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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
7
The article argues larger cows yield more profit if fed efficiently. It compares Holstein and Jersey cows by weight and notes big cows consume more but convert feed to milk better when growth is optimized. Emphasizes early growth, liberal feeding, and careful breeding as profit drivers.
The article warns that children suffer in poor light and air and thrive only in sunny, airy rooms. It advises gentle handling at night, avoids scolding, and suggests giving a child a cold drink to stop sobbing, emphasizing clear positive guidance over prohibitions.
Reported plans show Grange and Farmers members visiting Pennsylvania State College for Farmers Week activities from December 27 to January 3. The program offers speedball and other demonstrations, with attendance likely as part of statewide schedule.
Fragmentary text describes a scandal involving twelve prominent preachers accused of lewd activities. The report mentions a core group of lawyers and a major corporation, with references to wind and mortem elements. Details are unclear due to OCR damage.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a garbled dispute over payment for goods. The Garveler character demands payment while a figure named Calihee and references to lalisative GU bho Chee appear, suggesting a chaotic bargaining scene without clear outcomes.
A talkative man asks for family facts and household notes, mentioning marriage and a Civil Service son aged nineteen earning thirty a week. He notes a deceased father last July, a living mother, a red-haired niece, a departing cook and a new one, then asks about tongue oil usage.
A National Grange report shows McSparran arguing against any system with direct government aid fearing special privilege. The National Grange supported government loans to farmers at up to 4 1/4 percent for thirty year mortgages, with safeguards and amortization. The piece questions hypocrisy in opposing special privilege while endorsing its own preferred policy.
A garbled era guide offers tips on linen cleaning with soapy wet spots and sun drying. It touches on aging eggs by salt solutions, making pastes from spices and rosin, and cautions about plaster and resin use while noting unreliable fragments about fabrics and household remedies.
Congress opened its long session with President Wilson’s annual address prioritizing preparedness and eight proposed measures. Key items include a $100 million revenue increase, a government controlled merchant marine, revised Sherman Act provisions, banking reforms for foreign branch banks, and rural credits, plus expanded self-government in the Philippines and treaties with Colombia and Nicaragua.
A man who had not yet paid for his home confessed he never owned cars but praised them for one reason. The judge noted they have made mortgages respectable and asked the man what that reason was.
The Huntingdon chamber opens a community home in the former National Hotel building. Three stories of brick structure will serve farmers with restrooms and shopping delivery to the building. Rented storerooms support upkeep and aim to tighten town county ties and broaden the buying area.
Neighborhood reports show two hogs fatally harmed this week linked to Harry J. Gordon and John H. Howard's party. Howard Shelley holds the record for largest hog killed so far, with a butchering party at the Shelley home last week producing hogs weighing 410 and 348 pounds under the supervision of Butcher Fernster of Palmyra.
No contagious diseases were reported during the year. Only one case of sickness was noted.
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