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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1926
Page
7
William A. Radford explains how to plan for future expansion in homes. He notes the contrast with industrial building, shows layout options for growing families, and describes a stucco frame design with a large porch and drive to a rear service entrance.
The piece discusses decorating during midsummer as a time to avoid interior decorating due to heat and dryness. It argues midsummer is warmer and drier, making it preferable for housekeepers to focus on other chores like spring cleaning, which otherwise consumes time and strained painting and varnish work.
Study notes that small rugs should be used sparingly in living rooms to avoid breaking up the floor space. Recommend placing larger rugs between doorways and around important furniture to anchor the room.
A poultry writer argues that focusing on fattening and marketing Leghorn broilers boosts profits. It outlines pen fattening for birds at about 1.5 pounds, feeding a wet mash of cornmeal middlings meat scraps and milk three times daily, and notes Leghorns’ higher activity slows flesh gain on free range.
Extension poultryman J H McAdams of Kansas State Agricultural College says incubation is complete and most male roosters can be sold. He notes old roosters were costly to feed, with prices dropping from last fall’s higher levels to around 16 cents a pound, likely sliding to about 40 cents per pound as sales rise.
The text discusses poultry health and management, noting diseases from spoiled feed causing limpness or indigestion, and egg eating as a harmful habit best stopped by culling offending birds. It emphasizes cleanliness, vitality, and proper feeding to keep flocks profitable.
Harold Barclay argues against love at first sight but meets Florence Barstow and discovers that instant attraction may exist. Their engagement follows, with memories linking their families and a playful challenge from Bert Mansfield testing Harold’s theory.
A playful dialogue features the Sky and Mr Sun praising a windy day. The Wind uses a broom to sweep clouds into wind-swept patterns while narrating stories of earth families, including a girl misnaming a dog’s house. The Sky, joking about polish and clouds, asks the Sun to hear Wind’s song, which the Sky then sings.
A featured Irvin S Cobb vignette describes a young romantic swashbuckler actor in New York who can be genial yet domineering when challenged. In a club scene he badgers a friend to admit he knows more people, prodding with a mock test of which Jerome Lawrence’s brother Oscar looks more alike.
The census bureau reports Je Smith as the one in a hundred found by sinilsifer Nounil within the statistics project.
Harving King outlines an ancient superstition that destroying an owl nest brings misfortune. He links the belief to Minerva and Athene, noting ancient pagan roots and comparing it with Juno feather lore. The piece frames the owl nest saying as a relic of classical superstition still present today.
A six year old boy at Wembleys Treasure Island used a joke about sixpence. He pushed his mother into the lake to charm a helping sixpence then fled. The father arrived and corrected the prank as the mother regained her footing.
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