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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1910
Page
7
Cards of thanks priced at 25 cents. Obituary poetry not published. Lodge or society resolutions on a member’s death priced at 100 dollars. Announcements of entertainments with admission charged priced at six cents per line.
Public notices list candidates for Clark County offices including Sheriff Collector Town Clerk and Assessor with Republican convention and March 14 dates. Also notes for Wabash Township Collector Democratic convention and various political commentary on elections and public figures.
A sale is scheduled at Dah Uy with details limited in the readable text. The notice does not provide a full date location or authority.
An October report from the Illnois Issue quotes Marshall merchants on business since saloons closed. Some say conditions improved with a calmer moral climate, while farmers’ crop failures and regional trade shifts partly explain the downturn. City finances show debt reductions and new sewer and paying contracts.
Businessmen dispute claims of ruin from saloon closure. Article cites Decatur clearinghouse totals for dry years 1908-9 at 21 million and wet years 1905-7 at 17.9 million with per year averages around 3.58 million.
When a foal lacks its dam’s milk it should first have its bowels moved with castor oil. Feed mare’s milk substitutes only sparingly, using cow’s milk with water and sugar at blood temperature. Gruels from beans or peas, oilmeal jelly, and short preparations help nourish the motherless foal.
The article advises ensilage as a winter sheep feed to curb appetite, improve thrift, and suggests daily feeding with proper salt timing. It stresses dry, clean sheep quarters year round, better flesh for breeding ewes, and trimming toe nails. For dairy cows, it gives a grain rule: pounds of grain daily equal pounds of butter fat produced, noting milk restoration after a drop is difficult.
Newly hatched goslings should be moved after nightfall and kept warm in flannel until the hatch is finished and they have leg strength. Then move the goose and her coop to a sunny pasture and confine them a few days. They will then care largely for themselves. New England Homestead.
The Republican congressional campaign committee led by Wm. B. McKinley plans a nationwide push next summer across about fifty districts. Campaign literature will emphasize patriotism with no insurgent rhetoric, issuing 50 million documents to 90 million Americans and a tariff focused vest pocket series led by Spike A detailing tariff impacts on prices, farmers, wage earners, and consumers. Francis Curtiss drafts the next campaign textbook as leaders outline speeches by Taft and Lodge to support the platform.
A reader activity contrasts judging distance by touch with a playful verse about a bold burglar bug attempting to rob a clock The poem humorously ends as the alarm clock goes off and the bug flees, leaving a light moral about clever mischief and safety.
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