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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1904
Page
4
The three year old Emerson Brinning died at his parents home Mr and Mrs Henry Brinning after a ten day pneumonia illness. The funeral will be held tomorrow at eleven o clock at the family residence with interment in Lutheran cemetery Dutch Creek.
The lineup for the Friday 8:30 pm ladies basketball game at the Commercial Club gym features Davenport Girls Alumnae with captain Hertha Emers at center and Nancy Grace Florence Smythe Sadie Silk Elsa Ploehn plus subs Marie Stewart Elma Buzzard. The Academy team from this city presents Porter Sowash Wilcox Matthews Darbyshire Buckley.
The Missionary Society of the Baptist church will host a Japan ese tea entertainment Friday at 2 PM at the home of Mrs Ira Bowman. All church ladies are invited. Julius Conger arrived from Crawfordsville this morning.
Fred Neiswanger of I Neiswanger & Son Granite and Marble Works was pinned by a truck while moving a 1000 pound granite piece with Fred Shoemaker. His right leg suffered a broken bone between the knee and ankle and he faces several weeks of recovery.
A Methodist church reported a very large afternoon crowd with another full house last evening. Miss Patten led the service and Miss Durham delivered the sermon on Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden. Her moving singing of You've carried your burden too long accompanied the appeal, and ten young people went to the altar.
A 15 minute curtain raiser will be played before the ladies game Friday evening by the Senior vs. Junior members of the Club.
London January 27. After a twelve day trial Whitaker Wright promoter was found guilty of fraud on all counts and sentenced to seven years penal servitude. He died in the courthouse ante-room within an hour of sentence. Friends had warned he might kill himself if convicted. Justice Bigham condemned the crime and Wright proclaimed his innocence as he was led away. Inquiries continue into other unrelated incidents.
Reports from Tesanna indicate a full blood Cherokee uprising in Muskogee county. Ketoo Wah band members oppose land allotment and have moved to Greenleaf mountains threatening raids. Snake Indians drill at Flat Rock, stealing cattle and depicting officers in effigy. White civilians are alarmed as tensions rise.
Former Grand Rapids alderman Daniel Lozier changed his plea to guilty on bribery involving a water case. Sentence deferred. Annawan resident Frank Dotander died after being struck by a Rock Island train at Ferguson's Crossing. Kansas City Kansas school board members and a former alderman were indicted on bribery charges.
The article explains a balanced winter ration for chickens, stressing variety over relying on corn. It recommends corn, wheat, oats, barley, millet as grains, with wheat bran for bulk, and adds meat scraps, bones, kitchen waste, cut clover or alfalfa, and straw scratching to mimic natural foraging and prevent excessive fat.
W F Adams writes in Farmer's Voice that feeding cut bone to 100 hens over two years increased profit by about 15 percent. He advises using fresh non boiled bone daily, mixing bone meal with damp feed for growing chicks, and giving hens one tablespoonful two to three times weekly during laying or molting periods.
The Feather features an illustration depicting a proud early form of the true egg producing conformation. The image emphasizes distinctive posture and build associated with productive hens.
The author cites T. K. Orr warning against overestimating “pure bred” flocks. He recalls historical crosses of Light Brahmas with Brown Leghorns and others to improve egg production or body, noting the resulting flock grew chaotic yet contained no dunghill blood. He argues grading up mixed flocks hides unpredictable traits from sires years earlier and that cold blood is easier to erase.
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