Work of the Colored Man at Clark University
P C Parks of Georgia, farm director at Clark University in Atlanta, outlines a plan to elevate negro farming. He describes a 400 acre campus near a major southern market, a threefold farm program with trucking dairy and swine divisions, student labor, and a financing aim with capital needs and expanded training for black farmers through diversified crops, livestock, and practical farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Parks
Clark University
Georgia
Freedman Aid Society
Methodist Episcopal Church
Clark
A Cure for Misery
R M Tames of Louellen Kentucky says Electric Bitters cures misery from malaria poison. The tonic, sold in 60 cent bottles, quickly relieves chiller bilious attacks and jaundice and aids stomach liver and kidney ailments with a guaranteed remedy at drug stores.
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R. M. Tames
Louellen
8. C
Penguin Combat in a Tiny Ring of Feathers
A New York Tribune piece describes penguin mating behavior as a boxing like fight over mates. Combat involves two birds circling a ledge fight area and exchanging rapid wing blows. The bout rarely ends fatally with the stronger generally forcing the weaker to yield the mate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
The Great West Point Chain of the Revolutionary Era
The West Point chain nearly a mile long and weighing about 200 tons protected Kingston and Albany by blocking the Hudson. Sixty men labored six weeks at seventeen forges to build it at a cost of 400000 dollars. The chain stood buoyed by logs and anchors and deterred British attacks, with Benedict Arnold once ordering a link removed for repairs, though it stayed in place to the war’s end.
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West Point
Hudson River
Kingston
Albany
Dr. Tacher
America
Benedict Arnold
Andre
Smith
Newburg
New York
Exchange
Not Good Patients Says Nurse On Doctors
A trained nurse laments doctors as difficult patients noting their constant self analysis of symptoms and insistence on control. She recalls nursing a physician with typhoid and explains how frequent thermometry and ego clashes complicate care.
Innkeeper Brings Fessendeen Face To Face With Caller
Ex Secretary Fessenden on a political trip to northern Maine stays at a small inn. A tall French Canadian landlord interrupts with a comical rush to present Mr Fessendeen to a persistently insistent caller from Maysville, Miss Wiggin.
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Fessenden
Treasury
Maine
Judge Fessenden
Ed Wiggone
Maysville
Fessendeen
Power of Imagination
E F Benson recalls a doctor who stopped morphia for a patient whose sleeplessness returned. On the third night the doctor gave plain water instead and the patient slept, waking with a morphine mouth as if the drug had been taken.
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E. F. Benson
Suffrage Club Disputes and Expulsion
The Philadelphia Press reports a suffrage club debate where Mrs Ascum-Miss Crabbe is questioned as a member. Mrs Gaddie is expelled after she suggested staying home and tending to business would solve the servant girl issue.
King of Throat and Lung Remedies Promoted in Ad
An Empire Georgia resident praises Dr Kings New Discovery for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles claiming seven years of use proves its superiority. The ad markets the remedy as rank foolishness to use other medicines and notes 50 cent and 1 dollar prices with a trial bottle offered free.
Notice to Patrons on Cash Basis Purchases
Owing to the stringency of the Money Market we cannot sell goods for longer than fifty days. Do not ask for extension. it cannot be given. Thanking you for past pace and asking a continuance on a cash basis. Be A Lootwoodrain Co. F. N. Fowler, Mgr.
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Iowa State College
South
Business World
The
Smith Premier Typewriter Co
Farnam Street
Fifth Street
Omaha
Des Moines
the Penguin
New York Times
West Point Chain
Power of
Nes Ae Be A Lootwoodrain Co
F. N. Fowler
Mgr
Dr. Shoop
Joel E. Cagwin
Renin
Lowa
Joel E. Cagwin Ames
Iowa
Mutual
L. A. Morris
East Main Street
Ames
F. H. Waters
Bakers Jewelry Store
Ames, Iowa
G. J. Snyder
Gamble’s
C. W. Payne, M. B
Boone, Iowa
TI. J. Fen the
Stultz
W. E. Harriman
Edison Phonographs
Chicago
C. —E. Holmes
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