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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1915
Page
2
Prominent questions from Child Welfare Magazine urge parents to make time for play and reading, involve libraries and schools, teach money sense and chores, encourage self reliance, pray for guidance, and help others. Emphasizes guiding children to conquer themselves rather than harsh control.
Advice on health and living to stay youthful. Emphasizes liver and circulatory health, exercise, mental activity, digestion, sleep, and cheerful engagement. Warns against waste, worry, and indecision, urging action and hobbies to sustain vitality.
A revival of kaolin or fuller’s earth as a medical remedy is described as a legitimate treatment. Chicago doctors report dry kaolin powder can reduce diphtheria and scarlet fever bacteria in the nose, clear throat microbes, and aid recovery when ingested in measured doses.
A collection of old time muffin and bread recipes outlines methods for Light Muffins Rueke Popovers Gems Sally Lane and more. Readers mix eggs milk flour sugar salt and butter to bake muffins in hot pans or gem pans with varying rising and baking steps for golden results.
A Glendale California dispatch reports L W Sturdavant of 437 South Jacksonay praises prayer for his months old baby who won the silver loving cup as the most perfect infant in the Glendale festival of flowers and fruits. He says both before and after birth prayer aids the baby's perfection and rejects luck. He believes all babies could be perfect if parents prayed faithfully.
The article traces artificial lighting from primitive torch and oil lamps through Greek and Roman improvements to Jewish lamp forms. It notes candles' rise in the dark ages, Alfred the Great’s horn shield, candle snuffers in public spaces, Morgand’s 1784 improved lamp, and the shift to coal gas and paraffin with the candle’s decline.
The article warns that borers attack trees when growth stalls and outlines removing the grub from trunks, cementing the wound, and sealing the trunk. It also notes a recent patent for a ground level square cladding that adheres to the trunk to prevent bore entry above the surface.
A persuasive essay argues advertising lowers consumer costs by boosting firm sales and enabling better goods at lower prices. It compares advertisers who seek bigger volumes on thin margins with non-advertisers focusing on single profits, stating advertising funds improve availability and value for shoppers.
Clarence Wilman 21 and Reggie Claire Bunten 16 were married Sunday August 29 at 5 oclock in the Bunten home. Rev Homer Wright officiated. The ceremony was followed by ice cream cake and lemonade. They will live on a Cloverdale area farm with the groom's mother.
Purdue Experiment Station reports vaccination reducing losses in Indiana hog herds. Across 633 herds totaling 28,548 hogs, average post vaccination death loss was about one percent, with 82 percent of herds losing no pigs in the first four weeks after vaccination.
Dr Clink reports in Farm Life that 8.637 percent average loss occurred in 338 herds totaling 17 285 hogs vaccinated and treated with serum. Of infected herds 4 58 percent had died and 22 5 percent had high temperatures indicating infection.
Guidance from Dr. Link in Farm Life on outbreak response includes immediate quarantine, burning carcasses, vaccination of healthy and high temperature infected animals, increased serum dosages, and thorough disinfection. It also advises vaccination of nearby herds, vigilant observation, and veterinary supervision with dosage adjustments by weight.
Dr. Clinkin notes vaccination alone fails without systematic practice, quarantine, and sanitation. Farmers' initiative and cooperation vary. where county agents and farmer groups exist, control improves. Infected communities with mixed treatment spread remains unless all herds are vaccinated or properly separated.
J. O. Mullinix, trustee, will be in his office on Tuesdays and Fridays to transact township business in Reelsville.
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