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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1932
Page
16
A reader claims Target Tobacco saves money and delivers similar cigarettelike taste, noting blended tobacco with gum papers. The account praises rolling cigarettes and suggests readers try a purchase to compare, asserting savings of about half a dollar weekly and thirty cigarettes per package.
Bobby quips about hair styles as his grandmother overhears and asks a playful question. She compares Aunt Bess to horse and buggy, and Bobby hilariously answers with I’ll call it a covered wagon.
A Wallace’s Farmer excerpt emphasizes the critical first month in chick rearing. It argues early training and clean housing set habits for roosting, feeding, and safety, claiming care then greatly influences future health and profitability. The piece notes disease risks and the diminishing need for deep cleaning after chicks reach one month if proper training is established.
Data from large flocks show the average hen eats 7 to 100 pounds of feed per year. A heavy layer costs more to keep than a poor one, but poor producers don’t eat less enough to offset this. A hen that lays nothing in winter still requires similar body maintenance as a paying bird, while a productive spring and summer layer can justify keeping her. Hens that do not lay during cold weather are not worth boarding for half the year. The best hens lay all year except during the melting period, and continual removal of poor winter layers improves the yearly balance.
Rural New Yorker notes that soft shelled eggs may stem from crossed oyster shells in the ration or deficiencies in the hen's egg production system. It recommends crushed oyster shells, alfalfa or clover hay for minerals, cod liver oil, and direct uplighting to aid mineral utilization, suggesting such eggs may indicate they are not receiving crushed oyster shells, though occasional instances can be normal.
Most destructive fowl diseases come from the bowels and spread through droppings from domestic and wild birds, especially sparrows. Nesting sparrows can also distribute mites around buildings. Proper parasite control and disease prevention can keep flocks healthy and profitable. Despite low egg prices, many reported a profitable season as poultry meat and feeder prices remained steady.
A fragmented Wisconsin agriculture note discusses dried milk with grain as a chick feed option. It favors a finer dried milk product over coarse powder and notes meat scrap with dried skim milk as satisfactory when raw bone is omitted.
Ferguson emphasizes worm control in chickens relies on understanding parasite life cycles. He notes confinement, range rotation, wire floors, and cinder yards aid prevention, while worm romeoles should not be used until a flock is infested and treatment matches the parasite type.
Robert Browning’s Paracelsus portrays a Swiss physician who burns Avicenna’s writings while seeking the true nature of matter. The poem, written at twenty three, treats science bound to magic and shows the disintegration of character through relentless inquiry.
A long analysis traces the Sistine Madonna’s models to Margarita Luti daughter of a baker, with claims that La Fornarina and other figures also reflect her features. It notes recent work identifying Pope Julius II era figures including Pope Sixtus II and St Barbara with specific patrons and noblewomen.
Wartime reminiscences recount Mark Twain using real boys as models for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Details trace Huck to Tom Blankenship, his father’s drunken era, and the illustrator BP W Kemble’s choice Courtland Morris, a Bronx youth, who posed for multiple characters.
A Woman's Home Companion report notes progress in cancer control. It states up to 10 percent of cases may be saved with early diagnosis and treatment. Public education drives have prompted many to seek clinics, with many noncancer cases relieved and the curable proportion higher when detected early.
A shorthand expert notes Americans speak faster now than two decades ago and questions whether old deliberation fades. He argues swift talk helps listening but warns long-winded speakers risk losing audiences as the public has little time. He urges proportion, restraint, and saving the best observations for impact.
A boy named Nosey Silence Paul, living with his grandmother in the country, fills the morning with chatter to stave loneliness. She asks why he talks so much, and he replies that when he stays silent the clock ticks loudly, hinting his need for company.
Mrs Mae West of St Louis Missouri reports losing 20 pounds in four weeks after using Kruschen Salts She says she weighed 170 pounds at 28 and now is 150 with more energy and no hunger The ad promotes a half teaspoon in hot water each morning and a 4 week bottle with a money back guarantee
A lighthearted exchange spans a greenhouse scene where an amateur gardener proudly shows his blooms. He points to a flower, saying it belongs to the petunia family, while a curious bystander muses on the gardener’s attentiveness in their absence.
Joe Palooka the boxing comic hero comes to radio with a 15 minute program each Tuesday and Thursday at 645 p m est. Ter Bergman plays Palooka a 200 pound actor, Knobby Walsh is Frank Tendick, Ted Husing narrates and Harry von Zell announces.
Graham McNamee sought a garage job during summer. replied he is a McNamee when asked if he is a mechanic and did not get hired. NBC’s rooster crowing contest spawns responses including a Louisiana boy wanting to broadcast his frog catching and a West Virginian inviting wild turkey gobbling entrants.
In a brief exchange the caller confirms sending a check and the bank confirms receipt twice. The notes capture a terse back and forth over payment acknowledgment between the parties involved.
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