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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
8
An illustrated feature by William A Radford argues for a large durable dairy barn with 80 stalls and a wide open feedroom. It highlights concrete floors wood block stalls ventilation roof windows and a gambrel roof to provide sunshine air and humane, efficient care for cows.
A survey of washerwomen reveals Friday washing as portent of death within a year, with Good Friday rules, cross pins to safe wash, soap drops presaging weddings, and inverted shirts signaling death. Metaphorical luck favors a washer carrying fresh clothes, while passing an unwashed basket brings misfortune.
No real alarm as space may be finite in extent. Einstein’s view gains support from eminent physicists yet the cosmos appears alarmingly shrunk. His own estimate suggests light would take a billion years to circle a 180000 mile path twice, challenging notions of vast infinity.
United States Department of Agriculture experts urge farmers to prepare silos for filling, tighten stave hoops, replace defective wood, and paint concrete silos every few years. They advise rust prevention, inspect roofs and doors, ensure proper harvesting gear, and harvest corn 90 percent dented for optimal moisture and palatability.
The note advises cleaning and cleaning off an asparagus bed and applying a good coating of manure in spring. This helps prevent freezing and thawing damage and improves soil for healthier plants.
The article explains three distinct potato crop seasons in the South the early truck crop the main crop and the fall crop with continuous planting possible due to a long growing season. It notes market value high prices and the need for proper packaging and shipping for the early crop. Farmers Bulletin 1205 by the USDA is issued and obtainable free from the Division of Publications.
The forest products laboratory of the USDA reports split and round fence posts wear about the same when heartwood and sapwood proportions match. Increasing sapwood hurts split posts, increasing heartwood helps them, with spruce and hemlock exceptions. Creosote favors round posts for preservative absorption reasons.
Extension workers from the University of Minnesota and Nebraska agents report six cents a dozen, totaling 885 dollars, saved by Hamilton county farmers through cooperative egg marketing in April and May. Central collection, grading, packing, and shipping were organized by the county agent and farm bureau.
Stewart Lockwood extension entomologist at North Dakota Agricultural College warns crickets are chewing grain tube strings and causing losses across the region. He urges using new twine when possible and soaking leftover twine in turpentine and pine tar solution to deter the pests.
A spring team leader gathered his players and warned them to ignore stage applause. He reminded them the diamond is the field not the theater and to focus on hitting and base running without bowing for the crowd.
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a pure, non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney, liver and bladder troubles. It promises safety and strength in every bottle and offers sample requests to Kilmer Co. in Binghamton, N Y.
The report from the Canadian department outlines insect pests causing annual losses of 125 million in field crops. It notes an ongoing "anthyaste" research campaign and highlights savings of 40 million a year from the botany branch in combating smut and potato rot.
Important to mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria the famous old remedy for infants and children to ensure it bears the trademark symbol and the line in use for over 80 years. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A New York Sun item reports a businesswoman bought a large Panama hat for 80 dollars then learned it cost only three. She tells John of a clothesman who offered five dollars, calling the purchase a neat overused bargain and noting she hopes to sell for two dollars.
An advertisement warns that authentic Aspirin carries Bayer on the package or tablets and claims Bayer’s twenty one year proven safety. It lists uses for head pain neuralgia rheumatism and more, noting small twelve tablet boxes and larger packs sold by druggists.
A fragment recalls Edna and her mother pausing near a shop entrance with a sign reading Children sale price. Edna urges a purchase of a baby, capturing a moment of impulse and poverty era desire.
An old advertisement explains catarrhal deafness as inflammation of the tube draining the ear and notes a constitutional remedy Hall's Catarrhal Medicine acts through the digestive system to reduce mucous inflammation and restore normal hearing. Evidence cites J Cheney Co Boston Ohio Barber Advert.
A brief dialogue fragment presents a minister asking a boy if he knows who he is and the boy replying he knows who he is. The philosopher character defines a philosopher as one who refuses to worry about troubles, framing identity through attitude rather than titles.
An elderly man pleads with passersby for help saying he saved a small sum at fifty for a comfortable old age, but failed to predict illness and now at seventy two his funds are gone. His plea draws sympathy and prompts generosity from the crowd.
Dugan doubts spirits claim to contact the dead while Mon khan insists proof exists. A misreported kill in the war followed by a message from a relative sparks a claim of return from the afterlife and a voyage on a transport at sea.
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