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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1889
Page
7
This piece explains how to use kitchen windows and hot-bed boxes to grow early vegetables like lettuce beets carrots celery and peppers. Instructions cover box construction soil mixes seed sowing watering and aftercare to obtain quick home supplies and save money for a family garden.
A method for growing tomatoes, eggplants and other vegetables in indoor boxes or flats. Use a thin layer of sand on warm manure, sow thickly, and place in sunny windows weeks before a hot bed. Transplant when ready, giving each plant space, with cauliflower and lettuce needing cooler conditions.
A reader discusses using hot beds with partial excavation and manure heat under two sash, plus a third sash as a cold frame. Plants are arranged by hardiness from hot-bed end to cold-frame end, with peppers tomatoes cauliflower cabbage and turnips favored. Manure may be the cheapest heating material, and other fuels like peat or swamp muck are suggested for future trials. Readers are invited to report experiments.
Wilton Merle Smith, famed pitcher preacher of Cleveland, will take charge of Central Presbyterian Church in Went Fifty-eighth Street on March 1 at a salary of 700 a year. Born in Elmira, he is a Princeton alumnus known for curveball pitching and athletic prowess. He will balance ministry with sports, having previously served at Care Beva NY and later Cleveland, while marrying Miss Zantec Van Suntroont.
A young preacher, posing as a Princeton-identified Mr Smith, delivered a curving set of pitches that toppled the opposing team. The hotel team surged ahead as the soldiers failed to score after the preacher took the mound, earning a decisive victory.
A vintage column extols the Rock Island route highlighting first class accommodations free chair cars on all trains and sleeping cars on night runs. It praises gentlemanly staff and safe travel for ladies and children, and notes heavy tracks and wide service areas with ticket offices offering rates and routes. The passage promotes travel to east west north or south with reliable information and advances lithographs and printing by Wichita offices.
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