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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
8
The narrator finds deeper knowledge in a three cornered farm and wild spaces. Nature reveals inner truths, revealing grace in children and a universal love. He laments artificial comforts and celebrates pure air, grass, river, and sunsets that inspire freedom and shared humanity.
An editor inspires a broad campaign for parks and clean streets, urging newspapers, churches, schools, and especially women to lead a six month drive. He argues against ugly outhouses and vacant lots, calling for gardening education and community projects to improve health, happiness, and national welfare.
Growers claim salt at radish patches deters worms while a Cornell professor promotes an arsenate of lead spray to kill rose chafers. In France, boards urge protecting hedgehogs, toads, moles and birds. Roses bloom and fragrance fills the air as nature speaks in woods and fields.
Advice urges parents to let children grow a garden to build habits and responsibility. It notes many children abandon gardening once novelty fades, especially boys, and cautions steady effort beyond initial interest.
In blunt prose a speaker condemns anyone who once enjoyed the fresh air of the countryside and then chose to reside in a crowded, unhealthy city, saying such a person deserves to live in the city all his days.
It is a mistake to think that anybody can raise beans. The most successful bean growers are the most intellectual, as is proved by the fact that they live around Boston. Do not leave ground idle after early crops are out of the way. Plant again. Rotate crops and ensure the second planting matures before frost. After early peas, start potatoes or sweet corn.
The text advises cultivating cucumbers by tending vines with a club to smash pests, picking them young to pickle what remains, and suggests cucumbers please both the soul and the appetite while avoiding letting them fully ripen.
Farmers recall a prior attempt with an imported ant to curb boll weevil. the ant failed to deliver as promised. Now barn swallows emerge as natural predators, touted to curb the boll weevil with their feeding habits.
The writer notes a real vegetable garden reduces concern about meat as all meats taste chemically altered. They mention the rising price of beef troubles them little now and claim gardening is an effective way to counter the beef trust.
Protect shade and fruit trees from caterpillars borers and other enemies. Remove caterpillars at first sight by burning with kerosene on rags tied to a pole. To kill maple borers push fine wire into their holes. Regular inspections help detect and stop insect ravages on shrubs and trees.
The author questions why July is singled out for neglect while May and June are praised. They argue weather complaints are minor and unnecessary, asserting people often overreact to small temperature changes and should not let heat disturb them.
A simple guide to creating a water garden using running streams or tubs. Dig a pond, or use half barrels with a broomstick plug for draining, and place stones to prevent dirt loss. Layer black loam and sand, then plant water lilies and lotus for beauty.
A quirky rule links planting to fruit tree blossoms. Plant peas at peach bloom and expand to peas spinach lettuce corn salad onion sets and asparagus at cherry bloom. Pear bloom adds radish celery carrot mustard onion seed parsley tomato seed cabbage parsnip. Apple bloom broadens to beans corn cucumbers melons and okra plus earlier items.
Copyright notice states articles and illustrations by C M Barnitz may not be reprinted without special permission. The item preserves author and year while warning against reproduction. It appears as a standard rights declaration accompanying a historical newspaper page.
A detailed look at Plymouth Rock history and genetics traces Barred, Buff, and White strains from Spaulding of Connecticut to 1875 standards. It discusses breed origins, crossbreeding, sports white chicks, and evolving varieties, noting key figures like C. F. Frost and the aim to maintain the Rock’s characteristic shape and color in standards.
A dated, admonitory note advises prudent farming: avoid buying wheat at peak, curb roosters’ fights, and prevent poor weight gain. Warns against political loafing, backroom hatchet work, and fear of microbes from protozoa to parasites. Encourages decisive action to knock out threats.
A playful verse favors a humble noodle curl over glamor. The speaker recalls a mother who rolls thin noodles and makes rich soup, praising her loving care rather than flirting or vanity. The poem ends with a cheeky line about hot soup and a nod to the mother as queen of all the girls.
Practical Q and A on preventing crowding in brooders and colony houses. Tactics include painting houses different colors, spacing, and bedtime checks. Also guidance on taming pigeons, guineas as predators deterrents, hatchery risks for setting hens, aging roosters, and bees as a poultry side venture with notes on bee stings to ducklings.
A lively local pamphlet urges thorough care for poultry and ducks, praising grain, proper boiling water treatment, and humane handling. It satirizes egg preservation scams, notes census egg averages, and warns against selling preserved eggs while urging steady breeding and clean practice at the farm.
A large Boston harborfront fire swept through East Boston causing nearly 1.9 million dollars in property damage. Two people, Daniel Sullivan a watchman and Miss Sadie Arnold a Cunard clerk, are missing and presumed dead. The Leyland Line Devonian narrowly escaped damage, while the British bark Belmont and schooners Palmer and Brown suffered severe losses. fireboats and city departments contained the flames.
Oyster Bay July 9 President Roosevelt has a telegram from Rear Admiral Sperry responding to his message of good wishes to the battleship fleet officers and men The reply expresses appreciation for the honor and responsibility of their charge The president also hosts luncheon with Dr Lyman Abbott and sons Lawrence Ernest Henry Needham Mark Sullivan of Collier s Granville Fortesque cousin of the president and rural guards in Cuba.
Seven year old Mildred Harris lies in a Harlem hospital in critical condition after a fall from a tenement window fracturing her skull. Doctors say an operation is necessary to save her life but her father resists all arguments for treatment or hospital admission.
Postmaster Henry of the Weekly Herald has purchased the Charles City Daily Press and Semi-Weekly Advocate from B. F. Wright. Wright has been a Floyd County newspaper publisher and political figure for over fifty years.
Loot valued at 25000 stolen by safeblowers who drilled through a twenty inch brick wall into the Diamond Point Pen company offices on Beekman street and blew open two safes with dynamite.
Mrs Charles Critz and her children left this morning for Belle Plaine Iowa to spend a few days with relatives.
An article urges that melancholia or blues in women often signals a serious organic derangement needing immediate medical attention. It advises women with low spirits and malaise to seek professional care promptly.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. Letters from Mrs F Ellsworth of Mayville NY and Mrs Mary J Williams of Bridgeport IL describe relief from despondency nervous conditions backache and headaches. The ad urges readers to try the remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers irregularities and periodic pains and backache.
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