The Old Music Teacher at Seventy Three
A portrait of a renowned music teacher aged seventy three, bent by rheumatism yet revered for shaping dozens of prodigies. Her pupils included famed names, and on her birthday they gathered with gifts, while she faced long stretches of lonely days awaiting their return.
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Madam
Moritzy
Lilienthal
Mann
Forenzil
Lanz
Spamer
Spanier
Brahms
Ferenzi
Beethoven
Fortune Found In Subway Gold Mine Start
A western millionaire recalls a chance moment ten years ago when a dropped $5 coin through a San Francisco subway grate led him to retrieve eight dollars by digging below the grate. The windfall funded meals clothes and revived his self confidence, enabling connections with influential men and a turn from insolvency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald-Examiner
San Francisco
Beggar Melvin Traylor Quips On American Honesty
In New York on a voyage, Chicago banker Melvin Traylor cites American honesty as key to business success. He recalls a beggar who, blind, once asked for a dime for coffee, then explains a dog’s death forced him to train another and become deaf and dumb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Traylor
Chicago
New York
Immense Floating Dock at Southampton Largest in Existence
A colossal floating dock at Southampton is described as the largest of its kind. It can lift ships with a displacement up to 60 000 tons, spans about 3 acres, and contains 17 240 tons of steel. The structure rises over 70 feet from pontoon bottom to deck top, with a 65 feet deep dredged berth. its deck is a hollow steel pontoon flanked by hollow steel walls forming a massive U shaped hull.
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Southampton
England
The Friendly Mosquito
The French or cannibal mosquito has a great antipathy for humans, but feeds upon the type of mosquito which seeks the blood of man and the lower animal life.
Missouri News Nuggets and Local Happenings
Widow of politician Mrs Cora Chalfant Turner dies at 71 in Callaway County Hospital. Digginsville claims largest 16 pound birth in Ozark County. Camdenton awards high school building contract at 29785 dollars to Bob Dawson Construction. Deputy Sheriff Whitledge kidnapped by robbers near Gideon, later released unharmed. Louisiana buys grader tractor to improve streets as Knox County road work nears Edina completion.
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Fulton
Cora Chalfant Turner
Henry G. Turner
Callaway County
Callaway County Hospital
Ozark County
Springfield
Digginsville
Robert Friend
Camden
Camdenton High School
Bob Dawson Construction Company
Columbia
Walter Burr
Missouri Conference For Social Welfare
Burr
New Madrid
James Whitledge
Gideon
Whitledge
Louisiana
Edina
Knox County
Lewis County
L. W. Hayes Construction Company
Bethany
Murder shocks Moncks Corner as stepfather confesses
In Hell Hole Swamp near Moncks Corner South Carolina the body of Solomon Byrd, missing for weeks, is found with a bullet wound. His stepfather Charles Williams is arrested and claims Byrd died during a disputed hunting trip amid a family romance with Byrd's mother.
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Moncks Corner
S. C
Hell Hole Swamp
Hose Island
Solomon Byrd
Byrd
Charles Williams
Williams
Atlantic Ocean
Kansan steals from U S mail to get into jail
An unemployed 55 year old Kansas City man, John Hicks, stole a package from a U S mail truck in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, seeking jail as relief. He admitted the act to officers when arrested, hoping to find food and housing once detained, and faces federal handling due to mail theft.
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Kansan
U. S
Sunbury
John Hicks
Kansas City
Hicks
United States
Secret Chinese Society Seeks Manchus Return
A secret society formed to restore the Manchu dynasty appears at Linhsien in northern Hunan. Members share Boxer Era ideas and believe bullets cannot kill them, using long swords and guarding their hair as the source of strength.
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Peiping
China
Linhsien
Hunan
Old Peking
Samson
Young Solon in Maine Holds 8 College Degrees
Roy L. Fernald, a Maine legislator, is thirty and has eight college degrees. He earned an A B from the University of Maine in 1923, an M A from Maine, LL B from Boston University in 1927, LL M from Boston University in 1928, M Ed from Boston University in 1929, a B S in education from Boston University, an M A from Harvard, and a Ph D from Boston University. He is also an attorney and a professor.
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Portland
Roy L. Fernald
Maine
University of Maine
Boston University
Harvard
Milk Costs Highlight Ohio Dairy Herd Associations
An Ohio State University extension specialist cites that dairy herd improvement associations lift profits by enabling selective breeding and per cow production records. The 11,000 Ohio cows averaged 7597 pounds of milk and 322 pounds of butterfat with $136 above $93 feed costs and $229 product value per class.
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Ivan McKellip
Ohio State University
McKellip
Ohio
Association
Herd Association
MecKellip
Barnesville Association
Belmont County
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Boutfleurs System of Feeding Dairy Cattle in Canada
A new feeding method called the Boutflous system reduces roughage while increasing protein in the grain ration by 5 to 6 percent and adds a variety of protein rich feeds. It also includes a six week dry cow period before calving and emphasizes calf and heifer development to build a strong dairy herd. Skeptics note it departs from standard practice and question efficiency.
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Canada
Ground hay grinding yields limited dairy gains for cows
Maryland experiments show ground hay boosts milk 1.31 percent and butterfat 4.84 percent versus unground hay, with higher rejection of unground hay. Despite slight gains, grinding costs render profitability negligible. Pennsylvania tests note digestibility of ground hay improves except crude fiber. Walker-Gordon groups store ground alfalfa in bags after drying.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania Station
Walker-Gordon Farms
Escaped Prisoners Request Ride Back to Jail in Missouri
Two prisoners William and Donald Hopper escaped from the Oregon County jail and returned home in Fortesque Mo the next day they telephoned the sheriff and asked for a ride back citing visiting a sick father and being too tired to walk back
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Oregon
William
Donald Hopper
Fortesque
Cost of Cooling Milk Figures From College Study
The New York State College of Agriculture reports electricity costs four cents per kilowatt hour and 11.4 cents per can to cool milk with electricity and 13.7 cents per can with ice. Ice cooling includes labor for harvesting and storing ice, and about 0.8 kilowatt hours per can are needed.
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New York State College of Agriculture
Fellows' Syrup Promises Restored Energy and Vitality
Advertises Fellows' Syrup as a tonic to combat worn out feeling and run down health. Claims quick strength, stamina, and appetite boost after early doses with improved spirits and vivacity, urging readers to ask their druggist for the genuine product prescribed by doctors.
Fossil Lake Algonquin Remnant Linked to Superior Basin
Dr. E. E. Moore of the University of Toronto reports evidence from excavations for a dam on the Michipicoten river that Lake Algonquin was a large prehistoric lake left in the Algonquin basin. He notes a smaller glacial lake once occupied the Lake Superior region and that a Lake Superior shrunken by ice ages confirms this history.
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Lake Superior
Algonquin
Algoma District Power Company
Michipicoten
E. E. Moore
University of Toronto
Royal Society of Canada
Superior
Great Lakes
Doctor Moore
Ash Receivers for Card Table Refer to Queen of Hearts
A fragment notes ash receivers for a card table linked to the queen of hearts. The speaker contemplates using the trey and observes a moral reminder to love your neighbor as yourself. The clock that does its duty is also mentioned as having time to strike.
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Queen of Hearts
Lost 20 Lbs in 4 Weeks Kruschen Salts Claim
Mrs Mae West of St Louis Missouri reports dropping from 170 to 150 pounds in four weeks after using Kruschen Salts. She says increased energy and no hunger. The ad promises a half teaspoon daily in hot water and a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Mae West
St. Louis
America
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Secret Chinese Society
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