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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
7
A recent bride, striving to keep house neatly, visits a Stranga bakery and notices a large cat perched on the low show windows among the cakes. The shopkeeper confirms the cat is harmless and will not eat the items.
A fragment reflects playful lines about love, the pink of perfection, and a humorous muddle with words. The quirky text hints at songlike wordplay and a tease about perfection and pupils in a chaotic line.
The fragment touches on debt with a quip about work and a sales pitch for Dr. Pierce’s Pellets as liver remedies. It also oddly references a large cattle figure in Ceylon and comments on relationships, all in a garbled, OCR-like snippet.
Winter dairying offers advantages including higher milk and cream prices, easier handling in cold weather, and better year round labor distribution. Fall calving allows closer attention, longer lactation, and better calf growth, with profits rising as milk production and prices improve.
Fertilizer for the tubers should use well rotted manure in fall or spring. Lime should not be applied directly before potatoes. Experiments favor sulphate of potash over muriate for better quality. Potatoes yield high value per acre benefits from heavier fertilizer. Bad chicken sales affect market and wife notes prefer fine flavored woodset.
The article notes farmers focus on feeding chicks and ensuring no leftovers remain. It emphasizes removing rat dishes and scouring all dishes to maintain hygiene and prevent contamination among livestock.
On the farm, the colt stands out for responsiveness to gentle care. Mere harsh treatment fails to curb his growth and spirit, while patient attention yields evident improvement.
In large city markets egg buyers grade eggs into extra firsts firsts seconds thirds checks and leakers. Extra firsts weigh about 27 ounces a dozen must be strong in shell shape and color air cell small and clean. Checks and leakers are cracked eggs unfit for shipment and should be sold at home.
An article on gate construction notes poorly built gates ruin a farm’s appearance. It argues that well-constructed gates save time and labor while enhancing curb appeal and overall farm value.
Purdue entomology chief James Troop notes practical corn care from a bulletin on growing more and better corn. Rotation, weed and trash control, late fall plowing of infested lands, and nourishing plants are key. Fertilizers may help plants withstand insect injury, but effectiveness as repellents is not definite.
Tests crossing a guinea fowl with a peacock produced hybrids resembling the peacock in slender form, especially the head and neck. They lack peacock head appendages, have a reduced train, and display primitive striped plumage. The color shifts from dark fawn with black neck stripes to paler fawn with black specks on the thorax and abdomen.
A short note urges keeping eggs fresh with a two pound oatmeal mix as a receptacle. It mentions the Pasteurizer protects eggs from temperature changes and recommends daily tinning of the container for freshness.
Fragmentary notes discuss fat, fattening, and corn as a food source. Phrases reference “laying hon” and “fecama overfat” with unclear meaning. The text hints at nutrition and perhaps dietary guidance without clear names, dates, or events.
Perkins a hobo with no home or job wandered along the railroad ties when a broken rail nearly caused a derailment near Red Oak. He signaled the slow moving train by waving his coat, averting disaster as cars passed. Burlington officials then provided him meals, clothing, and a job as brake man.
Charles Benson of Shetek Wisconsin lives on a Chetek area farm and is related by blood to English and Belgian royalty. His grandmother was a sister to Marie Louise Victoria and first cousin of Queen Victoria, and a sister of Leopold I of Belgium. Benson, raised in Evansville, did not discuss his royal ties, though his mother once received letters and presents from Queen Victoria.
Mrs J H Arthur of Rolle near Lequey in Pulaski county reportedly became the state’s only woman known to kill an eagle without a weapon. Hearing a ruckus, a pair of eagles attacked her chicken yard as a waterdog knocked one to the ground. She then struck the bird with a wagon tongue, breaking its neck and left wing. the eagle stretched six feet four inches tip to tip.
A bold footpad restrained Evelyn Durocher in Summitville, grabbed her handbag, and fled after taking a watch, two purses with $18, comb, cologne, toilet powder, and a ticket. He ordered her to cry out and discarded the bag and deed, leaving her shaken. Nearby, farmer Frank Kinzie suffered severe leg injuries when his pants caught and were drawn into a corn husker, requiring knee amputations.
A young woman in Indianapolis nd spends two busy days browbeating 14 salespeople, berating a floorworker, quarreling with a milliner, dismissing her maid, and rebuffing a protector suitor while commuters pause a taxi and streetcar. the census notes the city population at 285 578.
Anuric from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo is touted as a superior uric acid eliminator. The ad claims success against backache, scalding urine, rheumatism, and gout, with rapid relief in acute arthritis and kidney or bladder trouble. It urges a 10 cent trial package and offers a free water test with Dr. Pierce’s chemist.
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