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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1924
Page
2
Report on profitable dairy calf rearing from birth to six months. Emphasizes calf milk from dam first week, gradual shift to skim milk, grain, and silage. Recommends clean utensils, salt and water access, and pasture readiness. Notes self feeding not satisfactory and calving costs.
Dr F B Medligue heads a committee presenting the Farm Bureau with a large loving cup to honor the township with the best membership record for three consecutive years. Remarks praise cooperation between the groups and pledge continued effort toward county prosperity.
Miss Gertrude Lymn, specialist in Home Management, will assist in conducting a five month training school beginning in December. The course aims to promote thrift in the use of strength time and money through labor saving equipment efficient methods of work and keeping home accounts and wage expenditures. The program notes emphasize practical money management and home practices.
Time to clean henhouses as winter nears. filth is a common disease cause in poultry. The article notes confinement of hens to the poultry house heightens sanitation importance and urges attention to cleanliness and hygiene to protect flocks.
Vernon township forms a Home Project group led by Mrs. Ed Anderson elected chairman at a meeting hosted by Mrs. J M Snyder on October 27. Officers include Vice-Chairman Mrs. Harry Ferguson Secretary Mrs. Jas Williamson Treasurer Mrs. Jake Snyder. Co-operators range from Mrs. Ed Urry to Mrs. Chas Stillman across nine districts. A Freedom township delegation aided the program, with regular meetings set for the first Tuesday monthly. Delegates will be chosen to represent the township at the Home Management Training School.
A collage of short notices includes sewing offered by Mrs E B Green, shoe repair by W I Stevens, a quip about a politician, sale and rental items, animals, feed promos, a found car part, and an appointment notice for the administratrix of C H Schumack with legal filing directions dated 1924.
The article notes 23 deaths per day from auto accidents in 1923 and calls for stricter traffic control. It cites growth from 15,000 cars in 1900 to 15,000 registered in 1923, urges uniform laws, parking rules, speed limits, lights, brakes, and sobriety, and urges caution for night driving to avoid glare.
An advertisement urges readers that hair beauty comes from softness and luxuriance and promotes Lucky Tiger Hair Remedy. It invites trying a bottle from barbers or druggists to achieve healthy vigorous hair.
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