Culture of Sugar Beets at Madison Meeting
At a Madison mass meeting A F Postel of the Menomonee sugar factory outlined sugar beet culture. He urged farmers to adopt beet culture, noting fixed prices preplant and soil and rotation requirements. He described field prep, seed rates, row spacing, thinning, harvesting, and costs, stressing water supply and adequate beet supply for a profitable factory operation.
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Madison
A. F. Postel
Menomonee
Michigan
Rockefeller and the New York Milk Commission
J H Monrad discusses the New York Milk Commission and Rockefeller funded efforts. He argues most milk is adequate with proper cleanliness and pasteurization, urges anti preservative enforcement, and critiques funding withdrawal and dealer charges hindering inspection and consumer protection.
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Rockefeller
The
New York Milk Commission
Daily Press
J. H. Monrad
New York Produce Review
New York County Medical Society
C. c
Milk Commission
General Tom Thumb and the Queen’s Crown Remark
The tale recounts how Tom Thumb earned the title General after a remark at a royal audience. At a show in England he met the Prince of Wales and the future German empress, prompting a correction by Queen Victoria. The duke saluted and the nickname stuck for Mr Stratton.
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Tom Thumb
Barnum
England
Prince of Wales
Germany
Tom
General Tom Thumb
Mr. Stratton
Flour Sack Letters Could Be Removed by Soaking
A historical note states that printed letters from flour sacks may be removed by soaking them in buttermilk before washing. The method is described as a simple old time technique to erase printed markings. The source emphasizes a practical household hack rather than a formal instruction.
Wild turkey outwits hunter by river roost
S. Stribling near the San Antonio River spots a gobbler on a tall cypress across the river and tries to shoot it with a .14 caliber rifle. After two failed shots and a boast, the gobbler remains unmoved and sails away as the hunter concedes defeat.
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Homer
D’artagnan
Oulda
Bertin Cecil
S. Stribling
San Antonio
Gulf of Mexico
Mr. Stribling
Stribling
Near Miss on Ship as 400-Pound Hatch Falls on Captain
Rear Admiral Robby D. Evans recalls a life threatening moment when a steel hatch weighing over 400 pounds toppled onto his cabin hatch during Cervera's fleet action. He describes the startled crew, the mangled shoulder, and the swift care that saved him, nearly costing him his life.
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Robby D. Evans
Cervera
Kimball
German Enterprise Boosts Palestine Progress, Harris Claims
United States Consular Agent Harris notes a decade of growth in Palestine driven by German colonists merchants and horticulturists. He cites a Jerusalem bank branch in 1901 a Dead Sea motor boat service a Jerusalem Kerak route and plans to exploit Jordan phosphate fields aided by the Baghdad railway opening commerce travel and tourism. The Palestine economy now features wheat barley olives wine nuts figs apples peaches pears pomegranates apricots citrons almonds cucumbers lettuce onions artichokes and other crops with German and French colonists introducing vegetables.
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United States
Harris
Palestine
Mr. Harris
Levant
Jerusalem
Yafa
Dead Sea
Kerak
Moab
Arabian Desert
Jordan
Germany
Asia Minor
Bagdad
Anatolia
Tigris
Euphrates
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia
One-Horse Republican Fringe Claim In Nevada Chronicle
The Virginia Chronicle mocks a local Nevada claim that only office seekers remain silverites in Tonopah. It ridicules the speaker as a single dynamo miscasting opponents and asserts the writer doubts the thinker’s grasp of basic arithmetic.
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Nevada
Silverites
Tonopah
Virginia
Nev
Chronicle
Peruna Cure Promoted By Columbus Firm In Ads
A circulated testimonial drives Peruna as a spring medicine from The Peruna Medicine Co of Columbus Ohio. Figures like Lena Hilton president of a Los Angeles club share health gains and callers urged to write Dr Hartman for advice.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Lena Hilton
Wenesday Whist Club
Los Angeles
J. E. Finn
East High Street
Buffalo
N. Y
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Lorna Hilton
Cal
S. Olive Street
Gas Tire CO
Indianepothc
Ind
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CES
A. J. Tower CO
Boston
Mass
Western Canada
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Sakatchhewan
Alberta
Western
Canada
Pechey
Ottawa
W. Ritchie
Grafton
N. D
Thomason
Alabastine Co
Grand Rapids, Mio
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