Cabbage Seed Treatment Cuts Disease Risks
The USDA urges cabbage seed treatment to prevent blackleg and black rot, two seed borne diseases causing yearly losses. It outlines two methods Mercuric chloride seed treatment which greatly reduces blackleg and nearly eliminates black rot with minimal seed injury and hot water treatment which fully controls blackleg but lowers germination. A circular on these methods is available from USDA Washington DC while supplies last.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Washington, D. C
Local Feeds for Young Steers Make Good Gains
Fifty six two year old steers averaging 720 pounds were fed by a Perry county Alabama farmer in 1923 under the county agricultural agent as a community feeding demonstration. The mixed Shorthorn Hereford Aberdeen Angus steers grazed October to January 1 then in feed lots with corn blackstrap molasses cottonseed meal and hay. From April 20 to June 20 they pastured and received cottonseed meal and molasses and gained 373 pounds overall selling at eight cents per pound netting a good profit.
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Perry County
Alabama
Start Culling Chicken Flock Early in Season
Poultry expert D H Wall of Clemson College urges early culling from egg stage through hens peak production. He advises selling males when about 1 14 pounds, and pullets culled at about two pounds for size and development.
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D. H. Wall
Clemson College
Hall
Garden Tips for Efficient Seeds and Crops
A gardener’s guide covers bee aiding garden health with a sharp bee, hens beating asparagus beetle, and advice on seed quality and soil. It recommends Golden Bantam and Evergreen seedlings, rewards of regular work in health and produce, Sudan grass for July August pastures, and potatoes thriving in warm rich soil with moisture. It also notes thinning crowded annual borders and using acid phosphate on stable manure to curb fly breeding.
Roosevelt's Square Deal Rescued a Nairobi Guide
The Milwaukee Journal recounts how a false accusation ruined a Nairobi guide until Roosevelt intervened. He canceled the planned itinerary, hired the guide, and praised him as the most intelligent and reliable, restoring the guide’s reputation and demand among hunters.
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Roosevelt
Nairobi
Blank
Milwaukee Journal
Mr. Blank
Outlaw Queen Belle Starr Said To Be All Feminine at Times
Detroit News describes Belle Starr, famed outlaw queen of Texas and Oklahoma, as sometimes feminine in manner. It recounts her years living on loot, leading a rough gang, courting women’s houses, singing religious songs, and storytelling to children. It notes rumors of her death by Edgar A. Watson in Oklahoma around February 1885 and a shotgun murder in a land dispute.
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Belle Starr
Texas
Oklahoma
Detroit News
Edgar A. Watson
Long Pedigrees Trace Descent From Ancient Kings
The Manchester Guardian notes varied noble lineages listed on a Burton-on-Trent town clerk tomb and other pedigrees. It cites a thirty seventh descent from Alfred the Great, a Magens family lineage from Mago brother of Hannibal, an Italian Marchese tracing to Porus, and the Samson family near Lyons claiming biblical descent with a broken temple column on their coat of arms.
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Hatfield
Elizabeth
Adam
Burton-on-Trent
Worthy
Alfred the Great
Magens
Magen
Trafalgar
Mago
Hannibal
Marchese Porre
Porus
Alexander the Great
Samson
Lyons
Manchester Guardian
Real Robinson Crusoe figure Alexander Selkirk
The Scottish sailor born in Largo in 1676 became a famous castaway after being left on Juan Fernandez. He lived alone for over four years before rescue by Capt Woods Rogers, returning to England in 1711. His papers inspired Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk died aboard the Weymouth.
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Alexander Selkirk
Largo
Scotland
South Sea
Juan Fernandez
Woods Rogers
England
Defoe
Famous the World Over Epsom Race Meet
Epsom in Surrey near London hosts a famed grand race meeting on the downs drawing hundreds of thousands. Once renowned for a mineral spring yielding famous Epsom salts, the town also houses a Royal Medical college and a home for aged physicians or widows nearby.
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Epsom
England
Surrey
London
Royal Medical College
Downs
Notable Medieval Figures Razi and Hubald Documented
The text notes Razi, a 9th to 10th century Arabian physician, first to describe smallpox and measles accurately, and Hubald, a Benedictine monk born about 840 in Tournai France who founded a Nevers music school and is credited with inventing the gamut, dying in 980.
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Razi Or
Rhazes
Hugbald Or
Hubald
Tournai
France
Nevers
Women and Freedom in a World of Men
Clemence Dane argues in World's Work that the present civilization ignores women’s deeper needs. She questions whether women should imitate male roles or pursue a broader life beyond wage labor in cities, urging fundamental changes in how life is structured for women.
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Clemence Dane
Ruhr
The Habit of Selling Sleep Becomes Poor Life Practice
The piece argues that worrying about insomnia worsens sleep problems and that natural rest follows when one stays active and engaged. It emphasizes hygiene, exercise, diet, and meaningful work or play as keys to better sleep, noting individual needs vary from four to eight hours with seven to eight as typical for adults.
Blowout in Missouri River Ice Surfaces in South Dakota Creek
A government scientist and an assistant report a rare phenomenon on the Missouri River in South Dakota. In December near noon, a heavy explosion was heard miles away, followed by an irregular 100 by 100 foot hole in 26 inch thick ice. They theorize imprisoned air accumulates and is released under river current pressure.
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Missouri River
South Dakota
Sweden’s currency gains as specie payments resume
The resumption of specie payments in Sweden strengthens the crown with the exchange rate rising from 26.10 to 26.40 cents between March 2 and April 15. Riksbank note circulation slips from 514.8 to 503.6 million crowns, gold reserves stay at 270.7 million, about 54 percent cover. National debt falls by over 5 million crowns in March to 1.642 billion crowns.
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Sweden
Riksbank
Nuisance on the Streets: Car Noise and Clanking Chains
A noisy street scene describes a car horn blasting and a vehicle with a cutout exhaust roaring by, plus a second nuisance with a broken chain rattling against a fender as traffic moves through town.
Why a coal dealer’s house is always cold
A wry observation notes that a coal dealer’s home feels cold, joking it mirrors the cobbler’s children lacking shoes and dairymen’s offspring lacking milk. The quip suggests irony in trades not benefiting their own households.
Radio Pays Real Money to Jazz and Song Composers
A note on modern composers who push for royalties from radio play as brands of jazz and popular songs grow more lucrative. The piece highlights the mounting pressure for fair compensation in broadcasting.
France preserves Napoleon’s night shirt for future generations
The article notes France has saved Napoleon’s night shirt as a historical artifact, while Germany is unlikely to preserve Ludendorff’s pajamas. It contrasts national preservation attitudes toward two figures from different eras.
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France
Napoleon
Germany
Ludendorff
Warning on propaganda mirrors old Brer Rabbit metaphor
The line compares warning Russia against propaganda to trying to divorce Bre'r Rabbit from the bramble bush, using a regional folk image to suggest an endless, entangled struggle. No specific people or organizations are named.
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Russia
Mah Jongg Confusion Quietly Clears for Players
A light note compares learning Mah Jongg to reading a laundry ticket as confusion fades and players settle into a familiar rhythm with the game.
Big Lips for Beauty Among Africans Stirs Pride
In Lake Chad region of Central Africa women pursue increasingly extended lips as a social mark. Girls as young as four undergo lip punctures, then pins and later larger disks are added yearly. By twenty five a Saras-Djinges matron may have seven inch lower lip disks and five inch upper lip disks, worn to extend over time.
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Lake Tchad
Central Africa
London
Raise Fine Specimens of Butterfly in France
Butterfly culture in the south of France grows rapidly under scientific guidance. Hundreds of specimens are bred on farms with leafy host plants, eggs hatch in leaf rooms, caterpillars feed and develop in stages, cocoons form and butterflies emerge. Cross breeding aims for new wing markings. insects are sold to collectors or for millinery use.
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France
Fable of the Four Men by Pathfinder Magazine
A doctor off a streetcar moralizes on three men who alighted ahead of him a hustler a steady worker and a loafer only to realize all three were ahead of him in life. This reflective parable uses contrasting temperaments to provoke thought on success and judgment.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Natural turf filters show strong sewage purification in France
Experiments indicate turf irrigation forms beds that purify three to four cubic meters of sewage daily per square meter. Longer running filters show efficiency decline with higher input but recover when input is reduced. Chemical tests and fish in filtered water confirm the process effectiveness.
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France
Butter Markets Seen In Normandy France During Summer
French butter markets in Normandy during June July and August attract peasants who line market squares with baskets of pats wrapped in white cloths. Buyers sample wares, bargain, and rely on uniform quality due to strict French adulteration laws.
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Normandy
Poor Henry and the Hall Family Sketch
A Baltimore man, formerly from an eastern shore town, revisits his old home and chats with a friend about neighbors. Tom Hall became an actor on the Pacific coast, Bill Hall pursued art in New York, Lucy Hall did literary work, while Henry failed to amount to much.
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Baltimore
Hall
Tom Hall
Pacific Coast
Bill
New York
Lucy
Henry
Philadelphia Ledger
Uncle Johnny Sees A Football Game In Morgantown
West Virginia resident recounts attending a Morgantown Mountaineers versus Pittsburgh Pirates football game. He humorously notes it as a “scientific game,” praises Paul Powers, and recalls anecdotes about Jim Durbin and local log rolling while lamenting the lack of kicking and his own costs of supporting his son Jess at college.
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Johnny Thomas
West Virginia
Jess
Morgantown
Pittsburgh Pirates
Morgantown Mountaineers
Paul Powers
Jim Durbin
Jim
Rights of campers and landowners in woods clash over trespass
State forester Charles Deam warns that careless campers burden farmers with cleanup and damages. He urges permission from owners, proper waste disposal, fire safety, and leaving woods as found. Courtesy and accountability can keep public access open to nature.
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Charles C. Deam
The
Conservation Department
Deam
Remains of Mrs Opal Lawson Buried in New Lisbon
The remains of Mrs Opal Lawson wife of Kenneth Lawson of Summerdale Alabama were brought to New Lisbon for burial Sunday afternoon.
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Opal Lawson
Kenneth Lawson
Summerdale
Ala
New Lisbon
County fair features and schedule with races and parades
Grounds and buildings lit for a large fair with 41 acres of attractions and 78 booths in the industrial building. 1000 youth in club work. Daily free acts and diverse events including hound dog coon chase, livestock parades, multiple racing programs, and nightly fireworks. Premium entries close August 4.
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Mammoth
Women’s Department
Hound Dog Coon Chase
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