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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
5
Many small notes from Parowan Utah including ads and personal notices. Mentions Cedar City trips by stage, local club meeting, mail volume, a lost white sow, new shop construction, a moving picture update, home building plans, and street grading improvements near the Times office.
A Benjamin Utah farmer convertir 4 1/2 acres of alkali land into clover production. He harvested 3600 pounds of clover seed selling at 11 cents per pound netting 396 dollars and sold 4.5 tons of hay for 36 dollars, total 432 dollars. The crop improved soil while showing a model for waste acres. County Agent encourages farmers to learn and apply these practices, as he collects facts on successful methods.
Utah Agriculture College will send four potato authorities to the State roundups this year. The speakers include A U Pratt of the U S Department of Agriculture Lon D Sweet of Carbondale Colorado W H Olin agriculture expert for the D B and R B and Prof George R Hill from the College Botany department. They will present talks on potato diseases and best practices to combat them.
In sixty two years national wealth surged from 7.1 billion to 187.7 billion, a per capita rise from 303 to 1965 dollars. Real estate remains untaxed, while railroads and manufactured goods form major shares. New York leads with 25.0 billion, followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. Britain and Germany cited for comparison. Location notices and warrant deeds for sale at this office.
Henry Ford, famed auto maker and pacifist, plans to end the European war by Christmas. He chartered the Scandinavian-American line steamer Oskar II to carry a delegation of prominent pacifists to Europe. The ship, now en route to New York, will sail December 4 with a neutral port target. Delegates from neutral European, American, Central and South American nations aim to form a strong peace organization. Ford expresses confidence in ending the war and freeing the trenches by Christmas.
The U S Bureau of Mines and the National Radium Institute report radium bromide now costs 56 050 per gram, a dramatic drop from recent prices around 120 000 per gram. Despite this, no clear production cost is known, and limited carnotite ore deposits remain tightly held. increasing demand and finite supply likely push prices higher despite extraction improvements.
Rev W F Fullerton of the Baptist Missionary Society shared a tale at the International Bible Reading Association anniversary. A man recounted reading from Proverbs to comfort his dying wife, starting at chapter one and finishing the book before she died.
An expert quips that harmony hinges on breakfast quarrels. A young couple jokes they’d hate to miss their morning meal if no argument arises, sparking lighthearted reflections on domestic routines.
The remarking exchange shows a sharp exchange about social perception as a speaker challenges criticism of a wife’s style. A back and forth unfolds with interruptions hindering a complete objection, revealing tensions in etiquette and status.
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