Phrase on kindness to animals from Our Dumb Animals
A short quotation from Our Dumb Animals asserts that every kind word to a dumb animal or bird increases happiness. The note reflects the humane, uplifting tone of the periodical.
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Newspaper
Dawson County Advertiser
Location
Dawsonville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1904
Page
2
A short quotation from Our Dumb Animals asserts that every kind word to a dumb animal or bird increases happiness. The note reflects the humane, uplifting tone of the periodical.
Ex US Senator Popé Barrow and Judge I A Atkinson, brother of the ex governor, died recently.
W A Pledger a negro politician and former chairman of the Georgia Republican party died in Atlanta a few days ago. The passing removes a prominent party figure who helped shape the state’s political landscape.
The lower house of Congress voted two hundred fifty thousand dollars to be used in suppressing the cotton boll weevil.
Edward Selleck a freight clerk in San Francisco faced recent building and payment concerns as reported in the local record.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a shift as a new school book law requires declarations in state schools. The text references terms like declared and formation but lacks complete context or names of officials or districts.
Maritta Journal notes that when the South produces as much corn as it consumes and uses the surplus to fatten hogs and produce its own meat, it will be able to challenge the meat packing trust.
The Atlanta Constitution argues that Georgians should choose their county paper if they cannot subscribe to both. It says the constitution should yield to local papers and praises such patronage as wise and magnanimous.
Judge Gober and partners acquire a 16 060 acre Americus farm and plan to plant one million peach trees. He becomes Georgia's largest individual peach grower and will soon harvest fruit from over 300 000 trees. Americus orchard expected to ripen three weeks before north Georgia.
The Georgia, building at Bath Maine, will be one of the mightiest battleships afloat. About 40 percent finished, 425 feet long, displacing over 14 550 tons with heavy main batteries and rapid fire secondary guns. Speed target 19 knots, crew of 706 officers and men.
A Kansas City journal notes a hen consumes food equal to sixteen times her weight in a year and lays about six times her weight in eggs. Food costs about 1 cent per pound while eggs sell around 16 cents each. An average hen yields 240 eggs in a year with food costs about Speente and her eggs will sell for 2 cents each or $4.80. Free-range farm hens cost farmers 47 to 83 cents yearly for food. The first year is the most profitable age for hens.
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a cure for thin, weak patients called chronic cases. It promises to rebuild flesh, increase blood, strengthen nerves, and improve appetite, with free trial doses and a product price through druggists.
Georgia farmers urged to fight the Mexican boll weevil before frost. Methods from Professor Sanderson include pulling and burning stalks, piling or windrowing rows, and grazing with cattle to destroy weevils at all stages. Caution about effects on crops and timing before September midpoints per the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
A treatise on making artificial fertilizers or guano like mixes. It explains using acid phosphate cotton seed meal and kainit to achieve target percentages of available phosphoric acid nitrogen and potash. It covers analysis by chemists and steps to test and adjust batches for soil needs, including a scenario with a peach grower seeking higher nutrient levels.
The maker tests Tennessee rock for acid phosphate and combines it with muriate of potash and sulfate of ammonia. After mixing the final product yields 10 percent available phosphoric acid, 25 percent nitrogen, and 7.5 percent potash with margin to spare, according to State Chemist MeeCANPIFSS.
The National Democrats announce a meeting in St Louis on July 6. The note condemns slander as a cruel vice born of anger envy greed and selfishness and calls for conversion to a life aligned with God.
February issue of New Idea Woman's Magazine features Michel White arguing that an American girl can be an English peeress. A new chapter of The Happiest Day of My Life appears. Also a special piece on butter marketing by Kate V. Saint Maur adds practical value.
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month until April 1904 the COP TON BELT ROUTE will sell reduced one way and round trip tickets to Teass, Arkansas and Louisana. Ware FRO Sutton, District Passenger Avent, Chattanooga, Tennessee, promotes fall reformation.
Southern Railway operates fast trains on convenient schedules in all directions. For information on rates routes and schedules contact IC Beam D PloA or A A Verney BoA or WOOD Payler Asst Gen Pass Agent Atlanta Ga.
The ad advertises brass and metal products including brass tester brass galley Merriat and metal quoin packs. It claims no single trust and promises savings over regular prices with lower costs on column roles and old type materials.
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