Georgia Boys Corn Clubs Boost Agricultural Progress
State College of Agriculture urges teachers to form Boys Corn Clubs and Girls Canning Clubs in every rural Georgia school. Prof. Phil Campbell promotes organizing, enrolling, and adopting modern methods to boost corn yields. Premia include scholarships, cash, farm implements, with the main goal of increasing income per acre.
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Georgia
Teacher
Phil Campbell
State College of Agriculture
Availability of Fertilizers And Manure Values
Inquiry outlines how fertilizer ingredients become plant food. Availability means solubility in water to feed plants. Potash is almost fully available while phosphoric acid is partly available. Ground phosphate rock needs humus. bacteria convert organic matter to usable form. Manure provides humus and microbial activity. annual plant food value per animal is given: horse or mule 27 dollars, cow 20, hog 8, sheep 2.
Cotton raised by Indians in early American history
The article outlines how the cotton industry grew in the United States from Indigenous cultivation. It cites Spanish explorers and ethnologists, noting cotton cloth fragments from Mesa Verde and seeds found in Utah. It highlights Hopi use, valuing native cotton in ceremonies and in religious string-making.
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United States
Charleston News and Courier
Mesa Verde National Park
Utah
Arizona
Unclear dialogue fragment about business and matchbox
Fragmented exchange references head work and a peculiar phrase about making hot trees. The dialogue juxtaposes self reference and a matchbox as a metaphor, leaving the exact context and characters ambiguous.
Peach Spraying Schedule for Scale and Disease Control
A historical note outlines multiple peach spray schedules. It recommends fall and spring lime sulphur if San Jose scale is severe, spring lime sulphur or Bordeaux with arsenate of lead before blossom, and sequential applications after petals fall, including combinations of lime sulphur, Bordeaux, and arsenate of lead at two to four week intervals, with variations per infestation level.
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San Jose
Dreams Come True Through Persistent Effort
An abstract reflection by Arthur Symons argues that any dream can become reality with enough energy and unwavering pursuit. It contrasts financial wealth with deeper spiritual success, noting few achieve great ends due to wavering ambition while stressing the power of persistent will.
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Arthur Symons
Comet Discovery Noted By Dr Brooks Of Geneva
Mrs Crimsonbeak and Crimsonbeak discuss late hours when Dr Brooks of Geneva reports discovering a comet at four o'clock the other morning.
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Crimsonbeak
Dr. Brooks
Geneva
Chore Defined as Man Boasts on Son’s Quotes
The exchange defines a chore as a man who insists on reciting the clever things his son says when you visited to sell him. The dialogue highlights pride and sarcasm in a brief, pointed exchange.
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Bacon
Egbert
Parades and Paraks of a Presidential Scene in Kansas City
In a peculiar White House encounter Dan R Anthony tall Kansas congressman and Samuel W Smith from Michigan visited the president. Anthony pressed his appointment while the president teased him about thinning hair. The piece also notes Dr T L Rucker of Hereford Texas contrasting parade appeal in England and Europe with American crowds.
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Dan R. Anthony
House
Kansas
White House
Samuel W. Smith
Michigan
Anthony
Smith
Tie
Metropolitan Tower
Dan
England
Dr. T
Rucker
Hereford
Dex
Mr. Rucker
Doctor Rucker
Kansas City
Relieving Eye Strain and the origin of zero
The piece advises cold compresses or cold water rests to ease eye strain and refresh the nerves after prolonged visual effort. It then explains the origin of the word zero from Spanish and details Fahrenheit’s experiments leading to a thermometer scale from zero to boiling point, with freezing at 32.
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Fahrenheit
Tourists Compare Nations Amid Gracious Irish Welsh Scottish Voices
Several travelers from Scotland Ireland Wales and Australia exchange notes about homeland pride in a candid moment on a tour. The group bursts into a chorus condemning American conceit, captured in a lighthearted exchange from the Youngstown Telegram.
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Bonnie
Scotland
Emerald Isle
Wales
Australia
Youngstown
Mrs Plimpstead Beavers-Bonner Encounters Russian Grand Duke Abroad
Mrs Plimpstead Beavers-Bonner recalls meeting a Russian grand duke while traveling abroad and muses how such an introduction could have occurred. She wonders if the grand duke was careless.
Follow Photographers Advice on Keeping Pleasant
The passage urges embracing a cheerful, brave stance despite irritations in humanity. It notes everyone has faults, favors self comfort, and suggests photographers’ rule of making subjects look pleasant as a path through love madness, even if insincere.
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Earth
Quote about marriage and revenge ends in accidental twist
A dialogue reveals a man asking a woman for her fiancé. She asks if he plans revenge and he answers with a lethal twist stating he will let the fiancé live and marry the woman himself.
Animals Used To Test Drugs In Early Research
The text explains how manufacturers test drugs on various animals. Ergotine is tried on chickens to see if a drug is worthless. Dogs test hashish and digitalis is tested on frogs using a kymograph to study heart action.
Questioning Eugenics And Parental Roles
A colloquial exchange questions eugenics claims of perfect offspring, contrasting it with the reality of diverse parental outcomes and the value of different family lineages. The dialogue hints at debate over breeding ideals versus ordinary parentage.
The Reason. Actor and Stage Manager argue in a mock mob scene
An actor tells the stage manager not to harshly address the mob, arguing they are exper sensitive. The exchange centers on tone and behavior during rehearsal.
Special Advantages At 1st College Cadet Program
Total expenses under any college plan range from $125 to $175 for the entire year covering board lodging books fuel lights uniform and more. The institution boasts a superb climate mountain location freedom from city distractions. Cadet supervision by army officers, strong military department and band, plus courses in agriculture mining engineering and commerce. Boys reside in on campus dormitories under officer control. For details contact G R Glenn pres.
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Georgia
A. B. Army
G, R, Glenn
Sheriff Sale of Unreturned Lands in Lumpkin County Georgia
Sheriff sale to occur at the Lumpkin County courthouse steps in Dahlonega on the first Tuesday in June 1913. Various 40 to 250 acre tracts across Habersham, Fifth and Eleventh Districts are offered for cash to highest bidder, as unreturned unimproved wild lands for 1912 taxes. January 29, 1918. T. M. Ray, Sheriff Lumpkin County, Ga.
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S. Georgia
Lumpkin County
Dahlonega
Georgia
Lumpkin
State of Georgia
Habersham
South Eastorner
J. M. Ricketts
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M.G. Head & Co
Pine
State OF GA
Spats College OF Agriculture
Onge
Andrew M. Soule
W. A. Worsham
T. H. McHatton
Europe
North Georgia Agricultural College
G. R. Glenn
A.M
Dahlonrga, Ga
W. B. Townsend
Atlanta
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