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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
7
In a small town William Black and John Smith start backyard poultry flocks for eggs and broilers. Both men invest in standardbred fowls, hoping increased production will offset higher initial costs, with differing views on value and purchases.
In a neighborhood tale two families choose different paths to raise chickens. Mr Black commissions a pricey finished coop while Mr Smith builds a simple box shed from piano crates. Both learn the cost and value of affordable housing aided by a USDA bulletin offering free guidance.
A lesson from I Samuel 16 1 13 showing Samuel grieves for Saul and is rebuked. God directs Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint David, the shepherd boy, as successor. The story emphasizes divine inward qualifications over outward appearances and the Holy Spirit’s endowment for service.
United States Department of Agriculture notes farms supply food fuel and shelter that cut household living costs. Two thirds of a farmer's living comes from the farm, with milk eggs and other products diverted to family use. Home supplies are produced on the farm and valued by labor and capital, with many tasks done by women and children.
The text notes important parts of chick ration include green feed water sour milk and clean feeds. It warns ducklings need moist food but not sloppy. It states infertile eggs endure marketing conditions better than fertile eggs and that geese are uncertain breeders in the first season but improve in later seasons.
The passage urges self focus and entitlement as a path to misery and impurity. It warns that dwelling on personal desires leads to corrupting all actions and turning blessings into sin.
A brief meditation contrasts optimistic views with pessimistic ones. It notes how perception colors judgment and suggests balance between hopeful and critical outlooks in daily experience.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease as an anti septic powder to shake into shoes and add to foot baths. It claims the product provides old shoe comfort, makes tight or new shoes feel easy, and lets women wear one size smaller by using the powder each morning. Sold everywhere.
Use Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry to keep table linens white. Sold at all good grocers for 5e.
On the James Champion farm the old home place, boys once tossed a round stone to each other. The rock, now about 300 pounds, lies in the yard where rain has fallen for nearly a century. Mercer county elders testify the stone grew since their infancy.
The chief of the bureau of plant industry states the United States may soon produce all the figs it needs. His report on Smyrna fig culture in California credits progress to a cheaprifig orchard at Loomis where apricots figs are distributed free to growers.
Across the country under army guidance school children imagine enlistment bringing freedom from bother, respect for law, and personal improvement. A Ohio girl says enlistment ends bill collectors, Montana youth cites constitutional rights, Illinois boy wants a male teacher as a soldier, and Indiana pupil mocks a patent medicine pitch about health benefits of service.
Weary Rhodes chafes at being upstaged by another who claims the skill to pronounce names on all Pullman cars. The exchange appears in the Houston Post.
A speaker ponders whether anyone truly gains money without work, challenging the notion of effortless wealth and prompting reflections on industry and merit.
Herbert M. Gessner of Berlin New Hampshire writes that persistent stomach pains lasted over ten years. After taking Eatonic he reports rapid improvement and says he now eats what he likes with no pain and feels like a new man.
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