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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
5
Practical guidance on making ice cream from rich mixes and disinfectants for poultry, with notes on summer feeding, harness care, and tuberculosis control in fowl. Recommends cresol and carbolic acid solutions, post mortem testing, and disposal of diseased birds, plus cleaning and disinfection of the chicken house.
The article lists a long sequence of dances balls plays and social events calendared for December January February and March across East and West Ward groups and affiliated clubs including Home Economica M I A Gleaner Girls Drama Christmas Ball Grand Ball School Dances and the California Players. It notes a separate note about elk hunting permits on Cedar Mountain with only fifty percent success and mentions Grandma Lowder recovering after a near death incident.
Instructions call for moving to clean ground if practicable with plowing up lots and runways and reseeding to a grain crop.
In De Soto Wisconsin Jo seph Wilson known as the rattlesnake blog displays barehanded handling of rattlesnakes. He straps a big den snake around his neck and arms for an hour amid protest from Dr. A T Andrews and village officials who ban further stunts inside town limits.
Madrid reports a slow decline of horse drawn carriages in favor of cars. Old wealth still keeps grand carriages and blooded steeds. mules and donkeys remain common, steadily hauling heavy loads and clinging to traditional muleteer methods.
In Fitchburg Massachusetts Chief Justice Walter Penney Hall presided over a naturalization session where Evangelos J. Ghenes appeared for citizenship papers without a necktie. The judge ordered him to obtain a tie before proceeding with the oath.
In Green Bay a lumberjack calmly perched on a girder as a boat passed under a raised drawbridge. He paid 50 cents to the bridge tender for no apparent reason and then continued with his day.
Mrs. Lottie Minnie Scheemmel swam manacled from Seventy Ninth Street to the Battery in a daring river crossing. She wore cuffs once used on gangster Gerald Chapman during his execution imprisonment.
Reader advertisements offer a three room home for sale in Northeset corner of town for $500 with easy terms. Also lists wood for sale sawed or unsawed by John S. Mitchell Parowan and sawed wood delivered at 350 a hundred. Gold popcorn for sale at Sea quatt Lamar Orton Parowan. Two city lots for sale with no encumbrances through Dr G L Hyatt. Subscription invitation for The Parowan Times as Christmas present. Printing services available for name printed on greeting cards. Dark Japanese popcorn available. Owen Matheson in Midwatley on business.
A Rhode Island doctor plans to have the words This is on me engraved on his grave marker, joining a tradition where grave subjects receive humorous or casual epitaphs. The Times notes such inscriptions are more common than expected and points readers to an illustrated feature Here Lies by Elmo Scott Watson for examples.
A Lovell Wyoming reader notes weekly Parowan Times sparks family disputes over who reads it first. He mentions plans to visit Parowan blocked by heavy snow and reports returning from Denver with three carloads of sheep to market.
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