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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
7
In a rich home a newborn’s joy abounds as health wealth and love seem to bless the family. A cool angel notes one missing gift, while Sorrow, the last pearl, sits in the corner as the haunting fairy who reveals life’s final gift and a bridge to the next world.
The apple leaf roller and the tussock caterpillar threaten midwest and coast orchards. Archips rosaceana, the oblique banded leaf roller, infests apples, clover, cotton, and other crops from Atlantic to Pacific. The tussock caterpillar, feared since 1907, multiplies in midwest orchards with two broods, leaving wingless female moths and eggs on bark as leaves fall.
Guardian angel seeks the pearl to comfort a child and leads them to a house where a young wife lies dead in an open coffin. Her husband and children weep silently as roses cover the casket, a red wick burning above the scene, then the scene shifts to a Japanese acrobat performing risks on a circus wire.
A Newport naval training station tour near Hartford drew one boy to exclaim how proud he is of his mother from Philadelphia after she visited him in the lining hall. The boy’s letter home expresses his joy at sharing meals and pride in his mother.
Mushroom growing need not use a greenhouse. Any protected building works. Optimal temps are 45 to 66 degrees with moist still air and no drafts. Use fresh horse manure, heated by stacking straw, then form beds fifteen to eighteen inches deep. Spawn is inserted every ten to twelve inches, covered with two inches loam, and kept moist but not overwatered.
The article explains chives as a mild, easily grown seasoning from the onion family, suited as a border or garden feature. It then warns about pasture erosion in New England, urging proper grazing rotation and field division to protect dairy land and prevent overgrazing and soil compaction.
The potato, native to the Andes and Chile, Peru, likely found wild growth as far north as Toltec gorge in southern Colorado. Introduced to Europe via Spaniards around the mid 1500s, England by 1556 from Virginia. Spread slow. Ireland and elsewhere adopted cultivation by mid eighteenth century. today a staple in temperate zones.
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