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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
3
A farmer advises on calf raising with winter grain feeding, balanced rations, and avoiding overfeeding to ensure dairy stock potential. It covers care from birth through year old, plus feeding for muscle and bone development and seasonal adjustments. Separate lambing and fattening notes follow with turkey dressing guidance emphasizing not feeding before kill and proper skin, sizing, and timing for market.
Leading horse breeders avoid harness work for brood mares opting for daily turnout on grass pastures through winter. Regular light exercise improves foal vitality, while avoiding strain. Using three horses for two’s work increases efficiency, enabling deeper ploughing with greater overall output and less fatigue for the driver.
A friend recounts buying 23 high bred ewes and a purebred ram for 100, paying via a bank note at 7 percent interest. In spring he reared 26 lambs, sold 15 old ewes and 10 lambs for 115.75, leaving 24 head. He covered the note of 107 and shows flock value around 120 plus gained feeding and care insights.
Stable tools such as forks shovels and brooms should hang in the barn to stay out of the way and prevent accidents. Drive in a few spikes to provide hanging spots. A leather strap attached to the end of a broom or fork makes a handy hanger.
Vic en British Columbia welcomes Yukoners Donald McGillivray Harry Johnstone from Yarmouth Nova Scotia who rushed to Klondike in 1897 and now plan to return north after a temporary visit. Lawrence Sinclair A K Jewitt and George Greenhow say the lure of the North keeps them restless, with several planning to rejoin Dawson via Skagway in spring.
New York State has authorized an expenditure of fifty million dollars to improve road infrastructure. The action targets better highways and local thoroughfares, signaling a major investment in public works and transportation.
Dr Thomas Spees Carrington founder of the Marsovan nurse training school in Turkey recalls Lusaper the first Armenian girl to enter nursing. Her perseverance despite family opposition sparked the eastern nursing movement. Since five years the Marsovan school has educated only English-speaking girls, expanding to support many more across Turkey and shifting gender roles through medical care and sanitary education.
A visitor vents sympathy to an old colored parson, joking about dropped coins in the collection plate. The parson smiles and explains the coins will fund nails for his church project and lead nickels will become sinkers for fishing lines.
A recipe describes brushing the ham with beaten egg yolk then coating thickly with fine bread crumbs pressed on firmly. It then advises brushing with thick cream and setting in a quick even bake to form a brown delicious crust. A separate reflection notes that sensible people ignore foolish courtroom talk and that success comes from persuading others to accept one's value.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and classroom mishaps recounts misused grammar, mistaken lectures, and Irish wit. Brief notes touch on a quicksilver market, ore processing advances, and a Portland fair distilling plant claimed to cut ore processing time from thirty six to four hours.
The article describes Black Butte Oregon as a mercury mining town with a large exposed cinnabar vein. It notes a vein 400 feet wide along the mountain, tunnels and raises over three miles, and a distillation process displaying mercury production at a Lewis and Clark exposition exhibit. Quicksilver is shipped in 14 pound wrought iron flasks containing seventy six and a half pounds.
A look back at women who defied changing fashion noting Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte in Baltimore bought twelve bonnets to last life, and a New England family who kept crinoline era attire. It contrasts old-fashioned vanity with social norms and cites Miss Hazeltine policing hair and ears at Bradford Academy.
A veteran corrector, versed in ten languages and familiar with foreign lands, audited 15 000 plus pages of a new encyclopedia and uncovered over 1 000 errors in volume one, with thousands more in later volumes. A violin virtuoso is misdated as a youth who ran away to Cassel twelve years after his death. A living European author is misdated as born after his first book. The editor's quip: Verily a bright kid this.
A Washington Star report notes even a preacher agrees that praying cannot settle a church choir quarrel. The piece mirrors introspective doubt about the speaker possibly being part of the very “world of freaks” described, revealing unease and uncertainty.
Royalty and their clashes over chess span history from Edward the Confessor to Napoleon. The piece recounts kings and queens who duel over boards, clashes that sometimes dictated fates, including accidental falls, banishments, and even executions while moves persisted.
A humorous exchange at a hotel desk unfolds as a groom calls his wife a jewel and the clerk jokes she belongs in the safe. The tale closes with a note that a sensible man earns an honest living, not a boastful reputation.
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