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Newspaper
Pocahontas County Sun
Location
Laurens, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
8
The Cavaliers will present costumes songs and spirit of old English days at Chautauqua. A gay gaudy costumed company with pomp and pageantry portrays the high mightiness of a grand era. Musicians of reputation perform a varied and charming program likely to be a highlight of the event.
Samuel G Blythe reports from Japan on a pervasive secret service network that opens letters with a Russian device and tracks visitors. He notes omnipresent surveillance, discreet spying at hotels, and the easy acquisition of personal records for a price, while calling it unobtrusive and petty.
A Mother's Hand praises the tender soothing power of a mother's touch as the timeless instrument of maternal love. Organdie Over Silk highlights summer fashion with flowered organdies mounted over soft silks, pairing lavender with pale pink silk and rose organdie with faint Mae, with black velvet sashes adding contrast.
The piece surveys small Pacific islands claimed by Britain, noting Coctivy as eight to nine square miles and other tiny outposts like Flying Fish and Stinking Island. It highlights Ten Stick Island linked to ten sticks of tobacco, Beehive Island’s beehive shape, and the vast number of Pacific atolls Britain nominally owns, with Beehive described as a dome of basalt.
The piece notes stars are not fixed and that both stars and our sun move through space. It cites the sun's motion toward a point in Hercules and asserts motion pervades nature from germ to globe. It also quotes opinions on penmanship by Kahman and Barrie, and mentions Iris as the rainbow in ancient Greek myth.
The piece stresses good feeding and strict selection of brood sows for vigorous offspring. It notes ewes should be broad and long to be good brood mothers. It urges daily hog-pen cleaning and vigilant daily checking of all sheep, with market demands for horses during the war expected to keep prices high for years.
The writer urges shade for lambs after lambing season to boost early mutton development. They describe grazing with mothers, grain rations, a separate lamb feeding trough, medicated salt to prevent worms, and the need for dark sheds or shade trees. Gadflies irritate the flock, sheep rise at sunrise, rest before sundown, and pasture changes help growth. Breeds include middle wool types like Shropshires, Hampshires, Oxfords, and Southdowns.
The author discusses shifting sheep to fresh pasture every ten days to two weeks and using rape as a drought patch. They mix oats with fertilizer and note turning lambs after weaning to fresh feed. Wean at four to five months, keep ewes in good condition, and treat fall lamb scours with a dry ration before refeeding.
The article advises expectant mares to be fed for two, with exercise and careful nutrition. It recommends clover or alfalfa hay over timothy, plus grain including oats, bran, and oilmeal. A daily ration of six pounds oats, three pounds bran, and one of allment is cited from Firslap at Washington state station.
Excerpts recount a dramatic moment about Mme Solari facing a life threatening crisis after a blood vessel burst, Jenny Lind intervenes with a $1000 aid, and a tribute to Italy in culture. Other quips touch on humorous magazine anecdotes and city versus country lightning and auto risks, plus a tale of spectacles aiding dull work.
The article recalls English practice of straw witnesses signaling job seekers and notes Greek parallels. It quotes Plato on justice and wisdom and Cicero urging courage, magnanimity, virtue, and simplicity as core to justice and truthfulness.
Iridium is a hard, brittle, silver white metal in the platinum group discovered by Tennant in 1808. It occurs native or with osmium and, at 22.4 specific gravity, is the second heaviest metal after osmium. It is used for pen points, telegraph contact points and wear‑prone scientific instruments.
White peacocks are rarer and costlier than ordinary ones. They share general peafowl traits but have white plumage instead of blue green and black. The tail’s eye spots may appear creamy, creating a lace-like effect when fanned.
Joydy grew up near a pond and visited Boston at age four where her aunt took her to see the ocean Joyce replied with charm that they have a pond at home reflecting a child’s perspective from the story in Every Week.
Laurens Iowa directors invite sealed proposals for a new school building contract with Kirby Snyder as architect. Bids due 9:00 am July 24 1915, with five percent certified check. heating plumbing and ventilating work excluded. Board may reject any bid and deposits are forfeitable if contract not signed within five days.
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