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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
7
A Prairie Farmer note explains blanching celery on early plants with paper to reduce rot in hot weather. The method involves covering stalks to limit exposure and enhance whiteness, preserving texture and flavor for market use.
The article stresses careful seed corn selection focusing on yield quality uniformity and hardiness. It lists eight criteria including ear size and uniform diameter cob quality grain depth shape cob covering hardness grain uniformity and color as indicators of superior seed and potential uniform planting.
The Farmers' Review argues agricultural science is expanding among farmers and will accelerate as education improves. It notes early slow progress due to few qualified instructors, but 15 years of better college capacity and more educated teachers have boosted reach through meetings and word of mouth.
Advice on sowing spinach in early spring around the 10th, late lettuce sowing in partial shade, and keeping tomato plants off the ground to prevent rot. Wasp pollination and bees noted, with emphasis on clean roadside gardens, weed control, and harvest timing. Encourages crop diversity and remarks on social value of healthy families alongside vegetables like bunch onions and radishes.
Farm Journal cautions builders to remove planks after roof work to avoid rotten shingles below. Leaves note on safety and maintenance practices for workers.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent describes a hay spreading method using a large hay fork that drops hay onto a central track. The system uses nailed boards and a slide to move the hay to desired spots and can reverse the slide when one side fills.
The Greenfield Gazette and Courier highlights risks in burning off old paint before repainting. Insurance concerns, fire scares, and house fires are discussed, with advice to use pure linseed oil and genuine white lead, and to buy reliable brands to avoid costly failures.
The piece argues that profitable farms come from diligent owners who preserve fertility and avoid neglect. It warns neglect leads to unprofitability, and notes well kept farms serve as models for others. It also advises berry growers to weed now but limit cultivation to curb late growth.
A police training institution in St Petersburg combines a museum with a school. Pupils study tools used by criminals, drill practices and methods for robbing collection boxes. The program also covers the Russian passport system and dvorniks duties monitoring tenants and visitors.
The Big Four By will sell excursion tickets to most points in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia on the first and third Tuesdays each month. Fare is one fare plus $2.00 with a return limit of 39 days. Liberal stopover privileges. Inquiries to I. P. Spining, General Northern Agent, Big Four Route, 238 Clark St., Chicago.
Three hundred British firms contributed to a display of goods on the lower decks of a former military transport. The vessel will sail from London to Canada, the West Indies, South America, South Africa, India, China, Japan and Australia for a 12 month voyage.
Thirsty Britain uses nearly 70,000 tons of cork each year for bottled beer and aerated waters, highlighting the material’s central role in Britain’s beverage industry.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt explains extreme prices for luxury textiles. Cloth of gold costs up to $80 a yard for so called gold tissue, while real gold cloth commands about $200 a yard. A Paris court train with gold thread and pearls sold for $7,500, and a Kherson gift ermine mantle reached $50,000. Lace items and high priced thread from flax grown near Rebecq-Rognon illustrate the era’s extravagant fabric market.
A Selma Alabama resident describes severe facial and body eczema four years prior. After two doctors failed, the Cuticura Resolvent Soap and Ointment halted the outbreak and fully cleared the skin after six months of use.
Thoreau said the male bluebird carries the sky on his back and John Burroughs adds the earth on his breast. The male shows vivid blue back wings tail chin and throat with chestnut brown flanks and dirty white belly. The female is duller with a reddish tone. Seminole tale says the male flew so high his back touched the sky giving it azure. His wife sought the same coat but cloudy weather softened the color.
This plea lists nervous prostration symptoms in mothers and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best cure. It includes testimonials from Mrs. Chester Curry and Mrs. Charles F. Brown and invites women to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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