Pages from the Past - From our 135-year Archives for August 7, 2022
From the 135-year history of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado.
Home Country – Popcorn snow
Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.
The US government’s call for deep nicotine reduction in cigarettes could save millions of lives – an expert who studies tobacco addiction explains
The cigarette is the only legal consumer product that – when used as intended – causes the premature death of half of long-term users.
2022 USDA mountain states region farm real estate value and cash rent report
2022 farm real estate value and cash rent report from the USDA from the mountain states region.
Kansas 2022 farm real estate value and cash rent report
Kansas' farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms, increased from 2021, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
500K American men get vasectomies every year – a specialist explains the easy and reversible procedure
About half a million men undergo a vasectomy in the United States in any given year. The percentage of men getting them had been dropping for the past two decades, but it looks like those numbers are going up in the wake of the June 24, 2022, Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
USDA conducting September hogs and pigs survey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is contacting producers for the September Hog Report.
USDA seeks feedback from producers about 2022 crops and stocks
During the next few weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the September Agricultural Survey.
Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means
Similar to the World Health Organization’s declaration of monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern, the U.S. declaration isn’t calling for individuals who are not in a high-risk group to change anything about their lives.
South Dakota residents have until August 15 to comment on abortion ballot question
Acting South Dakota Attorney General Mark Vargo said Friday residents have until August 15 to comment on a proposed constitutional amendment regulating abortion.