Farmers Begin 70 Organize in 1924 Maryland
Maryland farmers and business allies push to unite farm groups after Governor Ritchie urged a farmer friendly Legislature in 1924. Statewide committees form to craft an agricultural program, with county groups coordinating to elect lawmakers who will back it. Cooperation grows as farmers seek organized strength and favorable policies amid past depressions and rising costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Maryland Agricultural Society
Maryland Farm Bureau Federation
Ritchie
Annapolis
Maryland
Ritche
Baltimore
Chicago
New York
Farmers urged to unite for higher prices and better markets
The article urges Maryland farmers to organize and cooperate to secure fair prices, establish terminal markets, roads, and educational agencies, and to influence legislation. It notes a year until the Maryland legislature session and highlights the need to unite, sacrifice time, and press for needed laws such as a filled milk bill to curb industrial profit on dairy products. Governor Ritchie calls for stronger farmer organizations and state collaboration to meet farmers’ needs.
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Congress
Farm Bureau
Citrus Trust and
Raisin Growers of
California
United States Treasury Department
Maryland
Wisconsin
Committee of Congress
Ritchie
Frederick
Birds Fly Across Atlantic Report From London Society
The London Zoological Society records many non indigenous birds sighted around British coasts. England notes observers like ornithologists lighthouse keepers masters of vessels coast guards farmers and gentlemen who log dates and circumstances. American birds have been seen and shot in England though such instances are rare with occasional large flocks moving across hundreds of miles. The cause of these events remains a mystery to bird life researchers.
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London Zoological Society
Great Britain
British
England
Siberian
China
North Africa
Arctic
Atlantic
Bird Life
Dancing Egg of a Bug Reported in Shasta County
The Los Angeles Times notes a new insect spectacle in Shasta County California a dancing egg laid by an undetermined insect on oak leaves. Eggs cling underside of leaves mature and drop to ground then dance. Cracking sound heard when twig with eggs is held to ear. Eggs on table hop and leap into the air up to sixteen inches. Active in early morning and compared to the sulphur bug in roaster piles.
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Shasta County
California
Los Angeles Times
Admirals in the Caribbean 1697 Raid Recalled
In Early Days In the Caribbean the chapter on Admirals de Pointis and Tu Casse recalls their 1697 West Indies expedition against Spanish and English forces. The raid led to the sack of Cartagena and is cited as shaping regional bounds, with Morgan Vernon and Rodney noted for notable fighting, and the Potomac imagined as a northern Latin American boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caribbean
St. Francis Russell Hart
de Pointis
Tu Casse
West Indies
Cartagena
Morgan
Vernon
Rodney
Potomac
Latin America
Rio Grande
Queer African Idols Brought to United States by Missionary
A missionary brings from Nigeria a collection of carved African idols including Ifa with a tall hat named principal deity, a thunder and lightning club image, and a brass deity Oshubgo seen as ruling over fanatic groups. He also includes ivory crucifixes carved by Christianized locals.
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United States
Nigeria
Oshubgo
India’s Beautiful Tower Kutub Minar Near Delhi
The Kutub Minar is described as one of the world’s most nearly prefect towers. It rises 238 feet above the plain, with deeply fluted sandstone walls showing purplish to orange hues in its top five balconied stories, amid Delhi’s ancient ruins.
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India
Delhi
Lakes in Tahoe Basin and Desolation Valley
The principal lakes in the Tahoe basin include Fallen Leaf Watsons Cascade Heather Susie Rock Bound Pick Engle Gilmore Half Moon Lily Grass Angora Lucile Medley Echo Crystal Oil Le Conte Devil s Bryant and Jog with dozens more in Desolation valley. None besides Tahoe and Fallen Leaf held trout until artificial stocking.
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Tahoe Basin
Fallen Leaf
Cascade
Heather
Susie
Pick
Gilmore
Lily
Grass
Echo
Crystal
Oil
Desolation Valley
Tahoe
Love and Loss in Langley’s Silent Battle
A 1923 AlcClare Newspaper Syndicate tale follows Langley, blinded and scarred by a blast, who grapples with love. He dictates a farewell letter to his betrothed Ailey, choosing resignation over pity and planning a fatal plunge rather than expose her to his disfigured future.
Silent dawn of sight and love in a nurse's embrace
A tormented man, weakened by rage, tears his bandages and discovers Arley, a nurse, guarding him. He regains partial sight and hearing as she calls him beloved, realizing a steadfast, enduring love amid disaster and surrender.
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Arley
Ife
Bad Boy on Oceans Chart Falcon Island Story of a Restive Iles
In the South Pacific Falcon Island is a shifting landmass that repeatedly vanishes and reappears. First charted by H. M. S. Fateon in 1865 it has fluctuated between sea and shore, growing and shrinking with each survey and finally earning a caution against settlement, as noted by London Tit-Bits.
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Falcon Island
South Pacific
H. M.S. Fateon
Egeria
London
Many Designs of Firehose Through the Ages
An overview tracing firehose development from 1072 leather tubes in America to England’s rubber methods, cotton yarns and rubber coatings, and the 1877 loom woven seamless tubes. The article notes later rubber coated fabric hoses forming durable multi ply hoses now widely used.
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America
Philadelphia
Engineering and Mining Journal
Press
New York
England
Egyptians divided the body among demons and planets
Early Egyptian practice divided the human body into 36 parts each ruled by a demon and linked to planetary or saintly domains. Priests invoked specific genii to heal the assigned part, explaining why a physician would treat only one body part and defer others to colleagues.
Seeking a Divorce Amid Lawyer Consultation
A would-be client asks a lawyer how to proceed with ending a marriage. The brief exchange frames a divorce inquiry and the need for legal guidance.
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Cient
Dancing Attendance Phrase Through Ages in Marital Custom
The term dancing attendance refers to paying marked attention to someone, a medieval wedding custom where the bride danced with all who asked. A 1548 Christen record notes the bride must dance with all dancers, regardless of their state, and Shakespeare later uses the phrase to describe courtly deference to a lord’s pleasure.
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Christen
Indian Mode of Travel Through History
The narrative outlines native travel methods from water to land. It notes birch and elm bark canoes in northern and southern regions, dugout canoes carved from a single log as exemplified near Hackensack New Jersey, and land travel via burden baskets carried on the back with a strap across the forehead or chest among the Mashpee in Massachusetts.
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Hackensack
N. J
Massachusetts
Power of Expectancy and the shaping of destiny
The text cites a historic view of prudence patience and perseverance guiding a man toward vision. It argues that life’s power lies in expectancy and asks what one hopes and expects. Our daily hopes steadily become part of us, forming who we are.
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Phillips Brooke
Six Flags Have Flown Over Texas History
A compact history notes that Texas has seen French, Spanish, Mexican, and American rule. La Salle established a short lived colony at Matagorda Bay on New Year's Day 1685, followed by missions at San Antonio and numerous presidios. Texas became a republic with the Lone Star flag, lasting about ten years before joining the United States in 1845. During the Civil War Texas aligned with the Confederacy.
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Texas
France
LaSalle
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Matagorda Bay
San Antonio
Lone Star State
United States
Confederacy
Sound Their Danger Signal Beavers Use Tail Slap And Odor
The beaver colony relies on a danger signal a sudden tail slap followed by dive to depths. A distinctive oily castorium odor from glands helps keep the group in contact. Greeks named the substance castorium once used as perfume and panacea. Hunters still use it as bait to lure beavers.
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R. I. Bocock
Always a Prospect
A boy named Alex wants to join other boys on a nearby vacant lot. His mother cautions there is little there he would care to see. Alex worries some of the boys often fight before they finish.
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Alex
New York's Miles of Sewers
New York's sewers stretch across about 630 miles in Manhattan alone. If laid end to end they would form a tunnel long enough to reach San Francisco, or nearly so, enough to alarm the Golden Gate.
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New York
Greater
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Manhattan
Adequately Compensated and Moral Reckonings
A concise editorial argues that treatment mirrors our own actions and warns against mislabeling courage. It contends that weakness is not heroism, bullies are cowards, and lack of initiative disqualifies leadership, while economic misers cannot be trusted with large ventures.
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Apendthrift
Niger
Magnet Strength and Shape for Lifting Power
A hardened tool steel horseshoe can be magnetized to about ten pounds per square inch. As the cross section increases, the length must increase proportionately to retain this strength per unit area.
Japs Supreme In Lacquer Work
The article notes Japanese lacquer artistry surpasses others, with authorities declaring lacquer in all uses and decorations to be a truly Japanese belonging.
Keeps Vegetables From Boiling Over
A tip for busy cooks suggests adding a small lump of butter to the water to keep vegetables from boiling over and to cook steadily when not watching the stove.
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Howard Melvin Benj. B.johnson
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Eehaafer
Mbebeebay
Langley
Imine
Sean
Lingley
City Hospital
Ile
Ailey
Bad Boy
SIX
Prdters
C. C. Deen’s
Fowling Creek, Maryland
Santos
Fowling Creek, Md
Magic
the Farmers’ Supply Co
Mildred Pipkin
Columbia, Tenn
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Cardui
THE
Denton National Bank
Denton, Maryland
Journal
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