Armour Water Fills Hogs to Keep Heft Down at Mistletoe
Kansas City hearing on charges against Armour and Co for operating the Mistletoe stock yards weighs effects on hog prices. The case, first under the 1921 federal packer stockyards law, questions whether yard practices depress open market values by overwatering hogs.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Livestock Exchange
Armour and Co
Packer
B. M. Hainer
Federal Department of Agriculture
Fowler Packing Co
Fowler Company
Armour & Co
Armour Co
Armour Company
Livestock Exchange
Hainer
H. S. Firestone
Firestone
Ancient Documents Recovered Reveal Early Christian Life
University of Michigan professor Francis W. Kelsey brings to Ann Arbor a vast collection from Tebtunis Egypt dated from 7 A D to 42 A D. The papyrus set includes over 100 Greek and Demotic legal papers, contracts, leases, and tax records, with a seven foot scroll noted as a biblical like book. A second collection features a papyrus book of twelve leaves with incantations and formulas used by a master magician.
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Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Ann, Arbor
Francis W. Kelsey
University of Michigan
Kelsey
Egypt
Tebtunis
God
Angels
Survival of the Fittest Morison Seafaring Roots
Samuel Eliot Morison, praised as author of The Maritime History of Massachusetts, traces New England seafaring stock. A family tradition notes two Morison ancestors were brigantine shipmates wrecked in the Pacific near the late 1700s, surviving a thousand-mile row after crew drew lots for meals, with one ancestor dying and the other returning home to marry.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Massachusetts
New England
Mr. Morison
Pacific Ocean
Morison Omits Survival Tale From Maritime History
In a family circle Morison recounted an incident about the survival of the fittest but did not include it in his Maritime History. The two families stayed on good terms and the remark was deemed poor form to mention.
Oil Cans Used as Stoves by Divers in Alaska
Kansas City Star notes empty kerosene cans are repurposed as stove units by divers, with five gallon versions favored for ease of use. In interior Alaska the practice mirrors a growing trend as drums along waterways also serve as heat sources, praised by travelers at Skagway's Golden North hotel.
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Kansas City Star
Interior
Alaska
Golden North
Skagway
Ancient toll ritual at Knightlow Hill amid 1000-year custom
The wroth silver collection on Martinmas Eve marked by 24 parishes near Coventry ends with dawn payment to the Duke of Buccleuth as Lord of the Hundred. The old toll, begun for ancient privileges, drew villagers early to Knightlow Hill for payment and breakfast afterward.
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Duke of Buccleuth
Knightlow Hill
Coventry
England
Harding Invited to Address Editors at Missoula Convention
President Harding expected as chief speaker at the National Editorial Association meeting in Missoula Montana early in July. He plans Alaska trip next summer to attend the twenty one day editors tour from Chicago. Deluxe trains will transport editors while they tour Yellowstone Glacier National Parks and Montana mining and agricultural districts.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Alaska
National
Missoula
Montana
Fie
Chicago
Yellowstone
Glacier National Parks
Perby
Mlathead Lake
Missoula Hosts Editors for National Convention Tour
The editors visiting Yellowstone and Glacier will be welcomed with special entertainments in Yellowstone Park during its semi centennial. Missoula plans extensive hospitality along with other towns vying to impress the guests. In Glacier Park the Blackfeet Indians will greet newcomers with traditional registration using a Golden Eagle quill.
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Yellowstone
Glacier National Parks
Missoula
Yellowstone Park
Glacier Park
Rocky Mountain Country
Rankin Raises Amount in Suit Against Conley
Helena March 24 Former Ward en Frank Conley of the Montana penitentiary owes the state more than 300000 dollars according to an amended complaint in the suit for accounting by Attorney General Wellington D Rankin The amended filing claims 296362 dollars plus other property totaling several thousand dollars more and specifies the overall figure would exceed 300000 J W Freeman a former U S District Attorney joins the prosecution team for the Conley trial set for April 12
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Helena
Frank Conley
Montanaenitentiary
Wellington D.rankin
Conley
J. W. Freeman
Great Falls
United States
86 Percent Of Crimes Now Committed By New Offenders
Washington reports that only 14 percent of crimes in the last six months were by prior offenders. E E Budding, president of the relief society, cites state prison records showing 86 percent involved new offenders.
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Washington
E. E. Budding
The
Relief Society
Mae
Pneumonia Month Warns Of March Dangers
The article notes March as a pneumonia month with high mortality. After winter, immunity drops and carelessness rises. It warns that each cold deserves prompt treatment to reduce pneumonia risk and cites Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as an effective expectorant that cleanses throat germs and prevents pneumonia.
Prize contest invites rhymes using only Dr Price labels
A 1922 newspaper notice invites women and girls to submit 24 line rhymes about Dr Price's Phosphate Baking Powder. Prizes total 828 dollars with top awards of 100, 75, 50 and 25 dollars plus 55 of five dollars each. Entries due by May 1 1922 to Chicago Illinois.
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Dr. Price
Rocery
Independence Blvd
Chicago, Il
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Cowgill
Choteau
T. A. Meagher
Choteau, Montana
Japan
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Bxar
L. E. Taylor Garage
Rankin
Price’s Co
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