So This Is America by Bayard Baker on Lake Michigan
The piece weaves Michigan scenery with reflections on Detroit amid wheat wealth and bank crises. It contrasts abundance with hunger, notes Ford’s resilience, and critiques wealth, taxes, and democracy while blending local vignettes and historical allusions from Lake Michigan to New Orleans.
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Lake Michigan
Detroit
Ceres
Joseph
Wall Street
Henry Ford
Ford
Solomon
Jerusalem
Solemn
Rehobean
Combstock
Michigan
Ohio
Jean Nicollet
Louis
Ape
LaSalle
Sable
Atlantic Seaboard
van Vorst
van der Klaasen
van Duren
William of Orange
Lief Ericson
Nicollet
Balboa
America
Marketing and farming notes from Indiana and beyond
The piece discusses internal and external marketing problems for organizations, compares farm land trends with 1919 to 1929 harvested acres in Indiana, notes bush lima bean varieties for gardens, and mentions packing shed cooling and livestock hygiene tips. It also recalls broiler price drops and clover liming methods.
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Indiana
Suwannee River described from Okefinokee to Gulf
A Pathinder Magazine writer notes the Suwannee river rises in the Okefinokee swamp in southern Georgia and grows rapidly as springs feed it. It flows through Florida to the Gulf of Mexico with few shore towns. A museum report describes the river as appearing to flow through solid rock. The banks are lined with live oak, cypress, and Spanish moss. Black water doves give it a grim look.
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Suwannee
Okefinokee
Georgia
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Pathfinder Magazine
American Museum of Natural History
Where Poor Live in Big Palaces Built for Rich
Describes the Free City of Danzig with tree shaded streets and ornate palaces once built for Hanseatic merchants. Notes contrast between grand stone houses and shawled women, street urchins, and a cleaner municipal appearance. Highlights Gothic and Renaissance architecture along Frauengasse and Frauentor with tree lined avenues.
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Free City of
Danzig
Bowling Green
New York City
Varieties of Dogwood and Its Global range
The common Cornus florida is the predominant U S dogwood and highly valued as a flowering tree with a white form and yellow green centers. About eighty species exist across temperate zones with representatives in Mexico and Peru. Cornus sanguinea in Europe provides hard wood used for inlay and autumn foliage color.
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America
Florida
Mexico
Peru
Europe
Firsts From New Brunswick History Highlighted
A compact tour of provincial firsts notes the earliest coal mined in North America at Minto and shipped to Boston, the first wood paper produced at Upper Sackville, and the first compound steam engine built by Benjamin Tibbets. It also mentions the first submarine cable between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in 1852 the 1902 wireless message from Glace Bay and the 1859 steam foghorn in Saint John harbor.
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North America
Minto
N. B
Boston
Upper Sackville
Benjamin Tibbets
New Brunswick
St. Johns River
Prince Edward Island
Atlantic
Glace Bay
N. S
Postage stamp errors trigger withdrawals and new plates
Errors occur in stamp color paper or design during printing. When discovered stamps are withdrawn and destroyed while new plates are made. Meanwhile collectors worldwide buy these errors.
Luxurious Pen Scheme at Roxbury Farm Maryland
The Baltimore Sun describes Roxbury Farm as a detention facility with no walls or cells and no visible guards. Inmates act as instructors and officials, running farming and building projects with officers distant across the grounds. Inmate dress is blue denim overalls and jackets.
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Roxbury Farm
Maryland
The
Baltimore Sun
Roxbury
Farm Accounting Contest Launched in Cache County Utah
Bankers in Cache County Utah initiate a farm accounting contest to enroll at least five farmers per bank. The winning bank earns recognition at the annual meeting. five cash prizes total 79.50 dollars, with certificates for all scoring 60 percent or more. Judges include the County Agent and Extension Division representatives.
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Cache
Utah
Cleaning House Association
Clearing House
Utah State Agricultral College
Cache County
Clearing House Association
Extension Service
Utah Bankers Association
College
Mystery Disease Leprosy Through Antiquity Facts
The article notes leprosy as a long feared disease with unclear origins. It asserts it first appeared in the Nile Delta in ancient times and suggests excavations show its presence around 4600 years before Christ.
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Nile
Robin Hood Tales Reflect Common Northern Heritage
The article notes Robin Hood's existence is unproven and compares the legend to German and Scandinavian tales. It suggests a local hero may have inspired the Robin Hood stories and offers theories that he represents remnants of Saxon defiance against Norman rule.
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Robin Hood
Germany
Scandinavia
Pigeon Racing Popular in Belgium National Sport
Pigeon racing is described as the national sport of Belgium with Homing-Pigeon clubs in nearly every village. Thousands of birds are shipped weekly to France and other neighboring countries to race back home, attracting wide participation in the Grand National of Belgium.
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Belgium
France
United States
Red Sea Monsters Devourers of the Deep Near Sokotra Giant devilfish lurk
The Red Sea hides dangerous creatures near Sokotra where enormous rays or skates with square flat bodies span up to 20 feet. A head at one corner and a 6 foot tail graces the body while the fins propel the creature at high speed and a bite can sever a limb.
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Red Sea
Sokotra
Velocity of Tennis Balls in Davis Cup Match
A Montreal Herald report notes tennis balls reached 93.3 mph during a Germany versus England Davis Cup volley with serves at 68.4 mph and baseline shots at 31 mph illustrating ball speeds across the net.
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Germany
England
Montreal Herald
Citizenship Awards At CMTC Camp Fort Harrison Ind
Members of the Indiana Society Sons of the American Revolution will visit the CMTC Camp to award medals to candidates for outstanding citizenship in the Citizenship Course. Major R. E. Jones leads the program with instructors, teaching duties to commonwealth, Constitution, and national ideals to 1089 cadets preparing to return home as active citizens.
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CMTC
Fort Harrison
Ind
Indiana Society
Sons of the American Revolution
R. E. Jones
Commonwealth
Coxey Family Represented at Fort Harrison Training Camp
John Richard Coxey, grandson of Jacob S. Coxey known as General Coxey, attends Citizens' Military Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana. He has led two cadet boxers and plays on the tennis team while awaiting possible appointment as second lieutenant after this session. He previously completed Red Cross lifesaving and aims to continue family leadership at the camp.
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Ft. Benj. Harrison
Ind
Jacob S
Citizens
Young Coxey
CMT
American Red Cross
Gadet Coxey
Fort Harrison
Infantry Reserve
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Joana Gibson
Morris Gibson
Rushville
Suwannee River
Georgia Swamp
Torinis
McCall’s
Magazin Woman’s Home
Wkly
View S. LY
Company
ALLS
PATHE
Womans World
R.F.D
Better Homes & Woman’s World Household Maga Needlecraft
Country Home
Red Sea’s Monsters
Coxey
Camp
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