Flax Growing Shown Profitable in Western Canada
A Western Canada farming note highlights flax as a money maker alongside wheat oats and barley. It cites seed treatment, sowing rates, and a Saskatoon farmer's 25 lb acre seed yielding 29 bu. an acre, plus Mr White near Rosetown producing 33 bu. with summer fallow. In 1911 the same farmer held 100 acres fallow yielding over 3,800 bu. wheat, 1,800 bu. oats, and 300 bu. flax.
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Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
New York
Saskatoon
White
Rosetown
Western Canada
Brainy men seek cranky reputations says tale
Mrs. Shortfoot asks if her husband is becoming fearfully ill in mood. Mrs. Leedout replies that he is not ill but aims to cultivate a cranky reputation after reading that brainy men are prone to such traits. The dialogue mocks famed stereotypes about intellect and eccentric behavior.
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Irandticiilly
Mrs. Shortfoot
Mrs. Leedout
Castoria and patent remedies ad jumble in 1900s page
Marketing blurbs show Castoria branding with signatures, Carbolisalve claims relief for skin ailments, Dr Pierce pills touted as stomach and bowel cure, bromide cough syrup and sanativa products pitched alongside cosmetic quips and moral quips. Mentions of signatures and distributors imply commercial health ads typical of the era.
Murders in Gary Black Belt Trail Racist Crimes
Two people were killed in Gary Indiana’s Black Belt with Harriet Thompson found strangled at 1647 Madison Street and Jack Johnson shot at 16th Avenue and Connecticut Street. Rev William Steele a Gary Colored Baptist pastor is detained as a suspect while Steele’s wife is jailed after shooting him.
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Gary
Ind
Harriet Thompson
Madison Street
Jack Johnson
Sixteenth Avenue
Connecticut Street
Robert Gordon
William Steele
Gary Colored Baptist Church
Thompson
Steele
Women Robbed in Church Banquet in Lafayette
Notable Lafayette society women were robbed of purses at Trinity M E church during a banquet. Purses were taken from cloak pockets, money lost, some women owed carfare and borrowed funds. Other items include a fatal train trestle accident near Sullivan and obituary notices for local villagers.
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Lafayette
Trinity M. KE. Church
Hacks Head and Cuts His Throat
William Carter aged sixty two, a farmer near Mavion, died by self-inflicted wounds in his woodshed after a period of despair tied to health concerns in UN. Fifty horses sold at Goshen averaged $208 each, a county record in Elkhart.
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Mavion
William Carter
Goshen
A. S. Shelly
D. G. Lehman
Elkhart County
Terre Haute
Anna Hartley
George Cowell
Cowell
Gold for a Love Charm Vanishes Through Elab Mysticism
The Yog Mediator from British India, who rented offices in Muncie, has left town. Police report several hundred dollars lost by victims, including two Albany youths and a Yorktown man who admit giving money for a love charm. The occultist urged leaving cash for the charm to work.
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Muncie
British India
Albany
Ork
Yorktown
Hing
Guilty of Manslaughter Ford Grubb Convicted
Petersburg report: Ford Grubb convicted of manslaughter in the death of his father William Grubb last December after a two hour jury deliberation. The Grubbs had been indicted with the mother for the death. William was beaten prior to his death.
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Charles O. Wiggans
Richmond
Leroy Brown
Frank Wigeons
Los Angeles
Ford Grubb
Petersburg
William Grubb
Grubb
North Indiana conference set for Wabash session
The sixty ninth annual North Indiana conference of the M E church will meet March 27 to April 1 at Wabash under Rev T M Guild with Rev Munhall in charge of devotional services at the First Methodist Church. Richmond district business will be debated to present to Minneapolis delegates. a major question concerns district oversight and superintendent salaries. A separate note reports the Indiana State Board of Agriculture allowing a new Oliver plow works pavilion at the state fair grounds and a peach crop outlook with expert guidance on climate and care.
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Chesterton
William Warner
McCool
Brookville
Tarlton Walters
Frankfort
Petro Besso
Troy
Anderson
Levi Lowers
Randolph County
Robert F. Bowers
Martingsville
James Stewart
Sug Hacker
Cleve Davis
Columbus
Indianapolis
Zionsville
Wesley Wood
Winchester
Beedy Cougille
Anse
Eighteenth Indianan Infantry
Terre Haute
Frank Neiding Wen
Washington, Ltd
Newcastle
Milton Mahin
Nestor
Northern Indiana Conference
Sullivan
Josiah Stanley
Stanley
Fourth
Indiana Infantry
Indiana
Bedford
William Voyles
W. Voyles
Vetersburg
George Denning
Thomas Whitney
Denning
Whitney
Noblesville
James B. Sturdaevant
Anna Earl
Sturdevant
Wabash
Ines Rish
Fred Rish
Pauline Larder
North Indiana
M. E. Church
T. M. Guild
Richmond
Minneapolis
First Methodist Church
D. H. Guild
Thomas M. Guild
Moore
Munhall
Grace M
Indiana State Board of Agriculture
State House
Oliver Citle¢ Plow Works
South Head
State Fairgrounds
Oliver
R. W. Douglass
Mr.Douglass
Board of State Charities
Northern State Hospital
Logansport
Southern
Evansville
Eastern
Southeastern Hospital
Madison
Marehall
General Assembly
Railroad Commission Reports Train Casualties in State
The quarter ending December 31 shows steam road casualties with 104 killed and 673 injured, interurban totals 8 killed and 644 injured, all rail deaths 113 and injuries 644. For prior year quarter 101 killed and 761 injured. Food and Drug Inspect: January 1022 inspections. grading shows 1, 646, 339, 24, 4 bad. several stores and bakeries graded excellent or bad.
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State Railroad Commission
Food and Drug Inspection
Food and Drug Department
State Board of Health
Shoe Men to Hold Meeting in Indiana March Run
Officers and members of the Indiana Retail Shoe Dealers association met in Indianapolis to set an annual gathering at the Denison on March 6 and 7 with a banquet on the sixth. Committees named for entertainment, banquets, and invitations, a Rubber Co display, and talks on better salesmanship and organizational benefits were planned along with pension grants to numerous Indiana residents.
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Indiana Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
Indianapolis
Denison
Clyde Warner
Munele
E. EB. Stout
W. E. Balch
Merchants’ Association
The Truth About Bluing Talk No 11
A تبلی advertisement style note explains how blueing works and the illusion of volume. It urges buying Red Cross Ball Blue and describes using a small quantity in water to achieve snowy white clothes and to ask grocers for the product.
Man Claims Mud Bath Cure Despite Accident
A man asserts he is taking a mud bath prescribed by his doctor, denying he fell. The quotation reveals his defiant tone as he describes his health remedy in the exchange.
Tuberculosis Death Toll in Churches Prompt Day of Prayer
The National Association reports that about 10 percent of church deaths are due to tuberculosis. In a 1920 study of 313000 communicants across 725 churches with 7000 deaths, the rate was 2.24 per thousand, higher than the 1910 U S registration rate of 1.60. Ministers should address TB during TB day week near April 28.
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National Association For the
United States
National Association
Bureau of Census
Leap Year Custom Cited by Papua Anthropologist
An ethnologist says leap year is perpetual in Papua not due to women’s power but to male indifference to love making. He explains men overlook proposals while engagements are stamped on women with a red hot iron.
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James Mills
Shelburn
Sullivan
Papua
Mamma Didn't Cure Little Mabel At Depot Incident
A mother’s kiss cures Mabel’s bumps, a crowded Union depot scene follows a man’s fall. Mabel’s whispered call, “Don’t cry, map,” echoes Lipincott’s Magazine fiction. The piece contrasts comforting mothers with a tense public moment and a line about gender roles.
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Mamma
Mabel
Union Depot
Lippincott’s Magazine
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Prof
Munyon
63Rd & Jefferson Sis
Phiadelphia
Allen
Sam
PISO
Joseph Carron
Robert Brown
Greensbourg
Muskrats
Bluffton
John Wirely
Wandrei
Wandrel
Indiana News
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Sanford
Anthony 8. Arnold
Ft. Wayne
John Borkowski
South Bend
Daniel C. Byrne
North Vernon
Arias Cunp
Huntington
Nathan D. Douglas
Lawrence
Jacob Flory
John T. Haseltine
Sarah Hoppingarner
Rivervale
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Summitville
Louis McClelland
Diamond
Joseph A. McGlone
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Bluing
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