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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1932
Page
2
A New York article praises the Greater New York Children’s Museum affiliated with the Brooklyn Institute, noting 680000 children visited in 1931 and detailing interactive educational displays, puzzles, and hands on games that teach geography and coordination.
In a June desert night prairie dogs, jack rabbits, owls, and hawks gather as danger looms. A distant wind foretells doom for prairie dogs until a sand storm brews and rages, shifting danger away from the burrows and altering the fate of the scene.
An art instruction note invites readers to copy one of nine pictures and then draw the image it suggests using a Kurley Art line. Describes hawks flying apart and a prairie dog town at peace on the desert hills as illustrative prompts.
A note from Captain Dingle says Have quit drinking. House is full of snakes. Washington, DC faces taxation without representation with no voting rights yet pays taxes. The District is run by a three member commission and a police chief, needing congressional appropriations for any repair. Celebrity dog mentions add quirky notes from S. S. Van Dine and others.
The article marks the popular king Sir Loin story as a fairy tale and explains sirloin derives from the French sur loin meaning above loin. It notes slang rarely outlives its origin and calls the tale a rare etymological tidbit.
A bolt of lightning struck a storm cellar on the George Sparks farm near Benton Arkansas, killing Sparks instantly. The event underscores the danger of storm shelters during severe weather.
A fragment notes a husband’s failed fishing trip where he gambled away the money intended to buy fish. The dialogue implies bad luck and a card game loss. No further context is provided about people or place.
Mrs. Nichola D'Ascenzo of Gloucester Massachusetts says her cat Tiger is twenty five years old and still frisky, making him a likely candidate for the oldest American cat. The pet belongs to an artist with a summer studio at Cape Ann.
The Kitchen Cabinet offers a luncheon menu with chicken breasts in cream mushroom sauce Beef fillets wrapped in salt pork with parsley butter and potato balls Cheese Ring with gelatin and yellow cheese etc Baked tomatoes with sugar and breadcrumbs from Western Newspaper Union and served in a moderate oven.
The column offers practical tips such as making syrup from sugar and water, removing grass stains with lard or ether, and serving hot soup in a cup. It then notes a local welding shop owner in Michigan who keeps an anvil and forge as relics of olden days, recalling Fowler who moved to Michigan 60 years ago to start blacksmithing.
Mason City Michigan story notes Jack Fowler longtime village blacksmith who stopped shoeing horses 11 years ago. With horses fading he adapts his shop to modern needs and now operates a welding business in town.
A quoted exchange shows a character insisting on independence from sponsorship as the other counsels practical payment limits. The lines imply tension over support obligations and autonomy.
Dairy herd improvement associations in Illinois reduce milk surpluses by culling cows at a record pace. More than 20 million pounds of milk could be withheld this year, as 10 percent of cows are sold for beef in five months. A Tazewell County example shows 11 cows removed cut milk by 87,972 pounds and fat by 1,334 pounds, boosting profit by 985.43 above feed costs for that year.
United States dispatches credit a Minnesota Holstein, Lady Pride Pontiac Lieuwkje, with 35 629 pounds of milk and 1 273 pounds of butterfat in 365 days, a 3.57 percent test. Canadians note DeKol Plus Legis Dixie from Raymondale farm in Vaudreuil Quebec holds butterfat record at 1 384 pounds, likely unchallenged.
Experiments show feeding changes do not alter milk composition. cows may draw on body protein to cover deficiencies if protein in the ration is too low, but the overall composition of milk remains constant according to Wisconsin Agriculturist.
The amount of land per cow depends on soil productivity. On good land one-half acre provides spring grazing and hay or soil-improvement material. Fertile soil needs fertilization of 400 to 500 pounds of high grade fertilizer. With proper fertilization and two tons of ground limestone, one acre can feed two animals.
The Klamath Dairy Association of Oregon disbanded after reorganization left 11 members with insufficient work. They kept testing alive by hiring the tester directly on their farms, paying regular farm wages for two weeks each month while the tester worked half time the rest of the month.
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