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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
3
A Country Gentleman description details a twelve pen hog barn with eight by ten foot pens and a six foot alley. The ground plan includes brick walls and Portland cement floors, wire fronts for cleanliness, and 80 by 10 foot lots brick paved to resist frost. It notes heat from adjacent boiler, two horse stalls possible, and iron pipe fenders to protect litters in farrowing quarters.
A. H. Johns stresses selecting Italian golden queens and even color. He warns against dark banded queens, favors varied hive sizes for climate and wintering, and notes most honey comes from within a mile of the apiary with 40 years of beekeeping experience. Farm and Home.
A discussion on the limits of forcing cows to increase milk and butter yields. It weighs benefits for breed improvement against risks to cow health, noting historic gains from forcing and the uncertain ultimate limit of production. It also urges planting red clover for forage when alfalfa is unavailable.
A three foot long coop stands 30 inches high at the front with a pivoting panel that opens to shield chicks from sun and storm. By night the panel closes securely with a button or bolt. One third can be floored for a dry brooding place, though ground suitability may eliminate this. Entry is via a small rear door.
The article advises quiet comfortable hens, crumbly mash, ample exercise, and pale whitewashed poultry houses. It discusses feeding meat for nitrogen not fat, suggests using sorghum seeds, milk in any form, and selling young ducks early. It notes fat in meat is discouraged for egg production and cites cheap beef portions as better fowls food.
Goldsmith wrote The Vicar of Wakefield in six weeks and drew on recollections. Charles Lamb authored essays after a day at the East India office. Germany’s annual book output ranged from 23,399 to 33,739 between 1895 and 1900. Oscar Strauss gifted Hay a copy of Life of Shakespeare once Washington’s. Helen Keller, a deaf blind student at Radcliffe, writes an autobiography in sign language. Bodleian Library marks 300 years since Bodley built it. it ranks among world’s top libraries. Dr Schubert claims Sappho poems found in a sixth or seventh century manuscript in Berlin. Leygues to issue an official French grammar and revise other grammars.
The article notes wide dialect variety in China, Bombay mortality at 102.23 per 1,000 with 79,350 deaths in the year ending June 31, 1901, and describes cultural items such as Japan’s kagura-taiko drum and Chinese kin lute. It mentions apples flourishing in Hokkaido, older cities possibly surpassing Damascus, Adam as a town-site founder in Moslem tradition, and Calcutta facing danger to the Ochterlong monument site for Lord Curzon’s Victoria memorial hall.
A Washington Star anecdote recounts Justice Brewer and other justices joking in private sessions. An Indiana justice of the peace jokes about preserving peace on the boundary fence between Indiana and Ohio and falls off as he proclaims losing jurisdiction.
A humorous note from Town Topics describes a mistress asking for eggs and a butler replying that the cook and chambermaid are playing ping-pong with them, illustrating a playful domestic moment.
It cures hot sweating calloused and swollen feet while you walk. Sold by all druggists price 25 cents. Don’t accept substitutes. Trial package free. Address Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The Chicago Daily News notes He Miss Fadden becoming famous as an antiquarian. A humorous exchange implies her age is well known. The ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee for curing a cold in one day at 25 cents.
A collection of brief quotes and medical ads from early 20th century newspapers. Highlights include Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer promising cures with a free trial bottle, a quip about a marriage as a merger, and light humor about barbers and carpenters alongside stock endorsements like Piso's Cure for Consumption and humorous shark sayings.
Mrs Anna McKay of Toronto writes praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing severe female troubles after seven months of use. She describes prior inflammation weakness and flooding, and thanks the medicine for restoring health and strength, urging others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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