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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1903
Page
3
A reader shares a practical stall design to keep cows clean and dry. The plan includes a front closure to limit head access, a four foot hay rack, a grain box, a side feed hook, and a front crosspiece to drop excrement behind the cow. Bedding uses dry chaff to stay clean through winter, with the cow staying confined November through early spring in town.
Minnesota writer argues laws cannot replace butter makers judgment and urges cooperative practice over rigid rules. He warns harsh penalties destroy cooperation and cites lessons from creamery failures, followed by Home garden tip on tobacco decoctions to control plant lice.
J. F. Wilson in Nut Grower argues for planting nut trees—hickory, chestnut, walnut—for timber value and annual crops. He notes rising lumber demand, limited remaining native forests, and suggests suitable lands for rapid timber growth on bottomlands and marginal areas.
A nineteenth century agricultural note explains a hand powered method to poison potato bugs using a sieve device and Paris green mixture, claiming light workload and efficiency. It also notes a rise in U S milk and butter production from higher yields per cow and urges stricter herd culling and heredity aware farming. A final caution warns against signing papers from traveling strangers, urging business with established concerns.
The article notes European royalty, including Kaiser Wilhelm and King Christian of Denmark. It claims American dentists serve many royal families. It describes the Kaiser’s superstition tied to an old legend and his plans to modernize Berlin and Potsdam palaces with electric lights, heating, sanitary facilities, and elevators, despite antiquarian protests.
Overheard on the Street notes Swedes in Chicago rivaling only Stockholm in numbers. It also reports Commissioner Greene in New York warning officers away from race tracks this season, plus city officials touting revenue from street cleaning and a digester system.
The notes cite 350 per 1000 Londoners born in the country, 2850 blind in the East End, 435 pauper aliens returned from the U S, with Liverpool charities supporting them. Over 500 infants die yearly from parents rolling them in bed, and 119 of 156 poor unions urge child life protection laws. Birmingham council set a four minute meeting record, beating the previous by one minute.
A Chicago Daily News item relays a Ravenswood postal window exchange about postage. A woman asks if 13 or 14 cents is correct and if the parcel would stay safe with a 13 cent stamp, with clerks and the crowd debating whether 13 is unlucky or would attract trouble.
A Mississippi reader from Taylorsville reports severe back pain relief after using eight pills. The testimonial attributes the recovery to the product endorsed by J N Lewis.
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