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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
7
A 42nd State Grange convention pledge promotes high moral tone and bans liquor ads in homes. The piece extols farmers as the nation’s backbone, notes farm wealth surpassing manufacturing, and cites strong export and war-order signals.
The Grange master reports Pennsylvania has the most cooperative enterprises in the U S, with 828 Granges. A new production and distribution phase is rising and farmers should focus on managing their own sales more business like. Farmers lose about 2 billion dollars yearly in sale and distribution.
The Pennsylvania State Grange endorsed local option as direct legislation allowing citizens to decide local affairs. The resolution asserts liquor issues are moral and economic, and supports prohibition potentially nationwide. The adopted resolution calls for pure and healthy conditions in communities.
The Stockman notes American farmers face rising demand as war profits shift wealth to farmers. With six million farms, each can boost efficiency and production to supply both domestic and international needs. Prosperity requires producing more for less than market price.
R. L. Dean of Greene County recounts a morning in August 1898 when five hogs sold at five cents per pound amid a depression era price surge for hogs. He notes subsequent market stability, aside from a 1967 panic causing a brief drop to four cents before recovering.
Howard Hale nine year old Midland Texas won the champion baby beef at the Fort Worth Fat Stock show. He tended and fed his calf Colonel Exall since birth and the calf weighed 560 pounds at the show. Howard earned 180 dollars in cash premiums a 500 dollar silver cup and the calf sold for 16 25 per hundred weight yielding significant prize money.
The fragment shows a teacher prompting students to name lower animals, beginning with a student named Willie Jones. This snippet captures a classroom moment from a Boston Tran script.
Department of Agriculture guidance urges farmers to harvest and store ice for winter use. Ice protects dairy and meat products and improves market quality of milk fruit and eggs. Use copper sulfate to curb algae and ensure clean water in ponds and streams used for ice making.
The U S Bureau of Mines reports a improved radium extraction method that could slash value from 120000 to 40000 per gram. Director Dr Holmes says costs drop two thirds making radium worth over 1 million dollars an ounce.
At the First Regiment Armory Philadelphia hens took top prizes with a grand total of 3627 eggs laid by sixteen birds in three coops. Awards went to a barred Plymouth Rock hen for American class best bird and a Sussex pullet for English class best.
A terse exchange from the Cincinnati Enquirer notes the saying that the path of the transgressor is hard because many have trodden it, implying widespread consequence and caution. The dialogue underscores moral instruction through common proverb.
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