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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1900
Page
6
A National Stockman contributor provides practical notes on preparing soil with discs, harrows, and manure. It covers fertilizer types and rates, planting distances for cigar and white bur tobacco, setting out by hand or horse planters, and careful cultivation beginning June 1 while noting the feeding of pumpkins to livestock in autumn.
The writer discusses hedge-row progress along a wire fence and praises decorative plants like Virginia creeper and Bittereweet. He notes the value of vines for balance, birds benefiting from such plantings, and weighs practicality versus aesthetic appeal in supporting wildlife.
A writer advises that feeding pumpkins or squash to hogs is safe and effective. Thirty years of experience show good health and weight gain when pumpkins are split into five pieces for each fifty hogs and fed twice daily with corn. The note suggests switching from pumpkins to squash in recent years while maintaining steady gains.
Feettins Young Pew Prof. Thomas Shaw recommends a supplemental feed plan for young Olga piglets. If skim milk is available, partition a pen space near the dam and offer warm milk, then add a slop of aborts and milk with a little oats or corn. When the trough is ample, piglets may eat with the dam. avoid coarse bran or hulls early, keep the trough low, and gradually increase access as they learn to eat with the dam.
An Orange County New York Rural New Yorker contributor describes using gas lime to kill wild onions on farms. He reports a successful Septembers’ application that eliminated the weeds and improved pasture, but warns gas lime can harm gardens and should be used cautiously. The note also mentions Japan’s Dakon radish and growing conditions in Kagoshima Bay, plus advice on feeding thin cows with nitrogenous concentrates and reducing fat-forming foods.
Frank Kent, keeper of snakes at the San ranches chutes in Cal, describes an adventure with pythons during a milk bath to keep their muscles pliable. He notes the reptiles becoming active after the bath and recounts his unsettling feelings entering the den. The piece weaves in fragments about a girl born March 10 and a divorce action in New York.
Dr Groavenor Lowry of New York cites a sensational claim from the New York Herald describing an Alaska earthquake incident. An Indian mother, supposedly Yakutat Bay residents, sacrificed her child to appease evil spirits amid the tremors. The report notes Yakutat Bay as especially hard hit.
A narrator recalls wrestling a deadly python that bites and strikes, barely escaping as the creature is subdued. The scene shifts to a Yakutat fear during a great earthquake where Indians perform a sacrifice, pouring a mother and child into a fissure to avert destruction.
Sadie Glannoss, living with her father Antonia Boiling at 741 Third Avenue New York, seeks a divorce becoming one of the youngest applicants. The brief notes the case as a minor seeking dissolution of marriage.
Miss Edna McClellan of New York city has started chains to raise dimes for a Washington house for Rear Admiral Schley. She plans to enlist Gov Roosevelt and Miss Helen Gould on the committee and will seek aid from President McKinley, cabinet members, and congress if needed. Panama canal construction employs over 3 000 men.
A long reminiscence traces Charles J Hemphill born Greenville Michigan in 187.. to Grand Rapids and St Louis career shifts. Manager Comiskey recalls Tom McCarthy and Stivetts trial tales, salary bids, and a defense of pitching as a fit for strong physically capable youths, with notes on training and positional suitability in early baseball.
A clipped commentary traces baseball’s grip on American youth, noting the sport’s integral role in shaping traits and national identity as young players begin to develop a lifelong passion for the game.
The fragment outlines a baseball career from Montgomery City Missouri to Markit in 1877 and an ascent through teams including the Western club association, the Fort Wayne club, and a noted 1898 season with Manager Hill. It cites positions such as third base and outfield and references a disbandment event in 184.
The passage lauds Dewey as perhaps the fleet’s finest swordsman among seniors, noting Commander Lucien Young as a possible rival. It praises the weapon, armaments, and chivalric ideal, calling the arma blanche a noble emblem of naval legacy and romance from the leaden era.
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