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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1910
Page
6
Dairy expert recounts a management system to feed fresh cows with a grain program that starts light and gradually increases to peak milk output. By weighing milk response, adjust rations in small increments, balancing protein and energy, and tapering as production climbs, while monitoring seasonality and pasture.
A wandering traveler stranded over Sunday in a nearby town discovers prizes for knocking over rag dolls with baseballs. After many tries he fails to win, then writes home lamenting missing his children all afternoon.
A passage from Pope stresses that virtue and worth, not rank, define man. Fortune alters outward form from monarch to cobbler, but true stature comes from character. wealth and status are only leather or prunella in the end.
A drunk young man, after a night of whisky, sought the undertaker George at 3 a.m. He woke George from his sleeping quarters above the shop. George misread the bell before recognizing his intoxicated friend Frank who declared George the best man to do business with.
In London Charles Frohman John Drew Charles B Dillingham and Finley Peter Dunne planned a last minute dash to Epsom for the Derby They sought a special train from Waterloo but the line was blocked Frohman said he wanted it for last Saturday and declined the offer with casual restraint.
A young doctor newly practicing in a country town devised a bold advertising scheme. He was called out during sermons three times, and on the third interruption the minister halted services to pray for the “unfortunate patient” Bolus plans.
A Chicago furniture exhibition scene features a young man noting his temper on a faultless telephone call. He rages at a central operator who responds with calm humor revealing a picture discovered on a lobster can rather than the Furniture Journal.
In a small county town Smith and Jones pushy dealers tempt farmers with overprices. Bill Sackett tests five axes, offers fifty cents each for five, buys them for a dollar and suggests sharing the money between the two sellers as the crowd reacts with laughter.
Tom Reed and a companion spent an evening at the Cumberland club in Portland. After leaving, a mistaken pocketbook appeared in the cloakroom. Reed advised keeping the pocketbook and returning to the smoking room, a plan meant to avoid drawing attention.
George Ade, early in his career, visits a Chicago Sunday editor on behalf of a theatrical manager. The editor dismisses the manuscript and suggests selling the comic farce to an undertaker to be read at funerals, prompting Ade to smile and depart.
A domestic dispute over revised Bible versions ends humorously when a man reads the line about a wife reverencing her husband. The wife, aiming to please, follows the newer teaching only to be startled by the revised wording which commands the wife to fear her husband. The moment underscores tensions between old and new editions in family practice.
The lesson on the marriage feast parable warns of human indifference to God’s kingdom and carnal plans. It links Adam and Eve’s story to Christ and the church, notes brides like Rebecca and Ruth as types, and stresses readiness and provided wedding garments for guests who accept the invitation.
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