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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1903
Page
6
Instructions on pairing hens and chicks, building deep nests with ample straw to keep eggs warm, and managing incubating hens. Advice includes housing many nests, darkened rooms, supervised feeding, dusting, and monitoring crops to ensure all hens feed and produce a living incubator.
A white Wrandotte cock owned by W R Graves of West Springfield Mass placed first at the New York show of 1902. The article also recounts Miss Arlita Martin of Texas starting with five hens and a gobbler, expanding to thousands of birds and netting yearly profits, plus notes on duckling feeding practices and Missouri egg production records with Greene and Livingston counties highlighted.
Deeds recorded show John Barr 156 acres in West Wheatfield sold to James Stewart for 5634.22 while Heth Lowman 47 acres in Center sold to M Edward Barclay for 900. Wm Lewis 19 acres in Rayne sold to E M Frech for 800. Annie E McKendrick 50 acres in Rayne sold to Anna Mr Sharp for 400. Many more transfers follow including Cortes Neal 75 acres in North Mahoning to Charles S Neal for 1 and L A Webb a lot in South Mahoning to Mary C and Odie M Zimmerman for 115. Other transfers include real estate in Blairsville Cherry Hill Blacklick Green Homer City and Banks with prices ranging from 45 to 9 000. A Resolution of Respect notes the Plumville Cornet Band mourns H M Ashbaugh and a public notice from County Commissioner C F Murray invites cemetery monument work bidding.
Public sale at the late home of Archibald M. Rodgers in West Wheatfield township takes place March 20, 1903 at 1 PM. Items include horses cows farm tools household goods cider gear and 80 acres in ground with farming implements. Sale managed by administrator BR. B. Roparss. An adjacent Farm of 113 acres near Willet offered at 35 per acre with coal underlay and good buildings. Also notices of furniture shipment and medical advert.
County paper notes frequent house and barn fires with no insurance. Urges readers to obtain coverage and protect neighbors. Directs to write J. W. Botsford Marion Center General Agent or James Speedy Secretary Office Clymer Manufacturing Company Indians Pa for details.
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