Kentucky Governor and Pardons Story Told by Senator Bradley
A Kentucky governor once pardoned a man who had killed after claiming he looked like the governor. The story, told to newspaper men by Senator Bradley, contrasts Hendrick and the governor, both bearded, and depicts early pardon power. A separate Portland tale has a late train joke about predictions of arrival times.
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Clohtles
Kentucky
Senator Bradley
Goveral
John K. Hendrick
Hendrick
Jolu
Nan
Portland Oregonian
It Wasn't a Fire And The Dreamy Client Tale
A New York City night school principal enrolls a well dressed boy named Tom Dugan who claims no tree and asks odd questions while insisting his suit cost 7.50 The second anecdote recalls an Arkansas printer misprinting doughnut as donut and a novelist noting the misspelling while the compositor defends the proof saying it had a w in it once.
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East Side
New York City
Tom Dugan
Arkansas
Chauncey Depew’s Gym Lesson Ends With Resolve
An account recalls Chauncey Depew visiting a country sanitarium to harden muscles and aid digestion. During morning dumbbell drills, the stern trainer orders strict effort. Depew, after a mounting struggle, blurts a joke before resuming the workout with grim persistence.
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Chauncey Depew
Depew
Mr. Depew
Paying His Debt in a Physiology Class Tale
A nagging physiology professor tests a class by placing a drop of his own blood under a microscope. A student who owed him a grudge identifies the sample after a careful look, answering that the blood belongs to a reptile in a sly dig at the examiner.
Round barns outshine rectangular dairy houses in cost and efficiency
Professor Wilber J. Fraser reports a sixty foot round dairy barn on Urbana's dairy farm shows superior resistance to wind and easier feeding flow with a central silo. Round barns cost less than plank frame and mortise frame equivalents, with significant savings even when paired with silos.
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Wilber J. Fraser
University of Maols
University At
Urbana
Barns as billboards for farms and products
A concise editorial advocates that barns should advertise the farm itself not external goods. The writer urges farm signs display only the farm name and its own livestock and marketable products, turning barns into banners for the farm.
Poultry Advice From Old Farm Column
Poultry care guidance warns against unsafe kerosene emulsions for lice control and cautions against resins in soap. It recommends plain gas tar to deter scale, dry eyes for birds, and diversified grain feeding. Pigeon grass noted as nutritious for turkeys and chickens.
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Centor Journal
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Benj. H. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Nasn Lools
Orange Judd
Vaulot Chris
I*reeport
Hackett
Tc-Hackett
Hillsboro
Hackett's
Gape Cure Company
Willsporo, Mo
Greensboro
Denton
Barrett Const, CO
J. A. Eaton’s Wheelwright Shop
West Denton
Baltimore
Howard and
Lexington
Hochschild, Kohn & Co
Maryland
United States
District of Columbia
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
New Jersey
Lexington Sts
Baltimore, MD
Nuittle
Florence
T. W. Smith CO
L. F. Smith
Opt
Benton, MD
Price
Alf
N. Jordin
Andersontown
Tommy
Continental Life Insurance Com
Pany
Wilmington, del
S —Tow
Caroline County
Our
Ant'istockin
Justice of the Peace
General Assembly of
Court of Common Pleas
Court of Common Pleas of
Thomas L. Chaffinch
Bobbitt Chemical Co
Mall
Tun Cale
Duffey's Pharmacy
New York
San Francisco
REO
Rocky and
Sierra
Mt. Hamilton
California
FR H.C
Nebraska
Great American Desert
Rockies
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Easton, Maryland
C.C. Deen’s
Fowling Creek, Md
Oliver
Acme
C. C. Deen
Fowling Creek
Continental Insurance Co
Isceeces
Seepins
Eae i Ae
Bullock’s
Oak
Carter Block
Arthen
China
Bullook
Orphans Court
Alfred B. Carter
William G. Carter
Alfred Carter
Alfred BW. Carter
Orphans’ Court
Matthew Lawless
Matthew Lawless, Jr
Holt Construction A
Denton, Md
Rhode
Island
cOublaepsis
Morris’ New Store
Marydel, Md
E. H. Morris
E. H Morris
Marydel
Ite
J. A. Cox
Preston, Md
Kranz-Smith Piano CO
Chickpring
Packard
Merlin & Son
Bradbury
RY. Erety
Webster
G. Fred Branz
Mansfield
Barvard
Concord
Weer
J.T. Mooz Denton
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