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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1912
Page
23
A speaker urges careful thought on daily comforts and their origins. Eyes absorb odors like milk, and eggs from dirty farms can be unfit for food. Clean, disinfected poultry conditions yield purer eggs, versus stressed, odor-tainted production.
Classified poultry ads from Wyandotte breeders list eleven Wyandottes for sale at $2 each plus photos and contact numbers. Separate posts promote Silver Flora A. Ouzts of Edgefield and Gee trio, Hinene longcloth requests, twenty White Wyandottes with two cockerels, Uncle Jor Wardin strain eggs at $2 for 15, Robarty cocks, Nancy Poultry Yard in Jacksonville, and Regal Wyandotte Yard offering Regal Snow White stock at $5.000 per batch, with addresses in Atlanta and nearby locales.
A reader laments high egg prices and urges careful buying while noting improvements in egg cleanliness. A satirical letter proposes drastic measures for fowl diseases. The text also reports John G. Postell becoming poultry editor of The Atlanta Constitution and his work forming poultry clubs across Georgia.
A cluttered poultry ad list offers White Indian Runner ducks eggs and stock from Glenwood Farm and multiple breeders across Georgia and nearby states. Prices range from $1 to $5 per setting, with many eggs and day-old ducklings advertised, alongside other breeds like White Leghorns Black Minorcas and Rhode Island Reds. The notices emphasize prize-winning stock, guaranteed hatchability, and direct mail inquiries to farms and proprietors in Atlanta College Park Decatur and Hendersonville.
An Atlanta poultry ad promotes White Orpingtons in fine condition from New Kimbsll and offers S C White Leghorns White and Black Orpingtons Indian Runner Ducks and White Guineas. The seller promises hatchability and ships trio stock plus day old chicks and mature birds with mating and price lists available.
Features from Popular Mechanics illustrate New Yorks Catskill water supply impounding Esopus Rondout Schoharie and Catskill creeks to feed a vast reservoir system enabling delivery to Manhattan via 127 miles of aqueducts. The Ashokan reservoir could cover Manhattan to 28 feet. Also shown is Keokuk Iowas $27,000,000 hydro electric plant harnessing the Des Moines and Mississippi river, with thirty turbines and a canal for power delivery.
An assortment of urban pioneer era listings offers eight room houses, two story and multi dwelling setups, and vacant lots on Dunwoody Road Whitehall Street and nearby streets. Prices range from 1 100 for two vacant lots to 12 000 for a seven room bungalow near Druid Hills, with terms including cash, loans assumed, and easy payments.
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