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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1916
Page
4
A girl named Belle defies her mother and attempts to care for her baby brother. She leads him to a pond, worries about his safety, and returns home exhausted, while the mother insists Belle cannot take charge of the child. The episode ends with the mother recusing Belle from babysitting.
Oklahoma pig club members sold their hogs at top market prices, aided by agent instructions and proper feeding. Eleven buyers judged 11-year-old Kingfisher county hogs nearly perfect, with one at 87 percent dressed. A 1440-pound champion boar cost six cents per pound to produce, yielding a profit of 4.99 for the boy. Kentucky shows 15 pig club youths averaging slightly over 200 pounds also topped Lovinville’s market by 25 cents per hundredweight. The page also includes light, unrelated humor and short anecdotes.
A fragment lists authors and works from ancient to modern times. Homer Virgil Milton Tasso Davye Spencer Chescory Bryan Gray Youngs Cervantes Defoe Moore. readers glimpse a catalog of celebrated writings across eras.
Column notes rising interest in breeding guinea pigs for sale amid lab use and pet demand. Philadelphia breeders report handling about 2000 per week with many raising larger numbers. Prices range from three to sixty cents, with sizes varying from five ounces to twelve or fourteen ounces.
In a lively room players sit in a circle and take turns selecting items of toilette such as brushes or gloves. One person in the center spins a bread board tray while naming an article, who then races to catch the tray before it falls. If unsuccessful, she returns to her seat and a new turner takes over.
A black net gown with corded taffeta borders shows fresh finishing ideas for sheer fabrics. The design uses a black taffeta slip as foundation, two overlapped flounces with palte hem, a net bodice joined to a round neck, elbow sleeves with velvet ribbon trims, and decorative taffeta accents at the neck and sleeves.
An American designed schoolgirl suit features crayonetted wool fabric no fur, lap seams and shaped gores, a three inch hem, belted coat with peplum, and refined details like a French collar and buttoned belt tongue. The piece emphasizes neat finish with practical style and military mood.
The item surveys global topics from toy production in Japan to coal and nickel resources in Norway Spitsbergen and Alaska kelp beds and Pacific coast matters. It cites Russia's population forecast 600 million by century end and notes a majority of Montana school superintendents are women.
In this farm building note by William A Radford readers learn that a separate barn is best for horses and cattle, with concrete foundations and floors and a plank or cork stall floor. The design favors small roofed windows with iron grates to prevent breakage, a gambrel roof with trusses, good ventilation, and space for about 12 to 14 horses across five box stalls and three single plus three double stalls.
Plant gladiolus every two weeks for succession. Grow among roses or with evergreen backgrounds for beauty and grace. To mark a selection while in bloom, place a string around the chosen specimen. The towers come and go rapidly. be prompt to mark the prize.
Farmers advised to guard new plantings by wrapping trees with newspaper bound with twine. For lasting beds, loosen and thoroughly aerate the soil by deep digging and shifting soil in a thin stream to keep it loose and well drained.
The piece outlines how submarines are restricted in hostile seas by nets, mines, patrols, and air support. It notes limited torpedo ammo, unreliable underwater torpedoes, and faster armed ships protecting themselves by staying submerged, making submarine attacks rare unless lucky. It also recounts side items on London safety and helmet production and a joke about a lion chase.
Dialogue heavy fragment shows a late night exchange between a Mrs Omar and another speaker about a jury and a difficult case. The text references a time at 3 a.m. and mentions contentment and crumbs of happiness as a metaphor. The overall tone resembles a domestic or street conversation from a newspaper page snippet.
Fragmentary notes from S Western Canada farmers discuss high yields and good markets despite wartime strain. Oats yield 125 bushels per acre on an 11 acre field, wheat near 30 to 40 dollars per acre, and a farmer reports owning three quarters of a section with improved value. Mentions Alberta homestead, government taxes, and school duties. Harvard sports note appears in ad fragment.
Advertising copy touts rad salts as a remedy to flush clogged kidneys and reduce bladder irritation. It claims four ounces of the powder, taken daily in water, will restore kidney activity and ease back pain, headaches, and insomnia. The piece promotes the grape and lemon juice based formula with lithia as harmless and inexpensive, urging readers to buy from local druggists.
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