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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1906
Page
8
The first Maine Department of Highways report promotes drainage and grade straightening to improve county roads. It urges removing bushes and roots, widening curves, and rebuilding surfaces with compatible materials to prevent ruts and mud, urging staged work and careful rollback of hills.
When rocks are raked from roads they must be gathered and removed. Leaving them beside wheel ruts allows traffic to redeposit them in the road or ditch, requiring rehandling. They should be piled outside the traveled way on the road location and later used for drainage work.
The state of Maine has 2h 529.59 miles of road of all classes. Over the past five years an average annual expenditure of 1 377 396.14 dollars has been made on these highways.
The Feather describes a movable continuous brooder used at the university college poultry farm in England. Built to ride on a square-axle truck, it can be moved to shaded, well-drained yards with green food and protection for chicks from most dangers.
Diarrhea in fowls results from too much or poor quality food or bad drinking water or drafts. Ensure comfort, remove causes, provide pure water, regulate feed, and offer small mash or cooked food with chopped beef. Add oatmeal to water or boiled milk, then give olive oil as a laxative followed by bicarbonate of soda and subnitrate of bismuth in water three times daily.
About thirty members of the Long Island Duck Raisers association met in New York to set the next selling plan. They warn green duck prices will rise next season due to higher labor and feed costs. Growers currently earn 14 to 16 cents per pound, retailers 25 to 30 cents, with talks of growers opening their own stores to bypass intermediaries.
The article states testing eggs under hens is essential and profitable, noting hens are less likely to tramp chicks when relieved of infertile eggs. It describes sharing eggs among three hens, saving two weeks of hen time, and gives a tar paper funnel method to expose eggs to light for testing.
Professor Wheeler notes corn as a preferred chicken feed and finds grains largely interchangeable with many byproducts. Linseed meat from flaxseed oil production varies by process. both forms are excellent. Overfeeding middlings raises small eggs, while barley is good though hulls many. Eggs sold by the pound is unlikely soon. spring chickens hatch February to May and market at two to three pounds.
A frightened horse pulling a buggy carrying three year old Lloyd Whittaker plunged from a thirty foot trestle near Muncie. The child rode to debris atop wreckage as the horse died instantly. Mrs Montgomery and another adult jumped clear. she was dragged and injured during the escape.
Saginaw Michigan Sept 22 The defendant W R Burt testified denying representing the multimillion dollar ore funds near Duluth and calling Humphrey's fee worth less than claimed Burt disputed the 2000 agreement with Humphrey while colleagues estimated Humphrey's services at 100 per day and firm associates at 50 per day The courtroom erupted in laughter as the case unfolded.
In Waukegan Russian fleas, linked to immigrants, grow numerous and disrupt community life. A brass band halted practice on South Geneseo street as fleas drove players to flee. A quarantine proposal against Russian immigrants draws support, though fumigation methods are unknown.
Sept 22 physicians report that Peter Wilcox a prominent citizen died after a terrifying nightmare induced by an unusual fright. The doctors describe his dreams as nightmarish and linked to the fatal episode.
In Louisville on Sept 22 Oliver Kin namon, 64, a carpenter, was shot and killed in a gambling room riot at Eldora. He was the fourth member of the Kinnamon family to die violently.
John F. Enright of Janesville has cabled his mother that he was appointed private secretary to Governor General Smith of the Philippine islands. The announcement comes from Janesville Wisconsin dated September 22.
Baseball scores from leagues across cities show tight outcomes with Cincinnati beating Philadelphia 2 to 1 in Philadelphia, Boston routing Pittsburgh 5 to 1, New York edging Chicago 5 to 4, Brooklyn defeating St. Louis 3, and multiple American and Western games including Detroit 4 Washington 4 and Denver 9 Sioux City 0. The Chicago-New York game ended in six innings with rain, and West games listed Lincoln and Omaha split 2 to 1, while Pueblo defeated Des Moines 1 to 0.
Thomas Mullave of 808 Fifty-Third Place, working for Commonwealth Electric, was electrocuted on Thirty-Fifth Street while stringing wires. A live wire touched the wire he held and he fell from the pole to the ground dead.
Henry Com mons sues his mother in law Mary Pleas for 5000 dollars alleging alienation of his wife’s affections. The dispute stems from a quarrel over his criticism of President Roosevelt and his advocacy of spelling reform.
The British steamer Turret Crown was fined $1,000 for infringing marine regulations by loading grain before inspection after arriving light from a foreign port. Captain Cavenaugh posted bond and pleaded not guilty claiming elevator workers loaded without his knowledge while awaiting clearance papers.
Constantinople reports that John G. Leishman, the U S ambassador, will not receive audiences due to his recent illness and the need to avoid overfatigue, with three other ambassies promised audiences explained as the reason for postponement.
In Jackson Michigan on September 22 Melvine Vowel age 10 son of A C Powell defiantly told Justice Wood he would kill a child if not allowed to go to the reform school after being arraigned on a vagrancy charge.
Secretary McNabb of Oklahoma Territory estimates a 35 percent increase in corn acreage from last year. He forecasts an average yield of fifty bushels per acre, totaling about 125,000,000 bushels in value.
Primary dispatch from San Sebastian notes the queen of Spain is semiofficially announced to be in an interesting condition with official lines confirming pregnancy rumors.
The forecast reports general fair weather across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin. In Michigan the northeast portion will see showers with partly cloudy skies and fresh southwest to west winds.
Chicago stock and grain prices list by sample for Wheat Corn Oats and cash sales. Livestock quotes include hogs cattle sheep and poultry with estimated receipts and price ranges for prime and good classes. Buffalo market notes from Dunning Stevens report show cattle and sheep receipts and prices for best lambs yearlings and wooled ewes.
Mr and Mrs Frank Lan dau and their children Alma Marie and Edna departed this morning for Hedrick to spend a few days with relatives, according to local news.
A neglected cough or cold may lead to bronchial or lung troubles. Foley's Honey and Tar promises relief from cold effects. Available at all druggists.
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