Kansas Farmers Raise Record Wheat Crop In 1619
Topeka reports Kansas farmers produced a record wheat crop of about 150,000,000 bushels in 1619, sold for roughly 20,000,001 dollars at a measured loss of 43 cents per acre. Secretary J C Mohler notes analysis from 2,040 growers shows cost per acre 25.20, return per acre near, and confirms cash balances do not prove profit given high production costs and large early cash outlays.
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Topeka
May
Kansas
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Seers
Mobler
Volunteers Risk Life to Save Hyannis at Peril
Edgetown Barbados May 1 1910 volunteers risked their lives unloading the Hyannis after dynamite and sulphuric acid aboard began leaking. E P Tumson a Scot from South Africa volunteered to board the ship and threw detonators into a barge to allow repair crews to move the vessel away from the shore.
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Edgetown
Barbados
Death of Napoleon Bonaparte at Saint Helena
A Metropolitan Museum display presents a single Napoleon Bonaparte figure on a rocky St Helena bluff. It notes his death on May 5 1821 at Longwood and his exile ending after Waterloo with his ashes interred at the Invalides in Paris.
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Metropolitan Museum
New York
Napoleon Bonaparte
St. Helena
Atlantic
Longwood
Great Britain
Napoleon
Europe
Waterloo
France
Church of the Invalides
Paris
Helena Fourment in Rubens Gallery Portraits
Helena Fourment, Rubens's second wife, features in a series of paintings including In Rubens Garden and Helena with her children. The article notes Rubens painted her tirelessly across mythological works, while a separate item mentions Poland reportedly considering a Senate like ours, with no telegrams yet sent.
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Rubens
Helena Fourment
Munich
Rubens’ Garden
Ume
Helena Fourmont
Hite
Helena Mourmont
Poland
Househunters scheme to find rents in Des Moines
In Des Moines on May 6, readers describe ingenious rental ploys to nab vacancies. A notable advert claimed a baby needs a home and parents must come along, while others shadow moving van drivers and even follow divorce and death notices to reach empty houses first. A child's admonition adds a humorous note as mothers plan an enhanced Mothers Day dinner.
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Tes Moines
Iowa
Vienna waiters seek work amid hardships and dress costs
In aristocratic Vienna May 5, hundreds of displaced Argentinian internees and local waiters face unemployment and rising living costs. The shortage of patrons and the high price of new dress suits push them toward cheap linen uniforms to identify staff and ease attire costs.
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Vienne
Vienna
England
Prisoners Escape From Wyoming State Prison
Ber Loften escaped from the Wyoming state prison with a needle from the shirt factory as his only tool. William Smith, his companion, was captured while attempting to scale the wall. Loften cut through a steel drain, opened a door, and fled via a hole in the roof before an improvised rope failed.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Loften
William Smith
Smith
Death House
Lefton
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Helena Bourment
Vairchild
G. W. Fairchild & Sons, Inc
Main ST
Arcade Corner
Shed
the Times
Dillon
Bridgeport
Hartford
Conn
Dillon’s
Manidler’s Baby Phono
Post Office Arcade
TEL Bar
Wrigleys
Wes
Lut
Smith-Murray Co
Fairfield Ave
Bridgeports
Smith - Murray Co
Smith-Murray Wearwell
Bandeaux
Tere
The
Smith-Murray
Brassieres
Conlin & Green, Inc
Barnum
Panton
Tabet Edwards
Edward
OliveTat
New Savings Department
Connecticut National Bank
Wall
Fairfield County
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