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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
2
A 1930 poem by Douglas Malloch extols family wealth over material gain, counting life, spouse, children, home, health, and mutual support as true riches. It contrasts domestic blessings with worldly wealth and emphasizes love as enduring light amidst shadows. Also mentions fish species and weights in passing.
Nellie Maxwell presents a fragmentary menu vignette of elegant but simple dishes. Read as a period culinary note it mentions bacon wrapped beef, fruit cocktails, caviar sandwiches, spiced ham and sardines on toast with lemon, onions and celery.
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate column presents Superstitious Sue advising that trimming fingernails on Monday and clearing medicine bottles with a ritual will bring health, framed as a light superstition item in a syndicated feature.
A fragmented collage of recipes describes bread with tomato and cheese topping, garlicky citrus marmalades, caviar on toast, and a method for poaching eggs. It mentions mixing lemon juice, sugar, and egg yolks with fish stock, then serving with a sauce. Another fragment spoons scrambled eggs with anchovies.
An 1876 Chicago event in Harverly's theater featured General Grant honored after his world tour. A demand rose for Mark Twain to speak, but Twain joked he could not deliver a timely impromptu speech without hours of preparation.
Indian Trails note how herds used existing bisons routes to reach salt licks distant from grazing grounds. On journeys to and from salt sources, the herds discovered the lowest mountain passes and easiest routes through rough terrain.
Describes the white ash tree including height from 00 to 80 feet, gray furrowed bark, grayish green branches, rusty buds, and late spring leaves. Notes 7 to 9 leaflets, usually seven, and that ash resists diseases, with lore about snakes avoiding shade and lightning striking the tree. Mentions Native American use for bows, paddles, and modern farming implement production.
A discussion of illumination origins in ancient texts. Ancients brightened papyrus rolls with colorful vignettes and early alphabetic writings highlighted important letters, showing the craft’s long heritage and evolving techniques.
A Vienna dispatch explains how impatience with a collar button led Fritz Mimmler to attempt suicide by jumping from a third-floor window. A policeman blocked him, the chauffeur commented on repeated button attempts, and the button finally fell away. The piece argues that fussing and fuming constitutes slow suicide, harming the self more than a leap.
The Washington Star notes that many American Indian languages avoid a B sound, the Aztec tongue lacks it, and most North American Indians struggle with it. Some languages like Jamez in New Mexico and Pomo in California retain a B like Buhgeel in myths.
The text states that milk contains nitrogenous elements as casein and albumen, fat as cream, milk sugar, salts, and water. It asserts milk could sustain human life indefinitely, though such an experiment has not been conducted.
By Hugh Hutton this humorous note describes a fanciful creature with hairy facial growths called the galloway ghink. The piece details its burlap-like body made from a polished paper-shell pecan, a chick en feather whisker construction, and edible-like props, all in a whimsical, satirical tone.
Iowa State College dairy husbandry expert John M Shaw stresses legume hay and silage as essential for economical milk production. He advises dairymen to supply high quality crops, use a balanced grain mix, and feed silage and hay at practical daily rates for cows of various weights and production levels.
Dairymen should select sires with proven breeding lines to avoid long term milk and fat production losses. According to John Evvard, bulls with well documented dams and sires reduce risks of poor performance, while inferior sires can cause milk shortages across generations and harm future milking potential.
A summary of key elements for high quality dairy milk. It emphasizes the dairyman as the crucial factor over fancy facilities, noting that cleanliness in barns, milkhouses, milking equipment, and cows matters, along with proper washing, sterilizing air sensors, and prompt cooling to 40 degrees Fahrenheit or lower until delivery.
The article notes Clover hay is two and a half times and alfalfa three and a half times as rich in digestible protein as estimothy. It warns that butterfat losses occur with poorly adjusted or unclean separators and stresses regular skim milk testing. Wheat is equal to corn for dairy feed but should not exceed one third of grain mix. Box stalls limit exercise and raise handling risks. Pedigrees must reflect more than names for buyers to pay premium.
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