United States Warehouse Act Overview and Provisions
The act, effective August 11, 2016, establishes negotiable warehouse receipts for cotton, grain, wool, tobacco, and flaxseed. It licenses warehouses, sets bond and inspection duties for warehousemen, details receipt contents, standards, delivery obligations, records, penalties, and state-cooperation provisions with a $50,000 appropriation for enforcement.
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Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Lcensee
Cure for Chicken-Eating Sows
A writer proposes a simple pen modification to stop hogs from eating chickens. Set boards eight inches from the ground and extend 1x1 foot planks around the pen so hogs must crawl under each board. The hog will then pause, show disgust, and retreat to a corner.
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Soya
Purgatory Chasm in Sutton Seeks State Preservation
Article notes Sutton Massachusetts Purgatory Chasm as a natural wonder studied by the state forestry commission. It describes dramatic features including large boulders caves and the Devils Cave Hell's Coal Bin and Pulpit Rock. Advocates urge state acquisition to preserve this unique geological sight and its forested surroundings.
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Purgatory
Sutton
Mass
Commonwealth
White Mountains
Worcester
Arthur E. Seagrave
Uxbridge
State Forestry Commission
State Forester
Frank W. Kane
Harold Parker
Harvey N
Vermont
New Alampshire
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
Elizen
Massachusetts
Auto Toll in Heavy June and July Fatalities on Iowa Highways
A state health board report shows June and May auto deaths across Iowa. Dallas county led in June auto fatalities with multiple counties reporting single deaths. Butler county saw a 17-person drowning crash in a collapsed bridge. Total May auto fatalities listed, with broader death tolls from violence and other causes across the state.
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Des Moines
State Board of Health
Butler County
Dallas County
Woodbury
Dubuque
Muscatine
Polk County
Cherokee
Fayette
Floyd
Fremont
Jasper
Marshall
O'Brien
Pottawattamie
Sac
Scott
Tama
Tu May Keokuk
Wood
More Recruits to Border for Iowa Guard at Des Moines
Des Moines dispatch reports First Lieutenant Henry A. Woellhart led eighty Iowa National Guard recruits from Fort Des Moines toward Brownsville Texas where the unit is positioned at the border. Transport delays and a broken leg from a horse accident delayed Woellhart before joining his command. Recruitment began September 1 and aims to field two thousand men to reach war strength.
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Iowa Guard
Department
Iowa
Back From War Zone Miss Genevieve Bigsey Returns Home
Fort Dodge reports Miss Genevieve Bigsey of Graettinger has come home from six months at a French hospital near the fighting line. Details are limited due to censorship and officers’ orders. Also noted is Miss Rigley, Mercy Hospital Chicago graduate, who joined the Chicago Unit in January under Dr J Bo Murphy and headed to Abataples France near Paris.
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Fort Dodge
Genevieve Bigsey
Graettinger
France
Rigley
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
Lnte
J. Bo Murphy
Abtaples
Paris
Villa America envoy urges Americans back to mines in Chihuahua
Villa America said to Mexican mining men at San Andres that he bore no enmity toward the United States and urged American friends to resume work at eastern Chihuahua mines. Two Mexican miners who arrived from San Andres reported the appeal.
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Villa America
Paso
Villa
San Andres
Chihuahua
Carranza
Jose Cavazos
Fatal Auto Wreck Near Moulton Claims Miss Barnes
Miss Clara Barnes a domestic science teacher in the Moulton schools died from injuries after an automobile accident that left seven passengers injured. Aug Net Post president of the National Bank of Moulton and owner of the wrecked car was reported improving. the car overturned and burned.
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Bloonfield
Clara Barnes
Moulton
Aug
Net Post
The
National Bank of
Columbus Woman Attributes Recovery to Pinkham’s Compound
After six years of illness Mrs. J. Barlow of 1624 South 4th Street Columbus Ohio credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health. She describes severe female troubles, nervousness, stomach pain and weight loss before taking the remedy and gaining weight and strength. Her husband affirms the medicine saved her life and recommends it to others.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. J
Barlow
South 4Th St
Women Mayors Rise in England as Husbands Go To War
The list of women becoming mayors grows in Great Britain as wartime vacancies open when husbands serve abroad or die. In Carmarthenshire Lady Howard assumes the unexpired mayoral term after Sir Stafford Howard’s death, a former under secretary for India. Mrs. Herbert Partington is appointed to finish her late husband’s term as mayor of Gloussur?
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England
Lst
Great Britain
Lanelly
Carmarthenshire
Wales
Lady Howard
Sir Stafford Howard
India
Mr. Gladstone
Herbert Partington
Glussup
Arithmetically Speaking in a Scots Dialect
A Claude style Punch quip humorously explains a language about counting oofs for eggs. Tommy asks Jock how to say Hugo and egg orders. Jock answers with simple phrases showing the arithmetic joke and the wife’s reaction.
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Tommy
Jock
Lesve
Hugo
Witty exchange on vaccination as “the most warlike nation”
A humorous father son exchange. The son claims vaccination is the most warlike nation because it is always in arms, prompting a light punchline about preparedness and medicine.
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Willie
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United States Warehouse Act
Congress
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Browneville
Texas
Bru Carter
Fleur
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