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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1934
Page
3
Monkeys at Frank Buck's Monkey Island imitate Reynold Olsen who won a Children's Day pie eating contest. The primates polished off banana pies, while Olsen savored a blueberry pie. The Monkey Island exhibit closes with the exposition on October 31.
The article states that twins occur in about one in 87 pregnancies, triplets roughly one in 7,569 births, and quadruplets about one in 658,500 births.
The Nameless Creek Christian Church marked its 94th homecoming last Sunday with worship and community gathering inviting members and locals to reflect on church history and fellowship.
Practical guidance on managing horses, hogs, cattle, and crops including alfalfa, lespedeza, and clover. Notes stress age readiness, feeding schedules, fertilizer needs, and efficiency for better farm earnings, with tips on marketing, pruning, and planning for next year.
A Philadelphia Inquirer writer recalls the Bull terrier’s history as a pit fighter tied to gambling rings near taverns. The breed evolved from those brutal beginnings into a calm, amiable pet and guardian, with modern dogs developing from crossbreeding with bulldog and other terrier lines around 1875.
Gabon a French colony on the west African coast with Libreville as its capital. In 1849 a French ship freed enslaved people landed there and, with French protection, they founded the settlement later becoming the capital of the surrounding Gabon region. The region lies on the Equator with jungles and rich wildlife including the gorilla and Ogowe river mahogany forests.
In Rhodesia, wild elephants drove by bush fires to the outskirts of Umtali. Police cordoned the area as six trained elephants were borrowed from a traveling circus to persuade the wild herd to depart. The wild elephants charged the trained ones and spurred a suburban stampede until flames forced the invaders away.
Alaska's Kodiak island, nearly emptied of wildlife by a 1912 volcanic eruption, saw a government aided repopulation. Indians guided by unemployed workers captured 596 animals including deer, marten, and snowshoe rabbits and released them mainly on Kodiak with smaller numbers on neighboring islands.
Trachoma, linked to unbalanced diet insufficient food and poor sanitation, is identified as the principal cause of blindness among about 8 million people worldwide. Some 65 percent of those affected are natives of China and India, which together hold 40 percent of the world population.
Joyce Short, aged 13, operates the Augusta Tramway and Transfer Company of Arkansas the shortest railroad in the United States. She serves as the locomotive engineer guiding a child sized locomotive and a single coach along a mile long track.
A 1934 warning cites rising road deaths by 20 percent in six months and urges stricter traffic rules, while large railroads seek Interstate Commerce Commission approval to raise freight rates by about 170 million dollars annually to restore pay cuts and cover higher costs.
The undersigned appointed by the Circuit Court as Executor of the estate of Mary S. Johnson of Rush County Indiana. Executor Harry G. Henley states the estate is solvent. Attest Dale Fisher Clerk Geo M Barnard Attorney. Date September 12 1934.
Retail sales in the United States fell 48 percent from 1928 to 1933 yet the number of small retailers in 1933 was nearly the same as in 1929, indicating many shops survived the downturn.
Straw of various kinds may be fed as roughage to dairy cattle but must be supplemented with fairly high protein grain ration if milk production is to be maintained.
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