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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
3
A self promoting notice extols the Daily and Weekly Enquirer as essential tools for business people including financiers, manufacturers, and farmers. It claims wide reach, value for money, and urges readers to obtain subscriptions at stated yearly rates through agents or postmasters.
An advertisement describes a vast coast country 60 miles by 400 miles with fertile lands and low taxes. It promotes Southern Pacific land sales in Texas and invites readers to join monthly excursions from Cincinnati to inspect and invest, listing contact points in New Richmond and Cincinnati, Ohio.
A Swiss horticultural note describes hillside cultivation using an anchoring machine on ridge tops to guide a cultivator. The system allows a man to steer from behind a powered implement while a horse trails along, suggesting engine powered options to remove the horse from valuable fruit rows.
J. H. Hale offers practical advice from Prairie Farmer on starting a fruit orchard near home. Emphasizes location, close but sustainable spacing for apples and peaches, thorough soil preparation, cover crops, and avoiding sod planting. Recommends pruning, selective thinning, and prudent spraying with cautions on Bordeaux mix after buds swell.
Santos Dumont piloted his No 9 airship to hover over the Longchamp course and land among spectators between races. The crowd cheered as he spoke with them before departing toward Bagatelle. The day’s No 9 horse Tigellin won in a 22-horse field while another No 9 entry, Menestrel, had just defeated Quo Vadis in the preceding race.
A editorial urges national unity among road reformers to build good roads through broad, coordinated action. It cites Gladstone on delaying details until power is secured and advocates organizing nationwide for the general principle of national aid. The piece also urges keeping educated youth on farms to strengthen rural communities and schools.
A guide to building a simple fruit evaporator on a farm with a sloped roof four by four feet base. Galvanized trays slide on cleats and are heated by a stove. Two trays of apples and one of peaches can dry in a day and night. Girls can earn pin money by operating it.
The Chicago Tribune advises housekeepers on selecting cheese by rind condition and texture. A good cheese should have an even tint, elastic rind, and a mellow yet firm feel with a nutty buttery flavor, while poor cheese shows soft, mottled rind and a lack of acid.
The Columbia University library on Morning Side Heights has acquired a rare anarchist collection once owned by a French anarchist. About 2,000 items including 252 newspaper sets 260 books and autographs plus 270 large red poster prints form a scientifically valuable archive. Pauline Burkhardt a 16 year old at St Luke's hospital New York is dying from myelitis a rare paralysis disease.
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