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Newspaper

Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1911

Page

6

Wheat Bread Nutrition and Public Notes In 1900s Influences

A fragmented item discusses wheat bread, bran, and gluten claims, noting digestion aid from bran, lack of nitrogenous value in bran, and cheaper production of whole wheat flour. The piece weaves reader notices with brief society items such as Miss Josie Guerdott’s Arm strong trip and local visitors, ending with a call for adopting a national bread cereal routine like oatmeal traditions of Scotland.

Josie Guerdott Jack Brecown Ammelabury Ts i Pooknar Sioux City C. C. Howell Mstharville Gollmar Circus Ammetsburg Te Nolind Wytherville Nala Nalgun Eninatsburg Lolbreck Mstherville Andutura

Watering solution for poultry hens keeps litter out of pan

A simple wire protector keeps hens from scratching litter into the drinking pan. A frame of heavy wire is assembled with a top brace and bent legs to stand in the pan. The setup elevates the pan about ten inches above the water float, preventing dirt from entering while allowing hens to drink freely.

Banky Traps Nest. Ja Closes The Nest

Banky set a trap to secure the nest. Ja closes the nest and removes the hen from the tog as shown in the out. The action centers on containment and transfer of the bird within the enclosure, with the sequence of nest, trap, and removal highlighted.

Fattening Fowls Through Proper Management and Diet

Advice on quickly fattening market poultry through controlled housing and feeding. Emphasis on confinement to small coops, high energy foods like yellow corn meal with skim milk, and regular thrice daily feeds. Recommend marketing hens before their second molt to maximize value.

Coop for Hens and Chickens

An A shaped hatchling coop for hens and chickens is shown. It is three feet wide, two feet from front to back and two feet high. Front cross pieces are three inches apart. A door is typical but not essential if the coop is placed to avoid water entry during heavy rains.

Anya

Serious Mistake in Five Foot Shelf

Opinion on Harvard president Eliot’s five foot library list and public library shelf. Authors argue liberal education is serious, requires effort, and cannot be obtained by casual reading. The piece emphasizes character building and long, slow study rather than light, popular literature.

Eliot Harvard Fon Gome Engo Cambridge Eliot Hea Dr. Eliot

Fragmented Prose and Social Snippets From Early 20th Century Source

A garbled collection of aphorisms and excerpts touches on talkers, silence, political prophecy, labor, friendship, myth, and fashion. It includes reflections on effectiveness, shirking, and the value of honest work, interleaved with mythic allusion and social commentary about women and dress styles of the era.

Two Causes of Limberneck in Fowls

Article notes limberneck is caused by decayed meat with maggots and possibly ptomaine poisoning. It prescribes turpentine remedy, an equal warm water mixture, flushing the crop, then castor oil. Advises weekly range inspection to remove dead animals and prevent maggot breeding.

Capons Rise in Price and Weight in Elite Markets

Capons bring higher prices as poultry raisers learn to fatten birds efficiently. In major cities capons reach fourteen to sixteen pounds, nearly double the common rooster weight, with meat noted as sweeter and more tender. Prices run four to six cents a pound higher than ordinary poultry.

Corn and Plymouth Rooks A Len Should Not

Fragmented text discusses corn and rooks and Leghorn fowls with unclear meaning. It mentions Jays and large fowls and warns rooks are not to be trusted in some context. The passage is garbled and lacks clear events or persons.

Lon Mo Atalanta Corn Plymouth

Silas Magee Local Schemes Stir Village Gossip

In a village chat, Mrs. Wiggins and Mrs. Hopkins discuss Silas Magee and his alleged trickery, noting only 50 cents contributed to the minister’s salary and recalling a tale from Youth’s Companion about a boy arranging a harvest meal, highlighting local suspicion and humor.

Mra. Wiggins Bilas Mia

Three Cured Of Eczema By Cutleura Remedies

Mrs. Violet Cole of Philadelphia reports eight years with eczema cured by Cutleura Soap Ointment and Resolvent after trying doctors. She used them on her five children with scalp sores hair loss and ringworm also healed. She praises the remedies and notes a free book is available from Potter Drug and Chem Corp Boston.

Violet Cole Redfield St Philadelphia Potter Drug & Chem. Corp Sola Props Boston

Market Hogs Show Weight Decline Across Decades

Historical data indicate market hog weights drifted downward from about 367 pounds in the 1880s to roughly 239 pounds in the 1890s, then to around 4219 pounds in the early 1900s. the text notes hogs marketed in recent years averaged lighter by about one-quarter compared with older years.

Very Select Landlady Hints at Seven Million Dollars Across the Street

A landlady tries to impress a prospective renter by gesturing toward a grand mansion across the street and whispering of seven million dollars tied to the Hare while dismissing concerns through a flurry of odd phrases and old time phrases. The scene blends social aspiration with financial legend and quirky chatter.

Regularity in reading plan sought for winning reading

Reading regularity guides plan and helps win, though text shows garbled OCR. Mention of poultry topics, feeding roots cabbage and lattice, dressed ducks, and hens described as good companions for strong healthy birds. Two toma in rook dispute noted as unclear.

Tifa Toma

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