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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
7
A Massachusetts peach grower C P Bowles promotes a ready to carry basket as a smart marketing tool. The piece argues better packing and direct marketing raise grower profits and consumer appetite, noting Bowles and the Wilbraham mountain district as examples.
The passage discusses how market selection and timing affect fruit sales, noting regional preferences for varieties and fruit colors. It explains growers must study demand, use insecticides and fungicides, and adapt since modern markets far from farms require attentive pest and disease control.
Thinning helps pears especially dwarf varieties by preventing overbearing and improving quality size and marketability. Do not below six inches apart and remove inferior fruit. Japanese and American plums also overbear. thinning yields larger fruit less rot and steadier annual crops. Early thinning preferred but later thinning beats none.
G A Bell explains that many people practice pen fattening due to lack of time. The system hinges on quiet conditions, darkness except at feeding, and ample soft feed delivered at regular intervals, typically three times daily.
Indigenous hunters use a sham grazing oxen line to enable a concealed shot at a steen buck. The oxen are driven to look natural while the hunter moves behind them and fires before any movement is noticed. The method seeks meat through skill rather than sport.
John K Tener, bank president and Charleroi publisher, is named the new Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. He rose from local Western Pennsylvania prominence and played baseball with the Chicago Nationals, part of the 1889 world tour. The Elks report shows 1,081 lodges and a total membership of 254,532, with Brooklyn’s lodge holding the largest assets at 85,883.40 and total lodge net assets at 0,498,031.39 as of March 31 1907.
Modern Woodmen of America calls for a serious interpretation of the ritual and the removal of horseplay and out of place stunts. It notes Illinois hosts its largest jurisdiction and highlights growth with 157,000 members in Illinois and 900,000 benefiting members nationwide. It stresses sobriety as a requirement for membership.
The Kentucky great council voted to tax members to fund widows and orphans and a Red Men's aged relief fund. Eight members pledged 100 fathoms per great sun for ten great suns. Pocahontas Degree grows in Missouri with fourteen new councils. Pennsylvania holds rich Aboriginal literature. West Virginia Red Men expand. five tribes started on the reservation.
A brief panel caption from the Philadelphia Press presents The Lover confessing fear of living without her and The Cynic retorting to marry and test their fate. The exchange is portrayed with a witty, newspaper-voice tone.
Reports show sustained activity with over 12,000 members working across the jurisdiction. efforts remain steady despite gaps in the record.
A Fort Madison Iowa advertisement touts REN-GAW headache medicine claiming rapid relief in minutes. The copy urges readers with head pain to use the harmless product and notes two sizes 10c and 25c available at local drug stores.
Frank Bruty Jr offers Dr Shoop Restorative and a free book on stomach heart and kidney ailments. Claims symptoms mask deeper nerves issues and recommends internal nerve care for vital organs. Sample and free book available by mail from Racine Wisconsin and sold by J H Stewart.
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