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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
6
Fragmented OCR notes show a mass meeting on good roads, urging action by the Governor and candidates. Advocates argue a strong good roads vote can push reform and bring highway improvements, with officials and reformers discussing leverage and policy aims in what is described as a rising movement.
The text blends notes on the Hope Diamond and a Western bank humor piece. It references the Hope Diamond once bought by Henry Thomas Hope for about £18,000 and a tale of a new bank in a frontier town with a crowd of 200 and a teller’s comic fate. It mixes sensational diamond lore with a humorous banking scene from Detroit.
In a Haines Town incident a dog mimicked a bank note sound to lure people into a wooded area. A friend with a hornet nest tried the trick, the nest was hurled from a car after ten minutes of chaos. Passengers endured a tense scene reported by the Philadelphia Times.
Fragmentary notes describe uninhabited ownerless areas and odd geologic terms. Mentions of Rock of Gibraltar and imacts hint at exploration ideas or speculative geography.
The piece describes a 40 by 14 foot corn crib with a 20 foot wagon shed, built on square stone pillars and capped with tin pans to prevent vermin. The crib uses slot doors, feathered siding, and a smooth tongued floor for easy filling and weather protection, totaling about $65 in cost. It compares railroad impact on horse values and discusses calves for winter cows with potential profitability.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat proclaims the hen the premier bird, noting eggs add 135 million dollars annually to the nation and that England imported 22 million dollars of eggs and poultry last year. It mocks political economists by underscoring eggs as a cash article and imagines a world without economists.
The text discusses feeding dairy cows after calving using wheat bran slop with tepid water and the effects of corn availability. It explains that bran alone harms condition if fed without grain, while ample corn supports milk fat and butter yield. It also notes fat balance during and after calving and advises light laxative feed to ease the transition.
The article urges raising pork from pigs about two hundred pounds at all ages as the best profit. It covers castration at five weeks, feeding with milk corn and bran based meat, free access to salt ashes and charcoal, dry pen, and regular feeding including squashes apples and corn.
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