Long service records loom in ranks of school superintendents
A survey highlights sixty year tenures in education led by William W. Cottingham. Notables include James M. Greenwood of Kansas City and Jacob A. Shawan of Columbus with multi-decade runs. The piece notes average terms in large cities run seven and a half years, with push toward fixed tenure despite elected posts.
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William W. Cottingham
James M. Greenwood
Kansas City
Lynchburg
Phillips
Birmingham
McClymonda
Oakland
Cal
Jacob A. Shawan
Columbus
Henry Snyder
Jersey City
N. J
Charles M. Jordan
Minneapolis
Charles W. Dean
Bridgeport
Aston
Streetletter Boxes and Mail Rules Cited in City Notices
Des Moines and Burlington Ia report street letter boxes for on street posting and car mail handling. Passengers may drop letters while boarding and alighting. conductors may take mail from people. City authorities discuss women employment in the army and reference public service duties amid broad civic notes.
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Des Moines
Burlington
Pinghy
Jane Uleuw
Lufoy
Home trade and civic pride in small towns
An editorial urges residents to support local businesses to avoid stunted town growth. It argues mail order reliance harms economies, rails, and future expansion, and champions buying locally to boost population, industry, and civic standing.
A Cold November Ride Sparks Class Clash
In a Cambridge carriage scene a sharp executive woman condemns a lower middle class mother for a ten year old girl’s dress. The mother retorts she has had twelve children, challenging the snobbery with quiet defiance.
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Cambridge
Atlantic Monthly
Jerry the Guernsey Cow Sets Notable Wisconsin Record
The grade Guernsey cow Jerry, age ten, sired by King of Ellington, posted a semi official record in the Wisconsin Dairy Cow Competition. Her months show milk pounds fat and percent data with totals for the year, claimed as the largest record by a grade cow and possibly any cow that calved again in its year. Butterfat value $220.50, feed cost $0.20, profit $150.35.
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King of Ellington
Poultry Professors Seek Law to Cut Seasonal Losses
Kansas Agricultural College professor W A Lippincott warned the Kansas Poultry federation that sealing roosts and excluding male birds could save $1,000,000 yearly in market egg losses during the summer. He urged a statute making it a misdemeanor to allow a male bird to run free.
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Kansas
W. A. Lippincott
Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas Poultry Federation
Lippincott
How to Fight Tent Caterpillars in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania authority advises methods to destroy tent caterpillars. Approaches include spraying young larvae with paris green or arsenate of lead, pruning and burning infested branches, twisting nests with a pole brush and applying kerosene or oil, and even using a shotgun with powder and wadding but no shot.
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Pennsylvania
Berean Sunday Lesson on Murmuring Israelites and Bread of Life
The study reflects on John 6 35 Jesus the bread of life and recalls the Israelites murmurings during the Exodus. It evaluates their complaints at Egypt Marah and Sinai noting God provided daily manna with a Sabbath rest and warns readers to trust divine provision rather than rebel.
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Jesus
John vi
Egypt
Marah
Ophidima
Sinaibm
Pavan
Kadesh
Moses
Thors
Dix
Rehoval
Aaron
Iewting
Lowe
Scraps From Farm Advice In Cracker Barrel Club
Dictographed notes discuss farmers comparing head and hands, the superintendent owning the farm, and the challenge of mixing oil and vinegar. It notes raising draft horses for market, costs of worn equipment on bad roads, and potential reimbursement from road overseers for town costs.
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Old An Sipp
Ohio experiment station fights warble fly pest on cattle
The Ohio experiment station launches a campaign against the warble fly, deemed one of the state's worst livestock pests. Eggs are laid on cattle hairs above the hoofs, and when cattle lick, maggots hatch and tunnel under the hide causing severe irritation.
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Ohio
Cowpeas and Corn Good Combination for Soil
Farm and Ranch urges immediate planting of cowpeas between corn rows to enrich soil with nitrogen and humus while providing grazing for stock.
Plowing This Fall Benefits Soil Health
Fall plowing improves soil by breaking up clay, releasing plant food, neutralizing toxins, enabling aeration, and aiding spring germination. Disturbed fields warmed by spring air can be planted 7 to 10 days earlier, and rough winter surface helps prevent wind erosion. Kansas Farmer.
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Kansas
Sugar Beets as Fowl Feed Advised by Farm Journal
Farm Journal correspondent recommends feeding raw chopped sugar beets to chickens after green feed runs out. Beets store well and are eagerly eaten by fowls in spring. about a quart daily per dozen hens yielded gratifying results, though not better than potatoes or turnips in mash.
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Farm Journal
Feeding Poultry Turnips and Cabbage Techniques
A brief note from Farm Journal describes a simple method to feed poultry vegetables. It explains cutting a wire into pieces, forming a loop and ball, threading a strong string through the loop, and hanging it to a roof beam to slide vegetables onto for easier feeding.
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Farm Journal
Kid Cosgrove chase sparks Three Bridges intrigue
A wandering youth named Clough seeks work in Three Bridges but faces a mistaken arrest for Kid Cosgrove a fugitive rumor stirs town. Jennie Wixley rides to three rivers to aid, sheriff confronts crowd as Cosgrove mystery unfolds.
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Three Bridges
Clough
Hadley Role
Muddy Creek
Kid Cosgrove
Vine Cone
Cosgrove
Hedley
Menchmas
Jennie
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