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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
8
The feature surveys spring and summer trends including two color skirt patterns with velvet and felt hats. It highlights color contrasts, white piping, bias cuts, and raised waistlines, with commentary on ankle length skirts and bolder hat trimmings using ostrich feathers and decorative braids.
The fragment discusses an empty inverted drawer in a writing desk and how lacking desks affect writing space. It mentions a bureau, the second drawer’s height, and the demand for brocaded silk trims as used in embroidery and lean work.
A mother argues for a organized effort by enlightened parents to curb demoralizing posters advertising films. She recalls how posters near cinemas tempt children like Howard and Louise, noting censorship and parental approval failed to shield youth from lurid imagery and questionable content.
In a morning misfortune a milkmaster who habitually watered milk discovers at a first house a cask of water after a lapse. The master of the house teases him with a dry remark about sea water baths and the mixed salinity, exposing the deceit and precipitating embarrassment.
Professor Foley of Indiana University rejects the idea that gasoline poured through a funnel with a chamois skin can by itself ignite exhaust gases. He notes that on dry days a person can gain an electric charge from friction or floor contact, and pouring gasoline may create induced charges too complex to explain briefly.
The passage notes how Proverb 13 24 has inspired later writers to paraphrase the saying. Ralph Venning, a 17th century English nonconformist preacher, used a form asserting spare the rod and spoil the child. Samuel Butler, contemporaneous with Venning, is credited with popularizing that exact form.
A clipped exchange with taunts about worthiness hints at mounting conflict. The fragmentary lines reveal a tense dialogue suggesting broader wartime stakes.
The article outlines methods to dry off dairy cows by withholding milkings until flow declines, adjusting feed for high producers, and using pasture management. For cows yielding 20 pounds daily or more, switch feed, move to dry feedlot, reduce grain in winter, and soak feed irregularly to cut milk yield over weeks. Final drying allows udder reabsorption, with about six weeks beneficial before calving.
Dr. E. B. Forbes of the Ohio experiment station reports that standard winter rations leave cows short of minerals and that high producing cows should receive feeds rich in calcium magnesium and phosphorus to prevent mineral depletion. His trials with heavy milking Holsteins show reduced milk output and breeding issues when minerals are insufficient.
Doctor Forbes notes cows shed minerals in milk and excreta but maintain weight and store sulphur and nitrogen. He explains milk production outpaces mineral digestion, forcing bones to supply deficiency. Legumes like clover and alfalfa are richest sources. grain feeds lack key minerals. Lime can be added as bone flour or calcium carbonate.
The article discusses improving cheese quality to fetch higher prices and satisfy top trade standards while avoiding factory fees. It notes sour or acid cheese in summer and identifies overripe milk as the main cause, often due to ripening milk too long before whey removal at the factory.
Regular milking at near same times each morning and evening is advised. Consistency of milker helps cows adapt to milking style. frequent changes in milker are discouraged to prevent stress and uneven milk yield.
A haughty girl dismisses marriage to Claude Suiggine claiming he would be the last man on earth. Mia Cayenne countered that such a man would be highly sought after, leaving no chance to propose.
An ad touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for dandruff and eczema with hot water cleansing and a free sample by mail. A battered man on a doorstep asks for food, while a woman notes he may have just returned from the front and mentions a rude man on the porch.
Public health bulletin No 76 shows the average industrial worker loses about nine days yearly to illness. That sum translates to an estimated 800 million dollars a year in lost work, with potential savings of 400 million if sanitation and safety improved. Yet health officials struggle to spark interest due to lack of dramatic impact.
A young girl, scolded for speaking in church, defends the minister’s constant talking as wrong. A preacher adds that every map has its own idea of hell, noting many minds shape moral views.
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