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Newspaper
Clearfield Weekly Progress
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
2
A Southwest agricultural letter details a woman’s poultry venture with 100 hens including White Leghorns Black Minorcas and Rhode Island Reds. It lists expenses 50 cents per hen 50 cents per cock feed egg hatchings sales and a total profit of 103.88 dollars for the year with hens averaging 119 eggs per hen at 25 cents per dozen.
A 1915 editorial notes Great Britain clings to allied sacrifice while Austria and others face danger. It urges honoring remaining Civil War veterans and supports President Wilson if he takes a firm stance against Germany over the Lusitania affair.
Forty convicts at Eastern penitentiary study agriculture by correspondence with Pennsylvania State College. Rapid progress shows prisoners seek constructive work after release, signaling growing reform in prison treatment. The program could expand to other institutions, enrolling hundreds of inmates in agricultural courses.
The Progress offers reflections and counsel to the class of 1915, praising graduates and urging them to pursue education and personal development. It notes the world’s vast size and growing population, hints at global events, and emphasizes the enduring value of a strong education and moral effort for young men and women.
A jumble of fragmented phrases and stray lines mentioning fires, swords, dogs, a painted angel, a Philadelphia record, a host, a hostess dog, a cruel death, and various disjointed comments about marriage and war. The text reads like OCR garble from a newspaper page, lacking coherent narrative. It includes references to a dog and a memory of battles, with nonsensical asides about family and gender.
A exhortation to graduates to seek beauty and toil, urging perseverance in real life. It encourages hopeful youth to strive for improvement, acknowledge rival ambitions, and treat the world kindly as a constructive habitat for their future. The message emphasizes honest living and steady effort over idealized perfection.
Governor Brumbaugh vetoed ten bills and approved many more. Vetoed measures include shifting damages costs to municipalities in street and highway projects and restricting local initiative through a rigid sidewalk width rule. Also vetoed were land acquisition for township high schools and state land right of way through Cambria county, questions over tax sales and penalties, and a range of regulatory and public health bills.
A reflective verse laments war’s toll and pleads for lasting peace. It honors ancestors who died for peace while condemning present greedy indifference to their sacrifice. The speaker asks how to honor those buried decades ago who fought and died for peace.
Practical guidance on dairy barn design emphasizes cow comfort in stalls stanchions and mangers. It compares costly patent equipment with simple, affordable options like 20 cent chain ties and swinging stanchions, noting Kentucky Experiment Station demonstrations and a $1.35 frameable stanchion solution for low cost, effective results.
The article stresses careful handling of trees when planting to improve survival rates. It warns that exposure damages roots and suggests keeping packing on until planting, or heel in if unpacked, by placing trees on a sloped area, in shallow trenches, and covering roots with moist soil and a light straw layer to protect branches from sun until they are shaded.
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