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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1936
Page
4
At Marion Center on Monday, twelve men attended a farm demonstration by County Agent Warner at Homer Work’s farm. The event covered lamb docking and castration, feeding strategies, and management for rapid lamb growth, with emphasis on ewe exercise, hay quality, and grain rations.
Miss Bessie Owen urges plan the garden now as county home economics representative. Gardens provide fresh vegetables for all family members during growing season and enough produce to can for winter. Include greens tomatoes peas carrots corn beans to meet daily two vegetables besides potatoes and tomatoes three times weekly. Vegetables supply starch energy roughage minerals and vitamins for growth and wellbeing.
County Agent Warner reports that disease free seed out-yielded diseased seed by 62.2 bushels per acre in 2068 demonstrations over 17 years. Benefits include higher yield and better crop quality. Three sound seed strategies are recommended: use disease free seed from a reliable source, grow next year’s seed from disease free stock, or plant all acreage with potatoes from a local disease free grower.
County Agent Warner notes water is two thirds of an egg and cheap for hens. Experiments with 121 hens on warm water show 95.6 eggs per flock, 122 hens warmed part time average 87.8, and 118 hens with cold water yield 80.8 eggs each. Water intake trends with production. more water correlates with higher output.
A historical look at appendectomy evolution shows the rarity of the operation decades ago, when an appendix was worth five dollars for removal. Today appendicitis accounts for about one in six surgeries, involving nine staff and numerous instruments and materials, with emphasis on safety and resource use.
Fifteen hundred bankers from fifteen eastern states met in Philadelphia for a two day conference on banking law, management, operations, and public relations as part of the American Bankers Association nationwide banking development program led by Robert V. Fleming. Discussions explored government emergency services, tax policy on banks, and the Banking Act of 1935, with emphasis on easing government involvement and surveying which emergency measures banks can take over locally.
The American Bankers Association reports nonmember banks suffer higher burglary and robbery rates than members. Members display a protective sign and deter criminals, with 150 to 400 crooks arrested yearly by the association’s detective agents. Detainer warrants track offenders across jurisdictions, linking crimes to penalties.
In 1935 US accidents caused about 99,000 deaths and 9.1 million injuries. Private homes accounted for nearly a third of fatal incidents, while motor vehicle crashes led with 36,400 deaths and rural areas remained especially deadly. Economic losses neared 3.4 billion dollars.
A Washington county criminal court jury acquitted The Philadelphia Inquirer of criminal libel charges by Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti. The article alleged Margiotti’s partners planned a “LAX fee grab” via a new law adding a one mill tax to a four mill personal property levy. The Richmond Times-Dispatch notes the wartime idea and criticizes the press.
Plum Creek residents hosted and visited relatives during a busy weekend. Among the gathering were Mr. and Mrs. Porter Miller and family with Clark and Ankney guests from Ohio, and extended visits in the Gettys Reeter and Reefer households. Bonnie Ruth Ramer arrived to brighten the Kinter home amid lists of sled rides and snow drifts.
H V Kerr 28 of Indiana R D 7 is reported satisfactory at Indiana Hospital after facial and head injuries from an automobile crash Friday afternoon. Kerr, a Ernest mine employee for Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co, was injured when a car driven by Robert Imler 23 of Johnstown skidded and struck Kerr’s machine on the Indiana Punxsutawney road.
A tiny piece of colored paper from 1846, bearing Paid 6 cents, sold for 10 137.13 and now valued around 25 000 as part of Worcester Webster’s rare envelope. Arthur Hind owns it along with the world’s rarest stamp, the British Guiana penny stamp, bought for 82 500 and valued at 50 000.
A compact, period tone item notes in Indianapolis that if everyone seeking government funds received it, the mood would plunge, while Toledo Blade adds a wry aside about low mood giving opportunity’s knuckles time to heal.
H L Shrader of the United States Department of Agriculture recommends turkey producers incubate guinea fowl eggs with turkey eggs. The brighter guinea chicks alert to danger, teach turkeys to find warmth, and warn of predators. Guineas also add table variety and are considered a fine delicacy.
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