Sale of Personal Property From Williamson Estate
By order of the Putnam Circuit Court the administrator of Carrie B Williamson deceased will offer for sale at 10 a m on the Sunday of July 1915 and from day to day until sold private sale on the second floor of the Williamson building at Franklin and Jackson streets Green Castle Indiana. The items include dishes glassware bedclothes furniture and multiple household pieces. Sales require at least one third cash with the balance in two notes due at three and five months bearing six percent interest. Small cash purchases under five dollars. BADGER WILLIAMSON B F Corwin Atty Administrator. 11 Weekly June 25th.
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Putnam Circuit Court
Carrie B. Williamson
Williamson
Franklin and
Jackson Streets
Greencastle
Indiana
Badger Williamson
B. F. Corwin
Notice sale of road bonds in Putnam County Indiana
The treasurer of Putnam County Indiana will offer for sale at Greencastle courthouse sealed bids for twenty road bonds of 1915 dated July 5 1915 to the amount of 3820 dollars. Bonds bear 4 percent interest payable at the county treasurer's office with first due May 15 1916. Bids due by 2 p m July 5 1915. H H Runyan Treasurer. St Herald June 21 25 30 Posters
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Putnam County
Indiana
Greencastle
J. WW. Strain
Washington Township
Court House
H. H. Runyan
St Herald
Balanced Poultry Diets Shaped by Science and Practice
Practical poultry keepers learned early that single grain feeds fail to maximize lay. The chemist showed that eggs and hens require a balanced mix of lime, magnesia, phosphate, animal matter, and other elements. Modern feeding combines grains and millstuff with meat scraps under expert testing, ensuring hens produce more and better eggs.
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Ccc
Packing Potatoes: Officials Urge Safer Tropic Shipments
Federal inspectors warn that potato shipments to Brazil and Uruguay from New York face deterioration due to high tropical temperatures and poor ventilation. Shippers should discard bruised or frostbitten potatoes, avoid dry rot and late blight, ventilate barrels, and keep cargo cool and well ventilated to prevent soft rot and black heart due to heat and spores.
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Tropics
South America
United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
New York
Brazil
Uruguay
Table Poultry and Home Egg Use Cut Living Costs
Small poultry flock owners should plan to provide plenty of fresh eggs and choice broiler and roaster fowls for all seasons. Home production yields lower costs than market meats and adds nutritious foods to the table.
Sand For Small Chicks
Small chicks require very sharp sand in small sizes to grind the food given them. Most poultrymen provide sand before giving any food, so digestion will not be retarded at the start.
Neighborhood Patriotism and Rural Community Cooperation
A Year book article outlines a rural civic scheme with ten committees on business and social needs plus a central executive. It covers farm production marketing supplies finance accounting and education sanitation recreation beautification household economics and notes cooperative purchasing credit unions and road and telephone concerns.
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Department of Agriculture
Co-Operative Society
Co-Operative Credit Association
Committee On Communication and Transportation
Rural life improvement through local committees for better living
An article argues five social committees should focus on improving rural living conditions alongside business aims. It notes prosperous farmers may move to towns for education, sanitation, modern conveniences, and recreation, and urges rural communities to cooperate to foster a stronger communal spirit.
New Apple Juice Syrup Patent Aims to Boost Cider Mills
Head of the fruit and vegetable utilization lab at the Department of Agriculture seeks a public service patent for a table syrup made from seven gallons of cider per gallon of syrup. The process uses a filter press and lime treatment to produce calcium malate, a by product valued at $2 per pound, with potential use in baking powder. Commercial scale costs to be tested in October.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Goose weight standards in American Standard of Perfection
The standard lists weights for geese by breed and age. Toulouse Embden Egyptians Chinese Canada and more have defined adult ganders and geese with specific pound figures. It notes basswood and linden produce best excelsiors while Aspen and cottonwood supply nearly half of total production.
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Toulouse
Embden
Canada
Belgians Depart for Farms in U S
A group of Belgian farmers refugees from Germany have left for southern United States states to set up small colonies. They will receive 10 to 40 acre parcels with livestock and implements and housing, repayable over 20 years after the first year. Welfare services and schools will accompany them near railroads and cities.
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Rotterdam
Holland
United States
William H. Manss
Baltimore
Southern Settlement and Development Organization
America
Agricultural College
Gold Nuggets in Grass Valley Streets
Mrs. Guy Talbott of Grass Valley earned $15 in a day by mining gold nuggets found in the streets after a heavy rain. Following her lead, many women and children joined the search, using tailings from a quartz mine as street cobbles.
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Grass Valley
Cal
Guy Talbott
Talbott
Medora Cement Worker Survives Narrow Throat Lodging
Henry Blair a cement worker known as a modern Achilles nearly throat-strangled by a nail while nailing laths. He freed himself with a head balance and finger probe, then steadied himself and suffered no ill effects. Blair’s string of near-misses and feats include a two story fall, a freight collision, and a 104 feet hillside catapult jump.
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Medora
Ill
Henry Blair
Achilles
Blair
Granite City
Mejora
Hawk Would Not Be a Pet in Kentucky Town
Horton Kentucky report describes a hunting trip ending with Ed Davis shooting a hawk crippled in one wing for captivity. The hawk raged through Luebe's drug store and then chased Ed Davis for half a block before the wild bird, with a five foot wing span, had to be killed to stop its rampage.
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Horton, Ky
Americans Backed Copper Mountain Scam Opens New Chile Mine
An American firm led by Guggenheim interests spent millions to develop the Chauquacamata copper deposit in Chile. A 100 million ton ore body at 9,500 feet elevation will be moved by new railroad to Antofagasta and Megillones for ship transport, with extensive gear and leaching technology already in place.
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New York
South America
Chauquacamata
Chili
Chili Exploration Company
Guggenheim Interests
Guggenheims
Guggenheim
United States
Antofagasta
Germany
Guaegenhelms
Megillones
Woman Collects 5000 Dimes in Flour Sack Savings
In Big Laurel, Virginia, Mrs. Clare Killgore kept a decade long dime collection. Beginning with a single dollar in dimes, she added to a box that grew five times. with 5000 dimes at last, her husband carried the 500 in 10-cent pieces to the bank using a flour sack.
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Big Laurel
Clare Killgore
Frank Killgore
Killgore
Glamorgan
Flying Fish Shows Its Skill in Hartland Stream
A flying fish, a trout family simvon taken from a Hartland stream by Elmer Riverton sons, is exhibited in a long tank at the Winsted post office. It moves by flattening its large fins like a wing and makes occasional bursts of speed, while villagers wait for mail.
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Winsted
Conn
Hartland
Elmer -Sons
Riverton
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Daily Herald
W. W. Tucker
Vine Street
Washington and
Walnut Sts
Ind
Tagle
U.S
Grass Valley, Cal
Workman
Hawk
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