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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1912
Page
2
Guidance on selecting breeds and breeding practices to improve egg production. Emphasizes medium frame, yellow skin, and robust laying traits in American breeds like Plymouth Rock and Wyandottes. Warns against herd-wide breeding and stresses breeding from high-producing hens and proactive males.
A guide on choosing a sire with strong progeny potential based on dam quality, constitution, and desirable physical traits. Recommends a dedicated breeding pen, separating top producers, and maintaining ample feed, housing, ventilation, cleanliness, and ongoing care for vitality and fertility.
The article lists breeds such as Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds Orpingtons Minorcas and Leghorns as good egg producers with moderate to large eggs averaging about two ounces each.
Hella Jorgensen, 12, long thought lost after her parents died, is to be returned to Danish relatives in Copenhagen. Probaton Officer W G Leeman of Dallas and Presbyterian Mission Board members led the effort, tracing the child through Mexico Italy and the U S over five years after an impostor uncle sought ransom.
John Smith aged 84 and his wife, 79, died within 36 hours of each other at their Reynoldsville home, pneumonia claimed them both. Mrs Smith reportedly told her children to delay burial until Wednesday after learning of her husband's death, then joined him days later.
New York reports a plan by Sir William Ramsay to gasify coal underground to cut mining costs. Gas could be piped for distribution or used at the pit head to power electricity remotely. Kalamazoo maid rewards after finding jewel stash worth 40000 dollars belonging to a New York official, 1 dollar finder’s fee. Philip Walsh, 14, from Boston, visited New York seeking fortune but found homesickness in two days. he told a police officer that New York beans were not tasty.
Burton Vandyke, superintendent at New Whitbit iron works in Santiago, says ninety percent of plantation and mine labor in Cuba is performed by Spaniards. He notes Cubans do well in other jobs but not as laborers, wages average a dollar a day with some earning up to two dollars for task work. He cites Cuba's mineral wealth yet warns unrest and fear of revolution hinder development, though Americans show little immediate interest beyond existing investment.
In a domestic tangle Mr Brown wakes to his wife’s sudden question about Doris. She reports Doris is Charlie Jones’s collie dog and proceeds to tease him with overzealous affection and odd requests. The exchange ends with Mrs Brown declaring she is going home.
Charles Francia Adams notes in Worlds Work that 75 pension attorneys flocked to San Francisco as troops mustered out, urging rapid pension filings. Aggressive agents targeted soldiers homeward, with 477 pension applications from one elite regiment for over 20 diseases within four months.
Lehar the composer of The Merry Widow and Eva, once led a Vienna military band, applied for a music association directorship in Vienna. He was rejected after judges favored symphonic over dance music, leaving him as unknown as when he led a Vienna brass band.
At a social gathering, Mr Gilfere was unexpectedly called to respond to a toast to the Ladies. He stammered claiming all he had belonged to a woman, then the lady interrupted, recalling the moment he transferred property into her name and accused him of giving it away.
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