Minnesota Senate Passes Chilton Bill on Marriage Licenses
The Minnesota senate approved amendments to Senator Chilton’s bill barring marriage for insane, epileptic, and idiotic persons and mandating medical certificates for all marriage license applicants. Miss Ella Ewing, Missouri’s eight-foot-four-inch giantess, recently built a new home with ten-foot doors and fifteen-foot ceilings, furnished completely.
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Minnesota
Senate
Chilton
Ella Ewing
Missouri
Wireless telegraphy to equip Mediterranean squadron
Experiments in wireless teleg raphy with the French fleet prompt provisioning of the entire Mediterranean squadron. Plans call for decisive tests during the squadron’s upcoming cruise. Also reports new Egyptian relics in the British Museum include a royal seal showing a king wrestling a hippopotamus and spearing a crocodile.
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Mediterranean
Egypt
British Museum
Iking
Widow of staff Sergt Maj Thompson Receives $2500 Gift for Army Cooking Service
The grant honors the late Sergt Maj Thompson whose wife receives $2500 in recognition of his long service as chief instructor at the army school of cooking in Aldershot.
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Thompson
Army School of ‘Cooking
Aldershot
Mammoth Walnut Tree Sells for 4000 Dollars on Ohio Farm
A giant black walnut on E. P. Gaus’s Williams county farm fetched 4000 dollars after buyers inspected wood chips and praised it as the finest specimen seen. The tree stood eight feet in diameter, forty feet above the stump, and reached seventy three feet to the first limb.
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E. P. Gaus
Williams County
Ohio
Bavaria Greece relations reopen explore Aegina statue site
The article notes Bavaria resumes relations with Greece after Ottoman era changes. Prof Furtwangler plans a summer excavation at Aegina to study the Aeginetan statues in Munich’s Glyptothek, seeking evidence of the statues’ relative positions.
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Bavaria
Greece
Otto
Furtwangler
Munich
War Costs and Global Impact Across Centuries
A historical survey compares war costs from the Civil War to modern conflicts, noting US Civil War expenses far exceed South Africa’s, while Europe bears rising annual military outlays. It discusses human tolls, technological advances raising per-shot costs, and the broader economic and political effects on nations and investors.
Dairy and Poultry Care From Farmers' Review
A reader reports a hen with an unusual tumor like egg in ovary and death. Expert advice: avoid excessive corn fattening, stop egg producers, switch to oats and mixed mash, feed once daily, and maintain lean rations to improve laying. Also notes on silage losses and milk yield, plus sorghum and cow peas as hog pasture from Oklahoma station.
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Farmers’ Review
Hatcy
Plymouth Rocks
John Bruns
Oklahoma Experiment Station
Waste of Silage Compared With Dry Fodder Losses
Prof. E. B. Voorhees argues silage wastes are not greater than those of dry fodder. He notes that well made silage is eaten cleanly with no leftovers, while dry fodder often leaves 30 percent waste in dry matter due to feeding habits and fiber content, with field and silo losses roughly balancing out.
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Chicago
England
Lancashire
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Russia
E. B. Voorhees
New Yorker
Quality of Milk Varies Through the Year
Prof F G Short writes in the Country Gentleman that milk fat and solids fluctuate seasonally. Peak richness occurs in November to January, dip in February to April, low fat in May to August, then improve again in September and October. Morning milk averages 3.63 percent fat, night milk 3.99 percent.
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F. G. Short
Country Gentleman
Angora Goats valued for mohair and many uses in US
The article notes about 400,000 Angora goats in the United States and a 1,000,000 pound annual mohair production. It cites their long history, widespread Western state breeding, and diverse uses from fine mohair fabrics to meat milk leather rugs and pest control. Their manure benefits pastures after clearing brush.
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United States
Texas
New Mexico
Nevada
Florida
California
Oregon
Hogs Bristle Sorting Industry at Tien Tsin
At Tien tsin China workers sort 600000 kilograms of hog bristles exported in 1898 by length. Each bristle is picked out measured and bundled with hairs of matching length. The piece notes human greed for gold as a possible origin of yellow fever.
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Europe
Tien Tsin
China
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