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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1919
Page
10
Portable horn stories mix with court notes as a traveling woman entertains audiences with a mechanical horn during stops in the United States and Canada. She describes attempts to install the horn into a car and recalls court adjournments and a lawyer’s brisk exchanges.
A fragment describes how season and outdoor life reveal nature’s charm. It mentions tracks of small animals under snow, surface life, and the grace of twigs seed pods weeds and birds. The prose invites the stroller to listen to music in nature’s sounds.
Fragmentary motivational advice urging the reader to clear prejudice, discard surface thinking, and form habits of balanced analysis. Encourages testing, observing, and mediating to form genuine opinions and achieve success. The passage emphasizes independent reasoning over borrowed beliefs.
A prominent agronomist explains that large crops leave more humus through greater plant residue, improving soil for the next crop. The concept, illustrated with grass, notes that smaller crops yield less root mass and residue, limiting soil nourishment for subsequent plantings.
Unfertilized sod leaves less humus but larger roots can enrich soil when plowed under. Cornell station found heavy top dressing with fertilizer increases soil organic matter as much as seven tons of manure. Corn, wheat, oats and other staples show similar gains. Where manure is scarce, crop residues and humus-producing crops sustain humus with big harvests.
An experimental station reports that a fertilized sod combination yields large crops indefinitely. In related trials, corn on timothy sod top-dressed the prior season produced 26 bushels per acre more than corn on timothy sod without top dressing.
The Fifth Liberty Loan will test the nation’s war mood and over subscription potential. The note emphasizes émotion over investment yield, urging sentiment as the driver of sales rather than higher interest. It defends the sacredness of war bonds and warns against watering the appeal with business rationale.
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