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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
5
The article details a 30 stall general barn for daymen and others with 12 cows and 4 horses, plus two box stalls. It describes a ventilated, well‑separated horse and cow section, a silo and feed alley on a track, litter carriers, and a gambrel roof with concrete foundations and Dutch external doors.
A fragmentary diary of John Ivelyn was discovered by William Oxpcott among waste paper in Wotton. A drum of a tennis racket revealed parchment with a fragment of Livy. Inside covers of an old book was found an Anglo-Saxon poem The Pisht at Finnsburg.
A cabby watches a broken taxi with a gleam of delight. The chauffeur struggles with the machine, trying fixes that fail. The cabby then presents his whip and snaps a grim offer, ready to strike if needed.
A quip suggests stirring water with a paddle for five hours would boil. The remark adds that any cook would find the task equally absurd, highlighting impractical kitchen labor.
A detailed description of curtain-front poultry houses outlining structure, ventilation, roosts, nests, doors, and a movable suspended car for labor efficiency. Includes dimensions for 20x20 foot pens housing 100 birds, wall and roof construction, and measures to reduce drafts while ensuring dry, well ventilated floors.
Readers are advised to store potatoes artichokes or other crops for chickens and to give poultry bulky succulent items to replace grass. A varied diet with filling foods keeps hens healthy and the egg basket full.
The guidance prohibits using birds with any history of contagious disease in breeding pens. It allows keeping birds that only had minor illnesses such as colds or frozen combs without risk to breeding outcomes.
An advertisement urges replacing calomel with Dodson's Liver Tone a pleasant vegetable medicine. It claims quick recovery from biliousness constipation and headaches with a 50 cent bottle guaranteed to work by morning and money back if not.
A humorous exchange revolves around a Panama hat borrowed by a man. The woman asks him to remove the yellow accessory and hat pins before returning it to avoid wearing such equipment downtown again.
Rev Sz2ymanowalth of St Stephen's Church Perth Amboy testifies to Elixir Babok as a malaria tonic. The advertisement touts the remedy for chills fever and malaria and lists cost at 50 cents with distribution by Kloczewski & Co Washington DC.
A brief Kansas newspaper item recalls an angler’s tale of catching a large creature in a gill net. The line boy reports a 40 pound eater tore the net apart, leading them to briefly fear they had trapped a submarine.
A quip contrasts punctuality with fairness in meeting someone late. One says punctuality prevents loss. the other notes waiting half an hour for the other to show up, implying reputations rely on reliability and fairness in timekeeping.
A vintage ad-style note urges quick, courteous bargaining and sensible pricing at Hanford's Balsam Economy. It compares shopping patience to a rolling object speeding on a smooth hill and warns against overpaying or delaying other customers.
A witty exchange frames a misdescribed husband as an interested spectator at a ball game. The dialogue then shifts to a safety point noting most earthquake damage results from neglect of basic construction standards.
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