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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
2
A veteran horse dealer notes that a horse’s value lies in its age and experience. He warns buyers to test a horse thoroughly before purchase, as modern city life tests nerves and fitness. A safe "family troke" must endure urban sights, traffic, and daily work for a reliable ride.
The author outlines feeding and breeding for thriving lambs and strong ewes. Lambs avoid grain until 3.5 to 4 months, then receive limited grain to stay thrifty. Early lambing, crowding with grain, and marketing at 40 to 50 pounds are advised for profitability. Emphasizes mutton and wool as linked profits with manageable flock costs.
Report describes the Gorrel Horse as unrivaled by sorrel rivals in speed and stamina. Observers note its sound feet and remarkable endurance, with horsemen claiming few horses match its combination of vigor and resilience.
Practical guide on poultry nutrition notes that tasty foods aid intake, stresses varied diet, and cautions against over narrow rations. It explains protein to carbohydrate ratios, typical composition of feed, water, protein, fat, and ash in fowl and eggs, and the need for balanced, appetite-satisfying rations to sustain life, growth, and egg production.
Major Das Morgan Smith, former general counsel for the National Wee Temperance Asso, explains why he left the license advocacy. He argues the modal license law failed to remove liquor from politics or curb crime and that reform talks were used to sway votes by liquor interests. He questions trust in liquor camp promises and notes legislators are influenced by brewery power.
Father Patrick pleads in a crowded hearing for relief for starving children. He describes emaciated youngsters in poorer homes suffering from hunger and urges voters to consider their plight when deciding a major question about readdressing finances. He insists doctors in attendance would attest to the pain in a child’s stomach and blood cells.
Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota argues the prohibition movement has matured into a calm, deliberate choice by Americans, predicting it is here to stay despite earlier temperance waves. The note contrasts Russian wartime social changes with temperance gains, citing declines in mutiny reports and personal crises, plus increases in savings deposits across Petrograd and Russia.
A fragmentary exchange shows Senator Sorghum brushing off threats of damaging stories while vowing to secure more publicity, underscoring a tense battle for press attention amid unclear context and names.
A conversation mentions Aiden and asks why Aiden is avoided. It also asks about owing Tim money. The reply denies owing favors or debts and asserts no desire to hire. The exchange includes a government reference in passing.
A reflective meditation on wealth, imagination, and contentment. Thoreau and Emerson are invoked to argue that true riches come from inner life and pursuit of truth and beauty rather than material wealth. The excerpt contrasts living simply with being owned by possessions, referencing Transcendentalists and a line about knowing where knowledge and beauty reside.
Mia Jean Christie Root of Glen Ridge New Jersey, eighty one and partly deaf, refutes Doctor Osier by completing a life of Nathan Male deemed of unusual interest and authority. She has learned to type with great facility and handles her infirmities lightly.
A Cincinnati Inquirer fragment notes a stark contrast between two city ends. One woman starves to feed her child while another woman spends ten thousand dollars on a Pekingese poodle, highlighting social disparity.
A quirky Boston Trans script line contrasts sleep talk with a millionaire’s economy of words. The piece muses on marital chatter and social contrasts, noting in passing that Ontario hosts 165 creameries and 1,002 cheese factories.
Ernest Petrotto recalls Lisbon on arrival through the Tagus and Alfandrega harbor. He notes a gay, bright capital with hills, gardens, and targos though newer buildings feel rectangular. Fisherfolk in black bagcaps and knee breeches, fishwives with almond eyes and Moorish features add local color to the waterfront scene.
Alaska enacted an eight hour work rule for placer miners affecting their pay and schedules. The measure targets aged and indigent prospectors, with penalties outlined for violations by operators and individuals. The article notes historical context and regional labor tensions in Alaska.
A playful quip questions what dance bellboys performed at a hotel suggesting it was a bell hop routine. The remark then mocks readers who cling to stale newspapers preferring familiar wrinkles over new ones.
A vintage testimonial promoting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for women. It claims childbirth can be healthy with proper preparation and warns against impromptu journeys to pregnancy. The ad invites personal letters to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for confidential guidance.
The New York World describes a musical novelty with two store sides hosting telephone switchboard like receivers and four numbered knobs. A penny in the slot, turning knobs to a catalog number, selects a record. The plan aims to add self playing records, offering an entire grand opera for 37 cents or a Wagner evening for 22 cents.
A young woman named Gold and a young man named Ring married in Minneapolis recently. A court commissioner oversaw the ceremony amid light humor about summer fashion and vanity. Observers note the threadbare sentiment that prosperity brings burdens as the vignette closes.
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