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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1911
Page
10
Uncle Joe's Poultry Department urges city chicken keepers to confine birds, keep coops clean, use simple disinfectants, and install hinged dropping boards. It explains weekly cleaning, proper ventilation, and lime and grit importance to prevent soft or shell-less eggs amid urban constraints.
A long reader letter page reports on poultry exchange offers for sorghum seed, chicks, eggs, and various breeds. Uncle Joe and Mrs. Comfort answer questions on pip disease, incubation losses, and promoting standard bred fowls, with notes from readers in Texas Florida Georgia and Alabama.
A dense collection of poultry trade notices urges buying Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Leghorns from local breeders to support domestic farming. Advertisements tout egg prices, special strains, and breeder contact details, while readers seek guidance on caring for Wyandotte birds and feeding.
A late 19th or early 20th century advertisement from Hastings Seeds lists products for poultry keepers and gardeners. It promotes lice liquid sprays, coarse chick feed Red Comb, plant stock including geraniums, pansies, canna bulbs, gladioli, and gardening supplies. It also markets pest control products, grit, oyster shell dispensers, and catalogs for seeds and farm supplies.
White Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds advertised for sale with prices per setting and per pair. Listings include White Leghorn hens, White Rocks trio for 20 dollars, and various poultry varieties, plus requests for pure bred birds and a duck exchange. A mosquito repellent recipe is also offered by a local seller.
Local ad proclaims Buckeye incubators with automatic temperature regulation to within a fraction of a degree. It markets various sizes from 100 to 1000 eggs and lists prices such as 9.00 and 14.00 plus options. The copy also touts a spray pump for cleaning and a poultry care catalog.
Prairie State for sale listing shows timber lands offered by M. Petker & Co of Anion Alabama. The ad notes a price around 200,000 and references Southern routes and rail access. Details are fragmented but indicate a large tract sale with specified agents.
The ad promotes Dr Hess's Panacea as a guaranteed conditioner for sick poultry after wet weather. It markets chicken feed, charcoal beef, alfalfa meal, and seeds from The Old Reliable Seed Store at 23 South Broad Street Atlanta, claiming long reputation and fair prices from M Milian Shed Co.
Five room cottage in West End with all conveniences. Small cash payment, remaining balance is like rent. Contact Frank Fidmondson at 148 Broad or call 420.
For sale two large shady lots each measuring about box feet with city water sewer and electric lights on paved streets in a good neighborhood. Ideal place to build. Terms to suit purchaser. Contact D. C. Rose at 1208 Ninth National Bank Building telephone Bell M. 1857.
For sale horse and Studebaker wagon at 330 W Pecctres Bt. Also rubber tired buggy, 32 Bucey real estate loan offers from Foster & Robson, 11 Edgewood Ave. Money to loan on real estate at low rates. Commerce ads include investment bonds and steel corporation notes.
A garbled clipping shows fragmented quotes and odd phrasing about a social confrontation. The text reads as a jumble of insults and questions about attending church, with stray punctuation and misspelled words. No clear event or named entities emerge from the readable lines.
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