Congress in Slocson Again Faces Troubles Ahead
The Sixty first congress opens amid turbulence with Speaker Cannon and President Taft clashing with insurgents over rules and policy. Key issues include the Nicaraguan question, railroad policy, subsidies, civil service access, and Aldrich monetary commission's potential central bank study.
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Cannon
Aldrich Monetary Commission
Washington
Dee
Sixty-first Congress
Uncle Joe
Champ Clark
Custom House
Treasury
Joe Speaker
Congress
Taft
Danville
Straight Homer leads in squab breeding and marketing
A column discusses poultry breeds favoring the straight Homer as the most productive and cost effective squab breeder, comparing it to Runts Dragoon and Duchess lines while warning against inferior stock. It also riffs on the concept of a preachers trust and ends with the phrase In God we trust.
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Dragoons
Meat Handling Instructions for Quail butchering and Packing
Step by step directions describe catching bloodletting and plucking quails four weeks old. It covers head removal by knife brain incision cooling methods and pulling feathers including wings tails and pinfeathers. It ends with cleaning washing and icing the birds for market and notes a production rate of twelve squads per hour.
Ducks Stir Up Mud on Wash Day Warning
A playful notice warns against disruptive poultry behavior and vanity on a neighbor’s wash day. It cautions ducks and birds, advises avoiding cocky posing, and stresses mastering old breeds before changing them, noting the risk of the latter not flattering.
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Roosevelt
Pigeon House Building Pointers for Loft Design and Care
Guidance for constructing a pigeon loft with level draining, porous surroundings, south facing position, and wind relief. Details cover dimensions for a 50 pair loft, foundation on concrete piers, timber choices, room layout, doors with springs, ventilator placement, nest arrangement, cleaning features, fly area size, and sand maintenance to keep birds healthy.
Dusting Methods for Chicken Lice Rated by Efficacy
The text compares methods for lice control in poultry, noting that a powder gun is too nice a tool while powder dusting by hand or machine effectively kills lice. it uses a simile involving sparrows and a dense jungle to emphasize practicality.
Canadians claim mosquitoes spread chickenpox among fowls
The text satirically argues against disease spread from mosquitoes to chickens and mocks farmers, poultrymen, and middlemen. It references eco stores, show birds, feathering, and a Philadelphia woman profiting from selling washed produce, ending with a note on egg shipments and crossroad store profits.
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Paradise
Philadelphite
Crossroads Country Stores
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Aldrich
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Big
Sub Rosa
Teddy TR
Angels
Shining and
The
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Perfection
Nickel
Japan
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
the Citizens Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Dr. D. Arthaud
Osteopath
Kirksville
M. Terry Ventist
West
Washington Street
Washington, Lowa
Ray H. Dean
Cook & Sherman’s Drug Store
Iowa
Crla
T. C. i. Main Line
Etijoh
Golden State Lin
Sun
Golden State Lim
Aim
Ebruay
Lo’west Lim
Chicago Mosse
Milwaukee Moise
Lo'west Lim
Brighton
Peoria Express
Sun Peoria Lim
A. J. Morris
A. B. Cutts
G. P. & T. A. Brighton
Minneapolis, Minn
WYETH
Stephen Bacon
Rochester, N. Y
New Fork
Monroe
Mm Stephen Bacon
Henry W. HA
McElhinney Drug CO
Foleys
Orino
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Clifford Thorne
Court House
J. J. Kellogg
South Side Square
E. J. Harpieier
North Side Square
W. H. Butterfield
Crail
Lowa
Eicher & Livingston
LAW
Charles A. Dewey
Office Temple Building
Washington, Ia
C. J. Wilson
Lawyers
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W. M. Keeley
E.D. Morrison
P. J. Hanley
D. F. Macon
Macon
Eowa
Austin
Sutherland
School of
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