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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
7
The article promotes covert cloth coats as durable and stylish, emphasizing smart lines and high workmanship over novelty. It describes long coats with belts, tailored cuffs, and patched pockets, plus silk braid hats with velvet ribbons and decorative braids, plus various finishing touches and small floral trims.
Indiana lawyers prepare to challenge the equal suffrage act as unconstitutional arguing it violates the state constitution by allowing women to vote while restricting foreign born citizens. Gov Goodrich says no special session will be called and Purdue professor G T L Christie is named state food director to boost Indiana farming and food effort.
A historical advice piece explains shipping cows by express, noting weight limits of 1000 pounds and detailing a light strong crate. Steps include measuring length width and height, building a frame with 2 by 4s, pine floorboards, corner posts, a front stanchion, and a hooped end. It advises a moving floor and portable water and feed arrangements.
Clemson College outlines a home grown dairy feed plan to cover one cow for a year. It requires 1 ton legume hay 1 ton mangels or silage 1 ton sorghum and half acre velvet beans with corn half acre rye for winter pasture and one acre Bermudagrass pasture. Add 200 pounds cottonseed or soybean meal to grain mix. Velvet beans provide two months winter grazing and 700 pounds corn and cob meal mix with bean meal and seed meal.
Advice urges keeping files out of barns and milk rooms due to flies. A single fly may carry up to 150000 germs to milk, posing disease risk. Manure should not accumulate around barns as it breeds flies and rises health concerns.
A young calf starts consuming grain early, showing signs of appetite. Researchers note the onset of feeding and potential impact on growth. The observation underscores early dietary stimulation in calves.
Senator Sorghum admits he is not delivering many speeches as uneven public opinion at home splits support on several questions. He says the crowd’s views are so sharply divided that he cannot pick a side.
Readers learn Cuticura remedies for facial blemishes and hands with a mail order offer. An advertisement touts Vermitage Dead Shot as a single cure to replace multiple bottles. A Swedish color blindness test uses color patches forming a hidden figure read aloud.
W H Boyd of Cleveland received a friend’s letter promising a white elephant as a gift. The box arrived and proved to be an intricately carved rock crystal made to wear as a watch charm. The text also notes an ancient belief that rock crystal is ice frozen by intense cold and adds a quip about needing a crank to get up four revolutions.
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