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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1927
Page
3
Sandoval voters will decide next Monday on abolishing the Community High School. The race is hard fought with a likely close outcome due to a large silent vote and expectations the school may remain if the proposition fails.
Local residents visit others in Anna Vandalia and Centra lia with social calls and Easter shopping. Advertisements highlight Altoms store promotions including Easter hats overalls slippers and candy with emphasis on garden lawn mowers hens feed and grain products. Neighborhood updates cover travelers commentators and sales at Patoka Hardware Furn Co and Cecil Martins Store.
Buy your lawn mowers with eggs at Patoka Hardware and Furniture Co. Among the list, Ed Anderson and Mrs Ed Thalman have been seriously ill during the past week. Easter cards, booklets, rabbits, and candy eggs are offered. Also S C Sheppard Strain Ancona setting eggs at four dollars per hundred. Owing to the coal strike, Jamie Wasem among Salem C E I shops employees was cut.
A county final examinations turnout is noted in Shobonier. Mrs. George J. Metzger visits Wood River with her children John and Nellie. Earl Holt of Stringtown buys a new Ford ready for the hard road. The burial of Arthur Newell Heckethorn, three months and twenty days old, occurred at Heckethorn cemetery after a Salem home kidnapping. Eddie Metzger once ran the Railroad Grocery Store in Greenville and later died in the Salt Creek bridge wreck that claimed five lives.
Experiments indicate egg size has little impact on hatchability but influences chick type. Larger eggs tend to yield bigger, more vigorous chicks, while extra large eggs should not be used.
More than 100,000,000 rabbit skins are used annually in the country with about 98 percent imported. Of this number, roughly 55,000 are dressed and dyed. The figures illustrate a heavy reliance on foreign sources for fur materials and only a small portion undergoing processing domestically.
The article explains how rabbit skins are processed into fur garments and trimmings for women’s wear while the remainder serves as glove linings and hat felt. As fine fur bearers vanish across the U S, rabbit skins grow in use aided by modern dyeing and processing, sometimes replacing costlier skins like ermine and beaver.
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