Extension Department Launches Alfalfa Growth Campaign
The Extension Department led by Professor P. G. Holden will direct a nationwide alfalfa promotion using automobile campaigns from April to fall. Alfalfa trains will visit communities with field experts offering charts lantern slides and literature while local groups form alfalfa organizations. Thirty to forty meetings per county are planned with schools colleges bankers and clubs invited to join in promoting higher yields and agricultural development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. G. Holden
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Holden
Alfalfa Provers By Charles M. Carroll
Alfalfa is praised as soil enhancer drought resistant and a high value feed. The text extols alfalfa’s fertility benefits milk output and livestock value and claims wide cultivation in New York with practical growth on most farms.
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Charles M. Carroll
Center of Grain Production and Alfalfa Value
The last census shows grain production center moving little west in ten years since 1850, with irrigation likely altering distribution. Alfalfa is praised as superior hay for livestock, especially hog pasture, and thrives when sown alone with proper inoculation and lime. improper mixing with oats or barley harms it. J W Spillman calls alfalfa the richest hay and top crop.
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Burlington
Iowa
Barrel man Roach trapped in nails during odd Kent avenue stunt
Thomas Roach, a machinist of Norton street, fell into a barrel rolling along Kent avenue with an animated legs protruding from one end. Nails inside the barrel gripped his clothes and flesh, causing severe pain until Police and firefighters freed him and he was taken to hospital for bandaging and observation.
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Williamsburg
Kent Avenue
South Tenth Street
Thomas Roach
No. 30
Norton Street
Roach
Beader
Clymer Street
Bender
Eastern District Hospital
Wilde rejects ugly medicine for beauty in story
London actress Mrs. Walford recalls Oscar Wilde seeking a palatable remedy. He refused gray pills and a dingy bottle, insisting on beauty of the draft and pills. The chemist complied, returning a rosy red fluid and gold shining pills to suit Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde
London
Mr. Wilde
Wilde
Origin of the Crescent Shape in Vienna Rolls
The crescent, once tied to the Byzantine and eastern churches, became a Turkish emblem after Constantinople fell in 1453. The Vienna roll traces its crescent form to a sixteenth century siege when Turks mined under Vienna walls, and bakers adopted the emblem to celebrate the event.
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London
Constantinople
Vienna
Plentiful Baby Adoptions Promised by Indiana Woman
Mrs. John Dierks of Laporte Indiana received hundreds of letters offering to adopt homeless babies. She advertised she would provide a luxurious home and make the infant heir to her and husband estate. Respondents came from nearly every state fueling an orphan asylum level response.
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Laporte
Ind
John Dierks
Seedless prune novelty ripens in Kalama garden
Kalama, Washington. After seven years of trial Carl Dietsch, a local fruit grower near Klamath, reports a seedless prune that bore a bushel and a half of the new fruit. The prune measures about three quarters of an inch in diameter and two inches long, with a grain sized pellet inside and excellent flavor.
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Kalama
Wash
Carl Dietsch
Klamath
Grasses for Wet Lands and Drainage Advice
Alberta farmer asks how to start grass on 100 acre wet land. Advisors suggest drainage by ditches or tile, favor wild grasses on wet soil, and name red top, fowl meadow grass, als clover, timothy as workable options with seed rates two to three pounds per acre for red top and twelve to fifteen pounds for mixed seed.
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D. McWhinnie
Hearnleigh
Alberta
Canada
Timothy
Why He Didn't Apologize May 23 Speech by Frank Buchanan
The speech by Frank Buchanan of Illinois to the House of Representatives on May 23 argues a new member has equal rights to the floor as older members. He notes unsuccessful prior attempts to address the body and states the absence of personal apologizing as a deliberate stance.
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House
Flon Frank Buchanan
Inois
House of Representatives
Doctor claims skull fracture test based on toe position
A St Louis physician tests a theory 275 times to identify skull fractures. He observes that when the big toe turns upward and other toes outward after an ankle notch, the skull is fractured. if toes turn downward and close, the skull is intact.
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St. Louis
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promise Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as purifying the blood and restoring vigor to cure headaches indigestion and biliousness with a 25 cent price. It claims universal benefit and satisfaction with a guarantee. The notice is followed by sugar beet industry notes on beet pulp as top livestock feed and a growing $2 million annual trade in dried pulp.
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Lyman Brown
Murray St
New York
N.Y
Dr. King
Irvin & Willard
Department of Agriculture
Middle Western States
Dr. King's New Discovery Cures Cough and Cold
Dr King s New Discovery promoted as the best cough cold throat and lung medicine with money back guarantee. J R Wells of Fleydale Texas reports gaining 15 pounds after using it and endorses its effectiveness. Buy at all druggists.
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Dr. King
J. R. Wells
Fleydale
Texas
Special Accident and Health Policies Offered by National Accident Society
An advertisement from the National Accident Society at 320 Broadway New York offers special accident and health policies for men and women. Policies provide a $3 death benefit and $15 weekly benefits for about $5 per year with all occupations covered and renewals. Includes call for agents with exclusive territory and commissions.
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National Accident Socety
Broadway
New York
Dichotomy usage in medical press sparks illicit business term
A quotation notes that a botanical term has been borrowed by the U S medical press to describe a form of illicit business called a dichotomy. It refers to the division of a surgeon or specialist fee with the practitioner who recommends the patient. The piece discusses terms and usage in medical discourse.
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United States
Oregon Journal Announces Western Information Bureau Offer
The Oregon Journal launches a Western Information Bureau and offers a six month Semni Weekly Journal subscription with a 144 page illustrated booklet detailing Oregon resources and opportunities. Mail to OREGON JOURNAL Portland Oregon for the special introductory deal.
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Western Information Bureau
Oregon Journal
Bureau of Western Information
Oregon
Portland
The Eagle and the Arrow Aesop Fable
Aesop tells of an eagle perched on a rock watching a hare. An archer hidden from sight shoots the eagle, mortally wounding him. The eagle sees the arrow’s feathers came from his own wings and laments the double grief of dying by an arrow gathered by his own wings.
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Aesop
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