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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
7
A Kansas farmer reports buying 24 calves last summer and feeding them green corn kafir and prairie hay. He devised a simple homemade feed cutter from boards and a crosscut saw blade to cut the mix into one half to one inch pieces. One worker could prepare feed in minutes, reducing waste and keeping calves fed until frost.
A litter of eight good pigs from a pure bred boar and choice sow yields 400 pounds of dressed meat when fed leaf feed. Experience shows a sow growing eight pigs to maturity twice yearly is more profitable than more pigs without proper development. Pigs suckle six to eight weeks, breeding after weaning is simple, and two litters yearly are achievable with proper care.
The feed should mix clovers and straws together with muscle-building elements from clover and alfalfa. Balance estrane and corn fodder with such feeds. Use corn sparingly as it lacks essential growth elements for young stock.
Fragmentary report notes wild growth around the bay area and farms. Mentions the visitor quarter and core with grain hints, and a remark that many plugs on farms today relate to this trend.
A garbled text discusses horse care, worm management, feeding and shoeing. Mentions colts, pastures, stalls, and caution about walls and fences. Contains many garbled phrases but centers on keeping horses healthy and properly fed.
In a tale set around Vera Croydon and lawyer Hugh Wayne, mercenary client Martin Dalton schemes to break an engagement by rumor of ruin. Wayne helps Vera honor a pledged marriage, and months later Dalton acknowledges Miss Croydon’s fortune and Wayne’s loyalty.
The Wheeling Intelligencer argues West Virginia hosted an early oil well on the Kanawha River at Charleston years before the Drake discovery at Titusville. WV oil boomed after 1900 with 16,000,000 barrels. 1912 output reached 13,200,000 barrels, second only to 1900 in value.
Mrs. Spencer widow of New York millionaire Lorillard Spencer plans a yearlong effort to convert Jolo Muslims to Christianity. She aided Bishop Brent, head of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, and will be joined by Miss Virginia Young after her companion’s death in the journey.
Julia Bottomley describes a cloth gown suited for daily wear merging morning and afternoon styles. The bodice and skirt read as one piece but are separate, with high easy waist, long shoulders, and ample arm movement. Finishing details include velvet piping, double breast front, belt, fine net chemisette, and pearl accents.
The article advises daily outdoor air for the infant with thorough cold protection. It describes layered clothing and accessories including a knitted cap, silk undercap, soft boots, and long tops, plus a robe of fur or eiderdown in the carriage. It warns against over-warming indoors and in steam heated rooms.
A firm principal asks for a character reference from a prospective office boy. The boy returns with no reference but with the manager’s own character, declaring he is not taking the job. The anecdote ends with the youth threatening not to return.
A man at a charity fair tells a girl she should not buy from her table because she is homely. The girl remains unfazed and the man continues his sales routine along the line, as reported by the Loulaville Courier-Journal.
A clipped exchange notes a man who weighs every action before moving. A playful rhyme mentions a boy with a ball and chal, hinting at cautious, thoughtful character in a light, period tone.
A witty remark from the Burlington Gazette on Gadderfly who may have succeeded in life were it not for a long held mistaken impression that his presence adds dignity to a street corner.
The Chicago Record Herald found the evening’s production of as, Strong Man's Faith at the Adelphi Theater well cast but too decent to deserve notable attention.
A Detroit press item recalls a humorous household accident where a man, aiming for cough medicine, accidentally took the wrong bottle after rising in the dark. The misstep is attributed to a bad cough and a late hour, causing a humorous domestic mixup.
A brief humorous note quotes Lelrokt Pree Press about the difficulty of buying gifts and the reluctance to spend money, reflecting light social commentary.
An odd dispute unfolds as a figure nicknamed Wombat is tied to a machine amid tensions with a local organization. Residents report a sly, independent actor dominating his own device while the community watches.
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