppers and strawberries says an exchange.
Hog men say a four inch hickory post set in the bow run and wrapped with a manilla rope saturated with crude petroleum or kerosene serves as a scratching post. Hogs rub against it, helping remove lice and mites. keep the rope saturated with oil every few days for best effect.
The article discusses growing hyacinths in the garden and using loaves as a humorous baseline, then covers March to April hotbed sowing for tomatoes and sweet peas, soil inoculation misstatement, asparagus vigor and care, protecting against cold and sun, and dahlia seed propagation with varied colors for cut flowers.
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