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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
3
A New Jersey experiment station bulletin advises peach growers on ideal tree size and quality for planting. It favors medium grade trees three to four feet tall caliper five eighths inch, and one year olds with similar caliper and branching for best early growth. It covers rooting, transit risk, pruning heights, and proper cuts to ensure sturdy establishment.
The column lists practical recipes with clear steps for cream biscuits Johnnycake Hanover rolls wheat muffins Allegheny tea cake rusk or sweet bread and related dough handling. Instructions cover mixing kneading rising and baking with notes on temperatures and shaping.
Quick homemaking tips cover lemon water on potatoes to prevent browning, lighter ginger cookies with sour milk, serving milk toast hot from a covered pitcher, arrowroot in ice cream, beet juice for coloring sherbets, sharpening knives, butcher sharpening services, cleaning light carpets with salt and corn meal, magnesia for rug stains, naphtha soap for colored rugs brightening without fading, and general cleaning guidance.
North Atlantic farmers produced about 984 dollars of farm crops per farmer in the census year while Southern farmers averaged 484 dollars. Southern farms averaged 108 acres per farm versus 96 acres for northern farms.
The instruction describes feeding a calf with skimmed milk and a porridge made from flour and oatmeal with hulls sifted out or rubbed rolled oats. It advises cooking thoroughly and adding cold milk until the mixture reaches the proper consistency for the calf to drink.
A description highlights a tolerant, broad minded woman who stands up for friends and even enemies. She shows pity over blame, admires others openly, and maintains a good nature. Her daily philosophy is bright and practical, facing reality with optimism.
The article promotes cretonne slips or bags to protect frocks from dust while hanging. It notes ready made slips or easy homemade versions from two fabric widths joined to form a top flap for a hanger. An envelope slip with a taped drawstring avoids mussing and puckering at the top.
Duncan M. Smith humorously contrasts stars and lesser luminaries while mocking astronomers pondering a Mars mirror chat. He questions interplanetary communication and joke exchanges like a baseball score and Roosevelt exploits, ending with a quip about a misfit love line.
The poem recalls two men in youth facing untried life and simple joys. As years pass, discipline remains, yet their view darkens with blotches of mixed good and bad. They mourn vanished youthful dreams while noting hate, love, and truth mingle in life.
A brief exchange frames divorce as a social habit rather than a moral failing. The speakers question labeling it an evil and discuss the need to address it through action.
A collection of pithy maxims on money, disposition, work, and social behavior. It touches on forgiveness for chores, value of a job, temperaments, recreation as a business, property like an umbrella, kidnapping risk, and vanity. It notes laziness hurts the unengaged and urges self satisfaction. It ends with a quip about chatter signifying a pretty girl’s presence.
Wanted by Chicago wholesale and mail order house assistant manager for this county and adjoining territory. Salary $2) and expenses paid weekly. expenses money advanced. Work pleasant, position permanent. No investment or experience required. Spare time valuable. Write at once for full particulars and enclose self addressed envelope. Superintendent, 132 Lake St. Chicago, IL.
A physician advised a female patient to read aloud daily for lung benefit. She discovered many struggle with clear reading, producing high pitched or mumbly voices. The piece urges natural, distinct enunciation over elocution, and notes reading aloud improves pronunciation awareness and teaches proper word usage.
The passage discusses modern attitudes toward sleeping with windows open to avoid vitiated air and compares night air prejudice to old wives tales. It notes the rustling of shades as they move in the breeze and mentions the need to open windows for ventilation.
The article advises using a ventilating blind by detaching the shade from its roller and adding porous canvas to allow airflow while reducing drafts. It also offers a storage solution for parasols and fine umbrellas in long slender bags hung in the closet to keep them clean.
A post office official explains the correct method to affix stamps. Do not soak the paper. moisten only the envelope tip and press the stamp to ensure it sticks and avoids detachment in mail handling.
Judgment in the Bayfield County circuit court directs a public vendue of Lot 16, Block 36, original Washburn townsite now city, at the courthouse front door on June 5, 1909, at 11:00 AM. Sheriff Max Happle to oversee. John Walsh represents the plaintiff Gudor Loken.
Six months from and after the fourth day of May A D 1909 is the period for creditors of Orris Gibbons deceased to present claims to the court for examination and allowance. Dated May 4 1909.
A special term of the County Court in Washburn will hear the application of Frank Hicks as administrator of Arthur Hicks late of Cable for the examination and allowance of his final account and for the assignment of the residue of the estate to lawful heirs. Dated May 4 1909 Judge Wm. H. Irish.
May 6 to May 27 1909 probate terms set in Washburn City Hall Bayfield County Wisconsin. On June 8 1909 at 10 o clock A M the hearing will consider final account and assignment of residue from Anna Larson deceased Pratt town executor Charles J Anderson will present the will administration.
May 6 to June 10 docket period notes Stone-Ordean-Wells Company as plaintiff with A. T. Rock acting as plaintiff's attorney in a Wisconsin circuit court matter.
May 6 to June 8 notice from the Department of the Interior U S Land Office at Wausau Wisconsin states Gena Holman widow of Christ Holman deceased of Washburn Wisconsin has filed intent to make final five year proof to establish her claim to the southwest quarter section 12 township 49 north range 6 west 4th principal meridian with witnesses Hans Bottolfs Alfred Holman Nels Westerlin Jr Frank Marion all of Washburn Wisconsin and John Miller of Cornucopia Wisconsin to appear before the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Washburn on June 16 1909
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