Community notes from Northeast Linn county and nearby towns
Northeast Linn Otis McCollum shucks corn for Obe Clapp this week. Ben Cattey buys twenty two stock hogs for Frank Head to feed. Rouer builds flues for Will Brewers new house. Miss Helen Margrieter teaches at Cattey and attends a Brookfield teachers meeting. Miss Ida Cattey at Browning High School visits homefolks. Mrs Nellie Thudhum of St Catherine visits her father Marti Mbbott this week.
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Ben Cattey
Frank Head
Ida Cattey
Browning
Nellie Thudhum
Marti
Uncle Reuben’s Letter to Friends on Editors and Presidents
The piece mirrors a Midwestern letter from Reuben Hardscrabble railing at editors who mock their own trades. He recalls Taft and Littleton stirring the president, then ridicules country editors as a false alarm and urges readers to quit the “damp hoolishness” and seek honest work.
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Pittsburgh
Littleton
New York
Presid
William Howard
Taft
Reud
Allus
Reub
Reuben Hardscrabble
Live Stock Report From Kansas City Stock Yards November 18, 1911
The Kansas City stock yards report shows firm to higher trade for cattle with 15 000 head on run. Old Mexico cattle $4.00 steer and $3.65 cows, range state offerings up 10 to 25 cents. Hog prices 72 000 head sold with 5 to 10 cent gains, top $6.52 13, bulk $6.00 to $6.50. Sheep and lambs higher, best native lambs $5.80 and range feeders plentiful with $4.50 to $4.80 for light weights. J A Rickart announces.
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Kansas City
Republic
St. Louis
Chicago
J. A. Rickart
Live stock care and winter farming tips urged
The article emphasizes clean dry bedding as essential for livestock and advises keeping milk away from strong smells, housing a mare with a fall colt in a warm box stall, and letting colts and unused horses enjoy daytime paddock time. It warns against complete grain removal and notes frost harm to udders, risking milk shrinkage and losses.
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Browning, Missouri
Joseph Nickell
Browning, Mo
Northeast
Linn
Otis McCollum
Obe
Rouer
Will Brewers
Helen Margrieter
the Cattey
Teachers’ Association
Brookfield
Reuben
Wesley
Ilek
Live Stock Report
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