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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1932
Page
2
Oliver La Farge in Guatemala studies native ceremonies with a western companion, while a late 1930s New York tale recalls clubmen and bystanders chasing a photograph of the most beautiful woman in the world. It ends with a city-wide crowd drawn at any hour.
The phrase down at the heel reflects poverty and carelessness in personal appearance. Its origin is traced to William Shakespeare with the earliest recorded use in King Lear Act 2 Scene 2, published 1605.
An opportunistic escape occurred when a freight train halted near the county jail. A gang of seventeen convicts boarded the moving freight and vanished under guard supervision. Guards recovered one suspect while the others escaped.
Claude Molack dreamed of fire and, still asleep, walked to a window and leaped to the street from the second story. He suffered slight injuries in the fall. In Ashland, Peter Pearson now owns a Swedish Bible printed in Europe 310 years ago and passed through one family.
A collection of practical tips covering cookware care, doughnut dough shaping with currants, and trimming potato rinds. Advice includes vinegar for burnt enamel, cold soda soak, rolling doughnut shapes, and frying. children enjoy the results. Also suggests silver stain removal via powder kept in a salt shaker.
St Louis reports young men in a local club surveying boy hobbies. Autographs arrowheads stamps old coins and cigar bands vie for the lead as favored pastimes among youths.
Greenville South Carolina Belton Power Company named as defendant in a $25,000 damages suit by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gossett who allege bites from mosquitoes in the defendant’s lake grew to maturity and caused malaria.
A quirky tale edited by Dorothy Edmonds features Happy Gimaulin grappling with deciphered misprinted words. He and his teammates plan a secret vote to choose their team captain, aiming for fairness and consensus in a humorous misfit story.
A 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece describes making a memo pad from a match box plus a short boys election scene. Happy Mulligan is elected captain by a paper vote, praised as fair and square, amid boyish celebration.
This article outlines classic preparation methods for after dinner drinks and desserts. It covers Cafe Noir style coffee with double coffee or half water, Cafe au Lait mixing coffee with hot milk, Cocoa with cocoa, sugar, salt and milk, Mint Punch with mint leaves and grape juice, lemon and ginger ale, and Delicia Punch a chilled tea infused ice cream float with egg whites and sugar.
In Wollaston Massachusetts Mrs Lloyd Gatel was awakened by a loud radio voice from a leaking water heater. She crawled to the street and summoned a police officer who rescued her husband and young daughter from the gas fumes.
Police investigated Franz Leibgoeb a forty six year old Linz butcher who claimed to have killed eleven women over the past twenty years. The case centers on alleged serial killings and ongoing scrutiny by authorities.
New Hampshire dairymen report unusual off flavors in milk. J M Fuller of the University of New Hampshire identifies an enzyme lipase excess as the cause. Remedies include laxative roughage, Epsom salts, reduced grain, and boiling milk promptly after milking.
Experimental results from West Virginia show dairy heifers fed liberally in winter gain far more than normal, but in summer on grass their gains drop sharply. Four trials across groups fed self- fed grain and roughage reveal winter gains around 816.5 lbs per head versus 85.2 lbs on pasture, while hand-fed heifers gain 152.4 lbs in winter and 190 lbs on pasture.
United States dairy experiment station Beltsville Maryland found that dry beet pulp fed with grain performs as well as soaked pulp. Cows drank water twice daily and dried pulp was as palatable as wet pulp. Dried pulp did not reduce hay intake or milk yield, with wet pulp showing slightly higher weight gains.
Practical dairymen and tests at leading experiment stations show wheat can substitute for corn in dairy cow grain mixes. At current prices the cow feed cost can be reduced by this substitution, as wheat and corn have similar feeding value in rations.
The piece stresses self checks on dairy care and feeding, water supply, and cow comfort to boost profits. It notes James Stark’s 20 cow Holstein herd tops New York and ranks high nationally, with averages around 5,500 pounds of milk per cow, while dairy herd improvement averages 8,047 pounds. Economists say at least 7,000 pounds per cow are needed for profit.
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