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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1908
Page
8
Copyright notice states articles and illustrations by C M Barnitz from 1908 must not be re printed without special permission. It appears as a publication disclaimer regarding reprint rights and ownership.
A poem narrates a preacher confronting chicken thieves in a farmyard heist. The preacher uses pistols to confront the robbers, lining up a warning and executing a fatal shot as dawn breaks. The thieves confront mortality and the preacher returns the hens to safety.
Advice on feeding and selecting turkeys from free range. Limit strong grain to fresh breeders and fattening pens. prepare breeders with a balanced three part ration of wheat oats and corn with waste apples and boiled potatoes plus grit and coal. Manage market birds by finishing with old corn and occasional oats and wheat. Feed warm scalded wheat for finish and prefer medium sized birds for holidays.
Step by step guide to conducting a chicken post mortem from plucking to examining organs. It details checking crop, gizzard, liver, heart, lungs, intestines, egg organs, brain, and signs of diseases like tuberculosis or tumors, noting indicators of sudden death or apoplexy.
Advice warns against closed bands and urges keeping records of top squab producers and breeding from their young. Emphasizes varied feeding, disciplined rationing, participation in fairs, persistence amid skeptics, and applying the Golden Rule in sales to grow a successful pigeon business.
Description of a fresh air scratch shed house for chickens with a 20 by 12 main area, a 12 by 12 scratch shed, and a roost room. Capacity listed as thirty Plymouth Rocks or thirty five Leghorns with a screened front.
The article explains managing roost room windows with curtains to protect fowls in frost and extreme cold. It advises keeping a thermometer, closing curtains at freezing, and dropping the front curtain when zero or below. It suggests building roost rooms side by side and offering compact two pen sheds for multiple breeds.
A practical inexpensive poultry house features hinged muslin frame fronts, dust baths, nests, roost drop curtains, and screened open fronts. Dimensions include 25 by 12 for sheds and 10 by 12 roost rooms, with a solid partition and curtains for roost windows.
A column argues for enforcing weight standards on breeds like Wyandottes and Leghorns to curb showy but impractical feathering. It critiques current breeders for prioritizing fancy plumage over egg and meat merit, notes penalties for stealing poultry in Missouri, and points to price and market impacts for farmers and packers, urging cautious investment in trends.
Three barns in Boonville area destroyed by fire of mysterious origin. Clemor Gentry’s barn near Folsomville held about a thousand dollars worth of tobacco tied to a pooled crop dispute. A log barn on William Folsom’s farm and another owned by W H Thompson near Stanley also burned, with tobacco losses and ongoing speculation about motives.
Maurice Haas, who tried to assassinate Francis J. Heney, killed himself in his county jail cell by shooting the midface with a concealed pistol. Heney’s condition is reported as satisfactory with good recovery progress and no extraction of the embedded bullet planned yet.
College football results list key games played on November 16. Cornell and Chicago tied 6–6 in Chicago. Illinois defeated Purdue 15–5. Pennsyl vania shut out Michigan 29–0 at Ann Arbor. Dartmouth beat Harvard 6–0 at Cambridge. Washington and Jefferson and the Cadets tied 6–6 at West Point. Penn State edged by Middies 5–0 at Annapolis. Pittsburgh topped Carlisle 6–0. Princeton defeated Vale 11–6 at Princeton University.
Springfield announces Thanksgiving Day set for Thursday November 26 as Governor Deneen calls on Illinoians to give thanks for material prosperity and a growing moral responsibility guiding progress.
Morocco Indiana November 16 James Robertson a gardener has harvested Japanese popcorn. The largest ears are about an inch long and as thick as a reed pipe stem, needing 350 to 400 ears to make a half bushel. He says it pops better than rice popcorn and has a fine flavor.
In Dayton Ohio on November 16, Austin Turney a 42 year old blacksmith shot and fatally wounded his wife in front of his 73 year old deaf father He then shot himself in the head with a revolver The self inflected wound is expected to be fatal
Aaron A Parker longtime incorporator and president of the White Star Line river excursion steamers in Detroit has died at his home from valvular heart disease. Born in Hamburg New York he was sixty four years old.
Paris Illinois with 5000 residents endures a water famine caused by a long drought. The state board of health orders police to run the town's two wells and distribute water impartially to all residents.
Laurene Funke, the thirteenth child of Brewmaster Funke of the Furniture City Brewing company, died Friday after only one day of illness. All of Funke’s other children are dead.
Inspector McCafferty and other officials warn cigarettes fuel crime and nerves, citing Harry Thaw and Captain Hains as smokers. The piece urges youths to quit cigarettes, recommending pipes or cigars, and describes nicotine’s damaging effects on nerves and behavior.
Chicago hosts the Catholic missionary congress of the United States and Canada with over sixty archbishops bishops and abbots from the United States Mexico and Canada. Archbishop Falconio leads the plenary service at the Cathedral of the Holy Name as dignitaries pass through cheering crowds.
President Roosevelt attended the Episcopal high school annual athletic day in Alexandria with Mrs. Roosevelt. He watched the high hurdle winner in the rain and spoke to the boys from Blackford hall urging fair play, hard effort, and integrity in competition and business.
The article lists home remedies for animal ailments including horses, cows, pigs and colts. It recommends baking soda for horse colic, nitrate of potash for congested udder, iodine ointment for udder care, wax v omica and gaultheria with cod liver oil for pig paralysis, a worm powder mix for colts, oxide of zinc for cowpox, hygiene for milkers, and wood ash given to horses mixed in oats.
Walter and Will Nichols suffer a fatal fall from a car in Spokane. Episcopal Bishop Rev Edward J Knight dies of typhoid in Glenwood Springs at age 44. Balloon race postponed due to unusual conditions from Los Angeles. American Prison Association meets in Richmond. Ex Governor R B Smith of Montana critically ill in Kalispell hospital. Percy Madiera dines with President Roosevelt. Northern Virginia snowbound. Divorce granted to Mrs Farnum from Dustin Farnum in New York. France sees 2,776,180 wagered on horse races. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia dies in Paris at 58. Francisco L de la Barra named Mexican ambassador to Washington.
Vienna reports Baron Richard von Bienerth has formed a new cabinet with himself as premier after the cabinet resigned November 7 amid dissensions between German and Czech ministers following racial unrest in Prague and Bohemian towns.
In Duluth Minnesota on November 16 Frank McLeod and Ralph Hynes both twelve years old drowned while skating on the artificial lake of the Great Northern Power company.
A London News note traces wigs overtaking trousers as a bold fashion shift during a return to nature preceding the French Revolution. It cites Louis XIV’s baldness as a possible spark and notes wigs lasted over a century in England while trousers were scarce a century ago.
A humorous exchange has Blanche declaring hopelessness after a lesson. A wife asks if her friend knows card values and she replies that cards are worth about a quarter a pack, prompting laughter from the husband and bystanders.
The first time Johnny wore pants he proudly paraded, showed off to us, then walked the chicken yard. He stood before the chickens and asked them in a straight voice if they knew him.
The Rev A LeGrand delivered a morning sermon using II Kings 6 15 on nearer home and unseen forces shaping life The talk urged faith in spiritual and natural forces to gain serenity and courage and yield to God s will for blessing An evening discourse titled Take my yoke upon you and a quartet performance of May I Come in completed the service
The American Bible Society and a local chapter aim to raise 500000 from Mrs. Russell Sage to match a similar donation. They have distributed 82000000 Scriptures and receive 30000 annually from permanent funds, which covers only a portion of Bible purchases. Subscriptions are open, contributions can be given to ministers, J A Y Ashby, or John Shields.
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