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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
10
United States Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 777 outlines early feeding starting at birth with dam milk, cleanliness, and regular schedules. It recommends three daily feedings, gradual shift to separated milk, grain from week two, and weaning around six months based on cost and vigor.
Advice for beginners by Leonard Haseman from Missouri College of Agriculture. Emphasizes observing bee habits, using protective gear, gentle handling, and appropriate smoking. Warns against pinching bees and opening brood chambers in cold weather. Encourages beekeeping as a rewarding, profitable pursuit for farmers.
Conferees finalize a war revenue bill raising total to about 2.7 billion dollars. The plan cuts across profits taxes, post, rail, auto and stamp duties, adds an inheritance tax, and expands surtaxes while preserving Senate provisions on income tax and new rates.
Washington reports the war revenue bill reached agreement between Senate and House conferees. The measure imposes about 1.006 billion dollars in taxes including income, excess profits, alcohol and tobacco levies, spirits and wines, soft drinks, cigarette and paper taxes, transportation charges, insurance, sales taxes on goods, and various other levies.
Washington announces wartime controls on coal pricing. Fuel Administrator Garfield sets a fixed gross margin limit for retail dealers over wholesale costs, with caps tied to July 1915 margins and a 40 percent ceiling above wholesale, preserving parity with prior levels.
A mother and daughter travel by Pullman, sharing two seats that will form a bed by nine o clock. Mary discovers a man reserved the upper berth and must swap her seat. She asks where the others will sleep, triggering laughter as explanations resume.
A Cincinnati authority touts Freezone as able to lift all corns and calluses with the fingers. The lotion allegedly dries instantly, causes no pain or skin irritation, and can be bought cheaply at drug stores or via wholesalers if local stock is unavailable.
The article notes mosquitoes spread yellow fever and malaria while lice carry typhus. It stresses the house rat as a major death and economic threat, linking its role to bubonic plague and broad societal damage. An advertisement for Red Cross Bag Blue and a cay grocer ad follow.
A conversation hints at a wife urging her husband to join the war, acknowledging hardship but preferring widowhood as a simpler fate. The exchange reveals personal sacrifice and stoic resolve amid conflict. The line captures wartime sentiment and gendered expectations without graphic detail.
An old advertisement offers a $7100 reward for a catarrh case that cannot be cured. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally and claimed to act through the blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over forty years. FP J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A playful exchange unfolds as Sentimental Sammie compliments Pauline with a silvery tone and Pauline retorts with a witty line about a bell. The quip hinges on ringing the bell as a metaphor for attraction and timing.
A guide urges fair judgment and kindness, encouraging readers to look for positive traits in others. It advocates patience and a microscope approach to understanding neighbors, highlighting benefits of constructive, nonjudgmental attitudes.
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