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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1914
Page
3
The Shropshire sheep is described with refined head and balanced features. It is noted for a dense woolly covering, curved ears, a strong neck, and a round, ribbed body with a smooth back. The breed emphasizes symmetry and an alert stance typical of cultivated stock.
A jumble of professional listings and ads including attorneys at law SOPER & ALEXANDER, physicians and surgeons, veterinarians, and a drug ad for Foley products. Also railway timetables, land settlement notices, and promotional material for homestead opportunities in Oregon and tobacco sales from Hemet Tobacco Co.
A New York sheep grower states Shropshires top profits among mutton breeds. He notes they eat less, yield more wool, and produce multiple lambs. He managed 160 breeding ewes, all suckling, averaging eleven pounds of wool and about one and a half lambs per ewe. Shropshires are good mothers, milk well, long lived, and can be run in large groups without neck goitre.
The text outlines ideal wool and mutton traits for a sheep breed, detailing fleece density color and body proportions from nose to belly. It shifts to a discussion of the word lady and its decline, citing 17th and 19th century civility rules and a Times advertisement offering etiquette advice for meetings with ladies and gentlewomen.
The tale recalls Napoleon ordering a watch from Breguet for his brother Joseph. The back bore blue enamel with a J and diamonds. In 1813 a dispatch at Vittoria showed the French defeat. Napoleon, reading it, told his secretary he would not want the watch, a tale ending with the watch possibly bought by the Duke of.
A recent tip describes a passenger joy on deck as eight bells sound aboard a New York liner. A crew member excuses herself to take her watch below after a moment of suspense. Tracy Lavin is noted for watching the striking clock, underscoring a curious onboard moment.
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