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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1911
Page
3
A Philadelphia Times report recalls a middle aged spinster who ordered a hansom but complained its lateness. The cabby reassures her she will make her train and offers his number, while joking she cannot have another young lady.
A fragmented excerpt recounts a boast by a Yankee about a man who fell twenty stories from a window sill in a flat and survived with only minor bruises, with an Englishman questioning the story and a tall man interrupting.
The anecdote recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes at a social dinner with four Boston women who insist he dine with all of them. He quips Forewarned is four armed, bowing to the group.
The fragment mentions a person named Swift enjoying many activities from ball games to prizefights and bowling. It also notes a married man described as a reprobate who participates in pleasures without letting it interfere.
A fragmentary exchange shows a foreman questioning a juror about ownership of theft. The transcript includes garbled lines, misheard phrases, and rough courtroom banter with references to burnings and smudges, ending with harsh farewells.
The text covers livestock care across species with notes on feeding and management. It emphasizes exercise for sired offspring, dental care for horses, clean milking garments, and clean water. It advises fresh pastures, gentle handling, and dusting incubated chicks. It discusses calf growth, mare nursing, and efficient dairy production costs.
Mixed agricultural notes advise on alfalfa for poultry green feed and cautions against over pasturing. Breeding, milking, and equipment care are covered, with emphasis on ventilation, mosquito control, and timely spraying to protect crops and livestock.
The article notes farmers favor varied boar breeds to produce desirable offspring. It cautions that sows from first crosses should not be bred again. It also mentions hatchery methods for Guinea fowl and hens raising chicks, with emphasis on tame, mothered birds and weed seed diet as they grow.
Advice on fattening market poultry with a fixed daily routine. Details include six to eight birds per coop, quiet dark shed, morning cornmeal with milk, mid day bread and vegetables, afternoon cracked corn and wheat, evening cornmeal with milk, and limited in coop feeding to prevent souring. Regular washing and occasional gravel or charcoal recommended. Milk preferred to water. two weeks to reach prime weight and higher price.
An old tomato can with a hole punched inside serves as a watering vessel for young chicks. The cut should be about 144 inches from the bottom for proper flow.
In a poultry yard where four pens meet it is practical to mount four gates at one corner so a single gate answers for all. The illustration shows a gate construction with end posts set 2 feet from the center post, a hinge pin inset 13 inches, and the gate framed on one side with the gate fitting the holes tightly for solid operation.
The article explains a hen feed approach focusing on grit oyster shell and charcoal to support egg production and digestion. It notes that a nourished body and materials for eggshells are essential and recommends meal and bran, with alternative gravels and cinders when grit is scarce, plus adjustments for brooding hens.
A Green's Farm Gardening note by Mrs D A Dean praises White Plymouth Rocks as a premier white chicken breed. They are large vigorous, lay large eggs especially in winter, make fine mothers, and stay thrifty and active. They are ready for table use and remain younger than smaller breeds.
The article argues artificial incubation can succeed but demands constant supervision from start to finish. It warns against relying on untrained helpers, stresses daily feeding and sanitation, and links failures to infertile eggs, improper temperatures, poor ventilation, and neglect of chicks.
Feeding turkeys too often harms them. Join the pure bred poultry class and avoid late hatched chicks for winter eggs. Cull roosters that disturb hens. Indian Runner ducks fatten more slowly. Find private customers for fresh birds. To break a setting hen, confine her with a rooster for a day. Health checked by the comb indicates bird health. Separate feeding grounds help hens. Hatched chicks make good broilers or soft roasters in fall when prices rise. Move the best pen around the yard easily.
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic is advertised as a cure for sore throat claiming cleansing heating and germ killing action. A small amount in water as a gargle is said to quickly relieve symptoms and strengthen throat mucosa. Available at drug stores or by mail order from The Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass. Free sample offered.
Fragmentary line suggests a Reverend’s claim about guiding others to paradise. It mentions misanthropy, a poor unhappy man, and marriage by the preacher, implying a critical or satirical tone about his authority or method. Further context is needed to determine full event or name details.
Charles H. Wilson of Troy prepares to celebrate 71 years in the shoe trade at 242 244 River Street on August 12. Since joining at age 13 in 1840, he has run his own shop for over five decades, continuing in the same building that dates back to 1803 and once housed Dr John Leonard Williams slide store.
The 36 ton yawl yacht Reduta departs Gosport bound for Buenos Aires to establish the new owner's base. Commanded by Capt Harry Williams the crew of four, all Hampshire men, plan ma deira Cape Verde Pernambuco Montevideo legs with a 2000 mile stretch between Cape Verde and Pernambuco.
A Carthage Missouri teacher describes relief from chronic hunger and nervous illness after switching to a food remedy. She details years of poor appetite yet constant craving, leading to prostration, constipation, headaches, and other ailments despite doctors. After adopting the suggested regimen, she reports renewed health for over two years, enabling her to work again, and references a book title The Road to Wellville and the Postum Company.
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