Wisconsin Stallion Certification and Telegony Debunked
Wisconsin requires stallions to be certified as pure breed or grade by the College of Agriculture at Madison. A discussion on telegony dismisses claims that a mare mated to an alien sire taints her progeny, citing Prof. Cossar Ewart and zebra-breeding experiments. The piece also notes age for shipping cattle from the North and Texas to Latin America, with Do. R. Thomas of the Hereford Breeders’ Association cited.
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Wisconsin
Department of Horse Breeding
College of Agriculture At
Madison
A. S. Alexander
Farmers’ Review
Cossar Ewart
Scotland
Great Business in Hereford Cattle
The association reports strong growth with breeders in forty eight states and territories and two hundred ninety four new members. Texas ranks second in office receipts behind Missouri as Herefords expand nationwide with Canada and Mexico trades. North to South stock movements include inoculation to prevent Texas fever.
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United States
Canada
Old Mexico
Texas
Missouri
How to Kill and Skin a Cattle Carcass
Step by step farm guidance explains knocking out, bleeding, skinning, and dismembering cattle. Techniques cover restraining, stunning, gutting, removing the hide, splitting the carcass, and cleaning for quartering, with tools listed and positions described. Credit to E Myer of Tarrant County Texas in Farmers' Review.
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E. Myer
Tarrant Co
Texas
Farmers’ Review
Value of Mutton Cuts and Market Pricing
Professor M Cummings of Ontario Agricultural College explains that in mutton the leg loin and back fetch the highest prices. In Chicago the rack from the third to the twelfth rib tops the market followed by the leg then the loin. Global markets pay most for the leg, then loin, then rib, guiding judges to favor a well fattened leg in selecting prime mutton.
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M. Cummings
Ontario Agricultural College
Chicago
Hairiness of Clover Influences Dust in Hay
The hairiness of clover causes dust in clover hay and researchers seek hairless varieties. Some European clovers lack hairiness and are grown in the United States to develop nonhairy types. Little hybridization work has been done so far.
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United States
Electricity tempering high speed tool steels via electric hardening
Electricity is used to harden high speed tool steels by electrical tempering. A tool is dipped into a potassium carbonate solution with current to heat the immersed part, then the solution chills and rapidly hardens the tool tip. Inside hollow tools a cold rod heats gradually for even tempering without air blast.
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Highspeed
New Fire Escape Demonstrated in Idaho Design
The article describes an improvised fire escape mounted on a wheeled truck with a tilting cage that lowers from a window to ground level, allowing up to six or more people to escape. It highlights panic dangers during fires and a quick raise and lower mechanism driven by levers and gearing.
Letters by Electricity A Dream of Fast Postal Service
The Italian Count Taeggi proposes a railway of electric carriages on wire tracks to carry letters between distant points. Mail would be stamped at posting and automatically routed to central offices then to destinations. Tests could move 250 miles per hour, cutting New York to Chicago to under four hours.
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Count Taeggi
New York
Chicago
Count Taeggzi
Italy
Ngland
Lewiston Hotel Tale of a Night Clerk Jimmy Fahey
A former Lewiston City Hotel employee Jimmy Fahey is recalled as a young night clerk under John Martin. On a quiet night a guest asks to be called at 6, and Fahey is told to ring him by pressing a small button on the wall once the clock strikes.
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Lewiston
Jimmy Fahey
Old City
John Martin
Jimmy
Bootton
The Bachelor's Choice
A poem from the New York Herald traces a man’s shifting marriage ideals from beauty and brains to wealth and fortune. By age forty-two he learns happiness comes from companionship, ultimately marrying a buxom cook.
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Asife
New York
Taste Tales From the Philippines Read by Taft Party Members
An American Taft party member recounts seasickness aboard a Typhoon wake in Subig bay and compares his experience to a girl crossing the Atlantic who drinks lemonade. Her mother asks why she cares only for lemonade and the girl replies lemonade tastes the same coming up as going down.
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Philippines
Taft Party
Subig Bay
Atlantic
Boston Herald
Remarkable tree of India yields many mahwa products
In northern India near the Himalayas the mahwa tree provides many products. Flowers yield sugar and cordial and a large amount of invert sugar. Seeds contain a butter like fat used as food and in candles and soaps. The wood is hard and used for wheels.
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India
Himalayas
Europe
Ancient Mansion to Be Sold at New Orleans Auction
The historic North Peters and Jourdan avenue residence built for Gen. Jourdan, a Napoleon era émigré, will be sold at auction in a few days. The colonial two story house overlooks the Mississippi with wide galleries and a large grounds. Past owners include M. Lavigne, Judge C. H. Luzenburg, and Capt. R. A. Corbin, preserving its stately outline.
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Napoleon
New Orleans
New Orleans Picayune
North Peters and
Jourdan Avenue
Jourdan
Louisiana
Waterloo
Mississippi
Gen. Jourdan
M. Lavigne
Lavigne
C. H. Luzenburg
Criminal District Court
Old Man in the City Streets
A quoted lament from the Los Angeles Times condemns an elderly man as a burden to a bustling crowd. The speaker urges dismissal and mocking neglect, describing him as feeble and out of place, sleeping in a box, with no kin or home, chased by fear and scorn.
Dr Holmes Prescribed Coat Tail Fry For Convalescent Girl
A reminiscence from sixty years ago recalls scarlet fever in Montgomery place now Hamilton place. The narrator, a convalescent child, begged for beefsteak. Dr Holmes, a family friend, responded with a playful remark about frying a piece of his coat-tail instead.
Short Grass in New Hampshire Quirky Local Tale
Warren Durgin, son of Capt Durgin of Camp ton New Hampshire, known for odd sayings, is described as a quaint old character. One morning he comments on a clover field as a neighbor drives by remarking on short grass, and Durgin replies with a comic line about humblebees needing to kneel to suck the blossoms.
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New Hampshire
Warren Durgin
Capt. Durgin
Campton
N. H
Mr. Durgin
Calumet Baking Powder Promotes Purity Claims
An advert claims Calumet Baking Powder offers moderate price and purity free from Rochelle Salts Alum or injurious substances and that all grocers are authorized to guarantee this. The piece also quotes a humorous joke about a waterproof coat in Kentucky.
Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
List of patents issued to Minnesota inventors reported by Lothrop and Johnson. Notable filings include cushioned tire by Charles Ad sit of Owatonna, de tacher by Charles Bach of Brooks, building block by Theodore Brown of Northfield, weighing scale by Peter Lewitz of Minneapolis, canvas tightener by Jurgen Tanck of Pipestone, making grease cups by Edward Thiem of St Paul, and railroad car brake beam by George Warren of St Paul.
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Northwestern
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press
St. Paul
Minn
Charles Adsit
Owatonna
Charles Bach
Brooks
Theodore Brown
Northfield
Peter Lewitz
Minneapolis
Jurgen Tanck
Edward Thiem
Awkward Moment at Gibraltar Dinner
An American dining with Charles Dana Gibson at the Bristol in late fall makes a light hearted toast about being awkward and deaf. He recalls a Dark Harbor tale where a deaf man misheard a question about bananas and asked for pajamas, causing gentle amusement.
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Gibraltar
Charles Dana Gibson
Bristol
Nat Goodwin Declines Kindly to a Country Stranger
Nat Goodwin in Manhattan intervenes when a seedy man asks directions to the Brooklyn Bridge at Broadway and Thirty-fourth Street. Goodwin nonchalantly grants help this time but warns the stranger never to ask again.
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Nat Goodwin
Goodwin
Broadway
Thirty-fourth Street
Brooklyn Bridge
Harper's Weekly
Grape-Nuts restores strength in a Michigan farmer’s wife
A Michigan farmer’s wife details a spring 1902 illness marked by nerves and weakness. After stopping medicines and coffee to try Grape-Nuts with cream and sugar, she reports rapid strength gains, steadier nerves, better sleep, and resumed household work for a family of six. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and promotes reading The Road to Wellville.
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Michigan
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Rameses
Tremenny
Bodham
Los Angeles Times
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Eure
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Suh
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