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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
7
A historical instruction proposes drilling holes in the tongue irons and using a narrow iron piece fitted to the lower tongue side with matching holes. The design aims to keep the wagon tongue secured if tugs detach or trees break, preventing runaways.
A design modification adds a tapering end before the neck yoke with a shoulder to allow the neck yoke ring to pass under if a tug loosens. The safety iron would catch the ring, enabling easy on or off, and is favored over springs or loose belts through the tongue that bend and fail. The Prairie Farmer endorses it as a better arrangement.
A farmer describes making cement bricks using two second hand molds and a hand-cranked barrel mixer. He notes the sand cement mixing as the hardest part and that two days produced enough brick to build a 16 by 16 foot shed at about half the lumber cost. The bricklayer praised the bricks as the best he ever laid.
The text describes saving seeds from tomatoes cucumbers beans and root crops. It emphasizes selecting best plants and sowing early to produce strong seed heads with vines staked to prevent toppling and ensure sturdy seeds for the next season.
A reflective aphorism cites Horace Walpole on how worldview shapes perception. The line contrasts comedy for thinkers with tragedy for feelers, exploring perspective and emotion.
The seed should be treated with formalin before sowing. Use one pint formalin in 40 gallons water to treat 50 bushels, spread on a sterilized floor, spray until every kernel is wet, and ensure three quarts of solution per bushel absorbed. Cover the pile two hours, then turn to dry and sow promptly. Disinfect all bags and shovels used.
A brief dialogue notes moving a new safe into position with a fulcrum needed and a plan to avoid scent by eating a clove before returning home. The exchange references F Hougton Poxt, implying a domestic scene or gossip item.
The article reviews tests in several states showing crude oil applied to dirt roads creates a solid, dustless surface. Procedures include grading, pulverizing soil, spraying with oil, harrowing, and rolling. costs ranged from $500 to $1,300 per mile with oil at about 1.5 to 3 cents per gallon.
A compact low truck built from the front section of an ordinary wagon. An oak reach replaces the longer beam, an iron device secures a crosspiece, two 15 foot poles form the platform, and a bolted axle supports 15 inch rear wheels. Farm Journal notes the setup and measurements.
Guidance on improving farm profitability and animal health includes selling excess rams for a single strong animal, preventing daytime flies and night mosquitoes to avoid flesh loss, screening stables, ensuring sunlight and air for disinfection, pruning fruit trees, keeping pastures weed-free, and cleaning poultry houses with whitewash before frost.
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana reports her infant son suffered months of itching sores. After applying Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment three times the sores healed with no scarring. She declares the remedies the best she has tried and recommends them to others.
A quotation attributed to Smiles argues wealth alone does not bring zest to life. It emphasizes reflection taste culture and personal cultivation as the true sources of fulfillment.
No matter how badly the eyes may be diseased or injured. All druggists of Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y.
A compact quotation notes that duty stands as the sublimest word in language and governs the entirety of life, attributed to Lee.
Fragmentary note praises Wra Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a remedy for a child’s ailments claiming it eases pain and inflammation. The text is sparse and lacks verifiable details or context.
An advertising blurb touts Allen's Fact-Ease for sore feet with a 25c package claim and notes two million yearly sales. The text remarks on sharp critics and heightened critique.
Instructions detail managing straw stacks to feed cattle and keep yards clean. It advises near bar and fenced yard, nightly checks, and cleaning to prevent waste while converting straw to feed and manure. It also urges extensive 1909 spraying for apple growers and burning trash due to widespread scab.
A pupil recalls a morning classroom exchange about quietness and a seven year old’s punch line. The text shifts to a widespread Catarrh cure advertisement claiming constitutional treatment and a money back promise from Hall.
A woman's lifelong singleness after the death of her beloved is praised as heroic while a man's bachelorhood after his beloved dies is mocked as folly. The idea persists that a man must show greater anger to gain his wife’s attention.
One of the essentials for happy homes is reliable health information and products. The advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical, physician approved laxative praised by the Well-Informed of the World, available through the California Fig Syrup Co and leading druggists.
A quoted remark from the Dublin Irish Homestead asserts that Irish people differ from English by a divine possession of imagination, highlighting cultural identity with a literary tone.
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