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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1915
Page
2
Mr and Mrs Joli Alt of Benton Kansas visited Mr Alt's brother Con Alt and family in Hetheorville last week. Con Alt is a station agent for the Ruck Island railroad company located in the southbound region.
Katherine Denton, a stenographer turned wife to Dwight Sanborn, leaves a troubled marriage after his neglect and turns to nursing. A chance sanitarian stint brings them back together as Dwight falls ill, recognizing Katherine in a nurse’s care, seeking forgiveness, and a renewed love as June arrives.
A schoolteacher in Philadelphia asks a father about his own. The wry line notes she has told him six times to sit down and behave, revealing a domestic moment and comic sharpness in a Ledger quotation.
Former census director Dr BE Dana Durand now at the University of Minnesota argues high living costs stem from inefficient homes. He cites women as largely responsible for these patterns and warns real change requires a long moral revolution. meanwhile costs remain high.
The article offers practical garden advice including saving water with submerged tomato cans, maintaining moisture through regular cultivation, and selecting early and hardy fruit varieties. It highlights Strawberries including Superb, raspberries like St. Regis, and hardy berries, plus cherry and apple trees suitable for compact spaces and wall training.
An 19th century note describes trellises used in various wars and framed lattices to screen windows. It explains creating a lattice from thin ash strips in a basket weave, adding decorative detail with rambler roses.
An old garden column suggests using cooled sudsy water from tubs to nourish plants and notes waste material can cut fertilizer costs. It mentions burying beet and carrot tops, lettuce leaves, coffee grounds, tea leaves, soot and ashes as favorable fertilizers for gardens and dwarf fruit trees as space-saving, attractive options.
Copper sulphate is used to kill seamlike pond weeds but requires precise dosing to protect fish. At Kew Gardens a ratio of one part copper sulphate to 750000 to 1000000 parts water is used, with powdered sulphate in a porous bag dragged through the water until dissolved, a method also used to keep St James's Park ponds weed-free for two summers.
The obelisk in Central Park is not unique as celebrated monoliths exist in Rome Paris and London. Ancient Egyptian obelisks, dating to the era of Rameses II around B.C. 1250, number about forty two with many damaged. Scholars debate their link to the ancient gods and religious symbolism.
The article notes Senegal red rice grows in flooded fields regularly by tidal action. The plant rises with the water, floods lift the stalks, and the grain becomes very red, dry, and hard. It swells in water, losing some color, yet remains very nourishing and requires no cultivation.
A railroad editor complains of inconsistent references to a figure named Bridge with one source calling him Arm an Bridge and another just Bridge. A sardonic reply from a snack bar patron and a retired writer sympathetic to egotism adds to the quip filled dispute over the nickname Brive.
A brief note from Woman's Home Companion suggests cutting a manila paper border the size of the music sheet, pasting it over the edges of worn music, to extend its life for years. The tip emphasizes a simple, durable fix, aimed at preserving treasured scores.
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