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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1920
Page
12
A Victorian verse celebrating Christmas, urging celebration for rich and poor alike. It calls to ring the bells, gather in holiday cheer, and share warmth with those in need as Christmas returns with joy and community.
The article surveys early Christmas carols and their origins from the Roman mass and Episcopal prayer, noting ancient authors such as Telesphorus and Luther, and tracing carols across Europe and America. It mentions St Francis, Ben Jonson, and modern hymn writers, plus famous carols like O Little Town of Bethlehem and Come All Ye Faithful.
A lyrical Christmas verse extols festive halls and yule fires. A minstrel lover hails a fair maiden as the gift of love and faith, promising Christmas cheer through the year as bells ring and minstrels sing.
Farmers should feed brood sows carefully in winter to maximize number of healthy pigs in spring. Use bulk rich rations with legumes such as alfalfa clover and soybean hay, avoiding moldy or damp roughage. Select bright nutritious hay and ensure adequate drying to prevent mold in soybean and cowpea stalks.
An old adv ad promotes Cole’s Carbon salve claiming rapid healing with no scars. It cites Druggists and a free sample offer from The J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford, NJ. Also included is a light movie director joke about hiring lookalikes for extras and two doorways needing many extras for a scene.
The ad promotes Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum for daily use to cleanse soothe and perfume skin. It claims the trio ensures clear skin and a complete toilet table. Includes a 25 cent price and a quip about Mrs Gaddy and ready made fashion trends.
A fragment notes that she does not relish or thrive on such in ferprice and warns it may cause severe disease and possibly loss of her litter. The terse lines suggest concern over health and fertility impacts, likely in an agricultural or animal husbandry context.
The article stresses winter management of breeding ewes to improve the number and vigor of lambs. Proper feeding and care during the winter are essential to keep the flock thrifty, in good flesh, and capable of producing active, often twin, lambs at mating time.
A rhymed plea urges care for birds in winter. It invites readers to give suet and trim trees near homes to provide food and shelter when winds blow and food is scarce. The piece stresses seasonal kindness and recurring charity to feathered neighbors.
Advice to prevent hog cholera by avoiding exposure of susceptible hogs to the germ and using hog cholera serum during exposure. It recommends administering virus and serum together to protect hogs through the exposure period and build immunity.
Children in town kindergartens prepare for Christmas by making crafts such as colored paper chains red cranberries and red yellow curtains. They cut snow scenes Santa Claus and rein deers drawings play games and sing carols while shops provide materials for home work and holiday projects.
A note on Owen kneeling in the stars at midnight on Christmas reflecting English tradition. The gesture is described as adoration of the Nativity during the holiday observance.
Prices for farm work and breeding horses have surged rapidly in the last twisterx months. The article notes only about 1 percent of horses in the United States are in foal and suggests demand and limited supply push values higher than ever before.
The passage explains animal grade definitions. A grade animal has one purebred parent and one mixed parent, while some improved ancestry animals are called grade 1s even with mixed lines. Not all non purebred animals are grades, and animals with inferior mixed blood are called scrubs.
Miss Mary G Nulbreth a noted suffragette laments modern girls flippant attitudes and links it to woman suffrage On a bathing beach last summer a stylish young woman wore a daring swimming suit her aunt rebuked her and the girl retorted with bold defiance saying wait till you see me in my new evening gown.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a child visiting a museum remarking that a desiccated ancient queen is a mummy. The aunt chides the scene with humor as Edna says she is glad her mummy does not look like that, reflecting a lighthearted cultural moment.
The Alaska Capital notes that youth optimism should mix with Doctor Kilger’s advice from Trinity College urging prudent daring. It argues Alaska must finish the pioneer work by the next generation, using the available raw materials to complete the foundation laid by earlier pioneers.
A passage argues reading a dull book is unprofitable and forgets any useful parts. It notes that lingering in memorization wastes time and adds a quip that some remark on style compares a snake to a long waisted creature.
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