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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1924
Page
4
General Pershing outlines a community based defense plan where local units recruit, assemble, shelter, and train under military supervision. Washington announces September 12 as National Defense Test Day to demonstrate the nation’s civilian soldier system and promote patriotic citizen involvement without expanding the military.
The War department outlines a defense test day on September 12 to train skeleton units and reserve officers for rapid local mobilization. Officers like Captain Smith would map headquarters, enrollment, quarters, feeding, drill grounds, and command structure to avoid past wartime confusion. The exercise aims to build public readiness and support for a permanent defense policy while stressing it is not a general mobilization and seeks peace through preparedness.
The Krakatoa eruption of August 1883 in the Muay archipelago is described as the most spectacular volcanic event in recorded observation. The great crater formed peaks, the island rose to about 2000 feet, and blasts were heard 3000 miles away at Rodriguez, with vast debris and buried forests altering nearby land.
A Los Angeles man who has been divorced nine times says that nine times out of ten marriage is a failure. He comments on the low success rate and reflects on personal experience.
Three year old Dolores Dilworth tumbled from a second story window in New York's Dilworth apartment. She landed right side up in her baby carriage, an ambulance arrived and a doctor found no bruise. She was taken back upstairs as her mother closed the window.
An article by Leon Bishop describes a dry-battery portable three-tube multi-audiplex radio circuit using UV 199 tubes. It details winding, tapping, component values, battery arrangements, and panel layout for simple, low-radiation operation and summer-portable use.
A method to clean tube socket contacts using a homemade contact cleaner from Radio News. The device, sized for standard and UV sockets, slips onto the end of the tube, then twisted to remove dirt and corrosion for better reception. Aimed at simplifying cleaning versus sandpaper methods.
A makeshift torch formed from a baking powder can and cotton waste was used to solder antenna joints after a winded small torch failed. Gasoline soaked waste was lit under the joint to melt flux and solder, then extinguished by returning the ball to the can.
The article notes about 6,000,000 residents live in New York within a compact 318 square mile area, highlighting dense urban concentration and high population density in a small geographic footprint.
An efficient contact switch is described to reduce trouble from bad contacts in switch assemblies. The article explains how using one or more switches on a panel improves reliability and service.
A new featureed switch uses a bent spring brass piece to regulate pressure via spring thickness curve and end nut adjustment. Any long shaft switch yields excellent results and direct contact with the brass spring prevents loose connections and unreliable contact.
Advice urges using a cut out switch to disconnect the A battery when finished with a radio set to prevent constant discharge through the potentiometer. It warns that the high resistance of the potentiometer can drain the battery if left connected.
The guide advises learning Morse by listening to dot and dash combinations rather than printed forms to speed up practice. It emphasizes auditory recognition to improve progress during training.
The article advises farmers to keep hens fed with dry mash in summer to maximize egg production. It recommends a specific mash recipe using bran shorts cornmeal and tankage, plus grain options and calcium sources. It stresses proper feeding before culling in fall and suggests milk supplementation as an alternative.
Poultry health guidance argues against individual treatment of sick birds in large flocks. It notes the small production unit, risk of spreading weakness to breeding stock, and favors treating the flock when feasible rather than individual cures. Only simple, infrequent treatments for select birds are advised.
The egg eating habit is easily acquired and hard to stop once set. Darken nests, catch birds with egg stains and blunt bills, provide oyster shell and animal feed, keep birds busy, and let them outside when weather permits.
Finish the broiler cockerels by milk feeding for ten days or two weeks then seek top market quotations. Contact several poultry buyers in nearby cities to tell them what you have and confirm if the broilers meet market standards.
The article warns that intense sun harms baby chicks causing unexplained losses even when they appear healthy. It advises sheltering chicks from sun for the first days and then providing semi shade and always cool shade they can access. Applies to all chicken classes.
The Kentucky experiment station bulletin emphasizes calcium carbonate in a laying hen's ration. A hen laying 300 eggs yearly needs about three pounds of calcium carbonate or pure limestone. without it egg production declines. It notes rock phosphate calcium is not usable for eggshells.
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