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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1905
Page
8
The public favors living potted plants for Easter, with woody species led by Indian azalea and growing interest in camellias, hydrangeas, and orchids. Bougainvillea, azalea, and large bougainvillea plants are noted as favorites, while new hybrids and tall forms gain traction. The market increasingly rewards growers who study demand.
The article outlines various spraying outfits for arsenic and insecticides suitable to garden size. For large plots a barrel on wheels is common, while small gardens use band sprayers or a knapsack sprayer carried on the back. The knapsack, though heavy after an hour in sun, can spray fifteen feet high, good for trees as well as bushes and vegetables.
A September fire in Chausee-sur- Marne, France, swept one village side and its hedge of apple and pear trees. Remarkably, trees far from the blaze bloomed anew by late October, including an Iliac tree and plum trees, while affected buds were already formed for the next season.
The Desirable Irises Iris kaempferi is a fine family garden variety. It features large flowers ten to twelve inches wide, hardy blooms in many colors, and a four to six week display from mid June. The German, Spanish and American iris also bloom in June in white, yellow, blue and bronze. A New Jersey florist calls them desirable, inexpensive and easy to grow.
A polar bear named Brain lives among Arctic ice and dreams of discovering the North Pole. He finds a mast sticking from a sunken ship and proclaims it the pole, climbs on and awaits others, only to drift away as the ice moves. The tale ends with the bear wondering what good is a discovery you cannot share.
A compact history of encores from 17th century royal demand to later public repetition. Louis XIV, Gluck, and the Bavarian king are cited for demanding repeats of favored passages. The term encore derives from French practice though used differently across eras.
A study of icons in Russian religious life explains that icons are blessed by priests and used as ornaments and aids in worship. They appear in churches, offices, homes, and shops and are worn as plaques or booklets, with soldiers often carrying them on their chests as portable altars.
Practical remedies for poultry ailments from the American Poultry Journal. Remedies include vaseline and sulphur for scaly legs, alum in drinking water, fresh air and exercise, weekly disinfection, and various tonics. The piece notes disease spread via drinking vessels and water sources, with cautions on corn-heavy diets and stress on moderation.
Every regiment has its own icon carried like a banner into battle, symbolizing unit identity and pride during campaigns and parades.
The London Telegraph notes that under Anglo Saxon law every life had a fixed value. Peasants were priced at 200 shillings, nobles at 1 200, and a king at 7 200. Heir rulers could murder a king and pay the fine to purge the offense, returning the money to themselves, implying preconquest rulers used this in practice.
An English schoolmaster habitually punished late pupils by detaining them after class. One morning he arrived half an hour late and, with a twinkle, told the students that since he punished them, they would keep him in for an hour that afternoon.
A Browning letter replies to a young poet seeking publishing guidance. Browning recalls decades of struggling for print and notes he could not get a line printed for years, even half a century ago, highlighting perseverance for aspiring writers.
James Rankin in Reliable Poultry Journal extols the Pekin duck as superior to other breeds for market use. He notes perfect control, rapid growth, high fecundity, and large dress weights doubling over time from ten pounds to fourteen pounds per pair at ten weeks.
The article notes young drakes weigh eight to nine pounds at ten weeks, an uncommon size. It attributes this growth to careful selection and breeding, plus a feed formula of cornmeal bran middlings flour and scrap, compared to Chinese rice hulls and fish.
Choose turkey hens over a year old that are strong healthy vigorous and of medium size. Avoid small or unnaturally large birds. Males may be yearling or older but not overgrown. Prioritize strength health vigor and proportion. avoid close breeding. Seek new blood and consider distant sources for a sturdy new male, securing one in fall before breeding season.
A Poultry Journal advising fifteen drops of witch hazel tincture per pint of drinking water for swollen legs, no other water, plus bathing with witch hazel extract, confinement in a dry straw bedded coop, a dry grain diet with light greens, and a 7 to 10 day trial before further treatment.
The Leghorn is not a desirable broher breed due to difficulty in reaching plump condition at a profitable age. It requires four weeks longer to reach desired weight than American breeds, but when there it is a fine breasted and attractive carcass.
Feeding laying hens a varied diet including fresh meat increases vigor and egg production. More meat and less corn can offset the higher meat cost through higher egg yield and potential hatchability if the male is active.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat tale describes a skeptical student turned believer after occult experiments. On St Charles Street a stranger influenced him to write unconsciously nine pages revealing a dead friend's identity and life in the spirit world. The man then ceased occult experiments but remains convinced natural laws beyond knowledge exist.
A Washington Star quip cites Mr Meekton on why his wife Henrietta joins many clubs and debating societies. He says she seeks mental exercise and prefers being among people where she cannot have her own way without an argument.
Maud reveals after years Mabel Garling has yielded in the pursuit of Phip Sikes. Trene asks why, and Maud confirms she has obtained him.
A concise quotation from Robert Colver on virtue and virtue in action. It contrasts beauty in action with beauty in stillness and honors self sacrifice and self forgetfulness as pathways to good. The lines emphasize blessed relationships between active effort and patient waiting.
Marion Avenue undertakers Wilber Miller operate at 111 Worth with phones 95 and 867 offering funeral services and related arrangements.
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