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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1912
Page
7
An easterner recounts a humorous lesson in southern cunning. A boy sold sandwiches on a train but the interior lacked ham and used turnips, prompting passengers to discard them. Razorback hogs learned the train’s stopping point and gathered the tossed sandwiches, a local conductor noting the hogs’ precise timing and distance.
The Manchester Guardian notes journalists have an officially chosen patron, St Francis de Sales, per a decree requested by Continental journalists. St Francis, author of The Devout Life, is praised for his literary merit and incisive approach to serious matters through engaging anecdotes.
A Youngstown Telegraph style quip recounts the Curbstone club debate on living costs and high prices. An ancient carpenter notes hens overproducing eggs due to a sign that reads Eggs 10 come a dozen, while a broker jokes about prices and hens working nights.
The only ceremony at a school teacher's funeral in an Austrian village featured a talking machine rendering Eine Feste Burg while a choir of male voices accompanied. A firm now offers futuristic funeral music, solo to chorus, claiming to cover universal and church music. Vienna notes the trend could render old methods obsolete, calling the talking machine sermon concise and unemotional.
Two friends, Jack and James, dine regularly. On a dark night Jack uses a stable lantern to find James's house and they have a fine meal. The next morning James sends a note asking for the lantern back and the parrot that he claims as debt.
Mise Ivy Brayton Hodge, famed west women dreamers, responds to a toast at a commercial travelers banquet in Chicago. In the girl drummer's case, however, it’s her cheek that’s cited.
Agricultural officials estimate dirty eggs cost U S farmers about 3 000 000 annually. In wet weather hens' muddy feet soil nests and more eggs become dirty. Insufficient nests and overcrowded broodys raise dirties, which lower prices even if the cleaned eggs remain fresh.
Practical poultrymen welcome the new reading nest designed to simplify keeping individual records. Invented by two experienced poultrymen, the nests align with each hen and ease tracking without trapping. The device is praised as a neat, practical success replacing traditional trap nests.
The piece notes rising egg prices and advises on feeding hens with salt and pepper in mash, long-term feeding for egg production, and profitable turkey breeding up to year five or six. It also stresses separating ill turkeys, duck and goose water needs, humane care for hens to boost performance, separating males after breeding, and selecting breeders and culling excess stock for next winter.
Advert reads Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pills as remedies for stomach weakness, liver laziness, and related health issues. Claims include boosting digestion, blood quality, and overall vigor, with asserted authentic ingredients and sworn attestations.
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