Hillsdale county farmers push stock improvements drive
A 1921 Hillsdale County effort shows cattle tuberculosis eradication and improved dairy and poultry stock through better breeding, culling, and record keeping. A USDA bureau representative and a college expert aided the program, with county funding for bountiful testing and education to raise returns from poultry and livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
Favor oats as pig feed over middlings on farms
The article notes oats can replace wheat middlings in fattening pigs, with one pound of oats equaling one pound of middlings in feeding value per University of Minnesota tests. It warns middlings may rise in price due to cereal production declines and suggests grinding oats for use with corn and tankage as a practical fattening ration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Minos
J. Laible
MeuDs
Soy Beans Rise To Improve Thin Soils In Rotation
Discussion notes soybeans as a way to improve thin soils and replace oats in rotation. Suggests spring-sown crops, nurse wheat and clover sequences, with beans potentially profitable over larger areas and offering better feeding value while aiding soil quality.
Hatching Eggs Guidance From Poultry Specialist
Poultry specialist at University farm St Paul Minn urges farmers to use only hatching eggs under two weeks old for best results. If hatching eggs must be kept, store at 0 degrees or lower and study the incubator instructions carefully.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siya N. KE. Chaplan
University Farm
St’ Paul, Minn
Keep Flock Healthy Through Sanitation
Poultry specialist Kram of Colorado Agricultural College urges winter flock health via clean litter. Heavy dirty litter reduces scratching, circulation, digestion and appetite, increasing cold risk. Sand packed on dirt with straw above best. avoid ashes or cinders. Disinfect floors and nests after litter removal. spray with disinfection, using sheep dip dilution as advised.
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O. ©. Kram
Colorado Agricultural College
Ohio Potatoes Show Higher 1924 Yields in Ohio
Ohio State University specialist notes certified seed potatoes in Ohio yielded higher than sister states based on Ohio experiment station results at Wooster. Pests showed averages of 204 to 218 bushels per acre for Ohio Russet and White varieties, with Wisconsin and Michigan samples lower and New York data limited. Certification required a peck from each 1923-certified grower, and Ohio production rose to 8 700 bushels of White rurals and 2 530 bushels of Russet rurals in 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Ohio State Univer
Wooster
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Glines
Better Live Stock and Improved Feed Methods
The article notes nationwide efforts to boost livestock quality through pure bred sires, pledged farmer adoption, and a range of programs. It highlights clubs, demonstrations, contests, registries, cooperative bull associations, ram rings, and poultry improvements as part of the USDA drive to improve live stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm Notes on Efficiency and Soil Health
Farm notes discuss preserving machinery, packing to boost sales, cooperative farming as safer than competition, and the value of new thinking for profitable farming. It mentions beets as poultry feed in winter, and pinning as cleanliness, while long roots of certain crops loosen subsoil and improve humus and soil structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loyer
Why Clever Women Take Stupid, Lesser Partners
A column explores why brilliant women often marry men perceived as dull or flawed. It cites historical matches of Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I with less formidable spouses, notes that capable men attract “fuffy” women, and argues that such unions can be happy or practical. The piece suggests both sexes marry for completeness beyond love, with the insignificant providing balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine de Medici
Henry I
France
Mary Stuart
Darnley
Elizabeth
Leicester
Fuffy
Venice
Howl
The Hissing Iguana Of the Galapagos Archipelago
A reader describes the Galapagos Islands about 500 miles off Heundor where the hiss of the sea iguana, a four foot giant marine lizard found nowhere else, dominates life. Darwin visited four islands in 1835 for material for Origin of Species. The creature feeds on seaweed, sleeps in burrows or lava crevasses, emerges at low tide, and cannot be kept in captivity.
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Pacific Ocean
Heundor
Galapagos Archipelago
London
Darwin
Old Church Doctrines and Revisions Across English Church
The article traces the Thirty-nine Articles formed by the Church of England in 1562 under Parker, gaining royal and parliamentary authority in 1671. It notes earlier Morty-two and Morty-nine articles, and that in November 1871 Oxford ordered the Thirty-nine Articles removed from the curriculum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
London
Parker
Oxford
Kansas City Star
Swells Museum Exhibits Bring Rare Marquesas Ground Dove to National Museum
The Marquesas Island ground dove, unseen since 1814, joins US National Museum in Washington as part of a Whitney South Sea expedition collection. A mate for the dove, the Rapa island pigeon, also joins the display, previously known from a single specimen. The items were forwarded by the American Museum of Natural History.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquesas Island
United States National Museum
Washington
Rapa Island
Science Service
National Museum
American Museum of Natural History
Match This for Twins at Midland Street School
The Boston Globe notes Miss Mary F. Latchford of Worcester’s Midland street school has eight pairs of twins, more than any principal. If Brunel and Tahanto road twins hadn’t moved away, ten pairs would have been possible. currently two pairs come from one family, the Brullan twins.
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Mary F. Latchford
Midland Street
Worcester
Boston Globe
Latchford
Brunel
Tahanto Road
Brullan
Pepper charge lodge pins warn of street holdups
An inventor proposes lodge pins and coat-lapel adornments filled with red pepper powder that would discharge when the wearer raises their arm during a hands-up encounter on a dark night. The mechanism links to the sleeve so pepper sprays out as the arm moves, urging caution for straphangers.
Columbus as the Discoverer of America
The piece argues that multiple peoples may have reached the American continents before Columbus but emphasizes that lasting global impact came only with European colonization led by Christopher Columbus. It cites Prof Antoine Meillet on Pacific and Australian connections while warning against equating pre-Columbian contact with permanent discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
America
Antoine Meillet
College of France
California
Pacific Islands
Uat
William of Normandy
England
Meillet
Christopher Cohnbug
Orphan Deer Adopt Elk In Yellowstone Park Tale
A mule deer fawn trio and a baby elk formed a strange animal family in Yellowstone after being raised together in a Mammoth Hot Springs enclosure. Visitors saw them bottle fed by rangers, and after release the deer bid the elk farewell but now pursue it as a foster-like unit. The elk remains restless while the fawns emit a plaintive cry to reunite with their companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Butalo Corral
Mammoth Mot Springs
Park Rangers
Kansas City Star
Sheep with Conscience at Mutabiele Auction
A single sheep at a Mutabiele auction in South Africa drew attention by stepping away from the flock as the hammer rose to mark “Gone.” The inspector noted signs of scab infection in that animal, prompting a flockwide check. owners and farmers praised the animal’s honesty and integrity as the incident spread among local attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutabiele
South Afriet
Wisdom of Towser and the clever hound
Col Spots Wunder of Mountain View recalls Towser the hound who could sense the game Col Spots planned. He recounts Towser sniffing for squirrels when armed with a rifle, rabbits with a shotgun, and even scratching fishing worms when the judge tried a river outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Spotswond Telfulr
Mountain View
Towser
Judge
Electrical girl in Keighley mystifies mill workers
A Leeds area mill story notes a girl who acts like a magnet to spinning frames. When she approaches a spinning frame threads break and the machine seems drawn to her. Once she leaves the machinery returns to normal.
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Keighley
Leeds
England
America Leads in Electricity Use Versus Great Britain
The United States consumes far more electricity than Britain, with New York City generating more power than Britain overall. California, though home to about one fifth Britain’s population, uses a substantial portion of electricity compared with Great Britain, which adopted electricity around the same era.
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New York
Great Britain
California
Great Briain
Bookhabor Leader Veregin Death Shocks Doukhobors
One of modern history’s strangest figures, Peter Veregin head of the Doukhobors, was killed in a mysterious bomb blast aboard a Canadian Pacific train between Nelson and Grand Forks, B C. The bombing, labeled a plot to kill Veregin, also claimed five others. Veregin, reportedly a reincarnation figure to his followers, led a movement of passive resistance against Russian military service, lived in exile, and later governed in Saskatchewan. His death follows decades of intense leadership and controversy surrounding the Doukhobors.
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Nelson
Grand Works
B. C
Chicago Journal
Peter Veregin
Veregin
Lookerin Vassilevna
Yeregin
Sberia
Interlin
Canada
Saskatchewan
Jesus Christ
Verein Hind
Tassia
Om Wonen
Gien
Sumous Shite
Verogin
Yorkton
Christ
Dunnion
Yellowstone Bison Sent to Hollywood for Film Roles
Sixteen of the eighty six surplus Yellowstone bison are bound for California to join movie productions. The herd, started in 1902 with 21 animals, expanded to 780 by Aug 1 with 120 calves last spring and 100 in 1923. Some animals went to municipalities, preserves, forests, or private estates.
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Yellowstone
California
Hollywood
Catalin Island
Philadelphia Record
Flo Zlegfeld
Bisoh
Yellowstone Park
Allard
Western
Mottana
Goodnight
Texas
Lucky landlady bequeaths Bray widow vast estate
Mr. Francis W. Blickwood Price of Bray County Wicklow Ireland leaves all his money and securities valued at 4500 dollars to Mrs. Bessie McSweeney. He cites her great kindness and attention and notes compensation for charging him the same tariff during the war when prices were high.
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Francis W. Blickwood-Price
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Bessie McSweeney
Laughs at Idea That Modern Pace Is Swift
A Kansas City Star columnist mocks business leaders who claim to fear today’s pace. He notes doctors once spoke softly while today’s physicians chatter about angina pectoris, calling the “strenuous” era overrated and pokes fun at executives who boast of being strenuous while living leisurely lives.
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Doc Ueckelberry
Ife
Jine
Kamsas City
Pumping for Fish Revolutionizes Catching Methods
The article notes a new American method to catch fish by suction using a motor driven pump on a vessel. Water and fish are sucked into a tank while water drains off, claiming the ability to catch more than two tons of fish per minute.
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Aube
Fresh-Water Mussels Undergoing Growth Experiments
Experiments at the University of Town address a mussel shortage used for button shells. Sara Lewis of biology reports mussels under her care growing from half an inch to one inch in months. Beds will be established in the Mississippi, with harvest not expected for five years as research continues.
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Mississippi
University of Town
Sara Lewis
Department of Biology
Hudson Bridge Reopens South of Albany to Traffic T
The first vehicle bridge over the Hudson south of Albany reopened drawing about 4000 cars daily. The span runs from Peekstell to Bent Mountain park and traffic officials set tolls of 75 cents per automobile and 10 cents per passenger while pedestrians paid 10 cents.
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Hudson Bridge
Hudson
Albany
Peekstell
Bent Mountain Park
New York World
Wong
Wille
Spelling Improvement Reported for 9 Year Olds in Mass
A Boston University study compares spelling ability among nine year olds in Norfolk County Massachusetts. In 1870 the words which whose and too scored 69 54 and 2 in nine year olds. A 1879 survey shows improved scores of 76 79 on the same words.
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Boston University
Norfolk County
Massachusetts
Manila Port to Become One of World’s Finest Terminals
Manila will gain a great cargo and passenger terminal when construction finishes. The new pier will run 1,200 feet with the latest electric hoist equipment. Two vessels of the President Uners can berth on each side. Built of solid concrete, the project costs about 3.1 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Uners
Overcoming Misfortune Inspires Perseverance and Hope
A feature contrasts failures and triumphs of disabled individuals and others who faced hardship. It cites Cassius, a baker’s daughter who ran a blind brothers’ home, and a series of vignettes including a man who passed the bar and a physician losing his sight yet succeeding. The message urges readers not to yield to misfortune and to persist.
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Shakespeare
Cassia
Brutus
Elty
Teo
Ity Pollew
Hey
Xehoet
Bis
Gore
Oklahoma
Hood
Vassne
The Bird Isle Hat Island Pelicans Refuge Legend
Hat Island, a 22 acre rock off the shore, hosts a pelican stronghold with no vegetation and no human settlement. Birds migrate long distances to feed at river outlets, while seagulls and cranes follow this safe rookery.
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Great Salt
Uke
America
Eulony
Patie
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HAT Island
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