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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
6
A veteran warns hopeful writers the path to daily journalism is grueling demanding strong physique a keen nose for news and bulldog tenacity. Writing skill matters but advancement comes from experience discipline and merit not quick promotion. The piece ends with a Paris Journal quip about clocks and timing.
Mr Waggs jokes that his wife loves a man who would dive for money. Mrs Waggs replies with disbelief and asks if he means a prize fighter. He clarifies the man is a diver.
A Frankfurter Zeitung writer cites a 13th century author mentioning savants who can conduct lightning to a specific spot, suggesting the concept of lightning rods was known in Spain seven centuries ago.
Advice on correcting overly salty dishes with vinegar and sugar, blanching vegetables in cold water to preserve color, opening canned fruit early to reoxygenate, and noting that oxygen restoration improves flavor. Recommends granite ware or porcelain lined kettles for all preserving and warns metals react with acids. Suggests keeping quick lime to keep air dry and pure.
Ripe cucumber sweet pickle method using seven pounds of yellow cucumbers simmered in vinegar and water with salt until clear. A sugar vinegar syrup with cloves cinnamon allspice mace and pepper is heated then cucumbers are added and packed in jars. Raisins may be added, and the mixture sealed for readiness in a few days.
The article suggests making small three or four inch sand cushions covered in bright silk or velvet to use as weights while cutting garments. They prevent pin holes, keep fabric from slipping, and stop materials from blowing around, saving time and effort.
A redesigned garbage can features a toe operated lid mechanism. The lid remains in place, opens without touching by hand, and closes by gravity when released. Extensions of a handle lever engage pins on a steel strap to lift the lid. A back loop acts as a stop to prevent over-rotation.
Layer apples peeled and sliced thin with sugar and cinnamon. Add salt pork bits pepper and more apples sugar and cinnamon. Top with molasses and thick crust. Bake slowly about one hour. Serve hot for best flavor.
Advice on daily dental care urges three cleanings daily with a brushing after each meal. A rinse of bicarbonate soda in water helps. Those eating at home should use both brush and floss after meals. Choose a medium soft brush with proper shaping to benefit all teeth.
A thick gum arabic solution is stirred into plaster to form a cement. The paste is applied to fractured china edges with a brush and pressed together. In three days the repaired piece becomes strong and cannot be broken at the join. The white cement is noted as valuable.
The guide suggests sewing two small tape pieces at the center of each towel hem with a little gap, turning them with the hem, then stitching. This creates a firm hanger on both ends of every towel.
The article stresses careful seed corn selection to boost yields, detailing kernel shapes and ear alignment. It warns about poor germination in shock stored corn, and offers methods for drying and storing seed ears, including braiding husks and using a ventilated furnace area or racks. It notes an experimental recommendation for two ears per stalk and describes a twelve by ten foot rack holding about thirty bushels for drying.
Manures act chemically on soils by adding new stores of plant food and by decomposing to release carbonic acid gas. This gas unites with soil waters to increase mineral food dissolution and forms humates that render mineral plant nutrients more available.
The Ohio experiment station fed three pairs of geldings for forty eight weeks. One horse per pair received corn with clover and timothy hay and the other oats with the same hay. No major differences in condition emerged. Corn in the ear performed better than shelled corn.
The article advises farmers to limit flock size to match housing and feed, cull excess birds, and remove most males after breeding. It notes hens lay better with fewer birds, eggs store longer, and roosters are costly post breeding. keep a choice rooster if available and replace in spring for better bloodlines.
Report from the Vermont experiment station tests a spraying machine on pears. Sprayed trees showed brighter bark and earlier buds. four to five sprays yielded 99% perfect scab free fruit, with minimal scab on limited five time sprays. Unsprayed trees produced mostly scabby fruit with high waste and lower value compared with sprayed barrels in New York markets.
The Wisconsin station compared cornmeal with shelled corn in ten years of work across eight trials. Eleven trials show grain grinding saves 1.1 to 11.1 percent. On average 50 pounds shelled corn yield 100 pounds gain while 35 pounds cornmeal yield 100 pounds gain, a 30 pound advantage for cornmeal and a 6 percent saving by grinding.
Turkeys do best when kept outdoors under an open shed protected from cold winds. They are hardy and endure severe weather, but confined housing promotes disease and loss of hardiness. Avoid inbreeding. secure males yearly to prevent neighborly inbreeding as hens wander to adjacent farms.
W D Hurd from Maine Experiment Station notes mangold beets are top root crops and an acre of turnips can yield about 600 bushels. Both serve as laxative feeds when combined with silage and hay, offering a substitute for summer feed. Planting aims for horse cultivator efficiency with 5-6 pounds mangold and 3-4 of turnips per acre and thinning to four inches between plants.
Farmers can extend the life of tools by liberal painting of wood parts and even iron fittings. Painting farm wagons especially wheels and running gears adds protection. Any practice that increases the use and usefulness of implements is worthwhile and deserves attention on every farm.
A brief exchange reveals a grim paradox as a young person utters a chilling line. The other responds with a morbid joke that on the next birthday the speaker will be younger. The dialogue hints at fatal or dire circumstances without graphic detail.
Head wear made of straw was already in use among the ancient Greeks, but straw hats like those we wear did not come into use in Europe until half a century ago.
A teen dialogue from the St. Louis Republic passage notes men as queer and jokes about long letters forcing two sheets of paper, illustrating workplace writing habits and gendered banter in a vintage newspaper tone.
In a brief Washington Star item the subject freed his eloquence then delivered a maiden speech but barely said anything of consequence.
David Parker of Fayette, a Civil War veteran who lost a foot at Gettysburg, credits Electric Bitters with curing his stomach trouble and keeping him strong. He says the tonic is worth more than five hundred dollars and notes he now uses it as a general tonic. Available for 50 cents at J. E. Lemmon's drug store.
Maybelle Johnson, a teacher, advertises a fortune telling event at Indian Creek school Friday night. Davis arrives from Cotter last evening.
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