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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
4
The article argues obedience through discipline is fundamental to soldiers. It defines discipline as control for a purpose, not punishment, and stresses self discipline from private to corps. It links drill, routine, and etiquette to automatic action and team coordination.
A soldier must develop elastic, disciplined muscles and nerves to meet any demand. Training emphasizes precise thinking and exact communication to ensure obedience and effective action. The aim is to teach how to think, not what to think, guiding him to understand his place in unit formations.
A military drill piece explains how a soldier should stand at attention with correct alignment from feet to chin. It emphasizes natural balance, relaxed muscles, and proper head and shoulder posture as the basis for discipline and drill movements.
A farmer reports a severe hoof ailment in cattle caused by persistent mud and wet conditions. Despite veterinary treatment, neglect during corn planting worsened the condition until the animal died. The writer notes no contagion to the other cattle.
A ram imparts desirable traits to offspring and should compensate for ewe weaknesses. If both parents share faults, defects amplify in young stock. For small flocks a ram limb suffices, but with over thirty ewes a two year old ram is preferred. Selection depends on ewe type and bone size.
An illustrated farm note describes a hog rack built on a flat hay rack frame by an Illinois farmer. The design uses partitions with hinged gates to prevent hogs from piling and to allow hauling several classes of hogs safely. The method uses an ordinary loading chute and promises easy, efficient transport on large farms.
Look to the water supply in the pasture and see that no animal suffers for want of it. In the hottest dry weather horses gain little from the field unless they have thickets and woods to shelter in from the sun.
An old note stresses trimming a horse's hoof evenly and giving special attention to hoof care, noting the hoof is to a horse what a fingernail is to a hand.
John J. McGraw calls Davy Robertson a great ball player and potential rival to Ty Cobb. The Southern outfielder, famed for temperament, hit .307 last season with early power but faded to finish near the Hall of Fame threshold. Robertson vows to push to be the top all around player this year.
A high wind dried the field at Oklahoma City as sand blew off the diamond. Players refused to play after seeing the infield lifted and sand scattered into the pitcher's box. Local residents noted the gusts were unusually strong.
Kitty Bransfield, once Pirates first baseman and later a National League umpire, began a long line of 20 players who tried and failed to fill the first base post. Names include Howard Hildebrand Glancey Nealon Sterke Swacina Gill Kane Abstein Flynn Hyatt Sharpe Hunter McKechnie Miller Konetehy Johnsteen Wagner Hinckman and Adams.
A spirited Class D league game between rival clubs drew sharp, combative play and lively crowd reaction. The Damon and Pythias style produced plenty of action, delivering genuine thrills beyond tame exhibition fare.
The article lists players from 1908 who moved teams as Fred Merkle joined the Cubs and others shifted to the Braves Pirates and Giants. It notes remaining old Cubs Evers and Reusbach coaching for the Braves Herzog with the Giants now a Gotham resident off and on and Matty managing Cincinnati.
A reader recalls old days of Booth and Hamlet and notes the Pittsburg club performed without Hens Wagner in the production. The piece contrasts legendary actors with a later attempt to stage Shakespeare, highlighting the absence of a key performer.
Sporting Life notes Beals Becker, top batting man in the American Association last season, remains in the minors this year he would bolster many major league clubs but is passed over while teams chase inept players.
Frank Thrasher of the Athletics once with Atlanta in the Southern league leads a baseball line. His brother Ralph, now a farmer, pitched for a Watkinsville Georgia team. Other Thrasher relatives are suggested as future players, tying a family to the sport.
The column notes varied spring themes with players like Li Aung Shang, Barry McCormick, Ed Lafitte now a dentist, and Hugh Duffy lamenting a missed job. It reports on mound talent in Cincinnati and St Louis, pitching strength in Newark and Chicago, and the adoption of a double umpire system by the Three-T league.
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