Wireless Weather Forecasts For Kansas Farmers
The Kansas Agricultural College will send forecasts by wireless telegraph to farmers and institutions across the state. Receivers cost about 35 dollars and are usable by anyone. Forecasts go out at 9 50 each morning on a 75 meter wavelength at 18 words per minute then repeat at 10 words per minute. Service is free to farmers high schools banks stores and telephone companies.
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Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas
Ostrich Plumes and Breeding Efforts in Africa
South African ostrich farmers push to boost plume quills by up to 25 percent. Skeptical experts cite natural limits from wing structure. Current average quills per wing are 36 to 42 in Africa and 39 in North Africa, with about 1,000,000 birds on farms and feathers worth roughly $15.01 million.
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Deverden
W. P. Pseraft
Grootfontein School of
Breakthrough in Disease Proof Plants Emerges from Cambridge
Cambridge scientists announce a method to breed disease proof plants after extensive tests on grains potatoes and other crops. The advance could stabilize food supplies as potato disease has cost millions and prices fluctuate wildly, offering hope amid global food shortages.
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Cambridge University
New York Tribune
Esperanto as official league language proposed by Paris Esperantists
The Independent notes that treaties prefer French or English texts but perfect translations fail. Paris Esperantists publish Kontrakto de la Liga de Nacies proposing Esperanto as the league’s official language to avoid disputes.
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Es-perantists
Paris
Kontrakto de la Liga de
League
Independent
New York
East Prussia Forms Plan for Uniform Electric Power
Ko nigsberg reports say the provincial board approved a ten year plan to standardize electricity across East Prussia. Water power development will ensure a coal independent supply.
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East Prussia
Konigsberg
Fasc Prussia
Airplanes Used to Spot Fish Off Toulouse
Airplanes once used to spot submarines are now employed to locate schools of fish off Toulouse France. The method proved successful as an aircraft detected a large bank of fish and signaled fishermen who hurried to the area and secured a substantial catch.
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Toulouse
France
Ingenious sludge depth method used at Fitchburg sewer works
A Canadian writer notes Fitchburg Massachusetts sewer works measure sludge depth in deep tanks with a pitcher pump and 28 feet of 1 inch hose. The apparatus rests on a plank across a gas vent, with the hose lowered inch by inch to detect sludge height as water is swapped between shifts.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Mexicans Wary of Snow in Capital Valley
The article notes a rare snowfall in the Valley of Mexico, where Popocatepetl and Iztaccíhuatl remain snowcapped at distance. Barefooted locals cautiously emerged to view the strange element then retreated to warmth, as a sudden cold spell followed light rain.
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Mexico City
Valley
Mexico
Popocatepet
Iztaccihuat
His Predicament and Riley Rezzidew’s Silence
A Kansas City Star vignette shows Uncle Riley’s troubles as he destroys the peach crop in preparation for the next season and clears the slate of League of Nations talk. The traveling salesman and tavern landlord note Riley’s lack of talking points and current debates.
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Riley Rezzidew
Petunia
Riley
League of Nations
Mars
Kansas City
Growth of the Cities and Industry in the Census
The Philadelphia Press notes that among large cities, pork driven Cleveland style jokes aside. It cites new census figures showing Pork population up 10 percent in a decade, beer population up 22 percent, while government job population rises 32 percent.
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Cleveland
Cincinnati
Girard
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Washington, D. C
Big Fuss Over Small Fox In Dutchess County
A dispute over a fox skin pits two hunters two farmers four lawyers and one justice of the peace against Edward Meade after he killed a fox on De Witt Clinton Flanagan land. The court ruled under colonial law that a predatory animal found on an enclosed property may be seized, awarding the pelt to Meade.
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Dutchess Counery
Supreme Court
Poughkeepsie
New York Evening Sundass
Besnard
de Witt Clnton Flanagan
Congress
L. C. Hart
Edward Meade
Hart
Meade
Rag doll still king of toys despite new rivals
Homer Stephens, president of the American Toy Exhibitors, notes in the New York Evening Telegram that the rag doll remains the top toy for children. He cites record rag doll production and sales, while innovators introduce phonographs and juvenile engineering toys, yet the classic rag doll endures.
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Homer Stephens
American Toy Exhibitors. Inc
New York Evening Telegram
Stephens
Lighthouse memorial light gains official status on New York harbor charts
After seven years the Seamen's Church Institute beacon near the Titanic disaster memorial received official recognition on New York harbor charts. The green light, once ignored, is now a fixed point marked by a star of lamps and a daily time ball, guiding pilots and marking noon.
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Seamen's Church Institute
New York Harbor
Newfoundland
Cooper Hewitt
Lghthouse
Arry
Bill
Lunnta
Pyramids near San Juan Teotihuacan Reveal Ancient Burials
Excavations at the Aztec site uncover tomb chambers in the sun and moon pyramids with bones obsidian blades terra cotta heads and numerous arrowheads. A jadeite mask of a past monarch among the finds and inscriptions with Chinese characteristics emerge from ruins at La Ciudadela uncovering a larger, older pyramid.
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San Juan Teotihuacan
la Ciudadela
Annual party plans of Uniform Bank K. of P. lodge
A young Uniform Bank K. of P. member prepares for the lodge yearly party described as the annual annual. His mother questions if the lodge holds enough affairs while recalling dances and past nights attended by his father before Indiana’s alcohol prohibition.
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Uniform Bank
K. of P. Lodge
Lodge
Indiana
Indianapolis News
Man’s Plight Cited in Tango Energy Quest
A visitor describes a patient at an asylum as the most violent in the ward. The attendant notes the man’s terrible condition, explaining his mind unravelled while attempting to harness energy wasted in tango periods. The exchange appears in the Birmingham Age Herald.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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BIG Timber
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J. A. Lowry & CO
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B&ak
Better R
U.S. Patent Office
Bray’s. Quality
Sawyer Company
Churchill & Amery
Yellowstone Stores Company
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