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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1917
Page
8
The report compares Guernsey and Holstein milk composition. Guernsey milk shows 14.71 percent solids and 5.16 percent fat, Holstein 11.85 percent solids and 3.42 percent fat. Skim milk solids are about 10.5 percent for Guernsey and just over 9 percent for Holstein, with distribution of solids: sugar 50 percent, proteins 35 percent, ash 13.75 percent, fat 1.25 percent.
Pinkeye or summer conjunctivitis is a contagious cattle ailment spreading via flies. It lasts ten to fourteen days, causes tearing and light sensitivity, and may lead to blindness. Treatment emphasizes confinement, light exclusion, good nutrition, fly control, and eye baths with boric acid or zinc sulphate boric mix.
Clemson Agricultural College notes that churning cream yields better fat content than churning whole milk. Skim milk using a separator, or place milk in deep cold water cans to rise cream in 12 to 18 hours. Keep milk cold to speed cream rise. avoid shallow pans for higher quality cream and easier cleanup.
Fresh air and sunning of milk utensils reduce taint. Do not stopper cans when exposing to sun. Choose a sunny spots, set cans open with bottoms up to keep dust and rain out. Let air and sunlight work to reduce bacteria in the milk can.
A playful verse about waiting for dinner with friends or family and passing time by watching clocks and pondering the cook's progress. The mood mixes melancholy and humor as preparations lag.
The page lists recipes for barberry raisin, rhubarb fig conserve, tomato putter, gooseberry preserves, and preserved pears with steps and ingredients. It also notes several local social updates including visits, new births Patricia Ann Eaton and a nine and a half pound boy to Rosenberger, discharge from Camp Zachary Taylor, bank association session, and various travels and visits around Vincennes and nearby towns.
Anthony Alsman offers fence posts and lumber for sale including mulberry sasafras walnut and second growth white oak from his Sullivan Pennsylvania property. Contact R R 5 Sullivan Paxton phone 8 on 23.
Classified notice offers a Merom house for sale by owner Carlisle B Lawhead. The ad includes a vague Merom phone contact and a chiropractic sales pitch urging kidney trouble consultation and analysis from H L Ramsey DC.
174 acre farm for sale 12 miles south of Sullivan on the Dixie Bee Line good corn and wheat land contact H. E. Dutton Sullivan Indiana for details.
A brief advertisement notes potato onions priced at 8 1 2 cents per pound, offered by J. K. Coulson.
A Sullivan company man writes from Fort Harrison praising the YMCA for providing writing materials, entertainment, and a home away from home. He shares his shooting ranges experiences ranking ninth among 118 and about twenty fifth on the pistol range, noting the YMCA’s value and hope for its future in France. He mentions missing home papers and sends regards to Mrs. Chaney.
Charley Crawford, Herman Smock, James M. Lang and Frank Wibie left this morning for Louisville Kentucky to visit the "boys" at Camp Zachary Taylor.
Advertises black hose 10c after 15c regular, Palm Olive soap 10c, Queen Regent and cent soaps 3 bars 10c, Telmo Cleansing Powder 3 cans 10c, 3 for 5c children’s handkerchiefs, noiseless tip matches box 1c, crepe toilet paper 6 for 25c, missis heavy fleeced garments 15c, children’s hats 16c value 14c, sleeping garments for 2-6 years 25c, men’s leather unlined gauntlet gloves 25c, men’s jersey gloves 15c, gray mix socks 10c, miners dinner bucket 19c, regular wash boards 23c.
Special for Saturday only. Swifts Pride Laundry Soap bar 5c. Six bars for 25c. Limited offer at participating stores.
Special lot offers Moire Ribbons for hair bows in silk colors with prices from 19c per yard. Fancy Taifeta ribbons priced at 25c value, 10c and up. Auction style sale highlights affordability and color variety for shoppers.
Heavy sheet iron drip pan twelve for sale at 10 cents each vs regular 15 cents. Men’s roll collar sweater coats priced from 559¢ to 1.95. Boys heavy knit sweaters with rough neck collars 9¢ to 1.89. Men’s heavy fleece underwear shirts and drawers priced per garment 48¢. Men’s wool socks winter weight 25¢ to 34¢. Large selection across men’s women’s and children’s apparel.
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