Poultry Plant Tips From Rural Builders
A reading on turning empty houses and freight cars into poultry facilities near Bloomsburg Pennsylvania. The piece warns founders to start small, manage costs, and prioritize stock as the main asset while avoiding overbuilding. It urges practical, self skilled work and cautions against overpromising profits or copying neighbors.
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Pennsylvania Canal
Bloomsburg
Useful vs Ornamental in Farm Life Verse and Advice
An old issue presents a verse urging the balance of usefulness over ornament in farming, contrasting crops and animals with luxury items and noting the value of bread and stock. It includes reader questions and responses on fowl health, disease, and practical remedies.
Wild Turkeys Poultry Tips and Incubation Notes
A collection of Poultry advice discusses turkey instincts heat and shelter, incubation results with fifty six poults, and farm practices. It covers insurance for stock, feed buying, and the role of a capable manager. Guidance warns about warm water feeding, Molt care, disease risks, and the need for strong foundation stock.
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Turkey
David Kebm
Cedarville
Carolina McGill
Charlottesville
Ambassador Wilson accused in Mexico assassination plot
Startling charges claim U S Ambassador Wilson conspired in the assassination of Madero. A lengthy official document delivered to Secretary Bryan by an envoy and Master of Masons cites supposed ties to the Independence Tent Mutual Life building in Mexico City and other wartime incidents.
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Washington
Hen Lane
Wilson
U.S
Mexico
W.W. J.bryan
Mexico City
Rural districts served by the paper join together
The News Semi Weekly outreach targets rural districts to unify coverage, bringing the paper’s rural readers together with a broader set of local news and features.
Tragedy Near Wilkes Barre Police Arrest Eight
James Kilgallon of Wilkes Barre identified as the slain man. The crime occurred in tramp campers east of the city limits. Eight prisoners, bloodstained from a fight, are jailed awaiting hearing. Suspects include William Kelly of Centralia Harry Smith alias James Clark of Harris and William Johns alias Amos Brightpill of Shamokin.
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James Kilgallon
Wilkes Barre
William Kelly
Centralia
Harry Smith
James Glark
Harris
Willian Johns
Amos Brightpill
Shamokin
Diners and Cops Clash Over Early Closing Order
New York April 7 police enforced Major Gayhor’s no liquor after one o clock rule at top restaurants. Inspector Drover and squad ordered patrons to exit before Sunday. Rector’s on Broadway saw about 599 diners refuse to leave and be ejected. Pekin and Churchill’s also faced protests as officers moved in while crowds cheered or resisted.
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New York
Gayhor
Dwrer
Rector’s
Broadway
Rector's
Pekin
Churchill's
German freighter Mimi wrecked near Astoria with crew
San Francisco April 7 A adapted report states the German fourmast steel ship Mimi, bound from Portland, ran aground on a reef near Astoria Oregon. Thirty crewmen were lost or drowned including Captain Westpal and Underwriters’ Agent Crowe.
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San Franciscan
Portland
Mimi
Astoria
Rapsiaed
Westpal
Crowe
S4 FIT TO MARRY
A Dr Fisher catalogues unfit for marriage groups including epileptics deaf mutes and those prone to vice He cites four percent defective and eight percent inherently unfit to be parents He notes birth rates in the U S have fallen faster than France and credits immigrants for larger families as a moderating factor
Killed by Flyer at Crossing Near Coopersburg
Allentown April 7 A Scranton flyer travelling north at sixty miles an hour struck a team from Leithville at the North Penn Railroad crossing north of Coopersburg. Mrs Zeigler 42 died in a baggage car minutes after the collision. her husband 45 was hospitalized in serious condition with a broken leg.
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Allentown
Scranton Flyer
Jacob Zeigler
Leithville
Engineers Get Raise at Brotherhood Conference
Officials and the full committee of the Brotherhood of Engineers met in Reading to set uniform working rules across divisions. Five ranks will determine pay, with back pay from May 1, 1912, to February and March due to be paid. The Reading Railway company aims for a satisfactory conclusion, following Western Maryland as the next line to settle. In Auburn New York repeated talks failed to end a textile strike, with an ultimatum from International Harvester warning workers to return by tomorrow or face mill dismantling and relocation of twine production to Neuss Germany.
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Brotherhood of Engineers
Reading
Reading, Railway ‘Company
Maryland
Oni Auburn
N. Y
International Harvester Company
Neuss
Germany
Sore Corn Drives South Bethlehem Merchant to Suicide
William Ottenbacher, a respected 55 year old South Bethlehem merchant, shot himself at his home after ill health linked to a corn injury. In Lewisburg, Alexander Olker unearthed old large copper pennies from 1815 to 1855 and various relics while digging a cellar.
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Bethlehem
William Otenbacher
Ottenbacher
Lewisburg
Alexander Olker
Kelly's Cross Roads
Advertisement advice and newspaper positioning
A promotional note extols low cost Want ads and For Sale listings in the Daily paper. It argues small investments yield returns by reaching buyers, and suggests the Semi-Weekly paper for county advertising, claiming it has no peer.
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