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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
6
Agricultural specialists advise home gardeners to space garden vegetables to ensure each plant gets sunlight air moisture and nutrients. Thinning after germination reduces crowding and prevents stunting, preserving yield and quality.
The guide details thinning lettuce beets radishes onions and root crops to optimize growth. It advises spacing intervals from 2 to 8 inches depending on crop and stage and recommends thinning when the ground is mellow to minimize root damage.
We the undersigned grocerymen agree to close all day Wednesday July 4 1917. Couch and Stahl Kercheval and Chew Stout and Co W E Cox O B Mace W R Kercheval.
An old advertisement for Wolverine Laundry Soap touts saving labor clothes money and health. It lists a six cake package for 25 cents and notes sales at Hughets grocery and Lon Reveal at 561 South Main Street Sheridan.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl Vrooman urges conservative grain saving methods this summer. He stresses efficient harvesting, stacking where conditions permit, careful shock and stack construction, and precise threshing adjustments to minimize losses and protect every bushel of wheat oats and rye.
Hog market reports lighter hog weights by 48 pounds than in 1915. High priced feeds blamed for reduced weights and looming lard shortages. Light feeding hogs now cheaper by 4 cents below finished hogs. Brood sows shipped for immediate slaughter. fall pig supply at risk.
Mr and Mrs J M Thistlethwaite travel to Albany Wisconsin where he will take charge of the Albany plant of the Indiana Condensed Milk Company. They will continue residing in Sheridan.
The article traces the Red Cross origins from Solferino in 1859 through Henri Dunant’s witness, Geneva treaty of 1863, and its evolution to a federally chartered U S relief organization by 1905. It explains its official private dual role, government affiliations, funding largely from private gifts, and its function as army and navy auxiliary medical support in war times.
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