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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1905
Page
8
The Shropshire is praised as a versatile, profitable sheep suitable for many conditions. It yields many lambs, strong nursing ewes, high priced mutton, and top show performance, with breeders worldwide embracing it for efficiency and beauty.
Cor. Breeder's Gazette advises fattening older cows by turning them dry and grazing on grass with pumpkins and green corn fodder. Sweet corn is preferred. if not too old, cows can fatten at low cost. It is not profitable to keep cows aged and worn unless they have value as breeders.
A Good Horse argues that individual excellence is the first requirement of a good horse and that a horse with true qualities will speak for itself, making pedigrees less decisive in selling him. The piece reflects Farmers Advocate’s stance on evaluating horses by merit beyond lineage.
Farm Home extols Berkshires as matured, high quality pork producers with strong mothers and early finishing, praising pasture setups of bluegrass and clover, sow care at farrowing, and careful breeding ages. Cor from Northwestern Agriculturist and Farmers Advocate offers gilt age guidance and pig growth cautions.
A Flamingo seeks a nurse and hires a gray cat Pussy Gray who boasts sixteen kittens raised. She carries a Flamingo baby by the neck, leading to injury and the nurse quitting in a dramatic quarrel that ends with the Flamingo parent blaming herself for leaving the club.
Necoupee Michigan April 24 Ice and lake blockades clog Lake Superior steamers delaying ore shipments. With boats scarce, docks fill, trains cut, and loading halted as miners and vesselmen face a curtailed season and widespread idleness.
Johnstown New York April 24 Charles Hollenbeck a 48 year old glove cutter died after drinking carbolic acid in a drug store while discussing the suicide of Mrs Sadie Me Cartin. Hollenbeck worked for the Johnstown branch of Wertheimer company once employed by the woman in New York. He asked to see carbolic acid and drank it before help could intervene.
Post Office Inspector Fletcher arrested Royal C Hammer in Indianapolis for violating interstate commerce laws. More than 1 000 lottery tickets were found on his person.
Classified note directs readers to contact Marbourg and Helwick for feed sourcing noting phone number 265 and a reference 84 tf a for internal lookup or ordering details.
KE H Wolfe of Bear Grove Iowa credits Electric Bitters with a complete cure from kidney trouble after two years of pain and anxiety. He praises them for general debility and nerve trouble and keeps a supply on hand. J H Stewart, a local druggist, guarantees them at 50 cents.
Special train departs Washington at 8 05 a m on Wednesday April 26 to Davenport for the O F celebration. Return from Davenport at 2 midnight same day. Round trip fare 1 50. Signed 563 H W Russe.
Iowa Central lowers one way rates to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and other western points on sale daily to May 15 with through tourist cars to California. Agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis provide full particulars. Also special April settlers fares to northern Minnesota Dakota and Canadian Northwest with round trips at one fare plus two dollars valid up to twenty one days. Through trains to St Paul with Union Depot connections.
Advertises Liquozone as a non toxic germ killer and nerve and blood food derived from oxygen gas. Claims two years of testing with physicians and hospitals, offers $1000 for any germ it cannot kill, lists numerous diseases it supposedly treats and promotes the product as a universal health tonic.
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