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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
6
A string of satirical quips and brief items cover topics from divorce ease, tariffs, and kidnapping to Lipton airships, royal scandals, and a Harvard psychologist. The fragment mentions Kidnaper Boyle, a South Chicago fire scare, orphan care funded by the Red Cross, strict speed laws, and fashion heat logic from The Lancet on overcoats.
Opinion argues the State must act to clean milk, inspect schools, and enforce health measures. It warns police bias endangers public safety and predicts firearms will be driven from civilized areas using stricter control and registration. Also describes a Washington sack filling device that lets one man fill bags quickly and efficiently.
Scientific American recounts a Vancouver Island tribes belief in a measles cannibal or bamatsu. Shamans staged a mock cannibal, exposed him, burned him in a rock alcove, and declared the demon fled. The ceremony, repeated annually by a secret society, aimed to end epidemics among the people.
A fragmented verse from Kansas City Times mentions Crockett and a locket with a quip about Abe and spank culture. It reflects dated humor about fathers and discipline, preserving period voice without graphic detail.
The article discusses fowl housing, crowding, and dampness causing molt and disease, favoring scratch sheds. It covers Leghorn winter laying, hatching, and care, noting profitable winter handling and non-sitting tendencies. It also suggests profitable farm industries like nut trees, with grafted trees bearing earlier and English walnuts now viable in the Central States.
A and Alexander, veterinary surgeon, debunk the old notion that a horse can become chest founded. He explains that such cases are chronic founder, or laminitis, rather than a distinct chest-foundered condition.
In chronic foot lameness cases the chest muscles may waste in sympathy, suggesting the chest fominder. Treatment prescribes wide-webbed flat bar shoes with tar and oakum dressing and a thick leather sole. Then clip hair and blister forefoot coronets with a mercury and cantharides mix for fifteen minutes, wash in 48 hours, apply lard daily, and blister every 3-4 weeks.
The article advises hardening young plants before transplanting from flats or hotbeds. Remove sash during the day, ventilate at night, reduce watering to strengthen plants, and consider cold frames or two inch pots to acclimate before final outdoor planting.
A Denver Field and Farm note explains disking alfalfa requires skill and the right equipment with a disk, spring tooth, or harrow, finishing with spike teeth for best regrowth. It also describes a cow yard entrance using two tail posts and wired fencing to prevent cows from passing.
Helpful mimes. Or up the work harness. The neglected colt or calf will Prove Profitless. Cattle will never do well In the same pasture as sheep. Wood charcoal should always be kept in the hog pen. How are the farm implements? Any of them need repairs? To improve the stock, requires in telligence and thought. It is a good plan to have the horses and cows clean up their mangers after, each feed. There is such a thing as overfeeding. Feed stock all the food they will as similate, but not more. Don't have a lot of manure lying in the yards all summer. It wll lose just about half of its value by fall. It is better to feed the cowset and hay after missing, as It keeps the dust down. Feed the grain before milking. The best feed for making muscle is, oats. They are not heating nor very fattening. The young calves should be given oats in order to give them mus cle and make them plump.
A veteran actor recalls a wealthy friend’s son who joined an opera company as Carlos the Fiddler though he never appeared on stage nor was his name listed. The young recruit defends himself claiming potential fame despite mockery and missing roles.
An observer notes daily greetings among Colombian passengers on a Santa Marta to onward voyage. Each morning strangers exchange handshakes and inquire about health and family, a national custom. A Bogota merchant’s brief business walk extended to nearly an hour due to these courteous salutations.
George Gould spoke of railway difficulties at a recent board meeting. He said a railway finds it impossible to please all hands. The tale of a commuter and a railway superintendent illustrates tensions over schedules and local stops.
A writer in the Atchison Globe contrasts vivid fictional weather with a plain real life report. In books wind moans and tears mix with rain, while in real life the line is simply it’s raining. The piece highlights the gap between literary embellishment and everyday observation.
A father tells his son that marrying a rich wife is almost as good as a failure in a humorous quip. The piece follows with a statistic noting Germans consume 108.5 pounds of meat per person per year versus English 1164 pounds per person.
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