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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
3
Percy Darrow visits McCarthy in a New York hideaway after a dangerous assignment. McCarthy frets about a Europe-bound order and contemplates the boss’s perilous demands as Darrow observes the tense exchange and the looming threat.
In this portion, Darrow and Doctor Knox discuss Protim and Schermerhorn’s radium discovery as McCarthy storms about a dim city building. An outage plunges the Atlas Building into darkness, revealing dead phones and lights, while Darrow investigates wiring with a pocket lamp and watches the outage spread across the block. The blackout ushers in a bizarre shift: cars and telephones fail, yet a curious brightness returns at six, and McCarthy confronts stalled transit, only to witness a sudden return to horse-drawn traffic as urban life reverts to an earlier era.
In a territorial Supreme Court writ of error the plaintiff counsel sharply attacked trial judge rulings. During defendant’s reply the lawyer said I think I can show you that the trial judge was crazy. A court member responded with cautious skepticism about the judge’s sanity amid the argument.
A historical note questions the scriptural claim that the forbidden fruit was an apple and suggests the quince as a candidate tied to Venus and ancient myths. The piece cites Genesis imagery and Babylonian origins to argue the fruit’s true identity remains debated among scholars.
In Marylebone a man and woman were charged with disorderly conduct after dancing in a church. A priest admonished them to adopt a melancholy spirit, saying this is not a country where people can afford jovial behavior.
A Wisconsin College of Agriculture expert advocates delaying lamb weaning until four and a half months after birth, keeping ewes milking to dry them gradually, and placing lambs on green pasture with limited grain. This reduces stomach worms, improves lamb vigor at breeding, and yields more uniform lambs next spring.
The article surveys Shorthorn Aberdeen Angus Hereford Red Polled and Devon cattle. It notes Angus for feed efficiency and lean meat, Herefords as range varieties, Devons slow to grow but pasture fatteners, Red Polled as dual purpose milk and beef. Any breed crossbreeds well with native stock to improve scrub herds.
Instructions on pig fattening emphasize keeping pigs growing steadily from weaning at eight weeks. Begin March 16 with clover pasture and wheat middlings. Add a little corn in the last two months. Home-raised meat is healthier. feed should include ample greens and graded rations.
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