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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
2
A partially legible bulletin discusses grade standards for potatoes and market regulation. It references the Farm Markets Department, Boise, and calls for growers and dealers to adopt state grading rules to prevent discrimination and ensure fair pricing. The piece mentions dates, directives, and outreach to growers via mailed reports.
Fragmentary OCR text indicates a plumber faced arrest amid leasing issues and alleged misconduct. Details are unclear, but the piece mentions around the clock service, a double title, and questions about the event and business practices. Further readable facts are unavailable.
The Jordan River is claimed to flow a vast distance from Anti Letansa to the Deadmma Not slaghe Clty, with descriptions noting its unique status as the Holy Lam’s sole river and its extensive course across the region.
A household incident at Judge Deery's home in the city court area unfolds as a young child mimics store clerks and begins to auction items from the house. The scene, witnessed by Mrs. Deery after shopping with their daughter, draws attention to child behavior and family propriety.
A damaged Atlantic dispatch reports Poland refugees in New York describing Germans in retreat. It notes hunger and protest in Germany, with families torn apart by wartime shortages. Conditions in camps for prisoners and workers are harsh, with limited food, saline rations, and minimal showers.
Anxious to render the nation a valuable deed artist Mien Lucille Heron twenty three works at height to complete a National League for Women's Service poster. The 20 foot high artwork, to take days, depicts Joan of Arc leading an army of American women in homefront labor. The panel will loom at a busy New York corner donated by a local merchant at Porty-second Street and VIFH) avenues.
Megapois Tenn news item notes gamblers and shakiness among job applicants at United States army cantonments. Examiners in several stations found applicants not workers but gamblers. Six professionals from Memphis reached the government detachment at Little Unknown.
Excerpts show returning soldiers misinformed about U S food and munitions and underestimate American troops. The text notes the public’s desire for effective wartime news and hints at shortages like milk and coffee. Strong entities include United States and Germany.
An Associated Press account from a British officer in hospital describes Armenian sufferings at the hands of the Turks. He cites forced deportations, executions, and a gendarme burying a woman alive, with Armenian women working under brutal conditions in Aleppo factories.
A survivor recalls mass killings ordered by the governor Afif, the murder of nearly a hundred thousand Armenians, and the brutal transport of children to unknown destinations. He contrasts Turkish ruthlessness with German occupation, recounts sights of displaced women and beggar children, and ends with tears frozen in his eyes beside the Euphrates, the graves of a nation.
In Quesmy north of the Oise on July 7 1017 a French general pinned the War Cross on Mme Pellequer a schoolmistress and mayor for gallant conduct. While the war began she taught pupils alone during German occupation she maintained order and served as mayor until French forces returned in March praising her heroism.
A steer escaped its pen and dashed toward an open belt, pursued by Otto Regtein and neighboring farmers. The animal tangled in three foot tall alfalfa, its neck broken after the chase. A scythe was used to reach the carcass.
Thousands of blackbirds settle in Mound cemetery and urban gardens in Marietta Ohio. The fire department is summoned nightly to hose roosting birds, aiming to curb damage to war gardens and local plantings.
The article discusses how sheep die more easily with inexperience and parasites, pneumonia affecting large English breeds, and notes Merino as the hardiest, Southdown among English breeds, and Shropshire as the most popular in America. It highlights individual variation and the roles of selection, breeding, and care in sheep health and vigor.
Clover was valued at over 100 dollars per acre when replacing corn in hog rations in a test at the Ohio experiment station with corn priced at 1.08 per bushel. Forage crops proved nearly as valuable and can cheapen pork production to a point. Pregnant brood sows do well on clover or alfalfa forage with an occasional ear of corn daily. Young pigs require more grain, and hogs enjoy some stored feed. Fence off part of clover or alfalfa and let hogs feed.
Roadsides lanes and fence corners may be kept clean and tidy by a flock of sheep. Not only will sheep rid the fields of weeds and turn them into a marketable product, but they will return the fertility of the soil to the land in the form of manure. Sheep will graze with cattle nicely where grass is abundant and will eat the plants the other stock leave. Most farms have feed lots and yards which annually grow up to unsightly weeds. By sowing rape in these places and pasturing sheep out it, the appearance of the farm would be much improved and money would be made.
The guide explains restraining a wild horse for hoof care by using a rope on the front or hind foot. It describes lifting the foot, guiding it to a shoeing position, and trimming the hoof, noting safety through controlled dizziness and calm handling during the process.
The United States Department of Agriculture advises a mineral mix for pastured pigs to provide essential minerals. Dissolve copperas in hot water and spray over the mix. use copperas two pounds, slaked lime four pounds, wood ashes one bushel, sulfur four pounds, salt eight pounds, and fine charcoal.
Minnesota druggist praises Kilmer’s Swamp Root and offers a sample bottle for ten cents. The ad promises to prove its benefits for kidneys and bladder and notes a booklet with information. Large and medium bottles sold at all drug stores, with request to mention this paper.
The master and mistress attempt the Inferential method of blame to spur the maid to wake early. She remains asleep until nine o'clock. She asks if she can help, then mentions the eggs in the icebox for next morning if she is up before them.
A Marion county draft inquiry in Indianapolis asks if a wife's signature is required on an exemption affidavit. The board replies it is unnecessary unless the wife is claimed as dependent. When the man asks for alternatives, the board member urges him to prepare to go.
In a Stray Stories fragment from Alaska 1916, a man recalls a narrow escape as a wind blocks a proposal from a girl. The piece hints at a daring rescue by nature, with distant notes of a brisk wilderness scene and a value mentioned as twenty five thousand dollars.
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