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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
6
Chief cause of poverty in the south is low horsepower on farms. Diversify crops, keep money at home, and boost labor-saving implements and draft mares. Pure bred draft sires can build up small mares into well built farm work stock, with costs balanced by increased output.
The article argues for deep soil with humus to store water and sustain crops in summer. It endorses multi-horse farming, draft mares for heavy work, and mule superiority in southern labor such as farming, logging, and transport, citing Tennessee experiments and economic waste of underused draft stock.
A observer describes daily high roof mischief by office youths in a ten story Euclid avenue building. The stunts include ballplayer imitations and mock fighting near an unguarded edge, with risk of a fatal fall and potential lawsuits for negligence.
A London traveler aboard a through train to Pittsburgh is amused and puzzled by American sleeping car berths. Reginald, new to U S travel, struggles with the bed design and misreads the wardrobe hooks as a safety feature, prompting amused remarks from conductors.
Kansas City report tells of Jerry Kerrigan of Tarkawa who kept his watch and chain safe by wrapping the chain around his big toe and sleeping with the socked item. He lost $54 cash in a rooming house he stayed in before seeking help at the city pawn shop. He received $9.0 on the timepiece and chain to return to Oklahoma.
In ISWAUKER Wisconsin a gang of 35 boys released over 200 field mice at the Queen moving picture house on Thirty third street. Mrs Margaret Klofta used a broom to drive them away and three youths Russell Sharp Walter Dunn and Roy Fremond were arrested for disorderly conduct.
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