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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
7
A father must let his son face hardship to build character and self reliance. Shelter and coddling prevent real growth, while struggle and earning success foster sympathy and strength. The piece argues molding a boy now before the putty hardens is essential for manhood.
Practical tips on broom care scouring wooden utensils drying tinware after use and varnished wood maintenance. Recommends chamois leather polishing and a cork carpet with washable rugs for kids rooms. Describes window cleaning using starch dissolved in water then drying and polishing with a dry cloth.
Gleanings note ostrich feathers fetch 25 dollars per pound and that 90 percent of US fiscal year 1908 coinage was gold eagles. It also mentions the Augusta natural bridge in Utah as the world’s largest rocky span at 320 feet and a Chicago precinct with 850 residents comprising 26 under 21 and none under six. It cites San Hipolito church in Mexico City at a site linked to Cortes 1820 retreat.
The foundation of a new Episcopal cathedral is laid at Pretoria. The Presbyterian church in Ireland loses members to emigration to the United States. Rev. Dr. James Henderson of the Dominion Methodist church at Ottawa now earns 3500 dollars, the highest in Canada. Rev. T. C. Hanna of Wayland Memorial Baptist church in Philadelphia, once an architect, has drawn plans for a new church building approved by the board.
Court plaster protects minor scratches but should not cover large cuts. Healing improves when the area is kept clean and covered with soft linen secured by strips of surgeon's plaster.
Guidelines to reduce bacterial contamination in dairy milk. Avoid feeding hay during milking, minimize floor dust, prevent cow contamination, use cloth to moisten teats, wear clean clothes, scald equipment, and cool milk immediately. Emphasizes thorough cleaning of separators and sanitary handling practices.
Dr. W. J. Connor of Kansas advocates Ozark hogs as best range hogs and notes they thrive where common hogs fail. He reports sweeter meat, higher lean, finishes from any age, and weights from 500 to 800 pounds. He adds the breed has been tested nationwide and never had cholera.
The Farm Journal advises extra feed for breeding ewes in dry pastures with feed boxes, fodder corn or fresh clover. After root gathering, let the flock clean up fields and reserve a turnip patch for winter sheep feed. Do not winter old ewes. fatten with turnips oil meal ground corn oats and sweet corn stalks. Do not breed ewes under fourteen months unless growthy. Keep sheep dry and shelter them from cold rain with a well vented shed.
A farmer with twenty five years of hog breeding explains his success by providing good quarters, shade, pasture, diverse food, clean water, regular feeding for vigor, and supplying ashes and charcoal. Simple, but effective practices.
A riddle about schooling and politics hints at a common item found in both the classroom and Congress. The second puzzle describes a wine merchant using three, two, and five quart measures to draw wine from a barrel of 3114 gallons, asking how much was drawn with each measure.
A playful riddle style note describes letters to historical figures that transform their identities. Each clue links a recipient to a new title or role such as poet prophet novelist or court official, naming candidates from American and British literary and religious history.
A fragmented text mentions Phineas Cobb's fall, a ringing bell, and Kate receiving books she will enjoy. A thief contemplates jail avoidance as James escorts Old Jones home. The odd tunic color and a boat lent by Mr Smul appear in the scattered scene.
Five clues describe a botanical fruiting stage without leaves a camel a verb meaning to improve and age synonym an older person
Take out the middle letter from each five letter word and from to bend down leave to obstruct a spring and leave a baptismal vessel sounds of the voice and leave a part of the foot a moving force and leave a marsh a laborer on railways and leave a fleet an idle fancy and leave a small measure to wed and leave a girl's name evergreen trees and leave pastry a loud cry and leave closed eats and leave coin stamps.
A description of a rhyming game where players draw four or more rhyming words and compose verses ending with them in order. The German term endreimspiel and a Walpole attributed quatrain on brook why crook I are noted as examples.
A compact puzzle column lists items 269 to 274 with clues and theme notes. It includes Buried Proverbs, Double Charade, Illustrated Rebus, Diagonals and Double Be headings, Broken Words, and Word family sequences such as When U Came In.
An article excerpt discusses butterflies with abnormal appetites and drunken behavior. It notes purple emperor butterflies avoiding fresh food, preferring rotten fruit and foul water, and collectors using stale beer and molasses to intoxicate them.
A London Answers piece quotes a police sergeant on gray eyed men. He says gray eyes signal fighters who resist restraint, noting many boxers and top generals share the trait. The warning: be cautious when provoking a gray eyed man.
In Tamaulipas Mexico parrots of the double Yellow head variety form vast flocks and fill the woods with their harsh cry from dawn to dusk. They fetch about ten dollars each in this country and nest in tree holes. Harvesting their young is perilous due to tropical vines and large aggressive ants that bite and sting, often costing workers their lives.
An East Indian court pleader ridicules opposing testimony describing bloodshed as unbelievable. He calls the account a lie and a falsehood, mocks the idea of wounded eased, and questions the timing and grazing imagery in a sharply satirical critique.
The passage notes that many common phrases such as dead as a doornail and the long and short of it originate with Shakespeare. It lists expressions like getting even and birds of a feather, asserting their attribution to the famed playwright and their continued resonance in modern language.
A quoted exchange notes building wealth through advertising as a quick remedy. The Louisville Courier-Journal uses the lines to comment on the power of ads in commerce.
A Chicago News brief advises direct confrontation when addressing a stubborn person, using the proverb to urge forthright talk and avoid sly or indirect remarks.
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