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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
6
Historical note recalls Humphreys remedies used for over fifty years with widespread public satisfaction. A medical book availability was offered free alongside medical promotional material labeled Lacontin Theaat Ou.
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station issues Bulletin No. 123 detailing multi year results on hog fattening with corn and alfalfa hay, plus effects of substituting emmer barley and milo. It reports weights, profits, costs, and pasture versus barn fattening across several seasons.
The article discusses dairy science noting milk fat varies daily due to stress or handling and cow temperament. It cites Professor Van Norman on herd variation and stresses the tester’s accuracy, then adds a note on keeping fresh water available for chicks.
Market list shows grain prices for Wheat No1 white 1.040, No2 red 1.08, Oats 52, Shelled corn 77e, Beans 250 per bit, Rye 1. Sle, Barley 1. W to 2.00 per 100 lbs. Hay 15.00 to 21.00, Straw 6.00 to 9.00. Livestock includes pigs 5.75 per owt, heavy hogs 6.25, beef cattle 4.00 to 6.00, sheep 3.00 to 4.50, lambs 5.00 to 7.00, veal calves 5.00 to 6.00. Dressed meats list beef 10c per lb, hogs 9.50 per owt, mutton per lb, veal calves 8c, poultry and hides rates, butter 20c, eggs 18c.
Sterling silver lost watch fob with initial S and a border on a bronze plate. Finder is asked to leave it at this office.
Miklos Zrinyi, Hungary’s famed heroic figure, defended Szigetvár against Suleiman the Magnificent’s siege in 1566. With 3,000 troops, he and all his men perished in a four week defense that delayed the Ottoman advance, at a costly, pivotal victory for Hungary.
Olivet baseball loses in the MI AA A semi finals at Albion last Friday after Sanford was knocked out in the third inning. Alma had earlier shut out Albion and would have clinched the MI AA A title if allowed to enter. Mrs E N Chadwick returns from Ann Arbor where Claude Chadwick has been ill but improving. For cultivators tools and farm supplies call Alma Elevator Co.
By A. W. Macy cites Griffiths Annals of Baltimore and Peter Parkys First Book of History noting a December 14 1829 event where thirty seven people rode a single horse in a rail car on the Baltimore and Ohio line at about ten miles per hour. The piece also mentions iron rails laid for carriages with small wheels allowing such draft by multiple horses at twelve miles per hour.
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