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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1906
Page
6
A farmer shares homemade farm contrivances from Farm and Fireside: a land drag leveler built from planks and wire, a riding plank to support the machine, and hoop iron edges to stay sharp. Also describes using two trace chains with cotton line to cover weeds and grass in plowed land, adjustable for moldboard position and row width.
The article advises moistening floors with sawdust on bare surfaces and using torn paper scraps on carpets to trap dust. It warns against feather dusters, advocates soft dry cloths, frequent washing, and mopping with a barely moist wrung mop to reduce dust in rooms. It notes inhaled dust risks and mentions possible tubercle germs from dusty air.
R. A. Craig of Indiana advises early containment steps during hog cholera. Quarantine diseased herds, move to larger yards, ensure shelter and sanitary conditions, separate or destroy very sick hogs, use tar disinfectants daily, apply a 2 percent disinfectant rinse and 1 percent weekly dip, avoid feeding on ground or surface water, use a sloppy diet for sick animals, and add copper sulphate to water at one ounce per ten gallons to reduce infection risk.
A Kansas Farmer correspondent highlights advantages of the lister: it saves time and preserves soil condition, boosts fertility, captures and stores rainfall, avoids breaking soil capillary action, limits rapid drying with mulch, and saves seed.
Rochester Herald offers guidance for healthy summer living. Advice includes moderation in eating and drinking, ample fresh air, daily exercise, regular sleep of six to seven hours, alternating baths, steady work and mental activity, and cultivating calmness and willpower. It also urges restraint on stimulants and anodytes.
A article explains that practice alone fails without mental focus. Concentrate thoughts on the nail head, not the hammer or swing. With fixed aim the hammer will strike correctly, while wandering thoughts cause mis strikes or side blows.
The article advises home remedies for a child’s summer complaint. It prescribes a flour-based gruel made by boiling wheat flour in water for three hours, drying the mixture, and serving a tablespoonful mixed with milk and salt. An alternative method suggests baking flour and feeding small pinches to the child.
A successful breeder shares a thrifty recipe: boil a soup bone for broth, remove the meat, return it to the broth, and thicken with cornmeal to a cool mush. Slice for feeding, with vegetables like cabbage and beets as additions. Each dog should have a large beef bone daily to keep teeth healthy.
The Pittsburg Press suggests methods to restore cut glass shine. Rinse with a little alcohol or rub with a cloth damp with alcohol, then wipe the dish inside and out. A chalk powder and brush or a good silver polish cleaned as silver achieve similar luster.
When a dish is too salty, add a tablespoonful of vinegar and a tablespoonful of sugar to balance the flavor. This quick fix helps neutralize excess salt without overpowering the dish.
The Knights of Columbus traces its roots to Rev Michael J McGivney then curate at St Joseph's Church New Haven Conn He founded a Catholic fraternal society approved by the Church with Daniel Colwell as national secretary The order formed March 20 1882 and grew to about 150000 members led by Colwell who crafted the ritual and degrees.
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