17 Dec 1908
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
1
A playful 19th century style remark notes buttermilk intoxication as a humorous idea. The quip treats drunkenness as a light, nonsensical concept rather than a serious issue, reflecting tongue in cheek humor of the period.
In Hotchkiss Colorado on December 4 a semi annual banquet honored the town’s young ladies. Thirty five couples attended in Masonic Hall with mayor George Duke offering remarks on early settlement and modern progress. Apple contest games, group photos, and a festive feast concluded with cheers for the young men and a sense of local pride.
Advice from LHL. Bexes of the University of Missouri on rationing dairy cows in winter. Feed each cow individually to balance maintenance and milk production. Start with roughage, then adjust grain at one pound per three pounds or three pints of milk, noting Jerseys may need more grain.
George B. Ellis of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture endorses a brine method for curing pork. He details hog selection, cut-up, salting with salt and brown sugar, brine composition, time scales of four to six weeks, and smoking with corn cobs or specific woods. He advises butchering before warm weather and prefers farm cured meat to packing house products.
A Champaign county farmer writes to the fair association offering a premium for the county's biggest fool after being swindled by a traveling con artist. He recounts canceling his home paper then buying back issues only to see an earlier expose of the same scam, and jokes about hiring men to kick him at the fairground.
A Chicago Tribune note warns against using another town’s postmark to fake a letter’s origin. It describes how a postmaster would detect the ruse, rewriting the envelope to show it came from a different office. The piece cautions that such acts are viewed as intent to deceive and could amount to fraud.
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