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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
3
An instruction from Orange Judd Farmer describes a cheap hog hanging device. It details frame dimensions timber needs pulleys and rope and how to use the gambrel to hoist and suspend hogs for bleeding and dressing under shelter.
Advice from Colman's Rural World on feeding and breeding to optimize a flock. Emphasizes feeding lambs through ewes to a well supplied trough, culling poor ewes, selecting best for fleece value, and a recommended lamb feed mix of corn meal bran and cotton seed meal. Stresses serious study of wool quality and market value for profitability.
The writer praises fresh clover as prime hog feed and urges growing a clover pasture. Rape, though new to hogs, is highly recommended after successful use with sheep. Two small rape plots were seeded for pigs this year and pigs harvested it themselves once ready.
The article advises farmers to select poultry type based on market needs as outlined by Charles E ain. It emphasizes aligning production with demand whether for poultry meat or eggs to maximize quality and meet buyer requirements.
E D Wougland argues in Prairie Farmer that farm raised youths face temptations in the city but gain practical discipline in country life. He contends country upbringing builds sound bodies and minds through hard work, responsibility, and adherence to moral principles, better preparing youths for life and success.
A technical note from Orange Judd Farmer explains placing a roof drain to a surface outlet away from buildings. Use an underground tile conduit equal in size to the tin leader, ending a few feet from the surface if lawn and paths permit. This method prevents earth erosion and downpour damage by directing water neatly away.
A grower explains a summer dairy and pig feeding scheme. Beginning with three pigs bought at $1.30 each on November 11, they sold February 12 for 325 alive. The method combines milk, sweet corn, skim milk, field corn and occasional potatoes to finish the pigs.
An Agricultural Epitomist note urges farmers to use a sled for corn cutting if a binder is unaffordable. It praises home made and manufactured sleds, noting two men on a sled cut as much as four, and that homemade options with runners work as well as store bought units.
Readers weigh what churn means in publishing asking which churn type yields fastest results without sacrificing accuracy. Critics argue rapid churn risks errors while editors stress steady, reliable output with clear sourcing.
The article notes toads in France sold by the dozen for garden pest control and describes the globe fish inflating as a balloon like shield. It corrects Greece as the most earthquake active region over 1893 to 1898, with 3387 quakes, more than Japan. It highlights shad canning experiments along the Columbia River and bones removed by heat. It also describes immigrant labor in New England mills, including Greeks in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Portuguese and Poles in Fall River, praising Portuguese as particularly docile.
Mrs. Brown recalls insisting her husband hire a colored man for basement whitewashing. He hires a team and finds the job done, yet the worker ends up painting the wrong basement. He mistakenly enters Mr. Grumply’s basement, prompting a potential damages suit as temper flares.
A St Paul official's wife, famed for economy, tests market prices by insisting on 15 cent eggs. After dismissing other sellers as robbers, she buys six eggs for eight cents and heads home, laughing at her husband.
The ocean steamer Deutschland, known as the New Ocean Greyhound, costs 3 332 000 dollars, displaces 23 200 tons, offers 1 057 passenger accommodations and 525 crew. It established a new ocean steamer record. Also mentioned is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters praised as a remedy for constipation indigestion and biliousness with a genuine private revenue stamp on the bottle.
A north Missouri editor recalls biblical puns on baseball in a Chicago Chronicle excerpt. He links figures like Eve, Adam, Isaac, Rebecca, Samson, Moses, Cain, Abraham, the prodigal son, David, and Pharaohs to pitching, base hits, runs, and shutouts, blending sport with scripture in a playful chronicle of the national game.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. that the firm will pay 100 dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason notes the oath dated December 6, 1886. Quotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and promises testimonials. 75 cent sale by druggists.
The Boston Journal quips that golf could save the nation by making athletic offspring and prolonging life, contrasts with ancestors who did not play golf, and notes they are all dead.
Comfortable and inexpensive tours depart each Wednesday from Chicago and St Louis with a rendezvous at Denver. Travel over the Rio Grande routes with a Salt Lake City stop and Ogden coastward. Each party has a special agent, sleeping cars are clean, and a 72 page illustrated book can be obtained by sending six cents to KF Bell Chicago.
In Philadelphia the father objects to Mr Straft and calls him a smooth fellow though Mary notes he is generally so and on two calls he had not time to shave.
Opportunities listed along the Chicago Great Western Railway in Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Missouri invite all kinds of business and manufacturing. Openings include Blacksmiths Doctors Dressmakers Furniture Grain and Live Stock Buyers General Merchandise Hardware Harness Tailors Cold Storage Creameries and Canning Factories. Address W J Reed Industrial Agent 601 Endicott Bsq St Paul Mn Minnie-
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quin ine tablets promising a one day cure for a cold with a money back refund if it fails. Priced at 25 cents.
A collage of ad pitches and wry one liners appears, promoting windmills by The Aermotor Co. and medicines like Piso’s Cure and Hale’s Honey. Include mentions of Carter’s Ink endorsements and social responsibility quotes reflecting the era’s syndicated snippets.
The company promotes Peruna with testimonials from satisfied users. A Columbus based letter cites a life saved by six bottles after doctors gave up, praising Peruna for catarrh of head and lungs. The firm offers a free book for women on health and beauty.
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