Indiana State Fair Night Horse Show Attracts Large Attendance
The Indiana state fair opens September 8 with a five evening night horse show in a major arena. Entry lists include top stables from multiple states and features music by the John C Weber band of Cincinnati. Prizes total 5330 dollars with 3005 for harness horses and 1325 for saddlers.
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Indiana
John C. Weber
Cincinnati
United States
Middle West
Indiana Fair
Purdue experts to headline state fair farm education exhibit
At the Indiana state fair opening September 8 Purdue University experts will run a comprehensive farm education exhibit. Specialists in animal husbandry horticulture soils crops poultry veterinary dairy and extension will guide farmers through practical schooling, with professors Skinner Christie Hunziker Fisher Wiancko and others present at the Purdue building.
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Purdue University
Messrs
Thompson
Gobble
Richards
Wiancko
Purdue
Adv
Timely Hints for Farmers on Water and Care of Work Horses
A rural advisory piece stresses ample clean water for work horses during cropping season. It warns against water from stagnant sources and urges humane daily pace, cool stalls, and generous feed and bedding. Regular grooming is advised to keep the coat clean and pores open.
Early Spring Pigs Feeding and Marketing
Early spring pigs are weaned and grazed on alfalfa rape clover or grain pastures with grain supplements until crops mature. In summer they forage barley wheat and peas with pasture, then glean stubble and corn roots pumpkins in fall. They may be sold from fields or fed briefly before market.
Danger of Early Hatching Warns Against Feb to March Hatch
Early hatching risks cold snaps that stunt chicks. Growth requires avoiding a February or March hatch. Wait until weather settles to improve chick survival and future prospects.
Give the Chicks a Run
Growing chicks should be allowed to run on the ground as soon as possible. When kept on hard floors they develop leg weakness and many never recover. In cold or stormy weather, cover the floor with fresh earth to aid until they can go outdoors.
Management of Ghigk Brooders Warns of Chick Losses
Professor J G Halpin of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture warns brooder operators that heavy chick losses stem from poor hygiene and improper heating. He advises thorough cleaning before chicks are moved from the incubator, watching chicks instead of relying on thermometers, and feeding a varied diet including cracked grains grit skim milk and green material such as onions in early days.
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J. G. Halpin
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Professor Halpin
Milk For Calves Feeding Instructions
Feed calves milk as close to blood temperature as possible around 96 degrees. Use clean pails and avoid overfeeding. Many feeders use double the needed skim milk and whole milk.
Silage Use for Hogs Limited to Small Rations
Silage is bulky and low in digestible nutrients for growing and fattening swine. Hogs digest primarily concentrated seeds. Old sows will eat some silage, but it should only be a small portion of their ration.
Inventor's plea for a wondrous machine and more
A whimsical poem by Walter G. Doty in Lippincott's envisions an inventor's toolkit to stretch dollars, create a blissful climate, cheer the owner, tailor garments, craft a five passenger car for a dollar seventy nine, and even produce a cheap judge, a bankable ball bearing, and a tariffic tariff device while imaginations dream of a millennium.
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Walter G. Doty
Lippincott’s
Strange Silence in London Sketch Dialogue
A fragment from London Sketch features Hutton Mitchell in a call box exchange. An intruder confronts silence as he waits, urging the occupant to speak. The scene centers on a tense moment between a man and his caller.
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Hutton Mitchell
London
Traveler's baggage bears odd honoraries, misread as pastors
A Chicago Inter Ocean quip notes a traveler with many hotel and steamship “pastors” on his luggage, misread as “past ors.” It jokes that the man has toured college towns and had an honorary degree attached to his baggage.
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Hottel
Chicago Inter Ocean
Lofty Softpate Engagement Sparks Jocose Quip
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a witty remark on Lofty’s engagement to Tottie Poser of the Gayety. The joke notes that without Tottie, Lofty’s parentage would be unknown, highlighting playful social commentary.
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Lord Softpate
Tottie
Gayety
Lofty
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cruelly Deceived Divorce Claim Sparks Court Dispute
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a wife seeks a divorce on the ground that her husband pretended to be ninety with heart trouble. She discovers he is only seventy-two and fully healthy, challenging the marriage's legitimacy and the grounds for dissolution.
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Chicago Tribune
The Family Goat and Animal Talk in New York Globe
A short humor item contrasts Tabitha the cat and Raga the dog with joking exchanges about who to live with. Tabitha would prefer a married woman while Raga backs a married woman, noting domestic complaints. The quip reflects light social satire in early 20th century New York journalism.
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Tabitha the Cat
Raga the Dog
New York Globe
Accounting For the Blue
Bel gian chemists report exhaustive tests showing distilled water remains blue. Egbert notes milk extraction incomplete, Yonkers Statesman remarks.
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Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
Learn to Swim Or Walk On Dry Land Debate
A dialogue compares learning to swim with a fish trying to walk on land, via a Boston Transcript quotation. The exchange humorously questions bodies that resist teaching themselves to new skills.
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Boston Transcript
Exonerated Suitor Denies Habits As Father Clears Daughter
In Brooklyn Life a suitor proclaims no bad habits and no smoking or drinking while a father asserts his daughter neither plays nor sings, framing a domestic dispute or personal conduct claim without further detail.
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Brooklyn
Practical Health Hint Overcome Insomnia With Breath and Foot Movements
The article instructs lying comfortably and bending the feet at the ankles to depress with each inhale and raise with each exhale, matching movements to full respiration. It advises counting through sequences, alternating foot depressions, and varying hand movements, all gentle and adjustable to help induce sleep quickly.
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Tventy
Indiana State Fair Beginnings and Grand Expansion
The Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis opens September 8 and has grown since 1851 to cover 214 acres with $66,044.50 in premiums. Exhibitors compete in 5,000 chances, 40 acres of machinery, and shows of fowl, fruit, livestock, and horses. The fair draws 200,000 visitors in five days and aims to elevate farm resources, education, and entertainment with revised premiums and expanded poultry facilities.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Exposition Gates
Hoosier
United States
America
Adv
Trustee's Notice for Fulton Township Auction Meetings
Trustee Jos. Starkey announces weekly auction sessions for Fulton Township to address township business at his residence in Cates Indiana. Oregon Journal advertises Western Information Bureau offering Semi-Weekly Journal plus 144 page illustrated booklet on Oregon resources for 50 cents and six months.
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Cates
Ind
Jos. Starkey
Fulton Township
Troy Township
Prescont
K. of P
Charles Dicken
Trowtownship
Western Information Bureau
Oregon Journal
Bureau of Western Information
Oregon
Portland
Non-Residents Notice in Fountain County Court
The Fountain Direct Court in Covington Indiana orders defendants named to appear by September 30 1913 to answer a complaint to quiet title to real estate in Fountain County Indiana. The case involves James Emmitt and numerous co defendants represented by Stansbury and Billings with Leroy Sanders as Clerk of the Fountain Circuit Court.
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James Emmitt
Stansbury & Billings
State of
Indiana
James
Emmitt
Levi ® Hollowey
Levi Hollowy
James Thomas
John Rk. Latta
Thomas E. Whitney
S William Robinson
Margarette Robinson
Wilson L. Turmian
Margaret RK. Turman
William A Becks
J Ane
Eliza G. Becks
John H. Robertson
Anna Robertson
Wilson Turman
John T. Mug
Ellen Mug
Theodore W. Swigart
Elizabeth Swigart
John Robinson
Celestine Robinson
Alexander L. Whitehall
Sarah A.whitehall
William B. Jones
Elizabeth Jones
William J. Manchester
Louisa
Fountaincounty
Ghven
Fountain Circuit Court
Covington
If you want a bill of any kind th's office is the place
The note promotes the office as the go to spot to obtain any kind of bill. It emphasizes the office as the central resource for government paperwork and related services.
Rodogune Sets Auction Price Records for Hee Library
Professional book dealers in New York boosted bids at the Robert Hee library sale with a top price of 1200 dollars. Drake purchased a copy of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Rodogune printed in 1760 in the apartment of Mme de Pompadour in Versailles.
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New York
Robert Hee
Hanesse Drake
Pierre Corneille
Rodo Vine
Mme. de Pompadour
Versailles
Butler linked to first red and green ship lights
The passage notes that red and green side lights for vessels began on the Hudson River in 1862 and were introduced by Gen Benjamin F Butler who was involved with a lights factory.
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Gen. Butler
Hudsop
Benjamin F. Butler
The Swinehead Feed and Breeding Advice
A rooting hog needs a ring in its nose and missing feed to prevent rooting. Experiments show feeding alfalfa hay with corn cuts fattening costs by about half. Save old sows to aid early spring litters. Purebred breeding swine should build bone and muscle, not fat, or the herd will degenerate quickly.
Care of Colts in Winter on the Farm
W H Tomhave of the Minnesota Agricultural College Extension Division warns against neglecting growing colts during winter. Adequate nitrogenous feeds including oats bran oilmeal and clover hay are essential for bone and muscle growth, with corn reserved for mature horses. Well fed, well bred colts command higher prices and are in demand at markets.
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W. H. Tomhave
Minnesota Agricultural College
Curb disease in horses causes and home treatment
Dr. D. McIntosh discusses curb from stress on the hind hock ligament and other causes like kicks or impacts. Symptoms include swelling heat and lameness with possible touts of saliva. Treatments include blister and antiseptic applications and a note to avoid medicines on nonlame chronic cases.
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D. McIntosh
Orange Judd Farmer
Amica
Indiana study finds optimal fattening ration for cattle
The Indiana experiment station reports the best winter feed for fattening cattle uses two and a half pounds of cottonseed meal per 1000 pounds of live weight plus all the corn the animal will eat, with a small amount of dry roughage such as clover or alfalfa hay. Steers on this diet showed the best gains, finish, and economy.
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Indiana
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Wilmine Hammann
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Rodogune
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