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Newspaper
The Chanute Times
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
3
An advertisement extols Defiance Cold Water Starch as superior in both quality and quantity, claiming a 10 ounce package equals others’ 12 ounce packages. It urges housewives to switch, noting guaranteed superiority and customer loyalty once tried.
An American publication note cites Herr Goldberger planning a series on American economic affairs titled The Land of Us limited Peas bilts Was a Cousin of Horace Gresley. A piece notes John W. Greeley’s death in London at 84, born in Amherst, N H, survived by his widow after 58 years of marriage. The remainder is assorted quips and ads including stock starch questions, patent cures, and social maxims from 1900.
A Wichita based Missouri Pacific Railway advertising campaign markets rail and steamship tickets to the United States and world, offering deposits for prepaid tickets, daily trains to Kansas City and St Louis with Pullman sleepers, and connections to New York Boston and Philadelphia. Also includes ad copy lines on memory and virtue and Defiance Starch slogans.
The Farmers' Review advises on duckling care avoiding water exposure until feathered to prevent chill and nose blockage, and stresses providing a deep water dish. It outlines balanced chick rations, meat scrap mash, and feeding schedules, plus guidance on winter layers favoring Black Langshans for cold regions and Leghorns for summer laying.
The bronze turkey stands without rival for size and hardiness. Result of crossing wild and domestic turkeys with careful selection. Cocks reach 30 to 40 pounds, hens up to 25. Young gobblers hit 25 pounds by eight months, hens 15 in similar stages. What weights may emerge in fifty years if progress continues.
J W Hart explains that inefficient skimming stems from improper separator use and conditions, urging daily skim milk testing to optimize fat recovery and reduce losses. The piece also outlines Internal Revenue rules on coloring oleomargarine, noting tax implications and the continued use of butter in some products while preserving distinguishability from butter.
Government moves to limit water in renovated butter with 16 percent outer cap debated by Agriculture officials who favor 15 percent. Experts note best butter holds 10 to 12 percent water, a 3 percent margin deemed adequate, while English practice reportedly allows higher levels. Separate note covers scoring milk as butter and incentives for producers to improve milk quality, stressing financial motivation and possible washing of cows.
Congressman Aldrich writes from Washington endorsing The Peruna Medicine Co. tonic Peruna as a safe remedy and stomach and nervous system balancer. He cites testimonials from Emory and others about catarrh stomach and kidney complaints, touting its restoring effects and inviting inquiries. The note mentions 60,000 letters praising Peruna and promises a free book on catarrhal diseases.
A dairymen convention speaker outlined four patron types. The model patron has top barns cows feed and methods. The second has great appliances but poor methods. The third raises fine cows and barns but neglects feed and methods. The fourth has poor stock and feed and methods, producing little milk. Enormous cheese consumption noted with Britain Ireland importing 266 million pounds yearly and Canada supplying about six percent.
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