Monte Carlo to Paris Tour Wins and Falls in London Heat
A Chicago team travels from Pisa to Nice to London exposing fame and flaws in a high spirited baseball tour. Sid Granger earns a beating for his mockery, Ed Williamson injures a knee on a clay field, and the squad battles seasickness, royal curiosity, and mixed crowds in England. The Chicago club posts wins in London and Bristol while facing cricketers and a long deluxe train voyage through Britain.
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Monte Carlo
Paris
Pisa
France
Roy Old Mitchell
Lg Cranger
Sid
Sid Granger
Chicago
Baldwin
All-Amerm
Crystal Palace
Sydenham
All-Americas
London
Bristol
Grace Brothers
Gloucester Cricket Grounds
England
Duke of Beaufort
Beaufort
America
Chicagos
Ryan
Crane
Doctor Grace
Metropolis
Essex Country Club
Ciana
Earl
Daly
Connor
Glasgow
Ireland
Birmingham
Healy
Sheffield
Bradford
Prince of Wales attends England game and cheers rise
During the first game in England the Prince of Wales appears near the club house. The narrator signals the team and they cheer royally from the home plate, with a tiger salute, as the royal visitor looks on.
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Prince of Wales
England
Howard VII
How He Obtains Pin Money From Hen House Tricks
A farmer jokes about banking on chicken and egg money to fund clothing and labor saving gear. He details seasonal disguises and songs to mislead hens into laying more eggs, claiming seventeen years of such ploys funded a new pair of lilac harem trousers. The piece is a humorous anecdote from McLandburgh Wilson.
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Tims
McLandburgh Wilson
New York Times
There Goes a Man With Breeding in the Car
The remark notes that polite behavior does not ensure elevator etiquette. He observed a man whose breeding showed through in manners even if the colors were loud. The man removed his hat for ladies but did not know how to handle it afterward, holding it bottom side up as if ready to collect.
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Sid
Mar-shailtown
Pisa
Nice
Monte Carlo
Spalding
Paris
Eily
Taris
Parc Aristotique
England
Rome
Healy
Mark Baldwin
Anson
London
John Tener
John
Tener
Lord's Cricket Grounds
Destructive Plum Curculio Attacks Cultivated Fruits
West Virginia University agricultural note explains plum curculio as a native US snout beetle attacking plums peaches nectarines apricots cherries apples pears quince hawthorns and even persimmons. It damages fruit by feeding and egg laying punctures, causing dwarfed misformed produce and recommends arsenical sprays, thinning nearby wild crab and hawthorn, and jarring methods for control, noting differences from apple curculio.
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Fred BR. Brooks
West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station
United States
Rocky Mountains
Popular Feed for Poultry from C E B Brown
The article outlines daily feeding: wet mash at noon, whole grain morning and evening, with warm or cold mash preferences. It warns against overfeeding and offers two mash recipes using corn, oats, bran, shorts, beef scraps, greens, and charcoal, plus a moisture method.
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Wy C. EB. Brown
Ts Ag
Milk-Fed Chickens and The Guillotine
Milk fed chickens are described as the best meat in poultry, kept in a close coop with minimal space and no exercise. They are never allowed to leave except when destined for the guillotine.
Incubator Chicks Prove Similar Thirst to Hen Hatched Cousins
It has been well proven that an incubator chick, after proper incubation and subsequent good care and feeding, demonstrates thirst levels comparable to a chick hatched and raised by a hen, even among distant kin.
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Thristy
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Srene
Teavepany
R Syndicate
Great Britain
Canda
the Seine
Hiffel
Carnat
Ed Williamson
Williamson
Pettit
English Channel
Dieppe
New Haven
Westminster Abbey
Mrs. Anson
Tam
Surrey Cricket Club
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