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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
9
Practical notes urge good care for sheep and dairy cattle, selective breeding, and efficient feeding. Topics cover silage, alfalfa, pasture management, crates for pigs, fence building, pest control, and crop timing with emphasis on livestock health and farm profitability. Major named entities include Kansas, Pennsylvania, Russia, and various crops and livestock terms.
Missouri reader explains gapes a common chicken disease caused by worms in the windpipe during cool damp weather. Preventative steps include crushing Jeruselam oak leaves or using the seeds to mix with feed or water to kill or deter worms and protect poultry.
An illustrated device shows a hanging grain container with a bottom discharge, a scoop hinged beneath, and a pendulum with a ball at the end. Chickens peck the ball to swing the pendulum and tilt the scoop, releasing a measured amount of grain.
Advice on housing young chicks with shaded coops and strawy manure to encourage natural foraging. Recommends moist bedding and damp ground to attract angleworms. Suggests currant brush as a good location for brood expansion.
Advice on starting with six hens, selecting fresh eBEs, and focusing on profit per hen. Milk aids growth of chicks and fowls, summer flock conditions require little work, while diarrhea and vermin risk haunt housing. Emphasis on fair customer treatment and careful feeding to prevent deaths.
Anny Berntsen, daughter of Denmark's Prime Minister Klaus Berntsen, apprentices to a cabinet maker Katrine Horschol and works daily as a male apprentice. The premier supports her pursuit of manual and mental skills to match his cabinet role.
Berlin patents protect using marble instead of glass in lamps to produce daylight like illumination. Experiments with tinted glass failed. a semi transparent white marble sheet yielded varying light behind it. Inventors fitted lights to a room cornice achieving convincing artificial brightness.
Robert Schweizer a New York waiter out of work killed himself with gas after a failed Canfield solitaire attempt in his lodgings. Cards were laid out beside the bed showing thirteen failed tries and a penciled tally reading I lose My time has come R 8.
A man described as a kissing robber accosted Mrs. W. C. Laidey on Drexel Avenue in Chicago. He grabbed her bag but demanded kisses before fleeing, leaving the handbag behind.
Eight year old Tony Tasseldo swam in a cast of tan in the city hall park fountain. A police officer chased him a block before catching him.
A Lakewood woman reading a story to her son asks how he would support the family if the father died. The boy replies that they cannot eat the house or a pan full of dishes and jokes that a new husband might appear, ending with the mother giving up.
In a Kansas City Star excerpt, Ezra Toombs the undertaker sits by the horse block and laments poor business. The doctor failed to end Judge Feebles’ life, the judge nears marriage, and Toombs frets over a fading town with a tramp painter gilding a church vane across the street.
A witty exchange notes Mrs. Cooke once again being teased about her spouse. The line hints at social humor around marriage and household rumors in a lighthearted, gossiping tone.
An assortment of 19th century style ads touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums and wind colic, Woolford's Sanitary Lotion for contagious itch, and a stage curtain remark about asbestos. Prices and druggist availability are noted.
Mrs Woodall of Morton's Gap Kentucky shares a two year fight with female disorders and chronic backache. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports full health and no pain for over two years. She urges others to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine and notes confidential responses from Lynn Massachusetts.
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