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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
11
The article argues home lighting matters as much as public lighting, urging shade and indirect illumination to reduce eye strain. It compares electric bulbs, gas, and oil lamps, favoring diffused, shadowed light over direct glare. Dining rooms benefit from central domes, kitchens from diffused ceiling lights, and bedside mirrors require side placement.
Prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports ground hogs are viewed as undesirable in many areas due to burrowing and feeding. It notes farmers push for forcible removal where harmful, while in areas with little damage they may be tolerated as game. Indiana and Illinois run control campaigns with USDA cooperation. Four county campaigns succeeded, prompting requests for 20 more counties. Over $6,000 funds raised for fumigation material to aid farmers.
A health column warns middle life is the riskiest period as surplus energy fades after forty. Dr Brumby notes heart disease, apoplexy, paralysis and cancer rise since 1880 while childhood disease falls. Regular exams every six to twelve months are urged to detect issues early and protect aging vitality.
Dairy expert John M. Shaw of Iowa State College cautions that milk fever severely endangers fresh cows within 48 hours after calving. Early signs include restlessness and leg weakness, progressing to paralysis. The accepted treatment involves air inflation of the udder and keeping air trapped for 12 to 24 hours to aid recovery.
Calves should have hay from birth and by two weeks eat appreciably. Alfalfa may cause scours in some calves. red clover often yields better results. Silage is acceptable in moderation if mold is removed. Iowa State dairy calves show faster, cheaper gains when silage is included. Eckles’ table sums calf rations: 360 lb whole milk, 2,804 lb skim milk, 270 lb hay, 113 lb grain.
Farm notes discuss warm soil for muskmelons and heavy fertilizer, sunflowers as ornamental and poultry feed, silos essential on dairies with 80 plus cows, iodine-treated ewes to reduce lamb goiter, handy tools, maintaining livestock to use legumes, chick shade and water, portable house size 10 by 12 feet, and morning scratch feed to wake hens.
USDA and researchers led by Dr. Huffman and Dr. Dade identify four related forms of necrobacillosis in sheep. Foot rot, lip and leg ulceration, a venereal infection, and liver infection in lambs cause heavy losses. control hinges on preventing infection, using antiseptics, and improving lambing shed conditions with gravel floors.
A tale of Great Grandmother Fireweed leading her family to aid burnt forests. The fireweed group plans colorful restoration by blooming along charred ground and dispersing seeds while urging people to prevent fires and fully extinguish any picnic or match left burning.
A farmer admitted losing 80 to 100 chickens to disease and dumping their carcasses in a hog yard. Tuberculin tests showed about 25 percent infection in fowls and a tuberculous sow, indicating avian tuberculosis and owl-type infection spread on the farm.
An advertisement urges daily use of Cuticura Ointment on rising and retiring for facial care. It recommends washing off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Claims promise to improve poor complexions, dandruff, itching, and rough hands with the product trio.
Scotland debates porridge as a breakfast staple with ham and eggs rising in popularity. The Scottish board of agriculture notes householders skip porridge. a professor condemns porridge as injurious and linked to rickets while Edinburgh's medical officer says porridge supports a strong day’s work.
An ad promotes Bond's Liver Pills as an established remedy for liver trouble. It claims to cure headaches biliousness dizziness and related liver ailments and sells at 25 cents per bottle.
California’s famed mission play marked its fourteenth season in February in the shadow of the San Gabriel mission founded by Father Junipero Serra. The production has staged over 2,800 performances with Senorita Vigarez missing only one. John Steven McGroarty remains director as the drama depicts California from San Diego’s founding to the sunrise of American conquest, with Father Junipero Serra as the central figure previously portrayed by Frederick Warde. Ad for Dr Peery’s Dead Shot at 372 Pearl St. N.
General Hugh Drum, visiting Washington, joked that war books show every World War I battle as a victory for both sides and that no general failed from start to finish. He added, to err is human and to lie about it is more so.
A 12 foot 43 inch alligator, said to be 3800 years old and over 850 pounds, was captured alive near Lake Gibson Lakeland Florida after being wounded by rifle fire. Two young men captured the monster and expect to receive a $500 reward.
The report notes about one thousand radio broadcasting stations globally with 538 in the United States. It cites roughly 18,000 licensed amateur transmitting stations in the U.S. and about eight million radio receiving sets in use, including five million tube sets and the remainder crystal sets.
The line plays on birth or achievement of greatness, contrasting "One" and "Other" with a humorous jab about grating upon you.
Mrs Fullerton of Clearfield Pennsylvania says the product restored her strength and eased pains from the waist down. She claims it improves appetite and nerves and invites readers to request letters in response, noting doctors sell it locally and nationwide.
A new bridge in Sydney will dwarf Hell Gate, spanning 1650 feet in a single arch. It will carry four railroad tracks, roads, and walkways, with total length 3770 feet. Ship headroom tops 170 feet at high water and arch peak reaches 450 feet.
London's smoky air endangers the Rubens ceiling in the Royal United Service museum Whitehall once the banqueting house where Charles I stepped to the scaffold. Painted in 1635 by order of Charles I the gilded ceiling is divided into nine compartments and has already undergone five restorations.
A February letter to Little Doctor Medicine Co of Dallas describes Frau Fund in Schwerte Germany requesting Month Oil claiming it cures cancer. The note notes prior orders from the German town and cites endorsements from Dallas figures while stating the product relieves piles catarrh and inflammations though not claimed as a cancer cure.
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