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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
7
An era article outlines cost saving and health strategies for poultry and livestock. It urges strong breeding, daily lice checks, clean housing, turnip feeding, and English methods for fattening sheep. Instructions on cheese making, ration experiments, and humane horn removal for calves follow, with notes on improvised poultry housing and humane cattle care.
The article urges careful wintering of breeding hens and cocks to ensure vigorous chicks. It stresses proper exercise, housing, and feeding, advising reduced corn and more wheat to build energy. It warns that poor care lowers future flock viability and stresses maintaining milk records amid high grain prices.
Farmers' Review warns hens lack grinding material stomach grit in cold months. Fowls digest old teeth and regrow new, bones, crockery, flint and quartz used as false teeth supply gizzard grinding material. Drooping and disease follow grit shortage. buy commercial grits when ground is snowed in.
In frenzied Chicago wheat pit trading, the May wheat deal collapsed, with losses running into millions as gates holdings shifted to Armours for liquidation. The bull crowd led by John W Gates faces heavy bills after another 8 cent slump, while corners on historic Wheat futures are recalled from Civil War era to late 19th century episodes.
The Buford Trenton reclamation plan, backed by a $550,000 federal appropriation, aims to reclaim about 18 000 acres of arid land in western North Dakota. Begin within sixty days, the dam and reservoir would hold 20 000 to 25 000 acre feet of water, with canals running north and south of the Great Northern line near Tren ton and Barons. This marks the start of broader irrigation schemes in Western Dakota and northeastern Montana, expected to open farm homes for the homeless and boost settlement as government land becomes scarcer.
A jumble of biographical notes mentions Benjamin Stevens of Boston as a long-time president of an insurance firm, John D. Long as former Navy secretary and ex-governor, Joseph W. J. Lee as Maryland consul general, James H. Sands poised to command the Naval Academy, and other figures including Taft and Nixon in honorary or electoral contexts. The text blends roles across government, diplomacy, and academia with uncertain timelines and ages.
A Sunday School lesson interprets John 15 with Jesus as the vine and God the husbandman. It urges pruning nonproductive branches, cleansing faithful ones, and relying on prayer to bear fruit while renouncing self for God’s glory and love.
A literary visitor asks about the Call of the Wild and a humorous reply unfolds in a cramped apartment lobby. The janitor overhears as neighbors on the upper floors shout for more heat, highlighting city life and shared spaces.
A compact line reflects on collective fear: if a foolkiller appeared solo, every man would seek concealment, revealing humanity's instinct to avoid dangerous folly. The meditation underscores social vigilance and shared dread of reckless danger.
The weather bureau reports a notably cool week ending April 24 east of the Rocky Mountains, hindering germination and growth. Frost damaged crops from the South Atlantic states to the Gulf, with drought threatening central Missouri and the Dakotas needs. corn planting slowed except in Missouri and Kansas, while spring wheat and oats show slow growth but overall favorable prospects in some regions. Fruit prospects diminished in the Ohio Valley and Atlantic coast, though upper Missouri Valley and New England show better outlooks.
Grover Cleveland warns in the Ladies' Home Journal that certain women's clubs threaten the home and motherhood. He links club activity and the push for woman suffrage to discontent and erosion of domestic duties, urging sensible men to fear public involvement by women and its impact on family life.
The emperor of China receives the Order of the Double Dragon from President Diaz. The King of Portugal praised by amateur painters whose works win medals. Robert Friesen notes Teelanders as highly educated. The Sultan of Turkey lives frugally, may die soon, and is shadowed by a drinker brother. Sir Frederick Bridge comments on critics. Charles of Denmark shows varied talents. Tong Shio Ye arrives as Chinese minister to England and a US-educated youth. Graham Murray adopts Lynedoch as a poet title. Winston Churchill at fifty is biographied. Major Reamards, veteran officer, entered service in 1816.
A curious Burmese cigar described as monstrous eight inches long is noted for its construction of chopped wood, tobacco, wolassed, and herbs wrapped in pale bamboo skin. The piece, sometimes coated in purple or gold paper, is too large for young smokers and is passed along in social settings rather than fully smoked.
In Clayton Texas May 1 a local claim praises Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for diabetes and kidney diseases. TheFeature cites Mr J J Walley and Mr Dalles endorsing the remedy and recounts testimonials of dramatic improvements after taking the pills. Notably promotional notices also mention Adirondack travel literature and residents debating weather effects on crops.
Mr. William A. Newman of Sagrada Missouri, a Camden County farmer, suffers through an eight year grip with deafness head pains and heart flutter. After exhausting doctors and tonics he finds relief and a cure using Dr Williams Pink Pills. The account praises the pills as driving grip poisoning from the system.
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