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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
7
A fragmented farm column discusses poultry care, winter feeding, and management. It covers grain mixes, heating, bedding, and water needs, with tips on keeping hens healthy through cold weather and handling pullets and some breeding notes. Contains names and unrelated fragments from a local program.
An Economic Zoologist from Harrisburg asserts no arsenic or poison was found in grapes sprayed with supposed agents. He notes a Sir Surface letter to the West Grove postmaster recounting lab tests and dismissing calumny against spraying. The text also covers tree disease diagnostics, San Jose scale concerns, and spraying outfit costs for a Grange in Jefferson county with vendor recommendations.
Professor Witmer at the University psychology department reports training an orangutan and a chimpanzee from Borneo. Peter the chimp demonstrates language response, tool use, and problem solving. The study claims potential for greater ape intelligence and challenges traditional limits, while other notes cover school class sizes and promotion rates.
A theater patron or church attendant who pushes for fresh air can be seen as a benefactor. Their persistent complaints prompt improvements in ventilation, benefiting hundreds of others who breathe without protection from poor air. Public spaces like theaters and streetcars should ensure clean air for patrons.
The tale follows Mary, a scatterbrained writer with a knack for odd misadventures in a family of practical sisters. From trying to drill holes with a corkscrew to hiding an alarm clock in a bread can, Mary’s absent mindedness leads to comic mishaps in daily chores and housework.
A London rumor recalls Blankson facing a specialist consult with gloom over parting from Mie fea. The price proves steep with five guineas for the first visit and one guinea for each follow up. In a bold bid to dodge the fee, Blankson rushes into the room and greets the doctor with a breezy, "Well, okay, here we are again!"
Bizarre descriptions detail various horseshoe types and mounting gear. Japanese horses wear sandallike foot coverings with saddle attachments. Icelandic peasant uses horned ponies with sheep horn. Upper Oxus valley uses antler footwear fastened with horn pins. Rudun hornegs employ camellike stocking, ageka noted.
A reminiscence by E. J. Edwards on how political maneuvering around the New York custom house and General Chester A. Arthur shaped the path to the presidency. The piece recalls Arthur’s 1877 port of New York removal, a telltale letter from John Sherman, and how avoiding a foreign posting kept him in American politics to lead the New York delegation in 1880.
Western fossil fields and fossils found in United States flats have largely gone to major museums abroad while others stay to adorn American collections. The Museum of Natural History in New York Yale Princeton and Wyolfe universities Carnegie in Pittsburgh and the Field Museum in Chicago all curate notable fossil remains. Despite substantial effort, fossil collecting remains in its infancy and the vast troves of the West will keep yielding discoveries for generations as humanity seeks ancient links.
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