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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
3
The Rhode Island Reds originated in Rhode Island around 1850, bred from crosses including Malay Game, brown Leghorns, red Shanghai blood, and later red Cochin China and Malay cocks. They were selected for male traits and egg production, with gradual color improvement through careful mating, while maintaining strong laying qualities.
The text describes how pigs grown in civilization revert quickly to wild types after three generations. It notes changes in size, shape, and behavior from year to year, with hogs becoming formidable at age one and murderous by age two. It mentions aggressiveness, fighting behavior, and occasional tree-barking when angered.
Two dogs with a deep rivalry confront each other at a gate. Prince the brindle and Rover the black dog glare and growl until a gate is left unfastened, allowing a lunge that ends in both fleeing in fear and never risking a stare again.
The International Livestock Exhibit in Chicago runs November 28 to December 10. It features champions from top breeders and porcine and bovine classes, offering educational value and demonstrations that show how to improve profitability for breeders feeders and butchers. Each year brings new problems and higher standards, making attendance a valuable training investment.
Public officials call on livestock interests to back the leading live stock exposition in America. They urge attendance to sustain the event and elevate it to the world’s greatest livestock exposition in every sense.
London Truth notes how Tibetan goats straying into British territory along the British India Tibet frontier provoked commentary on a distant 1739 conflict with Spain over Jenkins ear. The piece mocks how a minor grazing dispute could trigger a large war in this century.
The London Christian World notes Henry G. Davis as an eighty one year old Republican vice presidential candidate described as a capitalist. It compares his age to Gladstone and jokes about a marriage to a septuagenarian widow. A prison warden adds a social problem view on wealth and crime.
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