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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1927
Page
3
Advertises a February 19 wire shipment with promises to cut costs by 15 to 20 percent. Encourages customers to visit promptly, compare figures, and buy from the advertiser offering all kinds and sizes of wire.
Consumers are urged to place March delivery tire orders with cash on delivery required. The notice emphasizes taking orders and payment upon shipment.
Seed oats advertised with good quality for immediate orders. Yellow Burt Oats offers net ten days payment per bushel. Early Black Oats priced at 55 to 60 cents.
Saturday only promotions on flour and Egg A Day and Pratts Poultry Feed. Zeigler Coal car on track offers jump coal, urging customers to try it if never.
A dense classified page item list shows Want columns and For Sale notices. Names include G. W. Perkins and Ralph Willis. locations Patoka Shobonier Odin Vernon Edge Mont Stacko. items include hogs ponies horses incubators and poultry farm services. dates show 1927 era classifieds with tfc tfc and 1-22 style dating.
Geo Ballance and his wife drove to Lincoln on Sunday and returned Monday visiting their young daughter Elaine.
United States Department of Agriculture researchers led by RB Graves analyzed 23 Holstein Friesian sires with six or more tested daughters. They found no single sire superior in all milk yield and butterfat measures, and both parents contribute to offspring production with complex inheritance patterns. The study ranks sires by multiple traits and notes independent inheritance of milk yield and butterfat. The full findings appear in Department Bulletin No 1372.
Aga reports that about 66 percent of users of four pure bred cows find grain feeding worthwhile for all stock classes if milk prices stay strong. When markets for milk or butterfat are favorable, feeding grain to pastured cows producing over three gallons daily is likely to pay.
Boston's street lamps glow from Chicago electricity in a test that shows long distance transfer could enable nationwide power. Engineers foresee coast to coast lines, though current gear cannot sustain 500000 volts for 1100 miles. Illinois reports a 23000000000000 wealth figure and Springfield seeks 250000 in Soldiers' Orphans' Home funds. Cairo begins borings for a new bridge on the Mississippi linking Illinois and Missouri. Metropolis gets a proposed whiteway upgrade.
An oil test well costing 11761 dollars is being drilled east of the current location as part of ongoing prospecting for oil. Local officials report progress and potential yields expected pending drilling results.
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