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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
5
A verse recounts a baby’s first cries as family members interpret its needs. Each relative hears a different word when the infant calls, from mother to father to sister, until the baby’s simple truth surfaces. The scene ends with the realization that adults miss the point and the baby knows what it wants.
Dorothy struggles with a math problem about apple costs while a canary Pitawitan critiques and teases her. The birds squabble over happiness, freedom, and the idea of living without chores, with Pitawitan urging Dorothys sympathy and consideration for a caged life.
Dorothy argues with Pitawitan about reality as the dream girl insists she is real while Pitawitan recalls a nightmare about being captured in cages and transported far from home. The exchange escalates until one of them wakes.
The article describes a planked centerpost barn frame with an open center for easier hay and grain handling, replacing traditional cross-teed frames. It explains plank posts, a Y shaped truss, and a floor plan with stables, boxes, a loft, and a granary window. It notes a cathole for cats to deter rats and suggests lining the granary with sheet iron to cut costs.
A three dimensional barn built on a former barn site uses local timber and stones for underpinning. It measures six by five feet with horse stalls and a granary, drive floor, and manure pit. The project, completed a year ago for 560 dollars, may cost about 150 dollars more to duplicate today, reflecting the builder’s multi role efficiency.
The article argues exercise is usually needed for fowls to digest grain rich diets, building muscle and energy for grinding. It cites French fattening methods where fowls are cage fed soft mash with no exercise yet remain healthy and gain meat and fat rapidly.
Beekeepers should use feeders for heavy feeding. Recommend little wooden troughs or two inch gutter troughs cut with one eighth inch centers for bee footholds. When troughs are open, floatation material on the sirup prevents drowning and aids the bees.
Annie C. Webster explains broiler raising demands specialization and long preparation. She advises gradual growth, separate pens for strong and weak chicks, proper grit for digestion, and ample outdoor exercise to prevent bowel troubles, with emphasis on experience over nature’s rules.
The Elgin Dairy Report describes storage houses reducing waste by using all eggs. Fresh, dirty, cracked or rotten eggs are canned and sold, with yolks and whites separated for sale to bakers and other uses. Shells are turned into fertilizer aiding overall profits.
The poultry house addition is made entirely of oil cloth and intended as an early spring run for chicks. It is warm and sunny, with a frame that can be disassembled and closed with a cloth fence. The main structure measures 12 by 6 by 8 feet high and the cloth run is 12 by 6 by 6 feet. The floor sits about two feet above ground to provide an extra run underneath. The oilcloth matches hotbed fabric: strong cotton cloth coated with oil.
Four tea and coffee warehouse clerks were caught playing a 25 cent limit poker game in a Philadelphia Water Street shop. They used raw coffee grains for five cent chips and roasted grains for 25 cent bets, misusing about $3.75 value before the game ended. The proprietor, a sport, watched and even nibbled grains during the play.
The jurors reached a unanimous verdict, sealed it, and returned home to sleep. After a night’s rest they awoke refreshed, illustrating how sleep can aid decision making and recovery. An advertisement promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming to improve digestion and sleep, and to support kidneys liver and blood.
An actor touring Ireland relays a Dublin hotel tale where a waiter jokes home rule will come only if France Russia Germany Austria and Italy unite to threaten England. He adds with a sly smile that even a united navy would fail to move Ireland toward home rule.
A collage of patent medicines jokes and testimonials for Hall's Catarrh Cure and other remedies. Includes testimonials from druggists in Toledo, beauty products, humorous quips, and small ads offering poultry mixtures and dyes with brief pricing and mailing requests.
Sears Roebuck offers special inside prices on binder twine including Sisal Standard and Manila. Mail quantity and delivery timing to the Binder Twine Department in Chicago to receive a quoted price that could beat your current supplier.
A Chicago Evening News item notes a feral tom cat, once quick to flee at a kitten’s glance, now wanders the alley by itself after being tied with a gray ribbon around its neck.
Grain-O is marketed as a safe grains based coffee substitute for all ages. It claims to calm nerves aid digestion and provide health and strength while mimicking the taste and appearance of real coffee at an affordable price. Consumers are urged to ask grocers for Grain-O.
A brief exchange from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph notes casual spring planting. Mr Homewood asks about gardening while Mr Wilkinsburg says he has started, mentioning planting a cat under a peach tree.
An advertisement urges readers to visit their druggist to try Kemp’s Balsam claiming immediate relief from coughing. Sample bottles are offered free, with larger bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents. Delays are warned as dangerous.
The Douglass mixture of copperas water and sulphuric acid serves as a strong disinfectant and tonic for chicks with optional acid omission. Iron tincture and lime water in drinking water aid chick health, while a chloride of iron and phosphate of soda mix boosts vigor. Montana tests show alsike outperforming red clover and alfalfa in sheep feed.
In the Lake Country of Northern Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan hundreds of Summer Resorts await tourists from the South and East. Nearby places include Fox Lake Elavan Lauderdale Wa Oconomowoe Palmyra The Dells Kak bourn Elkhart Madison Minocqua Star Lake From tenac White Bear Minnetonka May quette on Lake Superior. For pamphlet Summer Homes for 1900 or the Summer book In The Lake Country apply to Geo Heafford General Passenger Agent Old Colony Building Chicago ll with four cents postage.
An Osage man Laboring Miles met Indian Agent Pollack a few days ago asking for white medicine. The agent and Miles discuss illness and a vision of Jesus. Miles says he will not go to heaven yet and intends to kill one strong Indian before he goes. An ad for Piso's Cure follows with city and date.
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