Vaccination System Aims to Shield Hog Trade From Cholera
The U S Department of Agriculture explains its vaccination program for stockyard hogs to prevent cholera while allowing reshipment of vaccinated stockers and feeders. Public yards are treated as infected, requiring prompt immunization after arrival. hogs with high temperatures or signs of disease are not immunized or shipped interstate.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Anch Yards
Department
Training the colt early and pig safety notes
Training the colt early is advised. For protecting young pigs a forrowing rail in the pea is recommended. Do not delay. milk from the lambs is poisonous after birth and lambs should be fed four times daily, half a pint of milk per lamb at each feeding.
Word meanings of ranch plantation and farm analyzed
A study in the Christian Science Monitor contrasts eastern notions of ranch plantation and farm. It notes that a plantation or ranch can be small yet grand, with a gentleman overseeing hired workers, while a farm may be a modest plot personally tended.
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United States
Christian Science Monitor
Dark Continent no longer dark in explorer notes
The article argues that there is no longer a “dark continent” myth as Sir Marry Johnston reports discovering light complexioned aristocrats among the Bahima of Ankole in southwestern Uganda. Johnston suggests links to Galan, Somali or other Hamitic stock and even Egyptians, contrasting with Haggard’s imagined white explorers.
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Africa
Rider Haggard
Bahima
Speke
Uganda
Sir Marry Johnston
Ankole
Sir Harry
Ghostly Warning for Buller After Franco Prussia War
Lady Buller recounts a ghostly incident involving Sir Redvers Buller after the 1870 Franco German conflict. Buller awoke believing Lord Wolseley spoke from beyond, then found Wolseley’s letter ordering immediate return to London for an Ashantee expedition.
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Lady Buller
Redvers
Buller
England
Lord Wolseley
Sir Garnet
Bullerin
London
Velvet and violet sapphires outshine equal gems
Fine sapphires outrank diamonds by weight and quality with rubies only pricier. Sapphire crystals can reach up to three inches, while rubies rarely exceed half an inch. The famed velvet blue and wornflower sapphires stand out, including the wooden spoon sapphire once in the Hope collection, noted for changing color under artificial light.
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Hope
Neighbors Help New Teachers Learn Home Economics
In a small hall of a new apartment building Mrs. Smithers aids two public school teachers starting their first baking venture. She shows stove use, shares marketing tips, and teaches leftovers planning while noting their secret job. The teachers thank her for the grandmotherly guidance.
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Cleveland
Piain Denler
Invention of Gordon McKay Sewing Machine Sparks U S Boot Industry
The article traces Gordon McKay who secured a 1862 patent for a leather shoe sewing machine. It recounts his 1859 purchase of Blake’s wax-thread loom, improvements to feeding and automation, and his shift to army shoe production after the Civil War. By 1862 he contracted with 62 firms, 1,500 machines operated by 1876, and over 100 million shoes annually in the United States.
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Gordon McKay
United States
McKay
Blake
Emerson Quote on Manners Fashion and Society
A compact reflection by Ralph Waldo Emerson on manners as social contrivance, fashion as exclusive, and society’s instinct to distance nonconformists, noting how solitude can arise from public scrutiny and fear of exclusion.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Queer Glasses superstitions from a Yorkshire correspondent
A correspondent from the Yorkshire Post notes popular superstition: upon a death in a house, all looking glasses must be covered or faced away until burial. Similar beliefs connect covering glasses to thunderstorms, though no incident of lightning striking a mirror is known.
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Yorkshire Post
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Lees
Sir Redvers Buller
Queer Nations
Drake & Drake Optometrists
Box Butte Ave
Glen Miller
West Third Street
Pennsylvania
Chandler-Hupmobil Agency
Schwabe Brothers
Second St
Larantie Ave
Alliance
Nebr
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