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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1907
Page
8
A practical grower discusses securing clean mulch for strawberries, weighing wheat straw against rye and timothy. He notes that spoiled hay caused weed problems, wheat straw remains best if seed-free, and recent seed contamination with a blower era complicates supply. He plans to try marsh hay and legume cover crops and considers growing his own rye or corn for mulch.
Hughey Jennings has brought new life to the Detroit Americans, proving himself a first class manager and bringing the club closer to a winning season. Kings has performed well, meeting expectations of those who believed he would excel.
The coleus is an easily grown subject with limitless varieties and low cost seed. Though many seedlings may be worthless some may become excellent. Watching the seedlings develop from colorless leaves to showy forms is engaging and cuttings can be obtained easily, with wintering plants for spring propagation.
A writer in American Cultivator warns the San Jose scale can kill a tree in three years. The insect spreads by human handling, birds, other insects, or wind, with a man seen walking in an orchard covered in scale.
A lament on fruit distribution noting the distance between grower and consumer. Fruits picked at orchard often arrive in towns overripe or pulpy, decayed and unattractive, highlighting travel and handling flaws in the supply chain.
Garden Magazine urges buying foreign bulbs for winter flowering in late August and September. Early planting plus a perfect established root system before forcing is required for best results.
Florida East Coast Automobile Association aims to hold the Vanderbilt annual international cup race on Ormond Daytona Beach if feasible. Major Arthur B. Foster and W. J. Morgen meet with Asa Paine and George N. de bring of Ohio and Commodore A. H. Allen of Daytona, along with national racing officials, to pursue the event. Florida boosters emphasize winter residences and AA A membership, with officials optimistic about securing the great race.
Manager Jones of the Chicago White Sox criticizes double headers saying sunglasses hinder sight during the first game. He notes the team has ample pitching and is as affected as other clubs, predicting the league will require equal doubleheader play from all teams.
Horsemen from Reading Wakefield Stoneham Winchester Woburn Lynnfield and Wilmington organize the Quannapoinett Driving Club to lease the Wakefield Reading half mile track for matinee races through the season. Officers named are President Eats Macomber Secretary Arthur H Jewett and Treasurer H A Upton.
Princess, dam of Marion Wilkes 2 08 14 by Princeps, has been bred to Copper Coin 2 22 percent. Princess is owned by McDermott Bros Carnegie Pa.
Echo Jr the fast pacer with a 2 07 record strained shoulder muscles in a recent workout and is expected to be sidelined for the season.
Maurice Goodwin of Newcastle Indiana a leading young society figure and Elks member plans to marry Miss Fisa Krell on September 4. A newly formed Committee on Torture Society says it will avenge Goodwins past pranks by tormenting him before his honeymoon and may delay his wedding trip for about a week.
The Washington Star quotes a reflective verse about dusk sounds and a lone whippoorwill. It contrasts night harmony with a hard luck tale, warning that sorrowful songs rarely win support from friends or kin.
A Washington Star anecdote narrates a freckled cheeked 13 or 14 year old with a sharp tongue applying for a store job. He boasts of wanting a million but accepts 3 dollars weekly, demands supper immediately, and plans to stay awake at night to savor work and wages. He even volunteers to chase a thief with a lead pipe.
Hancock Michigan August 26 Pearce a traveling representative for a Chicago dry goods house reports a major loss of a wardrobe in one of the region’s boldest robberies. His steamer trunk containing personal belongings was taken from a truck at the Houghton passenger station dragged to a distant spot and looted after an ax was used.
Word is received here that Captain Walter H. Singer a well known lake man is dead at Houghton Mich He was 40 years old Captain Singer was formerly president of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation company and the White Line Tug company of Duluth Of late years he had conducted a summer hotel at Washington Harbor Isle Royale New York Aug 20 The feeling of apprehension with which the stock market began last week has been replaced by calmer judgment There was much less liquidation and few signs save in isolated instances of selling by those whose margins were impaired or whose confidence in the future had fallen to a lower point.
A terse exchange reveals a blackmailer boasting success in tracing a family line. The demand is one thousand pounds for silence about the ancestors, signaling a coercive leverage over the victim. The archival snippet evokes crime and social tension in historical contexts.
In a sharp exchange, Mrs. Upjohn taunts Mrs. Hopperdyke by revealing the exact size of her new dining table legs. The revelation leaves Hopperdyke mortified, while Mrs. Highmore questions the tactic. The Chicago Tribune notes the staged disparity and social sting.
A heated exchange ends with taunts about missing each other and playful sharp talk about throwing something in a parting moment. The dialogue hints at strained feelings and lingering attachment between the two speakers.
Mr Comrox notes his family must stay busy socially to earn compliments in society pages that balance the ridicule billionaires face in the news columns. The exchange appears in a Washington Star context.
A Philadelphia Press quote depicts a woman testifying to her attorney about divorce grounds. She asserts cruelty or nonsupport, revealing a demand for a diamond necklace as motive. The exchange highlights the era's focus on financial and material disputes in marital breakdown.
A colored man fishing in the Mobile river shows only a small fish to the observer. He jokes that with that fish he can return home and persuade his wife that a ten pounder will be waiting for him tomorrow.
A farmer shruggingly answers a city youth about the swarm of mosquitoes. He says they are too big and spry to count, and there is no time to count them.
Rev. Father Theodore Lochbiler of St Augustine's parish will sail from New York to France to seek healing at Lourdes grotto. He is accompanied by 17 year old Francis Carroll who also hopes to gain a cure through the waters.
A physician quips that medical skill cannot save a man from dying, especially when the patient is rich. The exchange underscores the narrator's struggle to collect a bill, hinting at the ethical tension between care and payment in desperate cases.
A quotation from the Atlanta Constitution features an unnamed old colored man describing hardships. He says he has a box of matches but no wood, and with meat and flour he could cook on a fire once a loader or timber becomes available, expressing a pervasive appetite and an empty house as context.
A fragment from Morris Town Times notes a dialogue about incomplete thermometer readings and the process of placing measurements on glass, reflecting a local curiosity about the Order of Mercury Sliders and membership status.
In a cheeky column, a speaker declares I will win her yet through love, though money now outs or slows romance. The Chicago Post humorously notes money remains a stronger pathfinder to the citadel than romance, even when love persists.
Paris August 26 The Journal prints a New York dispatch saying Walter Wellman of the Chicago Record-Herald polar expedition planned to begin his balloon ascent toward the north pole on August 25.
A terse dialogue unfolds as he questions breaking off the engagement and she insists she will not. He remarks about the stakes and age, urging her to reconsider as a final chance. Published in Harper’s Weekly.
A humorous quip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer questions distinguishing between a hurricane cyclone and a tornado. The speaker notes a preference to trade any affliction for one of the others, implying frustration with weather terms.
Morristown Pa Times notes a domestic scene where a husband described as bear eyed and unsteady returns home to a wife who pulls blinds and prepares a curtained talk. The brief item sketches a quiet household moment.
The report notes a man regretting marriage to Miss Strongmind with blunt judgment. Thingumbob counters that despite folly, he became shrewd. The Philadelphia Press reflects on matrimonial choices and character.
A terse Philadelphia Press caption presents a patient and doctor exchanging money, hinting at negotiations over a medical fee. The dialogue implies reluctance and caution on both sides as payment is discussed before care.
In Saunderstown R I on August 26 Waldo Merrill a Boston state street broker and Erick Landstrom of Mattapan Washington were killed when their car overturned and crashed into a stone wall at a sharp curve near Narragansett pier. Four other occupants escaped with minor injuries. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted a quip about drowning.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Bixby quit his job to devote himself wholly to writing. It mentions he has received notable encouragement recently and says he married a wealthy woman.
A short dialogue shows a jocular exchange where a character notes 30 cents while another asks what is being referred to. The Funny Man remarks on coins a nickel and a quarter with a Detroit Free Press touch.
A fragment shows a rural voice promising a playful race or challenge to a mother figure. No clear names, dates, or places are readable. The piece captures a dialectal call to action without confirming any event or outcome.
An old man recalls youth while watching a grandfather clock and a youthful observer agrees it evokes old times in a Harper's Weekly moment.
A humorous Market Record-Herald quip notes marital discord as wives challenge husbands ideas, highlighting ongoing marriage dynamics with light satire.
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