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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1894
Page
3
The article compiles farm notes on keeping around one hundred hens, feeding regimes, and egg yields. It cites Poultry Journal opinions, discusses breeding and incubator practice, and highlights agricultural bulletins on insecticides and spraying to protect crops. It also includes dairy feeding costs and milk butter production estimates from Wisconsin.
The writer reports raising over 500 chicks since March 1, marketing them at 3 cents per pound, with three months of grain cost at 91 cents daily. They compare crossbreeds and favor Plymouth Rock with Partridge Coachin and B Leghorn stock, and share hatchery tips and garden-poultry balance.
A jumble of isolated curiosities and data points covers diverse topics from per capita alcohol costs to rainfall records, bank counts, and historic documents. It notes various figures and claims about Philadelphia clocks, a Milanese pianist’s endurance feat, and other scattered curiosities without a single cohesive narrative.
A jumble of short items notes hotel guests using candles as temporary light, pallbearers in white at a Louisville funeral, malaria defenses praised by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, and a Vienna elevated railway plan. An Erie ad proclaims Hall’s Catarrh Cure from Toledo firms F J Cheney & Co Truax and Walding Kinnan & Marvin. Also mentions fortunes found in print advertisements.
An array of disjointed clippings covers booster ads for Royal Absoluti baking powder, railway fare schemes, and travel excitements. References to Chicago Great Western tickets, a Seekers' Excursion on September 11, and a Des Moines commercial agent insert scattered notes on coal use, wood, and wine production. The fragmentary text mingles product claims with travel offers, urging readers to seek information and advertise wisely.
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