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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
2
Saturday July 28 Wilbur C Treadwell optometrist will see patients at his lane office with eyes examination glasses fitted and relief for headaches and eyestrain. The notice also lists Texas counties towns and civil subdivisions with bond issuing power and geography data including Baldy Peak Mt Livermore and Texline details.
South Texans recently captured armadillos as a test for quail depredation. The animals refused eggs but fed on moths, bugs, earthworms and cornbread. They rarely raid quail nests, likely due to poor vision, yet they help by consuming ants that prey on young quail.
This piece recalls Tommy Ambrose a famed pavement merchant and carnival showman. It tells of his quick wit with a nickel misquote about six sticks, his sly defiance in a Pennsylvania town, and his joke about Dietrich to fit a turnverein setting, illustrating the era’s street theater humor.
In experiments on coccidiosis prevention, 6 percent sulfur flour or 2.5 percent flowers of sulfur in chick feed from age ten to fourteen days reduced mortality to 2 to 3 percent and allowed colony brooder housing without wire floors. Vitamin A and D requirements were also studied with sulfur. Direct sunlight plus 6 percent sulfur flour supported normal bone calcification and growth.
Game and Fish notes report bearlike presence in Texas dwindling with fewer than 200 in Trans Pecos. A 463 pound brain was slain under Warden T S Redford after killing 25 sheep in Davis Mountains. Open season on Rostra runs Nov 16 to Dec 31 with special permission to slay sheep killer. A 10 day livestock show will be held at the State Fair of Texas with full exhibits on both opening and closing days.
A Texas history piece traces heroes who aided the Texas Revolution from many states and regions. It cites Sam Houston David Crockett James Bowie James Fannin and others, noting their origins across Tennessee North Carolina Kentucky Georgia Virginia and New England as contributors to Texas independence.
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