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...Fromms have sold $16,500,000 worth of pelts, with 1935 sales of $819,000, about 10% of the U. S. silver fox total. Fromm foxes mate in February, the titters appearing in 51 days. Biggest expense item, $300,000 a year, is fox food, mostly horse meat, oatmeal, eggs, fruits, vegetables, all served in sterilized bowls. Biggest risk is high fox mortality. In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have their sick list down to about 5%. Foxes are killed, prior to skinning, by injecting into their nostrils a quarter-ounce...
...general the life of 17th century Harvardians was extremely simple, not to say severe. Only two regular meals were served each day, "dinner" at 11 o'clock and "supper" at 7.30 o'clock. The menu included bread, meat, and beer, with hasty pudding, or oatmeal porridge with eggs for variety. Those who wished an extra snack or two could have "bever" or a pot of beer and hunk of bread, served immediately after morning prayers and again at 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
...glass and china store, had been awarded a contract for ten dozen service plates, ten dozen dinner plates, ten dozen bread & butter plates, ten dozen coffee cups & saucers, ten dozen teacups & saucers, ten dozen after-dinner coffee cups &saucers, ten dozen bouillon cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with rims of gold, a cobalt blue band bearing 48 stars, roses and feathers...
...Wrangell, Alaska, the temperature climbed to 100°, where it had never been seen before. Near Chicago in Cook County's Oak Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...14th day the dog snapped a fly, ate its usual half-pound of liver, milk, eggs, oatmeal gruel. On the 15th Dr. Cornish said it was semiconscious, "like a thoroughly intoxicated man." That night someone left the laboratory door open and on the 16th and 17th days the dog snuffled with a head cold...