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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
4
Colonel Exquio Barbosa a federal officer wounded by a bullet in the chest after rebels fired on Torreon reached Mexico City on Friday He says he was captured by General Villa when federal troops under General Felipa Alvirez were wiped out just before Torreon’s evacuation.
Mrs John W Gates says she will not dispose of her holdings in the Texas Company or any of her Texas property. The denial follows a Chicago dispatch suggesting such a sale. The statement was issued Monday from Port Arthur Texas.
Dallas Tex. The Texas Industrial Congress annual convention, set for next Saturday December 18, is postponed due to the serious illness of Colonel Henry Exail, president of the Congress. It will be held in February in Dallas with the sixth annual National Corn Exposition exhibit.
The piece urges prompt cooling after cream removal, advised cold water to remove heat, and cautions against mixing morning and evening milk. It promotes crocks with covers, highlights higher New England milk prices due to better dairy methods, and argues a profitable dairy operation with separators. It emphasizes testing ideas, prudent buying and selling, and criticizes unskilled farm management and neglect of fruit crops.
An agricultural note argues against scrub sows and favors a brood sow large and sturdy with ample heart lung room. It advocates keeping prolific sows as long as reproductive powers remain and stresses that quality should not come at the expense of constitution and vigor.
Practical notes on farm management emphasize soil quality good breeding stock cattle sheep and poultry. Tips include fair prices for rams use of mules investment in healthy stock and efficient use of skimmed milk for pigs and calves with attention to ventilation cleanliness and redundancy of drafts.
A quotation on determining duty regardless of uniform or status. It states that finding and faithfully doing one’s duty, big or small, makes people good, strong, happy, and useful, and echoes a life aligned with God.
A guide to rapid meals using canned tomatoes milk and pantry staples. Emphasizes planning two column ingredient lists proactive prep and simple substitutions for sauces breads and desserts. Encourages order and practical steps for efficient cooking amid busy days.
A rustic kitchen note offers banana lettuce salad with banana puree and pecans with a mayonnaise dressing, plus suggested alternate dressings. Also describes Cherry and Date Dessert with gelatine layers and a Date Torte with whipped cream, and Quaker Tea Cakes with rolled oats and vanilla.
A brief cartoonish exchange centers on a gloomy man who laments melancholy since his older son joined a glee club. The dialogue plays on wordplay between joy and sorrow.
A collage of vintage ad copy and quips including medical cures for rheumatism and neuralgia, a joke about a glow worm, Socrates proverb, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup pitch, a municipal slaughterhouse cost note, Hanford's Balsam advert, and scattered aphorisms.
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