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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
9
The Herald notes many residents use want ads to buy, sell, or find lost items and even to meet potential spouses through these columns. The feature highlights the community value of classifieds for practical and personal needs.
An article by J Bridgeman proposes a simple grounding method to reduce lightning deaths among stock and people. It describes a ground wire device using stepped boards to insert a small wire into damp soil, forming an effective lightning arrestor every eight to ten rods.
A reader asks how to remove garlic taste from milk. Large dairies use odor removal. farms have no practical method. Prevention works best. keep cows off garlicky pastures before milking. Turning in sheep helps rid pastures of garlic over time.
Lice and mites harm fowls and chicks so keep their surfaces clean with ample mite killer liquid and ice killing ointment and powder to protect your birds and your profits.
October is a good month for warming the peach trees. Go over them carefully and remove borers, paint wounds with white lead, and draw dirt away from the roots so the weather may aid in addressing overlooked borers.
Numbered leg bands on fowls will let owners track eggs per hen and the type of chickens produced. Bands are available from poultry supply dealers.
An experienced woman seeks general horsework on a Wyoming ranch for forty dollars monthly with references. Also listed are for sale posts for two lots in Antioch and a Burlington Cafe and Bakery, with contact details. High School Notes recount early basketball games and student activities with seniors and juniors noted, plus local notices about illnesses, social rumors, a possible visit from Charley’s Aunt, and a hospital operation for a senior. Reverend Wright’s chapel talk is mentioned, along with upcoming theater listings Chase-Lister Co and Phelan-HBegins.
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