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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
6
Cecropia the cabbage butterfly chats with a fellow butterfly about a morning trip to the city. The visitor describes tall buildings, busy streets, and crowds, noting the thrill of city sights yet preferring the country for home. The talk ends with a fond shift back to home.
Carrie Jacobs Bond rose from fragmentary beginnings to gain iconic status with The End of a Perfect Day. Her husband’s death spurred hardship before she built a publishing house and earned lasting fame with five million copies sold and enduring standards.
A discussion on the old belief that combing hair after sunset is harmful or unlucky. The piece links hair to personal identity, cites Samson and Pliny, and notes night as a time when evil spirits prowl, suggesting danger in disturbing hair in darkness.
A hotel stenographer and the house detective banter about Martians on Mars. They joke about Mars climate and gravity, imagining fur outfits, spinning motion, and potential resort appeal while noting the planet’s moons and imagined roads. Copyright McNaught Syndicate.
The passage explains the phrase without jot or tittle as meaning utterly nothing. It traces jot tittle jet to Latin and Greek roots and notes the expression conveys complete lack of possessions.
A humorous exchange shows a wife wanting a striking hat while her husband questions wearing last year’s style, highlighting a light domestic moment about fashion.
The article argues a hen could lay a thousand eggs with the right mix of fat protein nitrogen fiber ash and water in her feed. It notes grains and meat products supply these elements, that hens on range forage instinctively for nutrients, and that prepared feeds aim to match the required proportions though birds may reject them.
Farmers find molting timing signals hen value. Late molters, finishing molt in autumn, tend to lay best. early molters delay laying and reduce profits. Experiments show egg production governs molt more than molt governs production. Commercial farms discard hens after late September molt and keep those molting in October or November.
Feeding tests at experiment stations show soy bean oil meal can replace rolled oats in chick diets. Pacific coast poultrymen regard it as excellent for growth and egg production. When combined with a mineral mix it outperforms scraps and rivals condensed buttermilk for short intensive feeding periods.
The article warns that feeding moldy cornmeal or spoiled grain can sickens hens and chicks. It advises carefully sorting corn for moldy or decayed ears and discarding unfit portions to avoid fatal digestive harm.
Dr James I Norris president of the American Chemical Society announced new resilient milk bottles could be made that would bounce if dropped on hard pavement. Demand for such bottles has been shown.
Fragmentary dialogue hints at a neighbor planning a garden and seeking to buy chickens. The exchange suggests domestic preparations and mutual trades as part of neighborly life, with no clear event or date.
A humorous exchange shows a wife asking how hot it is and Stubby replying the heat is too much to chase ice cream. The brief vignette captures domestic banter about summer conditions and small discomforts.
A woman is noted for choosing to quarrel with a man who avoids conflict. The observation highlights her penchant for discord rather than disagreement rooted in provocation.
A captioned quip recalls a train caller in a college setting, sparking a debate about what constitutes difficulties and what they reveal about men, with Epictetus offered as a philosophical aside.
The article explains that chess has fair feeding value for chickens though no formal food analysis exists. It suggests grinding chess and mixing with other grain and notes chicks may resist new grain at first but adapt quickly to corn after initial hesitation.
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