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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
8
A note states that the articles and illustrations by C. M. Barnitz cannot be re printed without special permission. The text emphasizes rights reserved and attribution requirements.
A boastful thinker wanders through grand talk on the universe and original sin yet avoids a simple question about origins. On meeting a passerby he is pressed to explain the whenceness of egg rooster or hen. He delays with a claim to consult his moral philosophy.
A vivid, antiquated explorer style narrative traces the jungle fowl’s origins from Edenic myths through ancient migrations, noting their spread to Asia and Africa, the role of Ham and Shem in biblical myth, and the birds’ striking plumage, dimensions, and egg laying. It blends lore with early zoological description, concluding on the animal’s beauty and rarity today.
Practical guidance stresses pure water and proper grain feeding for ducks. Warns against feeding grain to avoid crops and notes risks of mixing large and small breeds, dirty droppings, and hazards to duckling growth. Encourages helpful, clear communication with customers and avoiding silent refusals.
A guide extolling clover as a superior poultry feed, detailing its high lime content, nutrition, and cost effectiveness. It advises cutting at blossom, curing, and storing for winter use, with suggestions to feed dry in hoppers or steamed in mash and compares nutrient ratios to corn and wheat.
A humorous and practical note on egg stealing by birds and pests, detailing causes of cracked eggshells from weak shells to nesting issues. It discusses methods like feeding castoff eggs to hens, grit needs, and poultry keeper cautions, ending with a playful vignette of hens guarding eggs and a Biddy brooding.
A collection of poultry advice and anecdotes from farm life including feeding live fowls, avoiding wasteful practices, and humorous ironies. It covers sanitation, safety, and industry quirks from York County to Camden, with cautions against unsafe feeding and lax management. It also features trivia on pronunciation and show birds, ending with practical warnings for keepers.
Copyright notice for landscape work by J A Edgerton. Reprinting forbidden without special permission. The notice emphasizes non-reproduction rights remaining with the author and publisher.
The speaker reflects on four blooming rosebushes and seeks inspiration from both the outer world and inner vision. They argue beauty in nature and daily scenes, like moonlight, sunrises, and sunsets, convey divine poetry. The piece urges readers to develop finer perception to read nature’s messages in roses, dawn, and stars.
The narrator recalls a dawn scene on a hillside perfumed by blooming locusts. River and mountain light the dewdrops as a robin adds a liquid note, a soundless harmony that English travelers praise, urging appreciation of American scenery beyond Europe.
A clipped Dublin magazine poem celebrates peasant labor and nature. The speaker urges the plowman to keep steady with horses and plow, promising that hard work will yield golden glory and fulfillment in life and love.
Fertilizer for fruit trees should contain plenty of potash. Beets and carrots for winter supply may be sown as late as the first week in July. A new disease is killing the chestnut trees in New York state, and no remedy has been discovered. Many of the insect destroyers of roses and other shrubs can be driven out by soapsuds. It is a well known fact that but few fruit growers and gardeners drink. Dwelling with nature weans them from artificial stimulants, most of which are adulterated poisons.
A concise exhortation urges prioritizing personal garden care during a presidential year. It asserts that political matters cannot override natural growth laws and calls readers to attend to their own crops while politicians tend to other affairs.
The United States department of agriculture will establish a 100 acre experimental vineyard at Vineland New Jersey to test fifty grape varieties for suitability in the middle Atlantic states.
The New York Sun argues the metropolis has fewer gardens than any other city with only roof gardens thriving. It asserts that no respectable wholesome flower garden would flourish in New York due to a poisonous moral atmosphere.
An amateur gardener need not use Latin names for flowers. Leave scientific terms to professionals. Gardens are vibrant and deserve living language rather than a dead tongue.
A garden expert tells city residents that if they have only 25 cents to spend they should buy a vine to cover bare places. The opinion is presented with a light comparison to men growing whiskers who prefer privacy over publicity.
The passage notes that various preparations and methods exist to deter garden pests. It emphasizes effective techniques such as brushing insects away, catching them in a pan, and killing them by strength, while highlighting the gardener's satisfaction in these efforts.
The text argues that the best flower garden effects come from straightforward, natural designs using common flowers. It advises avoiding stiff, formal styles and trusting personal taste to guide the layout.
The article describes using copperas or iron sulfate spray to kill dandelions with minimal grass damage, plus alternatives like cutting and eating them as greens or physically uprooting them. For sweet potatoes it advises raised beds in sandy ground, hotbeds, frost-free warm soil, ridges three feet apart, plant spacing eight inches, ample watering, weed control, and careful storage in sand to prevent chilling.
A writer extols using vines to cover unsightly fences and create lasting beauty. Crimson rambler honeysuckle and grapes brighten verandas and walks, while pergolas formed by parallel tree rows and arches offer curved or straight vistas. Proper spacing, height, and plant variety ensure harmony, durability, and low cost.
The forecast calls for fair weather and warmer temperatures across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin as well as Michigan Iowa. North portions are warmer with fair skies expected through tonight.
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed grain with no clear wheat highs or lows, corn and oats moving within narrow ranges. Live stock quotes indicate steady to slightly firm hog and cattle markets with specific ranges for prime steers, heifers, cows, and yearlings, plus p see yorker and lamb prices at East Buffalo despite slow cattle receipts.
President Roosevelt welcomed naval critic Henry Reuterdahl and New York labor commissioner John Williams to Oyster Bay for luncheon. A New York party followed, including several African travelers and notable figures such as C A Moore Arthur Moore Charles Scribner W I Whitehouse Jr Percy Madeira F D Miller Charles Booker Republican national committeeman Major Edgar A Mears and Henry Fairchild Osborn. Roosevelt spoke with the Africans about their experiences abroad.
Adah Wilson of Chicago filed suit in Peoria seeking 25000 dollars against Charles Chandler president of the Anti Urie company. She alleges alimony due from her divorce in St Louis husband J. A. Hautier and that Chandler guaranteed payment by Hautier stock sale.
The phrase argues that state collapse follows self restraint when in power. It claims governments perish not by natural end but by choosing to hesitate to exercise rightful force, even amid possession of force.
Local notes report a large electric sign near the opera house and a circus eating segment at Vienna bakery tomorrow. A. B. Crawford traveled with Ainsworth after a city visit, while Boyd Berdo and Miss Hanna Eicher shopped from Havre. Mrs Robert Shaw and sons Karl and Leo depart on No. 1 to settle in St Joe, Missouri.
A Chicago woman at 27 Pearson Street writes that after a week on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovered from nervous prostration and illness. She reports her nervous trouble disappeared and she is fully restored, hoping others may benefit.
The advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female troubles. It claims the product cured thousands of women with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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