Local notes span visits, weddings, and events in Greensburg
Local items record Mort Johnson becoming rug factory proprietor in Indianapolis, visits from relatives in Cincinnati and Goshen, a court house cornice near miss, many social gatherings at Christmas, a stag dinner, theatre plans, marriages including Pearl Matthews and Clara Powell, and community updates on schools, obituaries, and local business openings and legal actions.
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Mort Johnson
Indianapolis
Charlie Kessing
Cincinnati
Ed Kessing
Margaret Stewart
Lexington
S. H. Stewart
The
K. of P
H. H. Sheldon
Pearl E. Matthews
Clara E. Powell
Veteran Died at Marion Home. Civil War Vet Gayer
David A. Gayer, eighty eight, a Civil War veteran and former Adams resident, died Tuesday morning at Marion Soldiers' Home. He lived with his son John W. Gayer in this city after returning from Kansas five years ago. Survived by four daughters and his wife Julia Ann Simpson, who died years ago. He was a blacksmith in Adams and a Mason. The body rests in Home cemetery.
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David A. Gayer
Adams
Marion
Mr. Gayer
John W. Gayer
Julia Ann Simpson
Kansas
Home Cemetery
Turner Named Deputy Prosecutor for Decatur County
Prosecutor Ralph Spaugh of Columbus designates Rollin A. Turner of this city as deputy prosecutor for Decatur county. Turner, with Tremain & Turner, is noted for ability and may distinguish himself through vigorous enforcement of law. The note recalls M. D. Tackett’s early career as prosecutor.
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Ralph Spaugh
Columbus
Rollin A. Turner
Decatur County
Turner
M. D. Tackett
Tremain & Turner
Flavor and taints in cheese milk and handling
The article explains that cheese flavor hinges on taste and aroma while off flavors signal early deterioration. Flavors come from cow feed such as leeks onions and cabbage and from taints during milking and handling. Poor milking and dirty milk handling cause gaseous taints and bad cheese despite feed factors being less common than believed.
The Feed For Calves Digestive Process
The article explains that calves should not be fed milks with corn or other starchy feeds. Starch must be converted to sugar by saliva and alkaline gastric fluids before digestion. If calves gulp milk with grain, saliva cannot act and acid gastric juice delays digestion in the short calves’ intestines.
Breeding Cattle Focus Shifts to Beef Quality Over Color
The text argues dairy and beef cattle breeding should prioritize practical production traits over color or fancy points. It urges emphasis on fundamental beef qualities and development of parts that increase value when fattened, asserting the aim is better steers for fattening and higher market value.
Milk Cows in China Milk Industry Awakens Taste
In southern China villagers use cows for plowing and milk was unknown until an American missionary milked a beast and drank the beverage. The discovery, as sensational as roast pig tales, spurred some men to sell milk though the industry remains underdeveloped due to poor breed, lack of care, and limited numbers.
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China
Charles Lamb
The Selling Cheese of To Day
The article describes popular cheese forms in the market a square cheese four inches high and twelve inches long divided into one pound sections. It notes ten pound and twenty pound cakes boxed pairs and explains the higher price due to precise weighing.
Denmark's Milk Producers
The Red Danish cow is the principal dairy breed in Denmark. These animals are brownish red with black points, heavy as the Holstein and shorter in the legs. They are good dairy cattle. In a herd of thirty cows the average animal yield is 8,700 pounds of milk and 340 pounds of butter.
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Denmark
A Place to Keep Milk
A fresh air child in the Baltimore Sun notes milk is milk by asking if the pail milk is for drinking. The farmer explains the milk is for drinking and the child compares it with a refrigerator for storage.
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Baltimore Sun
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Macon, Ga
O. B. Trimble
C. A. Kuhn
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Fred Boyl
Louis Zoller
James S. Zoller
Miles
Albert Zoller
T. E. Davidson
Donald
Brazier Kirby
Worthin
Henry Hegner
National Indian War Veterans
Washington, D.C
W. F. Warfel
I. & C. Traction Co
the Elks
Louis Lund
Bruce McKay
Chicago
M. C. Jensen
John T. Rankin
McCoys
Forestry Service
Madison
Wisconsin
McGarvey Cline
Alan Beagles
Sardinia
Allen Beagie
Eva Scott
Karl
T. M. Mozingo
James O. Ketchum
Westport
Grace M. Campbell
Elizabethtown
North Vernon
W. G. Proctor
David Gdansel
Grammer
Hartsville
Burney
Isaac Layton
Isaac
Hugh Taylor
Kate Fiscus
Anna Sammons
Dr. Wood
E. T. Shaw
Wood
Frank Short
Ora
Charles German
Kansas City
Margaret Wilson
Marjorie McGowan
Louie Dalmbert
W. T
J. C. St. John
Ida Gordon
Jamestown
N. D
Indianapolis Star
Indiana
Edwin White
W. R. Mayo
Greensburg
Delaware and
Pratt Streets
Mary Davis
Jesse G. Donnell
Brockelmier & Taylor
Fox
Louisville
Ezra H. Pieak
Jackson Township
Lucinda
Ezra
Carl
Freda
Thelma
Mary L. Pleak
G. W. Bruce
Sarah Pond
New Salem
California
Pi King
Ida Pond
Rush County
Charles Embry
Cicero
St. Paul
Milford
Iva
Hope
Charlie
Roy Aldrich
Pittsburg
Westinghouse Electric Co
Navy
Belle Aldrich
Stone River
Tennessee
G. A. R. Hall
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Greensburg Lodge No. 36
W.C. Pulse
W. C. Ehrhardt
J. W. Cully
Salt Lake City
Utah
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U. S
Frank Cannon
Everybody’s Magazine
Cary Conger
Flatrock
Shelby County
John W. Rhodes
Greensburg High School
Rhodes
Powell & Cohan Stock Co
K. of P. Opera House
the Beauty
L. D. Crooks
Camden
Ohio
William House
Standard Office
Jean and
Rose Rankin
Kingston
James Castor
Dallas
Texas
Mabel Thomas
Richmond
Stella Stagg
Mary Gavin
Marie McConnell
Mary Robison
John Redington
State
Jesse Jackson
Forest Hill
Danville
Mars McCormack
John Taylor
Houston
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W. J. Kincaid
Spring Hill
W. W. McCall
Paul Stewart
Almond S. Creath
Alert
Charles C. Cruser
Harriet A Green
Suits Strassinger
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Jimmy Pierce
Harry Pottenger
Henry Dravis
Clarence Eward
J. F. Fraser
Palace Theatre
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Springfield
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Clarksburg
Frank Hamilton
Ed Demaree
Emporia
Delaware County
Demaree
Floyd Florea
St. Maurice
R. A. Turner
Pairny
Geeameny
Dilling
Brazil
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Linegar Bros
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Crooks & West
Crooks & Woods
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