The Farm and the Farmer in Amarillo Address
In an Amarillo Farmers Institute speech W H Fuqua of Amarillo’s First National Bank extols farming as the natural livelihood while urging adoption of science and new crops. He cites rainfall, state colleges, Kaffir corn and milo maize as profitable innovations transforming the Panhandle’s agriculture.
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Farmers’ Institute
Amarillo
W. Hl. Fuqua
First National Bank of
Asia
Africa
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Texas
Panhandle
Illinois
Secretary of Agriculture
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Acre
Our Beautiful Natural Trees and Mesquite Praise
A Jacksboro Gazette note extols native mesquite trees once despised, now admired as hardy and beautiful like willows and mimosa. It urges readers to protect young mesquite trees and treat them with care as a valuable local resource.
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Jacksboro Gazette
He Stops Paper Subscribing Brought Fine Time
A subscriber halted his newspaper due to inability to pay. He spent money in saloons the same day, was jailed, and paid the city 8.70 the next morning. The note from West Times compares the loss to prepaid years and calls for justice and integrity.
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Calaboose
West Times
Rockefeller a Stenographer
The article notes John D. Rockefeller, though richest man, might turn to stenography if Standard Oil failed. It recalls Rockefeller’s early mastery of shorthand, learning from a teacher after observing a guest practicing. He later used shorthand mainly for memoranda and quick notes.
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Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Edinburgh Honors Woman For Public Service
Miss Flora Cleft Stevenson LL D receives the freedom of Edinburgh for her school board leadership and charity work. She is admitted a burgess and guild brother as city schools close in her honor. The note adds that Janet Burdett Coutts is Edinburgh’s oldest living burgess, admitted in 1874.
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Freedom of
Edinburgh
Flora Cleft Stevenson
LL. D
Miss Stevenson
Burgess and Guild
Edin-burgh
Jaroness Burdett-Coutts
Antiquity of Bridge and Spanish roots in card games
The article traces Bridge origins to Spain noting Primero as likely Spanish and Ombre as a descendant from 21 Hombre. It highlights a line of games from Ombre to Quadrille and eventually to Bridge, with mentions of Cranford and the evolution across centuries.
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Spain
Falstaff
Cranford
Ridge
Inventor Crandall Dead At Waverly In Pigs In Clover Fame
Charles M. Crandall who created the Pigs in Clover puzzle, nearly twenty years ago, died at Waverly New York. The toy rose to national fame, even drawing interest in the Senate with Evarts and several senators trying it in a committee room. Crandall amassed a fortune from the puzzle but died comparatively poor.
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Charles M. Crandall
Waverly
N. Y
Senate
Washington
Senator Evarts
Crandall
Famous Woman Anatomist Miss Florence Sabine at Johns Hopkins
Miss Florence R Sabine B S MD associate professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore is the only woman in such a post in this country. She earned a B S from Smith College in 1893 and received her M D in 1900 after entering Hopkins in 1896. She ranked second in her class and authored The Brain and the Spinal Cord, a standard text translated into four languages.
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Florence R. Sabine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Germany
Mackay Guides Tourists at Comstock Mine
The late John W. Mackay aided a visitors group at the Comstock mine explaining gold and silver quartz mining. Andrew D. White, then president of Cornell University and former ambassador to Germany, praised the guide's clear explanation as he tipped him a half dollar. The guide quipped that he owned the ores he dug.
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John W. Mackay
Comstock
Mackay
Andrew D. White
Germany
Cornell University
United States Army Dentists Elevate Navy Dental Service
Dr J L McCarty heads the United States Navy dental service with his office at the New York Navy Yard. Six dentists now serve at principal navy yards nationwide under the surgeon general to care for sailors from officers to apprentices. McCarty, a Lexington Kentucky and Knoxville Tennessee graduate, captained the Mare Island yard football team.
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J. L. McCarty
United States Navy
New York Navy Yard
Navy
McCarty
University of Lexington
University of Knoxville, Tenn
Mare Island Navy Yard
Gift of Sight Shown in 1904 Exposition Story
Miss Helen Keller met Japanese waitresses in St. Louis at the 1904 exposition. Weeks later an official said one waitress sought eye donation for Keller, asking a physician to remove her eye for a gift. The request brought Keller to tears when refused as impossible.
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Helen Keller
St. Louis
Miss Keller
Boston
Gates Declines Broker Bet Over Wheat Loss Claim
John W. Gates and a broker debated betting on Equitable affairs in a New York case. Gates, noting a five million wheat loss reported today, hesitated then joked that if the broker were modest he might take a single bet. The broker offered 50 cents, and Gates declined, saying the wager was too sporty.
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John W. Gates
New York
Aluminum Coated Paper For Food Wrapping
Aluminum coated paper made in Germany for wrapping food substances is prepared by applying a resin in alcohol to artificial parchment, sprinkling aluminum powder, then pressing. The parchment is treated with sulfuric acid. the paper resists air and fats, costs less than tin foil, and Paris analyses show minimal foreign matter and no arsenic or poisoned metal.
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Germany
Paris
Imperial decree moves temples to schools in Anhui
The Shanghai North China Herald reports the appropriation of temple spaces for schools is underway in Anhui. At Luchoufu four large images venerated as servants to the god of literature have been torn down to make room for Chinese boys learning English.
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Shanghai North China Herald
Anhui
Luchoufu
The Texas Pecan Its Wide Distribution
The Texas pecan is famed worldwide for quality and is in high demand. Texans have long cultivated and marketed pecans, with major orchards like Swinden in Brownwood, while many smaller endeavors persist. Experts estimate Texas could support up to 20 million acres of pecan growing, yielding vast economic potential and supplying global demand.
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Texas
Brownwood
H. R. Halbert
Coleman
Sabine
Rio Grande
Panhandle
Gulf
Trinity River
Timber Belt
Fort Worth
Indigenous music supervisor appointed from Portland
Harold A. Loring of Portland Maine has been named by the Secretary of the Interior as supervisor of native Indian music. He spent time with the Sioux at the Rosebud reserve in South Dakota and will work among various reservations of the Indians in the West.
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Harold A. Loring
Portland
Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Loring
Rosebud
South Dakota
Weat
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United States Army Dentists
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