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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1918
Page
2
Brief record of passing events in this and foreign countries. The column notes obituaries and deaths of notable individuals, with terse summaries and dates. It lists geographic regions and highlights international notices alongside national notices, reflecting a concise wire-service style.
Allies stronger than central powers on western front. News from Paris and London describe heavy artillery duels on the Alsace Verdun fronts and submarine activity. Tuscania torpedoing death toll and American survivors noted. Western aviation and rail news include a Pike’s Peak Highway meeting and mining court ruling. Boulder and Denver reports on sports and hunting events.
Late market quotations list varied figures for livestock, poultry, produce, and other commodities. Entries include prices for live poultry and turkeys, beans, cabbage, carrots, celery, onions, and wool, with regional notes and unit measures across markets.
A historical poultry bulletin advises using dust baths for hens to deter lice and mites. It notes sodium fluoride as a treatment, the use of dry dirt or red dust, and a box for dusting in the coop. It emphasizes keeping hens pest free to protect egg production and comfort.
Keep hens confined to your land and avoid a male bird. Provide a dry ventilated shelter and a separate grass plot. Maintain clean housing and yard with roosts and dropping boards. Grow greens, spade the yard often, and feed table scraps for efficient backyard poultry.
A U S Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 801 promotes sodium fluoride as an effective lice remedy for poultry. One application costs about half a cent per bird and directions are provided for applying it and keeping coops mite free. The article details treatments using blue ointment and mercury ointment with vaseline, and suggests kerosene or coal tar products to eradicate mites by spraying roosts and nests, repeating treatment every week to ten days.
Farmers are urged to provide ventilation in poultry houses to keep air pure and the interior dry. Poor ventilation reduces egg production and can cause illness. in cold weather keep doors and windows open enough to avoid moisture and frost buildup, widening openings when needed to prevent damp conditions.
A sweep of Arizona items notes a lodge organized in Casa Grande and a rash of local scorchers from scarlet fever fears in Jerome to a Phoenix Elks home project valued at 150000 dollars. Governor Hunt names regents, new school appointments, and state officials like J. W. Brown join boards while parole-like war news sweeps through Jerome and Bisbee.
William Frederick, a New York salesman, has memorized the entire Bible in eighteen years and can cite any passage with book, chapter, and verse. A prior memory feat by an eighteenth century strolling player ended after eleven years with two thirds of the Old Testament learned.
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