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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1911
Page
7
Agricultural guidance outlines growing flax on dry land with clay soils under irrigation. It covers soil preparation, breaking, rolling, planting depths, weed control, and disease prevention using formaldehyde treatment on seed, with specifics on equipment and timing for best germination and uniform establishment.
Delegates from distant areas discuss dry farming methods to balance water supply, irrigation, and soil salts. The note highlights fertilizers, apple tree fertilization trials, late-season fruit buds, and issues facing sweet potatoes such as leaf miner, stem borer, and weevil.
Bloomington Ill Thomas W Devin 84 famed as world’s oldest wheelman waits for summer to resume daily bicycle spins. Since starting wheelchair aged 61 he rode 160000 miles, earned medals including 5020 miles in 1902, and recalls early “ordinary” wheels and safety bikes.
Instructions discuss stump destruction for yellow locust after logging. Best method: blast stump with dynamite or use a stump puller for speed and cleanliness. saltpeter and kerosene option described. Also includes a health note on abundant, healthy hog hair signaling vigor in swine and general signs of good health and disposition.
A writer recommends supplementing green forage crops with a mix of Distillery grains 600 parts, wheat bran or malt sprouts 200, and inseed meal or cottonseed meal 100. The blend adds 2 to 10 pounds per cow daily alongside silage, corn fodder, alfalfa hay, beet pulp in winter, and occasional silage during bad weather. Dairymen should grow their major feeds.
Currant bushes should be sprayed with Hime and sulphur if the San Jose scale appears. Use hellebore for currant worms and bordeaux mixture as a fungicide. Apply considerable bale slag and wood ashes annually. Quantities vary and should be adjusted as bushes indicate.
Description of the ruined Temple of Thebes at Heyat once serving pharaohs and government. The article notes a colossal enclosing brick wall of 120 acres, a 367 by 136 foot entrance, a columned hall, a standing statue of a Pharaoh, an inner court with a Thothmes obelisk, and grand doorways, marking it as a wonder of the ancient world.
A defense of commercial clubs in Utah, arguing they pay off by fueling town growth. They push railroads, utilities, streets, schools, and better governance, raising property values and quality of life. Membership requires attendance and dues, with boosters keeping the town breathing like lungs.
A German laborer at a Landeshut wedding danced into the early hours then hanged himself in the garden. He was found unconscious, revived, but later died. The incident follows a night of revelry with guests continuing to celebrate.
A Washington Herald quote notes that an emancipated woman is merely human and that a stylish gown deters some women from attending a convention. An editor adds a quip: a young man should learn to say no, with Senator Sorghum agreeing the habit could aid a future resignation.
A professor declares after half an hour of inquiries that man possesses freedom of the will. He ends the discussion to go shopping with his wife, citing an early interruption of the subject.
The reader asks what is the greatest pleasure of living in the country. The response favors going into town to tell people about the cool breezes, if any, and wonders whether such breezes exist.
Miss Wrathy vents at Mr. De Borrowe for an audacious query about her hair tint. Miss Slimm suggests a remedy. Wrathy explains her Easter hat box was too small to box his ears.
A narrator asks Tommy what he would do if someone entrusted him ten units to keep and then died. Tommy replies he would not pray for the donor but would pray for someone like him. The scene references the United Presbyterian context.
A humorous dialogue shows a missionary prompting a cannibal tribe to abandon raw eating by switching to knives and forks. The exchange ends with the tribe’s leader being gently persuaded by practical table manners.
A humorous exchange links a wife’s qualifications to voting with proper discrimination and learning to score a bridge game. The remark suggests that if a woman can master bridge scoring she should have no trouble marking a ballot.
Garfield Tea reputedly regulates digestive organs and eases constipation while Garfield Ten is said to relieve constipation headaches and bilious attacks though the text includes stray terms about Charity without clear context.
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