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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
13
A humorous stroll through short verse and cartoons touches on a Himalayan lamb that could outrun others, a shopkeeper and shopper exchange about value, a geese essay by a imaginative boy, and a dust storm inspired Sunday School moment. Notable jokes include a Sheriff sale ad misread and a candidate's lack of concentration comparison.
A collage of light verse and vintage humor including a servant and wages joke, a Mohammedan prayer gag about golf, reflections on man and politics with biblical cadence, early journalism flare ups, and a pungent Texas weekly clip lampooning a rival paper as a lie and moral degenerate.
A fall anecdote recounts a farmer delivering dressed chickens to a city customer. When asked about chopping off heads, the farmer admits his method by explaining he “chap[s] the chick ens off the heads” to avoid the task.
Andrew Carnegie, famed steel magnate, visits a small South town church on a Sunday. He drops a hundred-dollar bill into the collection plate, prompting the deacon and preacher to recount the sum as three dollars and fifty cents plus the hundred dollars, and to pray that the bill is good.
Spring rain and cold weather fuel coccidiosis in chicks and turkeys. Use battery brooders with wire floors for 3 to 4 weeks, then move to colony houses. keep chicks warm and on clean ground. Include 100 pounds skim milk per 1000 pounds mix, and morning Epom galta in drinking water. Strong chicks with proper feeding have better immunity. prices for hens and fryers expected to improve later in summer.
The piece notes a budget for submarines with mixed figures for France the United States and England. It highlights the Surcouf the largest submarine at 98 feet with heavy armament and rapid submersion. It also mentions Germany building small fast pocket submarines for pursuit and attack.
A Colorado livestock shipper profited as dust storms hit Colorado and Kansas. He shipped two carloads of lambs to Kansas City, the lambs gained weight on the journey, and after payment it was found commission merchants paid lamb prices for about five pounds of Kansas sand embedded in each animal’s wool.
Astronomers determine stellar distances via triangulation inspired by navigation. They observe from two fixed points, know the baseline, and apply the two angles to compute distance. Distances to major stars have been verified repeatedly. The passage closes with a Bible verse about waiting on the Lord.
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