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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
10
Practical guidance for chicken keepers on raising birds for pleasure while boosting earnings. Includes breed selection, feeding, housing, and market factors to improve returns. Emphasizes cost control, disease prevention, and efficient selling channels for hobbyists.
Practical guidance on poultry health and husbandry from L Kempster Missouri College. Includes parasite treatment using turpentine and powdered nut preparations, brooding care, and sanitation. Describes a Missouri University test coop showing open-front housing, green forage, and favorable economics with Leghorn pullets.
Instructions from L Haseman of Missouri College of Agriculture advise controlling mites and lice in fowls by dusting with insect powder and providing dust walls. Emphasizes using kerosene or coal in perches and cracks, cleaning regularly, and keeping chicken houses well lit and ventilated.
A fragmentary note from a historical page mentions tension around a Kansas area and a namesake possibly involved in a towing matter. The text is garbled but hints at a local dispute or incident affecting a community.
Arizona Experiment Station notes eggs are fresh but deteriorate with improper handling and storage. Delays from farm to consumer allow quality loss, while recent disclosures of spoiled eggs used in baking raise consumer fear and lower demand for eggs despite premium prices for best quality.
A note warns that sending poultry to market without proper conditioning wastes money. Poor stock handling increases losses and raises costs, slowing the shipping process and cutting profits.
Casgarets claim twenty million boxes sold annually highlighting a best safe cathartic for liver and bowels. They assert it keeps people well and avoids biliousness, sickness, headaches, or constipation.
Advertisement for Cascarets claiming gentle bowel cleansing and health benefits. Promotes taking one or two at night to wake with clear head breath and cleaned tongue. Encourages purchasing boxes at stores and giving to children for various ailments.
A jumble of items recounts J F Burdette near that city selling apples at 3 50 per barrel, hunters H H Haynes and C D Floyd returning home from Webster County, a claim of a boy and a young man attacked by a wild animal near Killgore’s, memory pieces about a Wheeling menu card and a Baltimore and Ohio train ride, Wheeling traction cars converted to hopper cars, and a severe injury from an electrical wave in Jefferson County.
A Syracuse man suffers a broken leg in a bizarre incident that features an artificial limb. The strangest elements of the case center on the head injury and the controversy surrounding the event.
Fragmentary text shows a courtroom or sports style clash with garbled names like Fawkins and Hawkine. Not enough readable facts to identify a clear event, date, or organizations. The lines hint at a judge and a tent or beam device but lack coherent meaning or context.
An advertisement touts Old Block Joe Cough Syrup as available in small towns villages and city shops. It claims quick relief for all ages with a formula that opens airways relieves throat irritation and kills germs at a price of 36 cents per bottle.
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