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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
3
Farmers learn tile drains often fail in soft ground or near the surface and may crumble from freezing unless vitrified. Alternatives include stone drains with wide bottoms, stone sides, and straw filler, or board drains using durable woods like oak chestnut and Cypress. Proper layout preserves open water passages and extends longevity.
A farmer's guide to board drains with inverted trough bottoms and gradual falls. It explains board alignment, hole covering, outlet protection, and using a home built plumb line to set grades, noting deeper digs for clay soils and three inches per 190 feet as a typical fall.
At the Michigan division annual meeting of the League of American Wheelmen a key measure urged Governor to use state convicts in road building and maintenance. Five thousand petitions were ordered printed and circulated. The good roads movement dominates the group’s work and officers include several road builders. The report noted a healthy financial state.
Webb Donnell in Orange Judd Farmer notes that a dairy cow’s outline guides breeding. He cites a wedge shaped body, large barrel and rear, slender forequarters, a large udder with teats, loose skin, thin wool, and a dished face with a mild eye as distinguishing external marks.
The article stresses keeping dairy stables clean and odor free to ensure milk purity. It recommends thorough periodic cleaning with washes and disinfectants, regular whitewashing to reveal dirt, and coal tar painting on boards to deter filth, with frequent cleaning to prevent odors from tainting the milk.
E A Payne presents a well arranged frame house with four rooms on the first floor and three on the second, a large kitchen area, and a cellar stair from the pantry. Features include wooden frame of seasoned pine, stone foundations, brick chimneys, and a shiplap exterior with cypress shingle roof. Estimated complete cost is $1800 to $2000.
A compact guide stresses generous feeding for cows the importance of clean warm bedding and comfort to prevent illness. It notes silage palatability aids milk production and warns cows may freeze if exposed, urging prudent management and attentive feeding as key to healthy milk yield.
The Rural World notes that per capita butter consumption is increasing and will affect national interests. It adds butter has become a daily staple, especially when workers are employed, recalling a time when it was a luxury for laborers in winter.
Grinding and cutting dairy cow feed aids digestion by ensuring thorough mastication and complete ration consumption. It reduces energy waste during feeding and minimizes residue, making feeding cleaner and more efficient.
The article discusses how belief and physician suggestion aid healing. It cites Prof J M Baldwin on insomnia and auto-suggestion, Dr E C Spitzka on hunger and psychosomatic effects, and examples of psychogenic effects in hysteria. It notes many German Baptist churches number 242 in the United States.
Studies of Jupiter during the 1899 opposition indicate multiple rotation rates and nonuniform motions. While the equatorial speed remains about 23 060 miles per hour, observations since 1897 show the equatorial region accelerating by 266 to 390 miles per hour relative to the surface, implying a layered, turbulent interior rather than a solid crust.
Mrs Jane Lindsay of Long Island reportedly rode 90 miles in 91 hours 48 minutes to set a new bicycle record. She weighed 111 pounds at start and finished weighing 111.5 pounds. She consumed a large amount of foods and drinks including rice broth eggs milk tea and lime water during the trek, and observers say the feat may have been foolhardy yet she finished in reportedly fine condition.
The airship of Count Zeppelin, a lieutenant general, lies on trial beside Bodensee in Württemberg. It is a 420 foot long lattice frame aluminium craft with gas bags in partitions, covered in waterproof silk, 37 feet in diameter with ogival ends. A gallery and two aluminium cars provide stiffness, and it rests in a floating shed on the lake.
A clever inventor proposes a large wooden tube with a perforated hide end that, when blown, creates a unique sound intended to terrify native warriors and drive them away. The device is pitched as a boon for white soldiers in frontier clashes.
The Chicago office shows heavy postal business in December with receipts totaling $585,709, up $42,624 from December 1898. Cashier Dawes reports the gain reflects a strong year end in postal service demand.
An 19th century column warns about Kew Cable Lines France controlling transatlantic news and laying out plans to free itself with money. It also promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia constipation biliousness malaria and age and includes a quip about a single word changing a person’s mood when reading the morning paper Bargains.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for catarrh deafness not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and promotes Hall’s Family Pills with a Toledo, Ohio origin.
A Chicago Post candy anecdote leads into an ad for Swanson's 5-DROPS Rheumatic Cure. The copy touts a holiday sale followed by a nationwide remedy pitch offering trial bottles at 25 cents and large 300-dose bottles for 1.00, with six bottles at 5.00 and mail prepaid to 164 Lake St Chicago Illinois.
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