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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1930
Page
11
Practical guide outlines first steps for starting a turkey flock. Includes selection of birds, housing needs, feeding basics, and initial care. Cautions address common fears and emphasize careful planning and safety.
An editor’s note introduces Dr L D LeGear of St Louis continuing a 52 story Poultry Raising series. The nationwide poultry authority writes for readers to follow, read carefully, and clip for future reference as the series appears in this paper.
Reader letters push turkey farming as a profitable enterprise with focus on starting tips. The article outlines breeds such as Bronze, White Holland, Bourbon Red and Narragansett, methods to start flocks, disease caution, and advantages of purebred stock and confinement. It also notes Christmas markets and cautions against racing to market.
The passage proclaims the turkey as a native product and as American as the eagle or buffalo. It argues turkeys belong in the poultry world and foresee new wealth added to U.S. agricultural coffers once the bird gains rightful standing.
In Colorado and Kansas, three bank robbers fled toward the state line after two gun battles. Kiowa County Deputy Sheriff Carl Hickmann was killed, W. W. Masher was wounded, Cheyenne Wells Sheriff William C. Coe and Marshal George Hollingshead were shot, and the bandits disarmed Masher before fleeing toward Eads.
Mrs Pearl A Lanham a traffic police woman and mother of four was struck and killed by a car in Gary Indiana while guiding three school children to safety. The driver John E Nichols 35 of Griffith was held on a manslaughter charge.
Washington reports the War Department orders all army officers to shoe horses as part of a required knowledge. Secretary Hurley says the instruction provides sufficient character to ensure proper shoeing under all circumstances and even infantry officers must know how to tell a horseshoe fits.
The notice advertises a Standard subscription at 1.50 per year. It promotes affordability and urges readers to subscribe for a full year.
A Central Drug Co. advertisement urges readers to wash hair with Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo to eliminate dandruff today and tomorrow. The copy emphasizes removing every speck of dandruff and reassures a confident result.
In Richmond Missouri a vacant house near the Leek home burned early today killing Dorothy Leek aged two and Donald Leek aged four. Their bodies were found buried beneath debris in a closet under a stairway. Their mother Ellis Leek was ill at home and the father worked in a coal mine nearby.
James Mathes aged 62 of Arma Kansas died after choking on corn bread then rushing outside, falling onto a car bumper and suffering a fractured skull. He died at Pittsburgh Kansas where the incident occurred March 14.
Public notice states the incubator is in first class shape for commercial hatching. Charges are 2 cents per egg and orders are taken for thoroughbred White and Brown Leghorn and Rhode Island Red baby chicks at 10 dollars per hundred. For service in the hatching line, call on the.
Fred B. Robinson of Waco announces candidacy for governor. A veteran newspaper man and road advocate, he opposes a state road bond issue and argues the $100 million spent on Texas roads should finish existing highways and shorten routes rather than build new ones.
Advert says Tanlac cures indigestion gas bloating and dizziness by taking a tablespoon before meals. Claims include ten years of success and a money back guarantee if not benefited. Readily available from your druggist with refund option if unsatisfied.
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