Free Range Tick Eradication Driving Cattle Industry Losses
A lengthy discussion argues that free range cattle suffer under tick infestations, harming land values and preventing immigrant settlement. It urges farmers in tick infested counties to adopt stock laws and eradicate ticks, noting significant economic losses and urging broader support from bankers and local leaders to revive cattle farming and preserve soil fertility. It cites regional quotes on farm prosperity, migration trends, and the need for improved rural education and infrastructure to sustain farming communities.
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Illinois
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Ber
Theodore Roosevelt
America
Bey
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South Atlantic States
North Central States
South Central States
Ufe
States
What Our So-Called Pastures Cost Us
A Cooper Curtice critique argues that free range farming wastes land value and increases tick infestations. He urges adoption of stock laws to replace fences around cultivated lands and speed tick eradication, noting drastic tax burdens and slow eradication timelines.
Stork Delivers Triplets In Odd Job Tale
A New York man, after a failed job search, returns home to discover three babies left at his house by the stork. He sues the mythical visitor, claiming the stork pulled a prank and left him with child care duties as a job on him.
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New York
Detroit Free Press
Japanese Laundry Methods and Outward Washing
A historical note describes Japanese laundry practices with garments ripped apart for washing and flat board ironing by leaning it against a house to dry. Sunlight removes wrinkles and adds luster. A Japanese woman washes outdoors using a wash tub only about six inches high.
Omens of Sneeze Across Roman Lore
A Sunday Magazine note recalls ancient Roman belief about sneezing: noon to midnight brings good omens, midnight to noon portends misfortune, and sneezing while rising from bed urges one to return to bed briefly for safety.
Restorative recipe for invalids with calf feet broth
Recipe advises simmering two calf feet in two pints of water and two pints of new milk in a closely covered jar for three and a half hours. After cooling, skim fat as needed, then take a cupful before bed and another in the early morning, with salt to taste.
Notable Wit on Tracking and Education by Birrell
The quotation argues that most men are traceable like a fox and that original men, even when attending universities, abandon degrees. It questions who taught Browning his poetry and contends that no great poet may have voiced orthodox views.
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Robert Browning
Augustine Birrell
Beef dish aids recovery for the sick
For sick persons, serve a small piece of porterhouse steak broiled on the range. This method avoids frying grease and preserves juices. Cook until tender, season with fresh butter, salt, and pepper. The dish is highly nutritious and helps regain lost health and strength.
Statue of Mexican Woman in Mexico City Jardin de la Corregidora
A single statue honors women who fought Spanish rule. It stands in the Jardin de la Corregidora in Mexico City facing some government offices, not at Donna Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez’s Querétaro home where patriots met a century ago.
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Mexico
Spain
Donna Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
Querretaro
Jardin de la Corregidora
Salome dance mockery ends in bath robe in Topeka show
Advertised as Salome, the act drew a crowd in Topeka but the dancer wore a bath robe. The Salome legend says seven veils and seven dances, with each veil removed. proper patrons reportedly left after the third act.
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Topeka
Salome
Atchison Globe
America's public roads could save billions with better highways
Outlook notes the Office of Public Roads reports only about 150,000 miles of U S roads improved out of 2.1 million. If roads matched France, American producers could gain over 1/4 billion dollars annually from better highways. Haul costs average 25 cents per mile per ton. improved roads could raise farmers' income by tens of millions yearly.
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Logan Waller Page
United States
France
Interstate Commece Commission
Three Doctors Miss Sponge Needle and Scissors
A patient undergoing appendectomy had a sponge, a needle, and then a pair of scissors left inside after successive operations by three doctors. Each time the wound was opened again and remedied, prompting the patient to quip for the surgeons to stop and put buttons on him.
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Success Magazine
How to Tie Shoes Securely with a Button Hook
A method to keep shoe laces tied: make a normal bow then insert a button hook under the bow’s center and pull one loop and one end through, turning the bow upside down. Alternatively draw one loop through the other and pull the answering end to knot the loops.
Sale of Land in Rankin County Mississippi
In Rankin county Chancery Court a commissioner will, by final decree of March 24, 1909, sell at public cash auction May 25, 1909 at the courthouse front door Brando Rankin County Mississippi. The West half of Southwest quarter section 13 township 5 range 1. Proceeds cover judgment, interest, costs, and encumbrance by Amie J Easterling dated May 29, 1906. Title conveyed as commissioner only.
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Chancery Court
Rankin County
State of
Mississippi
R. L. Foster
John and
Eudora Mack
John
Brandon
Rankin
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