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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
2
In a rustic scene by the oaks and fences a farm boy calls Poo-ee as pigs root the acorns and the night wind rustles leaves. The lone chore boy watches stars with a crumpled hat and sings the lilting cry to cows and swine.
Marjory inherits one thousand pounds and buys a motor car against her family’s disapproval. A race to save Hugh with Dr Raymond’s oxygen treatment shows the vehicle’s heroic role, changing her parents’ and Crayminster’s view of motor transport.
Frank Coyle recalls the infancy of motion pictures with stories of camera mistakes and re shoots. He notes a baptism scene in the Jordan and a Ro soldiers scene mislaid by a bush bound boy, while a modern trolley car occasionally appears behind Herod’s soldiers.
A French officer proposes a paper bullet with a thin aluminum shell that wounds rather than ravages, claiming similar accuracy and distance to steel projectiles while reducing fatal outcomes. Trials may be ordered by the Austrian war office and governments in Geneva discussion follow.
A London Standard piece recalls the right and wrong ways to hang horseshoes for luck. The tale traces the superstition to moon goddess protection, notes cottages still display doors in Somerset and elsewhere, and urges placing the crescent on the threshold with waxing toward the right on the waning moon.
Swiss tourism bucks auto restrictions as hotels and pensions report a record summer. Officials estimate over 60,000,000 marks from lodging and 20,000,000 from rail and lake travel, with German visitors about 88 percent and English roughly 18 percent of the total 500,000 visitors.
Wedderly presents an ash receiver as a joke gift for his wife to save her the trouble of sweeping up cigar ashes. Singleton reacts with disbelief at the notion of her smoking. The piece satirizes lazy wealth and the press agent culture in show business.
Agricultural notes discuss furrow width and field length affecting plow turns and time, plus methods to revitalize run down pastures in the Middle and Eastern States. Recommendations include clover mixtures, timely harrowing, barn manure top dressing, and lime. Also covered are poultry aging, butter salting, feather values, and egg incubation.
The article argues Danish cows yield nearly three times more butter per cow than in Canada due to dairy intelligence. It credits selective breeding and liberal yet prudent feeding, urging farmers to embrace dairy books and journals to raise productivity and move beyond old prejudices.
A dairyman describes a nose-mounted calf weaner that clamps between a cow’s nostrils with spikes to stop self-sucking. Reported to prevent self-sucking and wean calves, the device is sold by hardware merchants and widely used in Texas after other methods failed.
A quoted estimation suggests the entire world’s population could stand comfortably within an area of about eighty square miles, implying an unusually dense but compact theoretical living zone. The figure serves as a thought experiment on population density and space requirements.
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