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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1889
Page
7
Practical notes highlight that apple orchards need substantial mineral fertilization, especially potash during bearing. Manuring boosts size, sugar, and yield, with risks from pests. Also covers strawberry planting, potted plant advantages, sheep flock economics, potato and hay cautions, hedge care, seed balls, and fruit preserves.
Philadelphia doctors discuss a proposal to prohibit marriage for consumptives. They doubt a law could be effective, noting heredity and contagion from saliva and airborne germs. A New York physician proposes dragonflies to curb mosquitos and flies, backed by prizes for practical experiments.
Daarl es E Carpester, an amateur electrician, says he solved electric heating for cooking and heating and has filed patents. He describes an insulating material that confines heat to a central steel surface on a frying griddle and uses insulated strips on the sides and bottom. He notes regulation via a switch without steam, applying the concept to a laundry roller as well.
A Worcester church prayer meeting is disrupted when Deacon X announces his sister’s husband has killed himself in York state and his sister is in dire distress. The room reels as the crowd absorbs the unexpected confession amid a stormy night.
A fragment from the Christian Union extols a hypothetical perpetual objector who subsists on endless argument. It mocks the burden of constant criticism and lists the objector’s tiresome behavior. A New York Evening World item then offers a cramp remedy: wrap a strong word around a log to ease a leg cramp, a claim portrayed as simple and cost-saving.
An Italian nobleman in New York offers to sell his title for R20,000. The report notes the odd phrasing and fragmented memories of money, with local chatter about titles and commerce amid a broader line of remarks. The text also mentions the peach crop destruction beginning anew, described as a real ruin in Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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