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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1923
Page
5
Ailing returning soldier Louis Kesmen 19 dies after wartime service and an expected reunion with his mother a betrothed girl and a younger brother in the United States. The saga follows the Abbadian family after wars exile and a failed immigrant dream ending in surgery and death.
The American Legion plans cooperation with the United States Veterans Bureau to extend vocational training and medical rehabilitation to about 18 000 veterans of the World War serving sentences in federal and state prisons. Only about 2000 receive bureau benefits now. The plan aims to survey facilities at Atlanta Leavenworth McNeil Island Seattle and to place mentally incompetent veterans under guardians and parole under care of welfare groups or the Legion.
A Canadian commission plans transforming 8000 acres of barren fields in France into a memorial park. France grants 250 acres for memorial purposes. Walter Allward, the sculptor, designed the principal monument visible across the scarred landscape where Canadian soldiers fell.
Eamonn de Valera head of the Irish Republic issues a proclamation calling for an end to hostilities with the Free State forces and opening negotiations under specified conditions aimed at peace.
Florine Findlay DeHart sixteen from Bristol Wyoming was chosen as the most beautiful girl in America in a national contest by several New York magazines. She will visit New York as their guest and pose for noted American portrait painters and sculptors.
Seven year old Traymond Knutson of Minneapolis Minnesota finds a bundle of bonds in an alley and sells them for a few cents. A banker is shown the papers and detectives recover 19.27 in bonds plus 14000 later found in a coal pile. The loot from the Bank of Rock at Baldwin Rock Wisconsin totals 33875.
A new mechanical contrivance for sorting mail has been installed in the Washington post office. Five operators use two keys to send each letter from its station to a designated cell, functioning like a typewriter and speeding early mail-dispatch processes.
Lester F. Albert, Idaho adjutant of the American Legion, lost both legs at Cantigny in 1918 while commanding searchlight sections. Despite blindness injuries and a long hospital stay, he returned as an electrical engineer and rose to department adjutant, earning wide praise for his rehabilitation drive and commitment to Legion work.
North Dakota Agricultural College hosts 106 Veterans' Bureau trainees with five honor roll names, about 20 percent of the trainee body. The top five average 2.6 percent for the quarter. Veterans lead campus life with officers from the Draftsmen and Builders’ club, and Burton Odekirk won top honors as a live stock judge at the Chicago National Show. Harry Eckman, ex-service student at Minnesota Agriculture, also earns cattle judging awards.
A quirky excerpt from American Legion Weekly features Qixertedly, the maker of the World's Greatest Insect Exterminating Powder, bursting into the export manager's office with a comical question about an Egyptian agency. The exchange riffs on pyramids and hieroglyphics, reflecting a light, humorous tone.
American Legion bands and drum corps spread in Minnesota with formations in Northfield Trutchinson Steel Wing and the Fine City taking over its home town unit. Existing groups include Duluth Rochester St Paul Minneapolis and other towns as legion musical organizations expand.
An excerpt outlining optimal dairy cattle feeding: individual bunking, pasture as base, occasional grain supplements, and balanced rations. It covers feeding goals, seasons with pasture limits, and three key material classes: protein, carbohydrates and fat, and minerals. Practical guidance from Professor A. C. Baer and Oklahoma A and M College.
A compact guide to dehorning young calves by chemical cauterization. At 3 to 10 days old, feel the horn buttons, shave around, rub with moistened caustic potash until a bean sized raw spot forms. Avoid facial burns, protect fingers with paper or a rubber tube, and grease the horn outside the treated area. Potassium hydroxide is available at drug stores and a dime’s worth treats about twelve calves.
When a calf shows scours, reduce milk by half and slowly increase as it improves. If not cured, feed about a tablespoon of soluble dried blood stirred into the milk. Dried blood acts as a tonic and is sometimes fed even without scours.
Many dairymen skip raising heifer calves because strong milk prices let them feed with no calve burden. Others argue the cost of feed and labor for a heifer is higher than buying a replacement elsewhere.
Guidance explains feeding silage or other succulent feed after milking to avoid odor transfer into milk. It notes odors travel through the cow’s body and may later flavor manufactured dairy products with fruity undesirable tastes.
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