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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1915
Page
5
The notice urges strict quarantine and sanitation to prevent hog cholera. Keep sick pigs confined, dispose of carcasses by burning, disinfect equipment and pens, and ensure new pigs come from clean premises. Clean shoes after infected yards and limit stray animals and dogs and cats as potential sources of danger.
An agricultural note urges farmers to cull the flock and remove old nonproductive hens to cut feed costs. It argues keeping only the best hundred of 200 chicks per housing unit boosts winter egg production and lowers overall costs amid high egg prices.
The article argues that pasture and exercise improve hog health and reduce disease risk, but stresses that contagious illnesses still arise and must be controlled. It advises promptly removing the first sick hog to prevent herd infection.
The article lists causes of potato hills failing including poor soil improper preparation bad seed irregular planting and cultivation as well as bugs diseases and poor weather. It notes that most conditions are controllable and all may be influenced by proper culture methods.
Advises every farmer to establish a home garden near the house with rich soil and irrigation if possible. Recommends a core set of vegetables including asparagus lettuce radishes spinach onions cabbage beans peas corn and tomatoes and notes nonperishables can be grown too for convenience and freshness.
The article argues successful poultry breeders thrive on pure-bred stock and become genuine fanciers. Enthusiasm for well cared for fowls spurs buyers and raises demand for pure-bred poultry, while owners of mongrel flocks fail to inspire lasting interest.
The article urges farmers to store equipment properly after purchase. It recommends building sheds and shelves in winter to protect gear. It stresses that every item should have a designated place when not in use and kept dry and organized.
An instructional piece urges regular feeding of horses, clean water, and open bridle training for colts. It stresses milking regularity for cows, winter readiness for poultry houses, and maintaining lice prevention with Preventives, plus installing a silo to improve farms.
The article reviews Smyrna as a historic crossroads in the Ottoman era, noting its Christian and Muslim mix, religious tensions, and status as gateway to Asia Minor. It highlights the city’s harbor, diverse missions, Greek clergy, American influence, and the tomb of Polycarp as a major sight.
A Business Woman's Magazine excerpt recounts how women used often quirky means to save, including Pedro Alvaredo of Parral who hoarded cash at home. His wife hid 30,000 in a quilt, left for their sons' education, and the story ends with the banked funds funding an American college.
A paper by K Fajans presented to the Bunsen Gesellschaft in Leipzig argues that lead from radium and lead from thorium should be identical save for weight differences. Fajans and Soddy reports show about a 0.3 percent difference in atomic weights, with Lembert aiding at Harvard to refine measurements. Soddy and Hymans also reported a 0.5 percent difference between boreite lead and ordinary lead in a London Chemical Society paper.
An Exchange reflection argues that true love among men requires justice in dealings. People will love one another only if they are not exploited or deprived, since labor and competition foster cheating. Without fair treatment, teaching love remains unlikely after two thousand years.
A Kansas City Star excerpt recalls a Salina Y M C A meeting where a New York speaker urged subscriptions to fund farms and hog production. Dave Bean challenged the rhetoric asking where it ends, to which Bean answered with a blunt line about continuing hog cholera.
A Syrian author cites Hippocrates that excessive sleep and wakefulness are equally bad. Heat enlivens mental faculties and talkativeness while cold and phlegm cause apathy and torpor. Brain pain is linked to changes in brain composition or in arteries or moisture increase.
A dialogue catalogs the odd desks war reporters used from coal scuttles and tea cans to champagne cases and saddle straps. Journal excerpts note writers composing dispatches atop battle debris, trenches, and cathedral relics, celebrating their rugged ingenuity under fire.
The Corpus Christi Caller describes the gas well at White Point as a spectacle beyond words, comparing elemental forces like the Zambezi, volcanoes, and floods to the scene. It notes the immense, unseen impact of thick gray slime filling the atmosphere and the imagery conveys awe and danger.
Ernest Snead was arraigned on a concealed deadly weapon charge after a revolver became visible through a hip pocket slit. Snead claimed the gun belonged to Constable Ernest Jones and slipped it in to await Jones until city hall near. Police Judge Keffer faced the question of whether exposure through the slit still constitutes concealment.
In Myrtle Reed’s posthumous book A Woman’s Career a flippant line imagines how two dressmakers, windblown puffing, or a maid’s cry could derail famous works. The quip lampoons literary and artistic creation by inserting mundane mishaps into masterpieces.
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