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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1908
Page
6
James Dryden reviews artificial incubation outcomes showing large losses and variable hatch rates. Oregon Agricultural College tests compare incubators and hens, revealing hens outperforming incubators in hatch success, vitality, weight gain, and lower mortality across brooding methods.
The text recommends sowing crimson clover rye rape or turnips as cover crops to improve soil. Crimson clover and rye provide winter survival and green manure, adding humus and nitrogen when turned under in spring. Rape or turnips offer fall growth beneficial to soil structure.
An article describes a novel flat cylindrical refrigerator drip pan with a covered top and side inlet that channels condensate into the interior. A handle allows easy removal and transport, enabling larger capacity and spill-free disposal, marketed for convenient use by women.
In a brief exchange from the New York News Gladys asks if they ever quarrel and Eleanor answers never. Gladys counters that engagement seems pointless if quarrels occur.
Mr Smith reports a hold up on the way home from his lodge. The captain of police asks what was taken. Smith replies that the robbers got everything except the password.
A London 1785 arithmetic puzzle presents two geese counting riddles. In the first, a man asks about thirty geese and the maid says she has not thirty but would have thirty if she had as many more and twice five geese besides. In the second, ten maidens are replaced by a counting riddle about doubling and comparing above and below ten.
A stove man asks to cut eight pipe pieces and arrange them into a square. The text presents a riddle like lines about gender stereotypes and a prison cell, then shifts to the puzzle instruction to cut the eight pieces and form a square.
A fragment mentions Dick Dobbin who talks nonstop during meals and is chided by his parents. His chatter continues until the hoped time never arrives, hinting at a grim end. The verse uses a traditional schoolyard rhyme tone with a cautionary twist.
The passage lists clues on months and words, revealing a central-letter puzzle. Each item hints at a word related to time, tools, books, flight, sleep, rope, food insect, and months, culminating in a hidden acrostic. Removing specified letters from pairs yields the central letters that form the word penguin.
A verse puzzle from Youth's Companion teases clues to common words. Each line hints at a distinct term through playful misdirection, naming objects and roles such as a thief a musician a ruler and a deputy. The piece invites readers to guess the hidden answers.
A riddle describes a design formed by three quarters of a cross and a circle, two semicircles met by an upright line, a triangle on feet, and two more semicircles with a circle. The answer given is Tobacco.
No 281 to 286 present a series of word puzzles including botanical list Ox eye to Winter green and wordplay items Guess Our Ages Rebus and Charade Miss tick mystic plus a Word Square with Albion Loanda Bartew Intent.
Notice invites members of K of P and visiting lodges to use the lodge reception room this evening as a loafing area while election news comes in. Also advertised is sale of farms town residence business property near West Chester Iowa with elevator and coal business and six lots.
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