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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1906
Page
6
A New York woman from the Ohio Farmer shares methods for blanching celery using boards to shade rows, crowding boards as plants grow, and mulching with manure to retain moisture. Instructions cover spacing, sun exposure, drying leaves, and storing blanched celery in cellars.
The article explains trapping on waste pipes to block sewer gases. It recommends keeping traps full of water and using protective oils or syrups to prevent evaporation during long absences. If left unused, evaporation lets air enter. oils or viscous liquids can seal the trap for months.
The Boston Traveler notes a fast shirring method. Loosen lower tension, keep upper tight, stitch as plain, then pull loose threads to gather. Fasten ends and finish in about ten minutes. Avoid delicate fabrics as stitching may show.
Do not wash decorated china with soap as it dulls and rubs off gilt. Hot water is harmless. use rain water if available, boil and cool to the right temperature. Dry with the softest cloth and dry immediately after removal from water. Rinsing in cold water slows drying and can cause cracks from rapid temperature change.
The Boston Traveler notes new sleeve protectors made from large fashionable handkerchiefs. One handkerchief yields a pair by folding diagonally in four and trimming a three cornered piece, joined with a French seam. Two cut scraps form cuffs with the seam on the right, creating dainty sleeve details.
The Arkansas valley alfalfa fields have suffered thrips or midges native to the area for several years. Butterflies swarm near the fields but do not cause the mite problem. The thrip also damages onion tops by turning them white and wilting and has harmed alfalfa seed crops.
Farmers planning next year’s sugar beets should plow in fall to achieve profitable tonnage. Early plowing yields better results and avoids careless methods that fail to meet the long lineage of sugar beets, an exchange notes.
Make pickles using coarse salt strong enough to bear an egg and pour boiling salt solution over the cucumbers. Let stand a week or ten days, rinse in cold water, dry, and place in a pot with garlic per hundred pickles. Add alum and peppers, then boil vinegar and pour over hot.
Mix equal parts linseed oil turpentine vinegar and spirits of wine. Shake well. Rub onto furniture with a linen rag then polish with a clean duster. Vinegar and oil rubbed in with flannel then dust with a clean duster yields a very good polish.
Bright steel articles stored away may be kept from rusting by coating them with a mixture of black lead and lard. They should be wrapped in woolen cloth, never in cotton or linen.
When cake or bread is badly burned on the bottom rub off the burnt portion with a lemon grater. It will not tear the crust as a knife does.
Lawrence Nevin, a popular Kilkenny youth, outsmarts magistrate Terence O Toole after a highway robbery accusation. An alibi built on a long night of travel convinces the judge, and Nevin wins Kathleen O Grady’s hand, later becoming a successful attorney.
Prohibitionists of Washington county call a convention in the Academy chapel Washington IA on Friday September 25 at 2 PM to nominate for state representative and county offices including auditor clerk treasurer recorder sheriff superintendent of schools surveyor coroner attorney three supervisors and conduct other business. Expected speakers include governor candidate L S Coffin and ministers W G Robertson George Hanna W R Sawhill. Congressional convention to follow at same venue after the county event to nominate the congressional candidate for the district.
Albert Stims aged 18, city dog catcher, died at St. Marys hospital labeled hydrophobia by doctors. He was bitten on the hand by a dog months earlier, ignored the wound, then hand swelled and he grew desrous until his death.
Bemoans rising hospital operations for women while praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound based on a Seattle woman's letter cured of a tumor without surgery. Encourages ill women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
Public sale scheduled for September 26 at the Wool ey farm adjoining Northeast Washington and near the G R J P R R chute. Auction lists five horses, seventy two cattle, four brood sows, farm machinery including a McCormick mower, and terms: credit twelve months on sums over 810 with notes, cash or six percent discount on cash sums over 810. Lunch counter provided. Anna Wooley as Admx with Teeter Lathrop and J A McCoy as auctioneer and clerk.
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