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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
7
A feature on the Dutch colonial home type by W A Radford explains its space economy through wide second floor dormers and varied roofing. The illustrated design shows a 24 by 32 foot house with six rooms, sun porch, and a large airy living area connected by French doors. Upstairs holds three corner bedrooms and a bath, with a front dining area and bright ventilation.
The article argues paint and varnish are essential economy for homes, preventing decay, protecting wood and metal, and extending life. It favors paintable woods like pine, stresses moisture as enemy, and urges early painting of frames, roofs, steps, and exterior surfaces with regular renewals about every five years. It cautions against false economy from cheap substitutes.
This article argues against buying cheap wallpapers, noting that a room needs a durable, well designed, heavy stock paper with skilled design backing. It compares wallpaper to quality clothing, claiming that long lasting, tasteful paper costs only slightly more than a nice dress and yields lasting elegance.
Home guidance urges adequate closet space in new houses focusing on comfort and storage. It stresses that all bedrooms deserve sizable, well lit closets and separate storage for multi occupant rooms to enhance daily ease and reduce moth damage to woolens and furs.
New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell reports male chickens aid spread of bacillary white diarrhea among chicks. Trials with infected and uninfected hens show dissemination begins after months. Labs in Erie, Orange, Onondaga, Otsego, Greene counties and Long Island test flocks, with about 52 000 chickens tested to reduce infection and chick mortality.
For breeders ducks, feeding differs from market ducks with less fattening feed. Reduce corn meal and beef scraps to half. A good ration mixes corn meal, wheat bran, green feed, 5 percent beef scraps, and 5 percent grit. Breeding ducks need about 50 percent corn meal, 15 percent wheat bran, 15 percent green feeds, 12 percent beef scraps, and 8 percent grit, mixed with water to a crumbly state and fed twice daily.
The article stresses careful feed selection for ducklings to ensure rapid growth and balanced nutrition. It notes that top raisers use similar rations with varying mix qualities, and that feed should be easily assimilated to support twice the growth rate and high intake compared with chicks, with several feeding methods recommended for success.
Practical notes on poultry management specify marketing timing for Leghorn cockerels as broilers, pairing geese with one gander, ensuring water access for geese, warning on chilled chicks, brooders set to correct temperature, early spring broiler prices, and using hardware cloth under roosts to train chicks to roost to prevent smothering.
George A Dorsey analyzes how public appeals in religion politics and business stir emotions to produce apparent “results.” He explains how habits form via substitution conditioning and fear, and how training the colt or child shapes behavior and attitudes. He warns that breaking hurtful habits must occur before emotions fixate.
Pilot L H Garriott flew a tri motor passenger plane from Mendoza to Santiago at 17,000 feet when a giant condor attacked. The bird collided with the nose and wing, denting a wing but not breaking it as the craft landed. Feathers erupted in a smoky cloud after the impact.
An unnamed analyst with a sharp pencil estimates last year’s accident list cost the country 960 million dollars, with almost one third attributed to automobile casualties.
A historical note on Dr Caldwell who in 1885 devised a gentle laxative blend named Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. The medicine, praised for treating constipation without griping, gained broad popularity for relief of headaches, bad breath, gas and belated energy claims.
A wry line from the San Francisco Chronicle notes the irony of the critic of rouge who nonetheless wraps a twenty dollar bill around a roll of ones, blending vanity and thrift in a pointed aside.
Mrs. C. B. Johnson of Towanda Pennsylvania says she weighed 89 pounds and was too weak to work after silk mill toil. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with her recovery and notes her two healthy sons since recovery. She urges others to try it.
The tall American comedian John Aasen faced difficulties in Shanghai finding a ricksha coolie willing to take him. After many refusals a Chinese man agreed for double fare, but the ride still exposed him to the rain as the hood had to be lowered for entry.
The magistrate questions a humorist who admits striking the complainant on the head with a bottle. The defendant says the other party got nettled, in a tersely observed exchange reflecting courtroom tension.
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