16 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment in verse laments joys that fade quickly and happiness found only briefly. The lines contrast lasting contentment with momentary pleasure, noting that joy cannot endure and is soon replaced by longing. The text reads like partial medieval sounding lines about happiness lasting but a short time.
Wilbert Marsh, bearing a new overcoat, helps a stranger by accepting a note for a woman with saffron hair, but loses the coat in a bet on a ball game. A misdirected romance leads to a comic ransom. Marsh later recovers the coat’s value and cigars, convinced the world has improved, though a letter remains unrecallable.
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recounts a newspaper man learning to use a stylographic pen after a shop repair. A Chinese man in town is praised for taking the device apart and reassembling it deftly, proving superior knack for handling fine details the author attributes to his culture.
A London Graphic correspondent notes the Church of Madonna del Rosario at Valle di Pompeii as a famed southern Italy shrine famed for miracles attracting pilgrims from the distant mountains and Sardinia. Contadini arrive on foot or in carts drawn by white oxen, singing and playing tambourines and pipes. In illness, barefooted girls lead processions to intercede with the Madonna for the sick.
The Living Church cites ritombia fork to claim a statement about Mother Eve’s creation. A quoted exchange features Gleter Patty affirming similarity to a king of verte and an archaic phrasing about life and existence.
The piece argues ducklings should avoid swimming or rain until feathered, since wet down dries slowly and risks chilling. It emphasizes providing deep water for drinking and nose blowing, and advises grit in the form of coarse sand or charcoal, noting some ducklings can survive brief exposure but it is risky.
For winter laying choose fowls from cold origin, not Mediterranean or Indian breeds. North China stock like Black Langshan proves best for harsh winters such as Wisconsin, while summer layers should come from tropical or semi tropical lines. Farmers' Review support favors Black Langshan as hardy winter layers.
Rhode Island Experiment Station outlines chick feeding mixtures. For chicks from one day to six weeks: four parts cracked corn, one fine cracked chest, two rolled oats, one-half millet seed, one-half broken rice, two fine scraps. first two weeks add millet seed and omit scraps. Roiled eyes fed at three per fifty. From six to ten weeks: four parts cracked corn, two fine cracked corn, one raised oats, one-half millet, one-half broken rice, one part grit, two parts crops. Colony chicks get three parts wheat and four parts cracked corn. mash fed three times weekly and daily after ten weeks: three parts ground corn, one part ground oats, one part brown shorts. Meat scraps mixed with hot water to steam. mash boosts growth. Ten-day-old chicks fed mash in morning, green food at noon, dry weeds later.
A fragment praises crimson clover used as a cultivar for lawn borders. It notes the plant’s vivid crimson blossoms are long and pointed, claiming careful treatment will reveal striking beauty for many people.
Hart explains how inefficient skimming wastes fat and money in creameries, urging testing and adjusting separators to minimize fat loss. The piece also reviews U S rules on coloring oleomargarine, noting allowed natural shades and the tax implications when coloration is absent, while acknowledging butter’s role in some margarine blends.
Government moves to cap water in renovated butter with 15 to 16 percent as outer limits. Experts note best butter holds 10 to 12 percent water, three percent margin deemed adequate. English practice cited. concerns about keeping quality when water is added. A Iowa dairy group explores milk scoring like butter judging to incentivize higher quality through financial benefit. A railway engine analogy hints at vast cheese consumption.
The weekly report charts fruit conditions from Georgia to Wisconsin, noting below normal quality for peaches apples pears and plums and poor watermelon yields due to dry weather. It covers regional prospects in Illinois Maryland Delaware Michigan Missouri Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, cites early ripe apples and variable peach and plum yields, and includes a discussion of bitter rot in apples with scientific commentary and four dairy patron types.
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