Bargain Sale Plans Prompt Quiet Shop Talk
A shoe merchant and manager discuss a bargain sale to drum up business. They agree to discount a line of $5 shoes from $10 to $8.50. A light exchange about a clerkship ends with a joke about a cash register.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1937
Page
7
A shoe merchant and manager discuss a bargain sale to drum up business. They agree to discount a line of $5 shoes from $10 to $8.50. A light exchange about a clerkship ends with a joke about a cash register.
The bureau of agricultural economics reports a larger fall feed grain crop and bigger poultry feed supply will boost production late 1938. Hatchings next spring may rise, leading to higher early 1938 chicken prices and potentially higher turkey output in 1938 despite last year’s weakness. Egg stocks should tighten as marketings fall.
H W Taylor extension swine specialist at North Carolina State college says breeding stock should come from the heaviest litters weighed at weaning. He recommends selecting boar and sow pigs from these litters and raising four to five week old boars with careful sanitation and balanced rations. He urges trying farrowing and raising pigs on clean land.
Agricultural notes cover semi scaling poultry temperatures from 125 to 130 degrees for different birds and 30 seconds in water. It warns on accurate thermometers and humane killing by bleeding and brain suction. Additional tips include shark flesh as poultry food, duck eggs fatter, cellar temp concerns, turkey growth 24 to 28 weeks, pasture grazing timing, egg freezing point, and mite control for roosts with grooves and kerosene.
An article describes removing arm pieces and masking carving on a walnut chair. It notes replacing back padding with fiberboard and a tufted cotton cushion held by tapes. A sewing book by Mrs. Spears offers directions for slipcovers upholstery and home crafts, with order details.
A collection of quotes from Bruce Barton Albert Einstein Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Baruch Will Durant Jack Dempsey and A J Jennings. The lines reflect views on cost, minority leadership, national character humor, victory, vision, striving and self improvement.
A new pictorial magazine named Rising Tide appears in the country’s newsstands. Originating in England and now distributed in eleven countries in nine languages, it is a nonprofit, advertising free publication addressing world issues without regard to race, class, or creed.
A Douglas Malloch quote urges belief as essential to happiness, stating happiness cannot come without belief.
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