Jefferson’s Soil Conserving Farm Reforms Highlighted
Elmo Scoty Watson narrates Thomas Jefferson’s advances in soil conservation, crop rotation, and early farm machinery at Monticello. The article notes his experiments in legumes, contour plowing, livestock breeding with Madison, and invention of a steel plow and seed drill, framing him as a pioneer of modern American agriculture.
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Jefferson
Madison
John Adams
Marquis de LaFayette
Arthur Young
Contauy
Thomas Mann Randolph
Martha Jefferson
James Madison
Monticello
Jefferson Plantation
Capitol
Richmond
University of Virginia
James Monroe
John Jay
Army credits plan for postwar discharge raises questions
The army is quietly distributing special forms to officers to assess credits for discharge after the war in Europe ends. Credits include overseas service, combat honors, and even credits for children under 11, capped at three per person. Kaiser helped draft a postwar peace pledge with Johnston Murray and Green, while Bailey bill debates threaten union-priority royalties and health funds.
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Europe
Iis
U. S
Alaskan
Alaska
Henry Kaiser
Eric Johnston
U- 5
Chamber of Commerce
CIO
Phil Murray
AFL
Bill Green
Kaiser
Green
M Management
Johnston
Murray
Mayflower
Eisenhower quotes and wartime wit in a New York notes montage
A column excerpt cycles through General Eisenhower’s fiery denunciations of subversive groups and alarmist labels, wartime humor about journalists and leaders, plus anecdotes on Pulitzer history, Nazi tensions, and Burma battlefield quiet amid Allied victories. It blends civic zeal with quirky vignettes from reporters and soldiers.
Jefferson and his violin lore from Williamsburg days
The article recalls Thomas Jefferson as a youth in Williamsburg at the College of William and Mary, a red headed raw boned lad with a fiddle case who courted despite his early fame in music. It notes that posterity has overlooked his strong ties to the violin in youth.
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Jeferson
Virginia
Williamsburg
College of William and Mary
Jefferson
Suitspeep at Window as Widow Skelton Chooses Bride
Suitors pause at the widow Martha Wales Skelton as she sits before a harpsichord while a rival fiddler performs. The trio slips away without knocking, a moment captured before later life alters their fates.
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Martha Wales Skelton
Skelton
Martha
Jefferson Memorial receives music treasures from family
The son of Old Age Skelion Jefferson died, and the violinist who accompanied him was pressed by family affairs of state. He continued to play his beloved Cremoha. Old music books reveal the sort of music he played, preserved by his family through the years and recently presented to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by Miss Fannie M. Burke of Alexandria, Virginia.
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Elmo Scoty Watson
Western
Union
Virginia Hills
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
White House
James Madison
Washington
Jefferson
United States
Skelion Jefferson
Long distance radio programs carried by wire discussed
A New York origin program heard in San Francisco travels about 3,000 miles via wire and under 30 miles by radio waves. The article notes millions of Americans are unaware that many broadcasts traverse telephone lines more than air. It illustrates how cross country content is distributed through wired networks to local stations nationwide.
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New York
San Francisco
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