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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
6
Prepared by the National Geographic Society, the article surveys Bhutan’s feudal society, architecture, crafts, and wildlife. It contrasts high mountain regions with lush valleys, notes the role of monasteries and penlops, highlights silk weaving and basket making, and describes the population, religion, and pending modernization.
Indiana state officials report education cost increases hinge on longer school years and rising enrollment, not extravagance. Wheat deliveries surge in the tristate area as farmers sell more grain than usual, while corn crops in Pike County reach record yields.
A historical note explains wrapping foil as tin passed through rollers and cut into sheets or stamped into various shapes. It mentions lower grade materials and heavy foil about one eighth of an inch thick.
A family friend visits as a baby cries and observes Pauline’s careful attempts to soothe the infant. The friend remarks on the baby’s future potential, while Pauline muses on the challenges of motherhood and the burdens she anticipates.
Edison wrapped a phonograph cylinder in a sheet of a durable insulating material while making one of the earliest records. The note describes the use of a hard shell and protective wrapping as part of early recording experiments in the printing and electrical trades.
The United States Department of Agriculture prepared guidance urging 18 foot hard surface road width for safety. Trucks with an 8 foot body require 1.5 to 2.5 feet of clearance at 15 to 30 mph, with 3 feet between bodies as a minimum. In urban truck traffic, a 20 foot pavement width is recommended for wider clearances.
Bureau of Public Roads urges liberal traffic capacity for future growth citing a Tennessee Davison county count showing auto registrations up since 1916 and motor vehicles now 84 percent of road use while horse drawn traffic remains minor. Counts imply traffic volume can rise faster than vehicle numbers, influenced by road quality and regional economy.
The chief of the bureau of public roads notes that the federal aid road system under the highway act could reach about 80,000 miles. If he inspected at 30 miles per hour eight hours daily on working days and never revisited a mile, it would take nearly two and a half years to complete.
Improved highways and motor transportation bring fresh food to city children, better schools, and wider social opportunities for country boys and girls through enhanced road access and mobility.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports dairy and poultry products suffered the least during the rapid deflation of farm prices that began in 1920 and continued through 1921.
A farmer plans to store silage from corn or sorghum in the fall to feed his dairy herd, ensuring cows have adequate forage through the season. The method aims to prevent shortages and reduce worry about future feed supplies.
A collection of simple canning recipes including plum catsup apple and pepper sauce green apples with onions and beets with basic instructions. The excerpt ends with a Lord Houghton quote about finding daily duties and bread in life.
A compilation of kitchen guidance with slow cooking methods for chicken and stuffed steak, currant pie, tomatoes d Axelles, apple and blackberry jelly, cold slaw, plus guidance on preventing turkey flocks from wandering. It covers feeding, pen confinement, and wing clipping to keep turkeys near home.
A quirky observation notes that Americans eat more candy per capita than people in the rest of the world combined, praising the United States as the greatest candy eaters.
Connecticut Experiment Station offers rules to prevent fall moult in very early hatched pullets. Avoid out of season hatching, provide free range, limit excess protein, let birds mature, place in winter quarters before production, and avoid sudden feeding or care changes.
A housewife kills off her largest and best cockerels and pullets, a practice farmswomen justify. Cockerels can fetch $2 to $8 for good utility stock. farmers should be certain before the next one is killed.
Advice on handling old hens: keep those to be kept in a separate pen with extra care and rationing. Those to be sold should be fattened and prepared for market as efficiently as possible.
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