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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1905
Page
5
J W Rook a Pitner Gasoline Lighting Co salesman tours West Chester and installs a new light plant at the McElhinney Drug Co store while Miss Mare Harley is the guest at the O Loughlin home.
John R. Spears reports in Northwood New Jersey that inoculated pea vines with nitrogen gathering germs grew four feet apart from untreated vines. In a side by side test fifty-three treated vines yielded 856 pods while fifty-three untreated vines produced only 102. No fertilizer used. soil uniform. July 3 first picking. vines up to three feet high by June 1.
The article explains deep setting cream churning requires 60 to 62 degrees in winter and 58 to 60 in summer. It notes using a separator can lower this temperature, with 55 degrees or below deemed satisfactory per Illinois dairy expert Mr Gurler.
Prices for clover seed remain high this season with strong demand expected this spring. Dealers in northern and eastern states report a healthy outlook despite elevated costs, with Toledo quotations for No 2 red around 7.50 per bushel and alsike from 6.25 to 6.80 per bushel.
Beets thrive in amateur gardens and endure light frost. Sow early and thin seedlings to six to eight inches in the row. Removed thinnings yield fresh greens.
The text explains hot manure as the richest manure from common farm animals and notes its rapid fermentation with heat development. It compares it to horse manure and highlights its tendency to lose ammonia during decomposition.
In Pearson's Magazine the article explains rattlesnakes are born in litters of seven to twelve between mid July and mid August. Newborns are fourteen inches long, independent from birth, and equipped with venomous fangs and a single tail button signaling their first stage of development.
Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis recalls Emerson in Concord 1862 as a tall gaunt Yankee in ill fitting clothes. Emerson dismisses Thoreau as lacking a human soul. Davis also notes Hawthorne’s shyness and seclusion, calling his portrait and face singularly melancholy and powerful.
An amateur in Milan complained after hearing Aida twice at some distance and sent a 32 lira bill with a 2 lira charge for a detestable supper. Verdi refunded the balance on condition the sender signed a formal agreement not to attend the opera again, which was fulfilled.
The horse shaped medieval life through crusades and tournaments, fueling knightly prowess and romance. It gave rise to the word chivalry, linking equine prowess to noble ideals, while Sage Sterne notes laughter as part of life's fragment.
A seventeen year old girl steals violets through a garden wall and is confronted by a courteous stranger who returns the flowers and offers access to the owner. He arranges a lasting gift of flowers. four years later the girl reappears as a grown woman, schemes to trap him, and marries him after a calculated courtship. The husband recalls the episode and learns she was the girl.
Dr J C W Coxe of Oskaloosa greeted friends in town while Mr and Mrs Henry Crooks and daughter Mabel of Crawfordsville visited the J B Crooks home. Mrs George Dye and her boys left for Cedar Rapids to spend a few days with relatives. The note ends with an advertisement for Fitch Dandruff Cure and local barber shops.
The notice touts alarming death rates from appendicitis and peritonitis and promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as the sole effective remedy. It mentions M Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago and claims unmatched efficacy against biliousness.
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