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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
3
A dense slice of old newspaper food guidance covers soups such as Potato Soup With stock and Alice six potatoes, English Beef Soup, and Roast Pork With Cherry Sauce. Also included are Jumbles cookies, proper food care for summer heat, and preservation tips for berries, watermelons, cucumbers, and nitrogen-rich foods.
The Boston Transcript notes the Chapel of the Resurrection at Washington Cathedral on Mount St. Alban will take years to dry its cement plastering. The project aims to create a church to endure 2,000 years and may include frescoes by a Leonardo da Vinci. the cathedral’s height will exceed the nearby Washington Monument, and the Mount St. Alban site will be a dominant landmark.
Prime Minister Painleve, famed mathematician, stalls in a chamber session as he forgets foreign minister Briand’s name during a Morocco policy debate. After laughter from deputies, he finally retrieves the name and suggests postponing the debate to Wednesday.
Popular Mechanics reports Dr. W. Alvarez of the University of California has devised the palm finder, a multiple electro enterograph resembling a miniature seismograph. The device records digestion in the abdomen by drawing a pendulum trace in a vacuum tube, revealing the path of food and pinpointing trouble in minutes.
At a Greenwich Village tea, elderly Theodore Dreiser comments on a veteran critic who left his wife and job for a girl of seventeen or eighteen summers. He quips that one can watch one’s step for 50 years and trip over a dimple.
A story from Pearson's Weekly recounts a man who plots to sell his wife for a horse. He jokes about temptation by a "really good motorcar" while his wife questions the proposal, illustrating a satirical domestic scenario.
The text argues that human development stems as much from lacking as from possessing. It suggests that desire and need push societies forward, shaping culture, science, and invention through striving to fill gaps. The idea emphasizes balance between satisfaction and ambition in progress.
Krum from Colorado Agricultural College Extension Service cautions against rigid mash to grain ratios. Adjust by season and flock condition, noting wet mash is risky and often unnecessary, and recommends hopper feeding with three quarts wetting per 100 birds during July to September to delay moult.
State College of Agriculture New Brunswick New Jersey reports experiments showing chicks kept under glass grow much slower than those outdoors in direct sun. Sunlight alone prevents leg weakness. cod liver oil adds little benefit. Combined sunlight and cod liver oil increases average weight to about 1.75 pounds, a quarter pound more than sunlight alone. A half hour of sun exposure can cure leg weakness in birds developing under glass.
Maryland Bulletin 244 reports a crushing test on eggs from oyster shell fed and limestone fed hens showing no notable difference in shell strength or thickness. Limestone use per bird was lower, despite higher egg production in the limestone pen, indicating limestone can safely supply material for eggshell making.
During summer turkeys have abundant feed on farms. Start fattening about October 1, giving little feed at first and increasing it gradually until sale. The marketing season runs from mid November to late December.
An old advertisement notes that the best laxative for children is California Fig Syrup while promoting Cuticura products for complexion and cleanliness. The copy pits medical claims and cosmetic benefits in a compact sales pitch for Cuticura Soap Ointment talcum trio.
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