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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
7
A sixteen by sixteen foot floor could be covered with a single ounce of gold in a curious old report. The claim highlights early wealth techniques and material value, suggesting a floor area coated in gold while illustrating speculative or artisanal uses of precious metal in past times.
A two week short course for wheat buyers millers bakers and flour salesmen began at the Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan under Prof L A Fitz. The fourth annual session covers wheat and flour testing with lectures on absorption gluten total operation moisture ash and avidity plus lab practice and demonstrations.
Al Smith advertises large breeding stock including big black pervberon tun barges and mammoth jacks at his farm 2% miles west of Lawrence on California Road. He claims some horses reach 16 to 164 hands and a jack taught this spring could be the world champion. He lists Hercherons German Coach and Saddie stallions with breeding fees and insurance for foals, and jack prices with insurance. Interested mares can visit to breed and see the stock.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Dewey Whitehorse and Lag Asome in reference to horses. It notes a colt standing and suckling, with unclear money figures and vague remarks about foal care and palace marker. Reading is incomplete. essential names appear but details are obscured.
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