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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
7
A detailed drill manual describes squad structure of eight with a corporal leader and seven privates. It covers formation, distances, dress commands, line alignment, counting off, marching, halting, assembling, and take distance procedures for squad training.
Instructions for forming intervals in a squad to allow arm and leg movement during drill. At halt the call Take interval to the right or left prompts four rear rank men to back step four paces and align as leaders advance. Subsequent soldiers follow at four pace intervals to maintain precise formation.
The article explains two squad turning methods: moving pivot and fixed pivot. It details pivot man actions, oblique steps, timing, and front and rear-rank coordination to keep alignment, stressing careful turning to avoid disarray in the column.
A humorous note from The Christian Herald about a father telling his son Sunday is a day for rest. The boy, Little Jim, asks if all his father’s days are Sundays, revealing a playful misunderstanding.
A woman remarks that she will see if baggage handlers are as rough as rumored by placing an egg among her clothes as the transfer man departs with her trunk. The judge comments on testing the baggage men.
Net fabrics inspire airy, cool gowns for day and evening wear. A white net frock shown over organdie allows color with slips. The model features a net collar, silk braid, large cape‑like back, outlined bodice panels, tucks, belt, and decorative crochet buttons.
White fabrics rival India linen and batiste for little girls dresses, praised for durability and low cost. A voile dress shown features a plain skirt on a straight yoke with wide hem, crochet edging, and pink or blue accents. Another dress uses embroidered swiss organdie with a novel front cape detail. A British Red Cross sale reports a sausage pound sold for 4s 2d.
Guidelines from the USDA on constructing and maintaining terraces. Start from the top, build each terrace before the next, best in late fall or early winter, and use plows, drag, and graders to shape high embankments. Maintain height, sow cover crops first year, and focus cultivation toward terrace centers for yield.
An article argues farmers should schedule annual barn cleaning to reduce livestock diseases and boost calf and hog health. It also reports on alfalfa cultivation, noting that plowing and harrowing increase yields, with 3.9 tons from disked, 3.8 tons from harrowed, versus 3.4 tons with no cultivation, and refutes fears of crown splitting in cultivated alfalfa.
Practical alfalfa growers in the corn belt say cultivation greatly benefits alfalfa. Many pioneer growers recall dishing the crop until neighbors feared ruin, only to see the field green up within days.
Forehead or sorehead causes yellow spots on a chicken’s comb and wattles. The infection spreads rapidly but can be cured with daily head immersion in a solution of forty percent alcohol, fifteen percent glycerin, five percent boracic acid, and eight percent water for about a week, or by tincture-based treatment.
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