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Newspaper
Coffs Harbour Advocate
Location
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 14, 1912
Page
2
Article notes salt intake affects milk yield in cows. It cites French experiments showing a dairy cow may need about one ounce of salt daily, in addition to forage. Observations suggest dry, well-fed cows produce little milk, while insufficient salt reduces milk output. Mentions a local grant and family notices without concrete dates.
Me TC Gates of Central Dakota recalls sowing Rhodes grass with paspalum and clover on 20 acres in December 1910. Rain after planting slowed growth. despite initial poor weed competition, later growth surged to 4 to 6 feet with heavy seeding. Stock gained butter yields, but grazing was difficult. Gates notes Rhodes grass outgrows peas and weeds, suggesting every farm needs a paddock for variety.
Fragmentary report describes Jack Johnson being denounced by a crowd in Alabama and accused of plans harmful to public welfare. The Chicago Council allegedly banned him from a cafe, citing him as a menace to public morals and fining or ejecting him from the venue.
Waugh & Josephson advertise their oils as high quality for warjet machinery, claiming strong customer approval and a profitable sideline. They promote a sorted stock of several thousand gallons and fast delivery from their Sydney store at Stokes Street.
The passage touts onions as a cure for colds and insomnia, claims winter onion grilling purifies skin and blood, and weaves in fragmented lines about prudery, innocence, liberty, tyranny, and a plea for truth unshackled by schemes.
The text shows a garbled note with phrases like Dantes bene dae and Cosh ies va tones, including stray fragments about hee ubjret and tyre oshir. It appears as a damaged OCR fragment lacking coherent context or clear event.
The Australian Chilling and Freezing Co. permanently closes its Bacon Factory at Aberdeen following the Intent Wages award affecting country bacon factories. District dairy farmers regret the move as pig-raking shifting away from a market that offered top prices for porkers and baconers.
A funeral at Johannes burg was disrupted by a storm bar at the graveyard. One dead and several injured as mourners scattered. Five others were seriously hurt. A separate tale tells of a tourist trapped in a severe storm finding a solitary cottage and staying overnight. After dinner the visitor, wearing a gold man's clothes, was mistaken for the mistress's husband and struck with a broom, the insult noted as punishment for asking guests to stay.
A damaged line describes a burn on a pale near Pecan and a nearby shed, mentioning Mr J Worseley and an urgent request for assistance. The text hints at a quick death and notes an attempted intervention, with vague references to a chief or alerting figure and a character sequence suggesting emergency response.
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