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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
3
A fashion writer extols costly coats as the season’s signature, with cloths, velvets, and furs all sought after. Varied fur trims, wide collars, and opossum and beaver accents appear on coats and capes, while velvet wraps showcase fur collars and hoods. Velvet coats in dark tones dominate afternoon wear, with extensive fur trimming and innovative sleeve and collar designs noted.
A United States Department of Agriculture prepared notice explains that nature freezes ice at no cost and urges farm families to harvest ice for dairy and household use. It covers benefits, risks of delaying harvesting, ice-house types, storage needs, field size, water quality, and essential tools for small scale ice harvesting on farms.
United States butter remains over 99 percent domestic in the last three years with only minor export activity. Small exports influence prices, especially where production and consumption balance, as the United Kingdom and Germany were major importers while Europe relied on outside supply. Before the war Sibera, Australia, and New Zealand supplied much of Europe’s imports.
Potatoes should be shipped in good condition as badly cut mashed frosted or decayed stock reduces profits. Markets often overload causing price drops and losses for growers when unsatisfactory potatoes are sent to dealers and consumers.
A 1910s style guide notes the farmer should live at home and tend squash cabbage storage, thinning dead timber, burning garden rubbish for compost, and using manure to sustain land. It also suggests poisoning pocket gophers with strychnine in carrot or potato pieces placed in runs.
A Sunday ceremony at Terre Haute Temple Israel honored several boy scouts with rink honors while a youth’s earnest remarks on voter promises draw praise from peers. A passerby critiques a harsh phrase. the boy defends school taught pure English and fear of punishment.
A narrator recalls a slow speaking driver whose passengers, including his sister and brother-in-law, urge caution and horn use on dangerous curves. The driver stops at a village hardware store to acquire a horn and steering wheel for the back seat, voiced with dry humor.
A humorous reminiscence recalls a peach pie left to cool on the porch that a guest accidentally sat in, embarrassing the hosts. The anecdote ends with a reflection on the gap between written law and unwritten custom and a quip about epitaph writers.
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