Circus Night Tragedy and a City Crime Plot Unfolds
In a tense tale, Joe Barry and Pete plot to trap a killer while Boston moves through a New York hideout posing as a guard at Jamison property. The Darton Brothers circus sets a desolate scene as the big top fades, and Sue Payton and Joe Barry share a quiet, hopeful farewell until tomorrow.
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Boston
Pete
Jamison
Washington Society
New York
Greer
Orr's Mills
Chav
Jamison Country Place
Washington
Joe Barry
Darton Brothers Circus
Sue Payton
Jne
Puzzle of a fall guy unfolds in a mob caper tale
In a convoluted escape and capture sequence a mob scheme unravels around Joe and Chay as they track down Louie Bertolini Jamison Fullhouse and others. The plan collapses after loopholes and missteps reveal a web of double dealings, loyalty shifts, and a staged crime ending with a risky chase and police intervention.
Anatomical Names From Ancient Objects in Hygeia Magazine
Lloyd Edwin Smith explains in Hygeia Magazine how Roman and Greek coinages named body parts after familiar objects. The uvula and other structures were likened to a bunch of grapes the cuckoo bill and a small pan, reflecting perceived shapes.
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Lloyd Edwin Smith
Hygeia Magazine
Mourners Bench at Revival Meetings in US Churches
The mourners bench is a row beneath the platform where attendees step forward at the end of sermons to confess sins and seek forgiveness. Once common in revival meetings led by Dwight L Moody, the bench symbolized repentance as the devil supposedly roars in response.
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United States
Dwight L. Moody
Literary Digest
Unjust Weapons Do Not Win War Says Walter Lippmann
Quotation by Walter Lippmann on justice and liberty. It argues that using unjust means undermines larger aims, claiming victories in skirmishes cannot sustain a war for justice, tolerance, or liberty when tactics align with tyranny. The line stresses ethical consistency in struggle.
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Walter Lippmann
Government budget process and new fiscal year outline
In a 1922 Western Newspaper Union piece the author explains how the government marks a new fiscal year with budget planning and borrowing. The treasury closes books, balanced by borrowings, and Congress is urged to pass new taxes to cover expenditures. The treasury shapes policy and taxes, stressing government near every citizen’s pocketbook.
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Treasury
Congress
The
Washington
Uts Nos
Pocketbook
Federal Reserve Board
Use of Poison to Fight Field Mice in Orchards
An NC State College extension note details poisoning field mice in clean cultivated orchards. It recommends poisoned grain bait in glass bottles as a weatherproof preventive, using strychnine and baking soda mixed with steam rolled oats, placed under trees in self feeders with cover and loose frass.
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Oman
Reéent
North Carolina State College
WRU
Mixture as Substitute for Regular Oat Crop
Cornell University College of Agriculture promotes mixtures as substitutes for oats in New York state. Reasons include producing desirable feed, suitability across conditions, extended work period, satisfactory seedings, and potential higher digestible yield per acre. Considered substitutes are barley, oats and barley, oats and peas, and barley oats and peas.
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New York State
College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Sweet Potato Crop Shows Higher South Production
The South grows one fifth more sweet potatoes this year with most for local use and little market impact. Northern Yukon? wheel potatoes stay near average in most regions. New Jersey yields 1 420 000 bushels versus 1 950 000 last year and 1 656 000 the five year average. Total U S production is forecast around 18 million bushels, about 18 020 000 more than the five year average 1924 to 1928.
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New Jersey
New Yorker
Early plowing to curb grassland pests in corn prep
Prairie Farmer notes early plowing of grasslands planned for next year’s corn to destroy eggs and hatching sites of sod web worms cutworms and army worms. By disturbing soil early, farms reduce larval numbers and feeding areas for the pests before they overwinter.
Farm Usage Stats From McKean County Sheep Owners
County Agent W A Ross reports on four-fifths of McKean county sheep owners showing 868 percent use pure bred sires 882 percent feed grain to flocks 58 percent provide creeps for lambs 57.4 percent drench for parasites 64.7 percent dip for ticks 91.2 percent dock and 80.9 percent castrate ram lambs and 100 percent use paper twine for tying wool.
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W. A. Ross
McKean County
Indiana
Agricultural Hints and Pig Rearing Practices
Agricultural hints note corn yields higher nutrients per acre and lower costs than oats or barley. Weed control relies on early cutting before seeding. Raising eight to ten pigs to weaning costs similar to four or five pigs. Vaccinate small pigs to prevent cholera. Beef cattle fattening aims to use surplus feed and gain manure for fertilizer. Clean farrowing house thoroughly with hot lye solution, scrubbing walls and floors.
New Death Ray Aims at Garden Pests in England
In Tunbridge Wells England an inventor unveiled a death ray device designed to wipe out garden pests. A demonstration showed a copper wand directing the ray at leaves infested with green fly where the insects died instantly but the leaves remained unharmed.
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Tunbridge Wells
England
Self Convicted Man Claims High Speed Evidence
A man, self incriminated in a case, testifies to police that he was driving at least forty miles per hour. He adds that he believed his speed due to admitting he was moving at twenty miles per hour earlier, revealing a contradiction in his statements.
Excellent Reason Dialogue Snapshot Portrait
A concise exchange captures a moment of cultural tension as a young Frenchman pursues a kiss and the response reveals language barriers. The quip highlights playful wit and the subtle negotiation of understanding across cultures.
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Hiscox Chemical Works Patchogue
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America
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Faollhouse
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Big Friday
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Jami- Son
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the Treasury
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Rhodesia
Frederick Stone
India
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Chicago
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