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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1905
Page
8
Mrs. R. A. Riley, delegate from the Degree of Honor lodge in this city, travels to Cedar Rapids to participate in a Grand Lodge session with other members and officers.
Beginning April 10 the Rock Island offers excursions to Los Angeles San Francisco and California nets at 855.65 round trip. Travel via any car route return by same path. Board at Washington and enjoy access until reaching destination in sunny California. For details contact H. W. Russel agent by phone mail or wire.
The Toulouse goose is the most popular variety, known for rapid growth and large size. It averages 18 to 20 pounds, with gray feathering and reddish orange bills, lays 20 to 40 eggs per season, and is quiet and easy to care for. Farmers hatch most eggs with hens, raise in movable pens, and finish fattening with a grain beef-scrap mix to about 10 percent beef scraps.
Homer W. Jackson advises National Stockman readers to darken nests and implant doctored eggs in nests. He suggests filling shells with a cayenne paste and replacing them after hens lay, followed by two or three such eggs to break the habit. Provide activity and oyster shells to prevent shell breakage temptation.
A Western Poultry Journal excerpt argues bran provides more lime than other grain byproducts and that the lime in the food is digested better than oyster shells. It adds that clover in a bran mash can supply lime, potentially removing the need for additional minerals.
The Journal of Board of Agriculture notes apoplexy from overfeeding starch can be fatal but sometimes cured. For valuable birds, cut a large wing vein, cool the head briefly, then feed sparingly on soft foods. Give five grains of potassium bromide daily if recovery signs appear.
A small early planted lettuce bed yields feed for many young chicks in spring and proves easily obtainable as a source of nourishment for the flock.
A shy young Virginian Jefferson overcomes doubt after Aunt Charlotte and a bold phrase help her reshape confidence. During a failed music teaching attempt in Philadelphia she repeats the hard words that unlock her future, prompting Mrs Delmore to hire her and mark a turning point in her life.
A Leslie magazine writer recounts a tale where a student asks Esquirol if any tests reveal sanity. After a dinner, the student claims the quiet well dressed man is sane and the loud one a lunatic. Esquirol reveals both men reveal deeper delusions: the calm man believes himself God the Father, the other is the celebrated writer Balanc.
In a North woods camp a bag of filberts almonds and nuts was hung for safety. The next day friends learned the bag had been opened by a hole and the contents were missing. The following day the nuts appeared stored in rubber boots, a cache by the squirrels for winter.
A public execution in New London Conn revealed an accomplice. Just before the hanging a stranger whispered Goodbye Dennis Dont blame me. The remark led to the stranger s arrest, conviction, and execution for complicity in the same crime as Dennis.
Ephraim Jones, a young black boy who loves fishing, searches for big bait. He mistakes a snake for a worm and is warned the creature is strong. The snake reveals itself as the bait and offers to eat him, but spares him. Eph returns home deciding to use dough balls and grasshoppers.
A brief ad notes The Fitch Dandruff Cure offered by leading barber shops and The McElhinney Drug Co on the north side square with address 38 40, promoting payment upon cure.
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