College Notes Reflect Farm Institute and Alumni Events
In Des Moines and Ames this week college figures and guests attended lectures and reunions. Dr. Storms addressed the Farmers Institute at Harlan while Miss Jeanette Storms visited Madison. The Stock Breeders association plans a January 8th 9th convention at the college and the Spoor trophy was awarded to Iowa State Agricultural College for the third year in a row. The ceremony at Grandy Center January and the short term course enrollment records are noted along with multiple faculty and student activities.
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The
Stock Breeders Association of
State of
Iowa
Stanton
Des Moines
Ames
Grandy Center
Alice Merrit
H. M. Parks
Storms
McMaster
Grundy Center
Parks
Miss Merrit
Miss Morrison
Pike
Rev
Amen
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ohio
Minnesota
Kansas
Faculty of Agriculture
Messrs. E A. Stout
C. E. Howard
W. A. Tener
H. B. Ellen
Homestead Law Changes Prompt New Residency Rules
Congress will remove the commutation clause from the homestead law. New filers must live five years on the land before proving up, while those who file before the change can prove title after eight months residence and a payment of 50 cents per acre after 14 months. Six months to start residence. Describes available homesteads 50 miles west of Pierre South Dakota and suggests locating in a 20 person colony. Further information and rates available.
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Congress
Pierre
South Dakota
Unique Wedding Present for Bar Harbor Autumn Bride
A Bar Harbor autumn bride, noted as an artist in the culinary line, received a dainty bound volume titled Recipes. Each contributor wrote rules for several choicest dishes, creating a compilation of true and tried recipes that serves as both practical guidance and a pleasant souvenir.
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Bar Harbor
Confidential reporting reshapes British Army discipline
A new system requires exact reports to guide army discipline. Favorable reviews promise faster promotion while adverse ones threaten retirement. Two bad reports can remove even senior officers. juniors with under three years' service may be dismissed if they perform poorly.
Unwearying Trust and Quiet Perseverance Poem
The piece presents a devotional mood. Lulu Whedon Mitchell asks for steadfast faith rather than relief or grand gifts. The speaker seeks strength to endure burdens and be purified through trial while planting a small seed of faith for Lince to bloom.
Quotations About Virtue and Ambition From London Answers
A collection of aphorisms on credit, ambition, friendship, self-improvement, and self-control. It asserts that character and timely action drive success, with notes on health, temper, and self-correction as keys to avoiding censure.
Willow Tree at Fort Knox Grows From a Branch Legend
A Maine willow at Fort Knox, cut down by W F Batchelder, sprouted from a branch linked to John B Pierce. Pierce, visiting Squire Sam Shute at Stockton Springs, refreshed with Medford and left a branch that a child planted, taking root to become the notable tree now felled.
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Maine
Fort Knox
W. F. Batchelder
John B. Pierce
Mr. Pierce
Belfast
Sam Shute
Stockton Springs
Medford
Pierce
Lewiston
Essence of Orange Leaves Industry in Paraguay
One of Paraguay’s notable industries is essence of orange leaves. Jesuit priests introduced orange groves over 150 years ago, now yielding vast forests with many small extractors. The essence is exported to France and the United States for use in soaps and perfumery, and is used locally as a healing ointment and tonic.
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Paraguay
Frares
United States
Are We Smoking Too Much The Tobacco Bill Grows
The piece notes rising tobacco use with more consumption by men and women. It cites 310,654,639 pounds of tobacco and 18,840,747 pounds of snuff withdrawn for domestic use in the last fiscal year, plus 8,345,217 pounds exported, totaling 337,? million pounds against the prior year.
Politely Taken Lighthouse Light Ends Official’s Job
In Tonga a British warship Sparrow visited, a lighthouse light was moved aboard for a ball due to failed illumination, and a high ranking customs official who complied was dismissed by the Tong kingdom. Captain of the Sparrow interceded with King George II, who stayed firm on the dismissal.
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Sparrow
Tonga
South Pacific
King George II
Ton Nm
King George
Sign of the Pawnbroker on Lombard Street
History notes Lombard street as the great London street of bankers named after the Longobards a rich banking race who settled there in Edward II s reign Their badge the three golden balls of the Medici crest remains the sign for pawnbrokers and money lenders The balls were blue in the Medici arms and only recently gilded The position of the balls is said to imply two chances to one that items pledged will not be redeemed per St Nicholas
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Lombard Street
London
St. Nicholas
Great Men and Orthographic Mistakes Across Rulers
The text cites Sigismund of Germany defending his authority over a grammarian, Napoleon excusing orthography due to public duties, and Voltaire praising Frederick the Great while noting Louis XIV’s spelling errors. Frederick defends Louis despite his slips, praising his monarchic brilliance.
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Sigismund of
Germany
Constance
Fulacentinus
Placentinus
Priscianus
Napoleon
Voltaire
Frederick the Great
Frederick
Louis XIV
Louis
Enduring Love In A Little House On The Street
A small, vine entwined house sits quiet facing its neighbors as two elderly residents renew their faithfulness. The long marriage stands as a rare, real old fashioned love, undisturbed by modern life and public gaze. Jack Appleton reports from Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Jack Appleton
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
A Market Romance and a Western Union Deal
The verse humorously traces love and fear in a town parlor as gas prices fall and a swift advance in transit appear. It ends with an elopement and a consummated Western Union deal, narrated by McLandburgh Wilson in Washington Limes.
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Western Union
McLandburgh Wilson
Washington
Limes
Mind your own business rule praised for harmony
The piece extols minding one’s own business as a simple, useful rule of conduct. It warns that prying into others’ affairs fosters mischief, malice, envy, and jealousy, and urges everyone to keep to their own affairs to reduce conflict.
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Paul Pry
Bishop McCabe notes surge in church building activity
Bishop McCabe reports sixty invitations to dedicate churches within a year as Methodists build more and better houses of worship. The Con stable heirs donate a costly memorial chapel to New York’s Church of the Incarnation. The General Theological Seminary and Columbia University name Rev Wilford L Robbins to the university council. Rev Dr William Ashmore, long connected with Baptist Missionary Union work in China, spoke at Boston interdenominational evangelistic meetings.
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McCabe
General Theological Seminary
Columbia University
Wilford L. Robbins
University Council
William Ashmore
Baptist Missionary Union
China
Boston
Cruel European Methods Used to Destroy Crops
The report describes Italian farmers using a trap to kill crows harming crops. A decayed meat bait sits in a ground hole beneath a funnel of paper coated with birdlime. A crow seizes the bait, raises it, and, tangled in the paper cap, circles rapidly until dizziness causes a fatal fall.
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Italy
California book issued by Chicago and Western Railway
An illustrated sixty page volume describes California with scenic, theater, commercial and industrial highlights. It promotes travel to the Pacific Coast and is available by mail for four cents in stamps from W. B. Kniskern Passenger Traffic Manager Chicago.
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Chicago & Western R’y
Pacific Coast
W. B
How many pulse beats should the pride's heart register on her wedding day
A quirky Town Topics item asks how many heartbeats the pride feels as she approaches her wedding day. The short piece hinges on a playful, celebratory moment and the anticipation surrounding the nuptials.
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OC. W. Gay
Edith Stevens
Boone
Dr. Storms
Farmers Institute At
Harlan
Jeanette Storms
Madison
Mr. Scheffield
Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Storms
George McKay
Clearwater
Nebraska
Miss Edger
Miss Stanton
Maples
Miss Forbes
G.I. Christie
Farmers Institute
Chas. A. Rowe
Jacksonville, Ill
Sam Griggs
Mr. Griggs
John C. Emfield
Ontario
Mr. Emfield
Story County
Lela Blaine
Council Bluffs
State University At
Iowa City
Miss Blaine
College Chapel
Henry Wallace
Wallaces Farmer
Kirsher
C Chamberlain
U. S
Chamberlain
Lince
Lulu Whedon Mitchell
Ayers
Ayer
W. C. LoGsvon
Lindsay
Cal
W. L. Douglass
J. M. Constable
Church of the Incarnation
New York
District Court of
Y & County
Elias Gilbert
GriueeaTasp & P
U. S. Griggs
Dak
J. Sexron
California
Solomon
Caesar
Rubicon
Adam
Mount Pelee
Bacilli
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