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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
6
A vivid El Paso travelogue contrasts Western modernity with Juárez poverty. The author peers from a stylish hotel to the international bridge, Mexican markets, gambling dens, and a brutal bull ring, detailing poverty, crowding, and the lure of trade amid squalor and danger.
Itamar Ben Avi, founder of Jerusalem's first daily Hebrew paper, visits Boston. He envisions Zionist progress shaping Jewish history and humanity, counting on wartime upheaval to realize long dream of a regenerated Jewish nation and a broader intellectual impact.
The Roosevelt sisters, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Richard Derby, shift attention from the three Roosevelt brothers in France to active Red Cross service. Alice Roosevelt Longworth runs her Cincinnati home for war relief while Ethel Roosevelt Derby serves in France with her physician husband Doctor Derby. The sisters, famed for independence and daring social life, now dedicate time, energy, and money to war charities.
The article recounts Newton D. Baker's ascent to secretary of war under President Wilson, noting his peaceful youth and his mother's quips about war. It mentions Capt. Frank Hi Baker returning to his post in Paris and recalls the Confederate service of her husband. Mrs. Baker, age seventy five, boasts no gray hair, attributing it to her sons as evidence of their goodness.
Col George D Duncan born Kentucky October 10 1861. Appointed to Military Academy 1882. Served Ninth Infantry 1882 to 1886. Recently released from general staff to join Infantry bound for French front. Now on field at head of a regiment of regulars. Duncan noted as active with strong control of men and long friendship with General Pershing.
Mr Frank Hoare of the United States department of agriculture created a device to let farmers select eggs by size. The standard egg weighs two ounces or more and must have a gauge distance between points of at least one and five eighths inches. A smaller egg is rejected for market.
The article discusses methods to approximate poultry age without a positive test. It notes spurs, leg texture, skin delicacy, and facial features as clues. Skin shows rose veins under the wings, then turns white and veinless after a year. waterfowl age proves harder to judge.
Instructions describe fattening hens using small shed-roof brood coops. Each coop houses about five hens with little fighting. Feed three times daily with a sloppy milk and corn meal mix, removing the pan after meals to keep feed clean and appetites steady.
Proper feed for pullets. overfeeding is hard, but poor variety stunts growth and delay laying. Young birds gain fat slowly unless fed properly with a varied diet, otherwise they will not grow or come into laying.
Chickens hatched in early fall fetch high prices as demand rises for tyers or broilers. Growers with birds expect strong sales seasonally, capitalizing on market appetite and tighter supply in autumn.
An old advertisement touts La Creole Hair Dressing claiming it changes gray hair naturally at a price of one dollar. The fragment also includes quirky quotes about conversation topics and a gas meter remark, reflecting a period ad and humorous opinion line.
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