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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1915
Page
3
The page lists daily corrected quotations for livestock, poultry, butter, eggs, and grain. It includes price ranges for best steers, butcher cattle, cows, bulls, calves, stockers and feeders, sheep and lambs, and per 100 pounds for bucks. It also covers poultry prices for cocks ducks hens and turkeys, butter values, egg prices, and cash grain bids for wheat and corn with varying qualities and package terms.
A brief editorial urges trading with advertisers. It argues the firm asking for your business will treat you fairly to keep it and that you deserve full disclosure of offers. If a firm withholds information, customers may rightly buy elsewhere.
Dr Charles B Reed of Wesley Hospital Chicago applies a "choose your own birthday" method for births with patient consent and a two week window. He uses careful scheduling, sending cards to mothers and coordinating with Dr James Vorhees and Dr Ahlfeld to set a specific birth day within a two week span.
Miss Minerva Clymer at Warrington Farmers' club outlines what she calls an ideal husband. She lists hair, height, attractiveness, brightness, cleanliness, and wisdom as essentials and says a Christian character shows in deeds toward wife, family, and others.
In Wetherford Texas panic-stricken farmers found nine sick cows. State Veterinarian Chrisman investigated and concluded the cattle were hooked on green oak leaves. The cure is to pen the stock until the craving passes.
In Manzanola Colorado cherry pies fed a crowd of nearly ten thousand people during the annual Cherry Pie Day. A New Jersey inventor patent covers a saddle with leather flaps to protect buckles, while a New York man patents a wire trap to catch flies entering a garbage can.
Pemeta Okla. longtime scout Harry Rhodes says $35,000 in greenbacks is cached under a rock overhang along a Bald Knob railroad in Colorado. Rhodes will search the region this summer with only his dog, tracing the outlaw haul from a twenty year old band robbery. He recalls the money wrapped in buckskin and copper, hidden behind a rock cleft and covered by a bowlder, and notes prior seekers failed to locate it. Rhodes, who began as a freighter boy, once worked with Bill Doolin before Oklahoma Territory’s era of outlawry.
Meyer, 89, born in Germany and arriving at age four, died near Anthony Kansas. He owned a grove of about 100000 catalpa trees and had replanted 100 catalpas three days before his death. He told his sons not to build a monument but to let the catalpas stand.
Mrs Lillian Reynolds of Cleveland is widowed within minutes of receiving her husband Harry J Reynolds chief engineer of the Thomas Walter death follows an engine room explosion. The couple mourns a son lost in the 1913 Charles S Price disaster.
A South Dakota inventor patents a windlass for self towing on hills and soft road spots. An 18 year old Utah youth crafts a combined rule and triangle aiding trogonometry. An Oregon inventor builds a refrigerator with salt between double walls to keep contents air free. A new car hose nozzle uses a compressible rubber tip and a finger operated shutoff valve. A British tire includes metal bands with aluminum spacers. A railroad rack design encloses baggage with sliding doors. France bans Italian cut flowers May 1 to Nov 1 to protect mulberry pests. A bubbling drinking fountain attachment powers a water cooler. A milk bottle clamp doubles as a carry handle.
A detailed 19th century portrait of James A Garfield's birth in a log cabin near Orange Ohio in 1838. It recalls his mother's steadfast care after his father's death, the family's frugal schooling, and Garfield's early work to support them while pursuing education and teaching.
A distrustful exchange centers on a trust magnate and a village ball game. Tim claims he will guide to Major Leegus while a stranger questions why others refused to help, noting the Major is at the ball game and all are at sea over indictments.
An article from the New York Sun argues failures in poultry farming stem from lack of experience and unsuitable planning. It urges beginner adaptation, simple efficient equipment, proper location, correct breed choice, and meticulous attention to care and details.
Farmers in the corn belt increasingly fatten hogs on standing corn or after husking as experiments show benefits outweigh objections. The method, once seen as lazy or wasteful, now gains support for efficient feed and rapid hog growth.
An Agriculture Department investigation finds Florida celery growers often spray with Bordeaux mixture copper salts leading to unsafe copper levels on stalks. High pressure power sprayers reduce residue. knapsack outfits cause copper to accumulate at plant bases. Leaves with excess copper should not be eaten. Scrubbing stalks can remove most copper before consumption.
The text warns that careless and inefficient milking leads to disappointing results. It stresses keeping a daily weight record of each cow’s milk to detect shrinkage from incomplete milking. It notes slow milking and not milking cows clean cause lost milk and reduced future secretion, urging gentle milking practices.
The Department of Agriculture reports a farmer in South Carolina grew long-staple cotton from Columbia seed distributed by the department. He harvested three pounds, processed one pound of lint by hand, and a local woman hand spun and knitted socks and gloves. The case illustrates farmer interest in experimental seeds.
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