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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
12
A cautionary tale about a bold Yumpkin vine that crawls beyond its field wall seeking the wider world. It grows proud admiring passersby, bears a golden pumpkin, but loses the fruit and realizes too late that the quiet labor of its brothers yields valuable harvests.
A compact exploration traces Lois Ois as a masculine origin name linked to Louis variations across Teutonic and Romance roots. It notes evolving forms Loys Loiz Lola and Loya, with cultural shifts in France Spain and Portugal, and hints at beliefs about luck and romance tied to the name. The piece closes with a brief street scene dialogue about life and death.
United States Department of Agriculture and the state experiment station continued wintering experiments at Lewisburg West Virginia. Sixty two two year old steers averaging 927 pounds were divided into six groups and fed rations including dairy silage straw cottonseed meal and corn. Gains ranged from 22 to 72 pounds over 128 days starting December 23 1919. Trials also studied pasture gains after wintering under different rations and methods.
The text traces population counting from Hebrew and Roman records for military needs to early modern practices, noting a 2720 see object of de termining the worsper and international adoption. It ends with a whimsical anecdote about a boy Warren choosing a dog with a long tail so it can wag when happy.
Mary Marshall Duffee offers wedding etiquette guidance focusing on invitations timing and presentation, note of thanks, and church ceremony order. It covers guest seating, reception flow, and post wedding greetings, urging proper respect for the bride and groom and their families.
A fragmented excerpt discusses the proper use of likely and liable in moral judgments. It contrasts probable events with injurious or undesired outcomes and notes a lecturer’s remark about human honesty and error while citing a misread quotation.
A Boston Transcript note urges readers to avoid waste by giving away junk rather than discarding it. It frames sharing possessions as charitable and practical, encouraging a mindset of reuse and generosity.
United States Department of Agriculture figures show a shift toward purebred females and sires in American stock. From 1910 to 1920 purebred females rose to 48.3 percent with 2.5 percent gerub. by 1918 to 1920 purebreds reached 55.0 percent and scrubs fell to 21 percent. Experts predict further gains as purebred breeding increases across farms.
For young horses and colts muscle development is important. Protein feeds and leguminous hays such as alfalfa clover cowpeas soybeans and peanuts aid growth. Valuable concentrates include wheat bran cottonseed meal rice bran and shorts. Provide one to two pounds daily with grain for heavy work.
Nebraska stockman reports selling two purebred Short Horn bulls to aid in the Batteraires-Better Stock campaign. One bull is undersized the other of poor conformation, signaling a push for high quality breeding and strict standards alongside Laing purebred efforts.
Instructional note on proper pig care highlighting that development requires suitable food, bone and muscle growth, and regular exercise to build strength and vigor.
In an Indiana town the school superintendent persuaded the board to revoke a ruling that limited hiring to single women. He joked with the young teachers about marriage prompting a blush from the woman he liked, then left amid laughter and never spoke of the policy again. The anecdote echoes a newspaper item from the Indianapolis News.
John Bur roughs recalls Jay Gould as a small, slippery boy who learned to wrestle and used tricks to win. Gould later left for maps and a tin shop, then returned as a dark wiry, one of the richest men in the United States, seen in the national treasury in Washington.
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