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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1924
Page
4
A simple water powered stirrer for cooling milk is described. A shallow pine box mounted on a central axle tilts as water fills alternatingly on each side, driving paddles to stir the milk cans in a tank. The design uses readily available materials and a farm water supply.
In a winter test at the Iowa Experiment Station, five Jersey and four Guernsey calves fed corn silage showed faster growth and lower hay intake. Silage and sliced beets reduced hay consumption, lowered total feed needed, and produced cheaper gains with no scouring or adverse effects. Continuous milk changes and six-week trial periods measured the outcomes.
The article urges clean drinking water and shade for dairy cows, larger grain rations when pastures are short, and calf management from birth to weaning. It stresses selecting well bred cows with ample feed, ongoing culling for improvement, and TB control as a long term, persistent effort.
In Philadelphia, Bo Hackman, building superintendent at Spring Garden Reading station, crafts Punch and Judy figures and other magician devices as a hobby. His shop produces figures for ventriloquists nationwide, along with magic props, hats, boxes, and trick items used on stage.
A party of 500 Gothenburg students charter a vessel to live aboard during the social season. The ship will anchor in the Thames as accommodation is scarce.
Eight year old Lillian Leary and her nine year old brother John locate their curly haired poodle Buster after several days of searching four miles away. They alerted Jamaica police to broadcast a radio alarm and later reunited with their dog at the Daniel home with Lillian handing over a five dollar twenty cent penny bank and John offering two bars of chocolate.
Readable fragments show frequent social updates from Farwell area residents. Mentions include illness of Mrs. Don Hatch, Christmas visits by Marie McGoogan from Detroit, Gladys Honeywell from Ludington, and several family trips to Mt. Morris Saginaw and Midland. Church events, watch night plans, and W R C officers are listed with names such as Mrs. Mowl Mrs. Davison and Mrs. Munger.
The school held festive decorations and two downstairs programs with twenty five numbers in Miss Sherman and Miss Campbell rooms. Santa distributed gifts while teachers and visitors praised the orderly, joyful event. A third grade program in Mrs Powell room featured thirty seven songs and recitations including Aunt Jane's Christmas Box.
We express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors of Farwell for their kindness since the fire that destroyed our home. Albert Ambrosier and family convey gratitude for support and sympathy.
A father reproves his son for reading cheap novels after a school slip, using a basket half full of chips analogy. He explains the mind cannot hold more than a certain amount, and filling it with cheap reading caused the poor scholastic average. The tale, from the Bombay Guardian, emphasizes disciplined focus.
Bruce Bryan discusses Aztec and Inca practices showing human sacrifices as central and brutal. Victims included offenders and enemies, killed on tables or altars, with obsidian blades and blunt swords, amid ritual terror and priestly fatalities.
An English explorer recalls Africa as a harsh land ruled by the tsetse fly with humans fighting it continually. He describes a Luangwa valley journey by boat and on foot, noting mahogany trees, raffia, and wildlife including elephants and hippos along a broad river.
The Windsor area mill long held a monopoly on bank note paper, founded by a French Huguenot. Henri Portal introduced watermarks with a looped border and left scroll. The family hold lasted 199 years with early opposition from Judd at Yewell mill, which briefly lowered prices in 1787.
A brief note lists holiday greetings from Mrs. Fred Burk and Mrs. Anna Gaffney with mentions of tax collection and Christmas shopping. It also records travel and social visits by Paul Finch, Mr. and Mrs. W. Finch, Myr. and Mrs. W. Finch, and associations with Detroit and Clare in the prior week.
Doris Masten travels to Farwell Friday and returns Monday morning. L Sunsmith and Ford Nixon delivered a stock load to Farwell Tuesday. Frank Howey of Harrietta spends Christmas vacation here. Mr and Mrs Frank Newsom Mr and Mrs Frank Nash and Harl Sprague visited last Saturday in Windover.
Mrs Carl Monday travels to Flint briefly. Emerson Burton had a new telephone. Grace Pfannes and brother Joe visited Clare recently. Grace has extensive dental work. Mr and Mrs Chas Heber and Dick Hileman family from Pleasant visited I A Hileman. Gene Burton went to Loomis to haul feed from his place. Otto Burton and uncle from Loomis visited Gene Burton's home Sunday.
Dow Chemical company reports showing oil at 1150 feet in a brine well on section seven Greendale township near M24 and Isabella county line. Oil rose about 600 feet in an eight inch pipe overnight with several barrels pumped, total claim of larger quantities than prior local finds. Land around the well spans 40 acres owned by Stewart B. Gordon and Albert Gibbs supervisor Greendale township.
The fragment describes a weekly dessert plan from Sunday to Saturday including ice cream with sauce, fruit cookies, Fifteen Minute Pudding with cherry, lemon or cream pie on Tuesday, Sponge Pudding with butter and egg whites, a gelatin jelly with fruit, a short cake with berries on Friday, and custard on Saturday. It provides step by step instructions for several puddings and sauces.
An advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a safe reliable cough remedy for coughs colds and hoarseness. It emphasizes purity and ease of taking with a pleasant taste.
Instructions from Colorado Agricultural Palace advise calving cows in a comfortable box stall and to ensure free bowel movement before calving. Use laxative feeds such as bran and linseed meal, with epsom salts or linseed oil if constipated. Protect cows from cold after calving, provide luke warm water, limit feed, and offer good quality legume hay, silage, and bran mashes. Monitor for milk fever and adjust grain to milk yield. Feed individually, ensure protein and minerals, use alfalfa hay, silage, and appropriate grain, and add bulky feeds if grain is heavy.
A historical note describes how pre stamp letters required the recipient to pay postage. A passionate lover sent letters to a lady who refused to pay, prompting the postman to suggest that the sender should bear costs. Authorities adopted this idea, introducing prepaid postage to save trouble.
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