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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1915
Page
3
A promotional note extols Anna Katharine Green as a premier detective writer and introduces Dark Hollow as a new serial. It highlights Green’s enduring fame, the author’s initial breakthrough with The Leavenworth Case, and promises a capital engrossing mystery with depth and life-tested truth.
The New York wholesale markets show mixed livestock values with steers at 7.50 to 8.60 per 100 pounds, native sides at 7.00 to 7.75, and calves around 7.00 to 11.00 per 100 pounds. Sheep and lambs command 4.25 to 9.75 per 100 pounds, hogs 7.25 to 7.50, with country dressed hogs at 9 to 10 cents and roasting pies at a to-be-determined price. Grain, coffee, tea, sugar, butter, and cheese quotations appear in scattered form, reflecting usual commodity movements.
Wisconsin professor J G Halpin outlines a 20 by 20 foot poultry house plan costing under 80 dollars in materials. The design features southern exposure, screened south wall, east and west windows, and dry well drained quarters with four square feet per hen for flocks of 100 or more, larger needs for smaller flocks.
Parents can channel a boy's energy by letting him raise chickens for eggs and broilers. Working with live stock teaches responsibility, tracking feed, and handling sales, potentially turning him into a small businessman while keeping him occupied and off the streets.
This column advises poultry keepers to provide shells for hens to form proper eggs. Use lime materials such as plaster or crushed oyster shells, kept in a hopper for hens to access. Emphasizes that soft shells ruin shipments and warns against over-furnishing nests.
A farmer can judge flock health by droppings. Normal droppings are firm and dark with white tint. Soft yellow droppings mean too much fat foods. dark watery with mucus suggests excessive protein. greenish, thin stools signal unsanitary conditions or spoiled feed.
An advertisement urges Cascarets as a nightly bowel and liver cleanser. It markets a 10 cent box that supposedly cleanses the stomach, removes sour fermenting foods and excess bile, and relieves headaches, biliousness, coated tongue, indigestion, sour stomach, and constipation.
More than 20.5 million dollars were spent last year on tuberculosis control in the United States. Public funds supplied 66.8 percent, with private philanthropy providing the rest. Major costs included hospital and sanatorium care exceeding 17.2 million, plus 0.925 million for insane and prisoner treatment.
A golfer asks a boy if he can count and add leading to a quick hire. The boy replies five and seven and four equals twelve, prompting the golfer to take him on as caddy.
A reader notes coffee caused headaches and rheumatic illness, then credits Postum with restoring health after switching six months ago. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum, describes preparation, prices, and urges readers to try it, citing The Road to Wellville in packaging.
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