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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1909
Page
8
Methods of producing beef explained by C V Gregory with emphasis on two paths. Crowd calves from birth to eighteen months for baby beef or buy young cattle, feed, and sell later. As western ranges shrink, farmers are advised to raise cattle themselves and market as baby beef using dual purpose cows.
A detailed guide on calf rearing and steer feeding outlines milk transition from whole to skim milk, early grain and forage mixes, and gradual on feed strategies. It compares fall versus spring calf entry, stresses uniformity and beef-type conformation, and explains margins, costs, and the benefit of long versus short finish feeding.
Puzzle notes describe Word Square items with clues like Inevitable necessity and related. Beheadment asks for four words all meaning border, transforms begin from power symbol to sweetness resort of revelers violent peaks musical sounds and a cant term for the original word.
A fragment from a paragram imagines Solomon commenting on speaking minds today. The lines hint at miscommunication and a father attempting to fix a four-in-hand. The text is fragmentary and withheld from a complete narrative.
After recovering her flock, Little Bo Peep stages a scene showing how to pen ten sheep using three straight marks. The demonstration uses simple lines to separate each sheep into its own pen on stage.
A word riddle where the first relates to respect, the second to vows, the third to sport or quarrel, and the whole means necessary to finish work quickly and well. The answer ties together a sign of respect, a nunic vow, a weapon of old, and a call to complete labor efficiently.
A palindromic four digit number has its first two digits divisible by a certain divisor to yield 9 as quotient, and its last two digits divisible by a (possibly same or different) divisor to yield the same or another quotient, forming a mathematical puzzle.
A number has the property that when divided by 9 the quotient contains a zero. When multiplied by 9 the product has two zeros. If the left two digits are placed under the right two and added, the sum equals one nineteenth of the whole number. Determine the number.
A riddle describes a single head and one eye yet no proper limb, a voice but no speech, a fast or slow hum. It has a table to work on and is fed when active yet never led, living in a palace or lamp shelter, and always made to work in its jot. Guess the name the poem hints at.
The page shows puzzle numbers 400 through 465 including Hideen ties with city names such as Madison Phoenix Raleigh and Sacramento. It lists Candy Puzzle Marshmallow molasses gumdrop and other confections. Also No 461 Double Acrostic with words Canada Imperial Nautilus and others. No 462 Authoer s Puzzle mentions Jonah and John Howard Dayne. No 464 Hidden Parts of a Tree leaves roots and bark. No 465 Charade You nigh Ted states United States. The line “To it ever so humble there s no place like home” appears as a quotation.
A limericklike exchange shows a father asking his daughter about a split and quipping that a certain caller will be absent for a few nights. The tone hints at domestic humor and a playful twist on goodbyes within the family.
The fertilizing virtues of volcanic ash are being recognized in the United States as commission merchants receive orders for it. The piece notes ash as a soil improver and hints at rising interest among buyers and farmers in applying volcanic ash to improve fertility and crop yields.
The piece extols the Sunday school as a major national institution with 1,450,535 officers and teachers guiding 12,272,657 pupils weekly. It highlights vast print circulation of study materials, substantial monetary receipts, and the role in shaping good citizenship through Christian ethics taught to over 12.6 million children each Sunday.
A humorous gag exchanges between a doormat push button and a cushion and egg with voice lines about being trodden on and pressed. The snippets come from the Kansas City Star and Boston Transcript.
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