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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1927
Page
6
Tires demand driver attention to cut tire mileage costs. Check for cuts or embedded debris, monitor proper inflation weekly, and avoid over or underinflation. Balloon tires require gentler air pressures, while cord tires need careful pressure to prevent side-wall damage and reduced ride quality.
The National Safety Council urges regular car inspections to reduce crashes. It cites faulty equipment as a major cause and advises brakes, chains in bad weather, clean plates, quiet mufflers, bumpers, and routine overhauls.
Military traffic orders require drivers to yield, slow to half speed on narrow or rough roads and halt only when necessary. No stopping on bridges, bends, or narrow sections. Horns to be restrained and fast-moving vehicles avoided to preserve life and equipment.
Experts at a London luncheon celebrating the fall automobile show declared brunettes are steadier at the wheel than blondes, while men are more careful drivers overall. It was also noted that one in four women in England knows how to drive a motor car.
National Automobile club safety bureau warns that reckless passing on blind turns endangers all. A group of reporters observed a driver who slows on straightaways then speeds to pass near curves, risking crashes and innocent victims. Licenses should be forfeited for such dangerous skill lapses.
Advice describes adding an auxiliary air inlet to a vacuum operated windshield wiper system to gain better fuel efficiency on long trips. It suggests connecting a petcock in the rubber hose line to route air for potential mileage improvement.
Instruction describes pulling the hose end from the wiper to admit extra air into the manifold by actuating the petcock. The illustration demonstrates the arrangement as shown in Popular Science Monthly.
A garbled column offers car tips and jumbled anecdotes about driving. It mentions tire care temperature effects on rubber, warns against mismatched rear tires, and notes odd repair ideas. A court ruling allegedly grants a man the right to drive without assistance and references an improvised gas-leak check.
North Carolina experts warn pasture alone fails to maximize hog profits as markets strengthen. W W Shay notes high hog prices may not last, urging farmers to balance corn with proper supplementation to avoid losses and capitalize on favorable market conditions.
Kentucky trials show 800 to 1,000 pound Tennessee steers fed 112 to 152 days on silage and grain perform better when legume hay replaces allage near the end. Hay-finishing produced fatter cattle and larger gains, though at higher hay cost, yet profits per head rose by 1.87 over three years. Legume hay plus reduced cottonseed meal maintained protein with gains of 2.54 lb vs 2.05 lb daily in all-silage feeding.
Fresh whole milk is the preferred feed for calves raised for veal. Calves are milked from dairy cows or fed after being placed with a cow, aiming for six to eight weeks old at sale. Experiments show about ten pounds of milk yield one pound of gain in the first 90 days, meaning a 75 pound calf requires roughly 760 pounds of milk to reach 150 pounds for market.
The article notes oats are a top grain for horses and can be fed heavily without indigestion because the hull keeps the stomach from packing. It also suggests oats may boost spirit compared with other grains but reports a trial where the oat mix caused slightly poorer conditions than a gluten meal and linseed blend, which was cheaper.
Lord Frederic Hamilton, a British envoy, claims he introduced skis to Canada in January 1887. He describes coasting on Ottawa slopes and facing disbelief that skis would suit Canadian conditions compared with raquettes.
Kirby Brown writes to the Church To rush whether the Fee Fee Baptist church organized in 1807 at Pattonville should be titled the oldest Protestant church west of the Mississippi. Reports cite the First Presbyterian church at about 110 years old as contending. The argument rests on continuous services versus periods of Pattonville closure during the Civil War.
An old Bell-Ans advertisement touts Bell-Ans as a non laxative remedy for correcting over acidity and quickly relieving belching gas heartburn nausea biliousness and other digestive disorders. It promises value from thirty years of use and offers free samples from Bell & Co Inc Orangeburg New York.
A London TeBite excerpt describes a middle aged man seated near a dancing space in a dim venue. A young woman breaks line to tug his hair playfully prompting a brief look of annoyance before the mood eases.
A fragmented dialogue shows a person saying they bought the car to borrow money, while another implies a different motive. The text is garbled and ambiguous with no verifiable entities or clear narrative.
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