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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1925
Page
2
Out of the darkness Slyke lay with a revolver in his hand or what remained of it. Bartley and a photographer documented the bed and Slyke's hand as they searched, then found the gun removed from the dead man's grip.
John Bartley, a veteran investigator, returns from wartime service to New York to probe a suspected robbery at the Robert S. home near Circle Lake. He and friend Pelt visit the Slyke residence, clash with Slyke, and uncover evidence suggesting murder rather than suicide.
In a mansion after Slyke’s death the investigation shifts to the tower balcony where blood, a gold collar button, and a missing revolver point to a staged suicide. Bartley and Pelt push Miss Potter for cooperation while Roche coordinates police efforts. Two missing playing cards raise new questions as the room-by-room search continues.
A Ithaca based study shows calves grow best when kept in barns after weaning with regular grain. Provide shade water and proximity to the barn for easy monitoring. A recommended mix includes cornmeal and oats with linseed meal for late summer growth.
A USDA survey shows milk cows slaughtered at an average age of ten years nationwide. Eleven-year averages appear in Maryland West Virginia Florida Wisconsin Louisiana Utah and Nevada while nine-year averages include New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut South Carolina Georgia and Alabama. Milk cows sold for slaughter averaged about 32 dollars per head, roughly half the 63 dollar price for milking cows.
The wisest dairyman cannot tell a prepotent bull by looks or breeding. No known way tells value of a sire from progeny alone. If heifers outproduce dams he is valuable. if not, he is worthless as a sire.
The article urges training cows to eat roughage early and using cow testing to remove unprofitable cows. It recommends weeks of liberal dry-period feeding with roughage and 6 to 10 pounds of grain daily, warns warm water in separators, and praises silage for its succulent feed value while advising dairymen to design ration plans around locally grown feeds and economical purchases.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries begins cultivating freshwater mussels through their first year of growth. Previously mussel culturists only started young bivalves on fish gills and fins. Now fish stay in large troughs for growth, then mussels are kept in wooden tanks a year before reintroduction.
A quoted observation notes that maintaining liveliness in a negative setting is challenging, describing the effort as uphill and requiring resilience.
A Travel Magazine vignette describes Nanook and family sleeping in Eskimo style. A seal oil lamp lights the room while a moss wick warms and illuminates a baby dog igloo, polar bear and seal skins blanket the floor, and the family shelters beneath fur robes as wind howls outside.
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