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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
3
Chicago retailers invest heavily in festive window decorations with lavish interiors and immersive scenes. One store spends about 20000 on displays spanning nearly three city blocks, drawing crowds of families to view Santa Clauses, doll chariots, bunnies, and fluttering butterflies as free public spectacle.
Volunteers of America and Salvation Army mobilize 30 Santa Claus workers and 100 volunteers to collect donations across downtown Chicago. Planners target 2500 to 3000 dollars raised and 5000 to 7000 dinners plus 500 to 1000 basket dinners for New Year’s. Turkey donations and modest boxes replace traditional sleighs as aid pours through the city.
Thousands visit downtown to view the elaborate holiday window decorations in big State Street stores. The annual display has become a regualr feature of the season with tens of thousands spent on creating the scenes and merchandise valued in the hundreds of thousands.
A vivid portrait of shoppers braving crowded stores in pursuit of gifts for many relatives. The piece notes thousands of downtown shoppers, one store handling as many as 300,000 people in a busy day and sales surpassing 500,000 transactions, highlighting the season’s hectic rush.
Willis S. Edson praises Chicago retail workers who swell clerical staffs by about ten percent during the holiday rush. He notes stores employ around 10,000 clerks, cashiers, and helpers in the downtown district and estimates 100,000 people are employed in city retail shops. The article extols clerks as patient, informative, and essential to guiding shoppers.
A Farm and Home note explains sod chicken houses cheaper than frame structures. Thick 2 to 3 foot walls with a good roof last 12 to 15 years or more, with 14 by 20 foot examples. Ends flush with inner wall to hide vermin, plaster after settlement, gravel floor, four windows, dusting pan space, and use of buffalo sod as an alternative though less durable.
The American Tribune notes burrs cut wool value in Indiana, with light wool at one to three cents per pound and burr-dense wool often over half price. Sheep gather burrs in fall, frost later aids dislodgement, and careful pasture work plus ongoing vigilance can remove burrs, though sheep may spread seeds if kept in fields.
A cattle feeder explains that steer comfort affects gains. He recounts steers weighing and uneven growth when housed on worn floors or hard runs. Moving a underperforming steer to a box stall boosted weight gain significantly, underscoring comfort's impact on performance.
A Crop for Every Soil notes success in finding plants that thrive in arid western plains where sage brush and cactus grow. It cites efforts to identify useful, economically valuable crops adapted to dry conditions and mentions substantial progress by the Farmers' Review.
Local poultry keeper Tim Varney of three miles east of Le Sueur reports success using a loud ticking egg-shaped device as a decoy. He places a bogus egg under a hen to deter out of season setting, causing the hen to abandon the nest and resume laying. The method, he says, pays for itself by keeping hens productive.
The article explains surplus pure blood birds on farms becoming huckster stock. Buyers eye birds once prize winners, purchase at low prices, then molt and resell at four to five times the cost, claiming no harm since the birds are thoroughbred.
To hasten growth lambs need bran oats and a little corn alongside their mother’s milk. Feed in a small pen linked to the main lot by a covered trough for lambs. The trough should be rainproof and sized to exclude adults, with a simple inch-board construction as shown by Orange Judd Farmer.
Lime by itself does not act as a fertilizer. It unlocks other soil elements enabling plants to absorb more nutrients, but after this the soil loses plant-food and the need for fertilizer increases. This is book farming explained by Mid land Farmer.
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