Agricultural Experimentation in Box Butte County
In Box Butte County the potato crop faces disease threats and variable cultivation practices. Proper cultivation and moisture retention are stressed to improve yields, while spraying trials and seed inspection aim to control blight and stem end rot. The report urges growers to disinfect storage, select unbruised tubers, and plant disease‑free seed.
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Eaney Sviawr
Mr. Lorance
Wisconsin
New York
Connecticut
Box Butte
Felda
Lincoln
Miss Pool
Wilcox
Nebraska
Trox Butte County
Humorous Newspaper Quips on Marriage and Work
A string of brief jests from early papers lampoons marriage roles and job hopes. A heiress in black teases with future spouses, a would be journalist seeks work and advice, and a hungry hobo questions reveal social humor of the era.
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Louisville Courtier- Journal
Narrow escape as manhole saves man from city traffic
A pedestrian dodges a rush of autos motorcycles trucks and a taxicab while a runaway airship descends. He grabs a manhole cover and drops into a subway tunnel just as a train arrives, narrowly escaping disaster.
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Boston Courier
King Edward's Summer Diet Reported by Fletcher
Horace Fletcher reports King Edward adopts a simple vegetable based summer diet to beat heat. Fletcher cites Europe England changes over six to seven years and notes the royal meals cost about 3.08 dollars for five days feeding two men and two hungry children.
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Horace Fletcher
Europe
King Edward
England
Edward
Earth
Fletcher
Seize Government Flour At Fort Des Moines
Deputy U S Marshal Frank Niehai seized a carload of bleached flour at Fort Des Moines. The shipment came from Updike Milling Co of Omaha and weighed 100000 pounds in 1000 sacks. The action, tied to federal pure food law, will be tested at the next term of court.
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Nabs
Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
United States
Frank Wniehai
Temple
Artemus Brown
Fort Des Mulpes
Updike Milling Company of
Omaha
Mitchellville
Muscatine
Updike Milling Company
Charter City Raises Point on Moon Law in Iowa
Davenport attorneys Ficke and Ficke argued in district court that the Moon law does not apply to special charter cities in Iowa. They filed a brief for Ernest Wenzel, a Davenport saloon keeper prosecuted by the Civic Federation, urging the law’s inapplicability to cities like Davenport and others listed.
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Davenport
Iowa
Ficke & Ficke
Ernest Wenzel
Civic Federation
Aggregating Claims for More Than a Million Dollars
In Council Bluffs Iowa on August 23 district court filings for the fall term total nearly one million dollars in damages. Two personal injury suits were added, including a $75,000 pair. Mrs Jones sues Illinois Central for $25,000 after her husband’s death at work. Joseph Milligan seeks $50,000 from Union Pacific after a fall from a pole in machine shops.
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Council Bluffs
District Court
Jones
Illinois Central Railroad
Joseph Milligan
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Milligan
Five Hurt In Auto Wreck Near St Anthony Iowa
Five men were injured two seriously when a car driven by Lewis La Plant left a bridge near St Anthony Marshalltown Iowa. The occupants were pitched about thirty feet landing across a creek bank. Seriously injured are David Blackburn and Harry Buck. They were returning from State Center after attending a funeral. The car was badly wrecked.
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Marshalltown
St. Anthony
Lewis la Plant
David Blackburn
Harry Buck
Barber
Rabies Case Tied to Rattlesnake Bite in Iowa
Ed Christ of Waukon, Iowa, bitten by a dog in Dubuque two weeks earlier, contracted hydrophobia after treatment at the Pasteur Institute in Chicago. Doctors say the dog had itself been bitten by a rattlesnake, transferring venom to Christ, a highly unusual case.
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Dubuque
Ed Christ
Waukon
Dubugque
Pasteur Institute
Chicago
Christ
Two Iowans Die in Train Collision at Conn
Prominent farmers Louis Wier and Glen Hutchison of Conn Iowa were killed when their car collided with a Wa bash passenger train at Dead Man's crossing. The auto was hurled about 200 feet in the crash. Red Oak Chautauqua Ends in Iowa after nine days.
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Conn
Louis Wier
Glen Hutchison
Dead Man's Crossing
Wabash
Burlington
Red Oak
Keokuk Woman Shoots Self Amid Tragedy
Keokuk Iowa August 21 Mrs Anna Bresnahan Croak aged thirty three took morphine to end her life after a life of desolation. Her husband whom she recently married died Sunday.
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Keokuk
Keokuk, Ia
Anna Bresnahan Croak
Pleasantville roller mill burns in Iowa loss of 15008
Pleasantville Iowa August 20. The mammoth Pleasantville roller mill burned to the ground causing a loss of 15008. Insurance partially covered the damage. The blaze left the structure a charred ruin and disrupted local milling supply.
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Pleasantville Mille
Pleasantville
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New York Tribune
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Norman E. Mack
Buffalo, N. Y
National
The
Buffalo
N. Y
Fred J. Kern
City of
Belleville
Thomas Jefferson
Palace Livery Barn
H. P
C. C. Smith
Zbinden
Frohnapfel
Hemiingkord
Wille
the Home Paper
Sterest
Home News. Org
Famil
Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
HTC
D, Clem Deaver
Land Seekers Information Bureau
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