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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1928
Page
7
A 1928 Western Newspaper Union fashion item highlights new glove silk undergarments with lace appliques and bold scarf and shawl trends. It notes sleeveless gowns demand floating panels and draped scarves, with velvet scarves and hand painted touches among evening wear, plus ready stylish pajama sets and chemises for spring and summer.
Winter is the peak for egg value as hens lay more when kept warm and crowded on level roosts. Provide a low ceiling, floor ventilation, and daily under roost cleaning to redden combs and sustain laying with less feed. Avoid excess corn to prevent fattening. For 26 to 50 hens, movable roosts simplify cleaning and discourage idleness.
Advice on feeding oats as green food to layers for health. Sprouted oats provide greens, are soaked 24 hours, spread in trays one and a half inches deep, sprout to three inches, then fed. Maintain about 70 degrees temperature, wash trays to prevent mold, use small amounts of formalin in soaking water, and option to feed only germinated oats at quarter inch sprouts.
Poultry managers should cull two year old hens, keeping breeders. Use metal bands to age birds with left leg marks one year and right leg marks the next, ensuring clear identification. Special sealed bands or ordinary hog rings work, aiding accurate age tracking.
The article explains hens require dust baths to control lice and maintain feather condition. It notes sand alone is not dusty enough and suggests providing both fine dust and sharp sand as grit for effective cleansing.
A practical guide describes a sturdy hen with a short neat head and strong beak. The bird has a long rectangular body, parallel top and bottom lines, large bright eyes, and active temperament. It remains healthy, noisy, friendly, and roosts at dawn.
An old Sturgis story links Joseph Smith and Brigham Young to a buried hoard of $126,000 in gold and sacred spectacles. Two messengers allegedly carried the money to purchase land near Sturgis, but returned empty handed and hid both the gold and the box on a property, later losing the memorandum.
London scientists and a milk company unveil a door mounted lock that seals the milk bottle and shields the cap with a metal cover. The lock can only be released from inside the door and is placed high to deter children and pets. A bird thief was blamed for tampering until an inspector traced it to a jackdaw pecking pasteboard caps.
Huelva intends a large monument to Columbus at the spot of his final night before departing for the New World. The Sa Rabida monastery, partly demolished decades ago, left the church area to a garden and onion field until a later governor, Mariano Castillo, halted the royal order. The city honors him with a street name and the monastery houses his portrait in Father Marchena’s room.
In Philadelphia police auctioned two automobiles marked lost or stolen. Bids dropped to five cents each as junk dealers snapped up the units, highlighting a brisk sale of recovered vehicles.
An ad touts cascara based laxatives as gentle effective bowel aid. It contrasts cascaret candy with violent purges, claiming cascara strengthens digestion without habit formation and allows long runs of independence from laxatives. A doctor can advise, and druggists stock cascarets.
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