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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
6
A collage of wry observations on topics from baseball pennants and cooking gloves to census needs and truth. It jokes about hip pockets, whisky, sun spots, rain, dieting myths, sophomores, radium cures, and art, ending with a quip on politeness in sales.
An article excerpt features H Fletcher Hallamore praising ALLEN'S Foot-Hose antiseptic powder for dancers. He claims ten years of use keeps feet cool and friction down, preventing corns and foot ache, and recommends it to pupils. The note is signed and includes a brief address reference.
In a quiet domestic moment a father drinks bitter coffee as his son accuses him of swallowing a lie. The elder answers that it is not the first lie he has swallowed, revealing a long habit of enduring inconvenient truths.
A patient visits Dr Weir Mitchell who, upon finding him closing a bundle of resignations from committees and boards, gleefully declares his plan to retire from public duties. He tells his wife he wants the tombstone inscription to read Committeed to the grave.
A Tennessee woman recounts leaving coffee and using Postum to cure digestive and sleep issues. She credits weight gain and better health to Postum, calling herself a living advertisement. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum with prices and brewing notes.
North Carolina high court upholds a $100000 bond issue by Gastonia under special authority for streets schools waterworks and lights. The ruling says schools not part of necessary corporate expenses, yet Gastonia’s bonds stand despite a bank query. The docket includes other appeals and charter actions across the state.
Dr. James F. Royster, seven years on UNC faculty and current head of English, will sever his official capacities in June to take the professorship of English at the University of Texas. Announcement came from acting president E. K. Graham. North Carolina loses a leading scholar.
The State Firemen's Association schedules August 4 8 events in Winston-Salem with business sessions August 3 and a tournament and entertainment for visitors. Mayor Eaton will give the welcome and contests include fire apparatus handling hand reel grab reel and horse wagon races with substantial prizes totaling 1500.
A large crowd joined the Confederate Memorial Day observance organized by the Ladies' Memorial Association in Raleigh. Gen William Haywood Rufin of Louisburg was the orator with Hon J S Manning introducing him, and the procession moved from the city to the cemetery for ceremonies.
Advice on keeping hens busy with varied rations to prevent egg laying issues. Frights and housing changes can delay laying and cause dead eggs. Do not mix hens with pullets, and avoid overfeeding or fattening fowls. Provide shell-building nutrients, fresh water, and adequate exercise with hard grains.
W E Vaplon argues feed is less a cause of chick mortality than other factors. He notes turkeys suffer most from lice and maternal care, praises cracked wheat or corn with alfalfa range, keeping hens in coops, and feeding milk as a tonic. He recommends loose dirt baths, twice daily feeding, and letting dad plow to expose grain.
A poultry feeding note describes an incentive mix to encourage scratching. The suggested blend totals 21 pounds and includes wheat six pounds cracked corn six oats four kafir or mile one barley two buckwheat one and coarse beef scrap one. The goal is to prompt hens to work for the scattered grains.
All duck raisers who produce many ducks each season hatch and rear them artificially. Some large duck farms hatch rear and market as many as a hundred thousand ducklings in one season.
Geese eggs hatch best under a broody hen or goose, though incubators can work. Incubation is rarely necessary and advice favors natural incubation when possible.
A fragmentary passage notes blotches on limbs as a metaphor for the unreliability of what seems certain. The text hints at ambiguity and the difficulty of predicting outcomes.
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