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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
6
Alma College announces that its School of Music, School of Art and Commercial School accept entrants at any time. Instruction is individualized with students starting when ready and stopping when they choose, paying only for what they receive.
Missouri aims to settle 11 million acres of unused state land with immigrants as the Missouri Migration Commission plans a bureau on Ellis Island. Reports mention various court cases and events from Idaho to New York, including a Harvard address predicting a creedless religion, a Teamsters leader convicted of attempted murder, and a 105 year old grandma at a Brooklyn wedding. Galveston rebuilds after Friday damage with multiple deaths and missing persons. Tarpon pier disaster claims several lives as wreckage drifts ashore.
Quoted from Pliny, the maxim urges timely action in farming and respecting proper seasons, warning that lost opportunities cannot be recovered. The aphorism highlights patience and precision as vital to agricultural success.
costly fires hit Michigan injuring no lives but forcing temporary layoffs across Bay City Traverse City and Ionia with losses exceeding 125000. Handy Bros saw mill planing mill and box factory burn for about 75000 while Marvel Manufacturing and Caldwell Louden plants suffered extensive damage. Grasshopper parasite devastates Upper Peninsula crops and a fatal train fall ends with robbery claim.
At a small Wisconsin resort hotel a newlywed couple draws gentle curiosity. A practical joker and a romantic spinster spark chatter as the pair enjoy croquet, dinner, and a playful prank with bells and ribbon. The couple reveal they are actually married years earlier and plan to return to their children, leaving townsfolk amused and reined in.
A desperate woman, Miss Roberts, plans suicide amid hunger and fear of debt. She gains a momentary lift by selling her last assets, gains a piano on credit with forged funds, and discovers a second wind of resolve as a bank error rescues her from ruin, leaving her boarding a train toward a fresh start.
A historic piece argues against a simplistic faith in selection and hybridization for crop gains. It explains fluctuations from nutrition, inheritance in reproductive cells, and three paths to plant improvement, emphasizing fixed parental characters and the limited reach of hybridization in shaping commercial corn varieties.
A small black beetle damages young tomato plants after outdoor relocation, often misnamed as a flea. Heavy dusting with a simple insecticide and possible repeat applications protect leaves. Nearby potato crops invite the potato beetle, so choose planting sites away from potato fields to avoid infestation.
The article advises against plowing bare ditches and gullies. It recommends filling them with brush, briers, straw, corn stalks, and rubbish to trap soil and prevent erosion. Decayed trash fills gullies, making them deep and rich, harming the field.
Potatoes grow quickly and require frequent cultivation for maturity. Three of four cultivations keep weeds down in a potato patch, but six to eight cultivations yield a better crop. Each cultivation likely gives higher returns than other crops.
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