Bridges of San Francisco Bay Set World Records
A syndicated survey highlights the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge as the world’s greatest engineering feats of the era. It details lengths, tower heights, cable specs, caisson piers, and vast material quantities, illustrating colossal scale and technical challenges.
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Elmo’ Scott Watson
California
American Enterprise
American Daring
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Golden Gate Bridge
George Washington Bridge
Hudson River
City Hall
Los Angeles
Russ
San Francisco
L. C. Smith
Seattle
United States
St. San Francisco
Yerba Buena Issland
Oakland
Toll Plaza North
South Pier
Fort Point
Golden Gate
Marin Tower
Marin County
Lime Point
Metropolitan
Bay
Island
Red Clover Crop to Make Comeback
Plant breeders at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture report red clover may rebound after programs to develop resistant strains. The crop, once Illinois’ principal forage, has suffered from disease, insects and weather, but preliminary work shows wide variation among plants enabling selection for hardiness, yield and disease resistance.
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C. M. Woodworth
University of Minols
Wwm
Minols
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Itf
Illinois
Poor Packing Claimed Cause of Mold in Silos
Professor E Van Alstine of Cornell agronomy warns that moldy silage stems from poor packing and air leakage. Remedies include tight silos, resealing with boards or canvas, and prompt removal to prevent mold growth.
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E. van Alstine
Department of Agronomy
Cornell
van Alstine
Estimating Cow Weights by Heart Girth Method
Dairy farmers can estimate cow weights using heart girth measurements with a tape line. A new table from the Bureau of Dairy Industry based on American Holsteins and Jerseys allows close approximations from 50 inch girth at 394 pounds to 92 inches at 1975 pounds.
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Bureau of Dairy Industry
Farm Journal
Locusts Boost Reforestation in Eastern Ohio
Muskingum county reports locust trees as satisfactory for reforestation on abandoned coal strip land. Nine supervised woodlot demonstrations show pine and locusts crowding out weeds and forming real forests. Some 4 H club members in the area joined forestry projects, while 1934 drought left many trees unable to survive.
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Ohio
Muskingum County
Centy
Choose Compact Beefy Cows For Naby Beef Production
Selecting cows for beef production favors compact beefy cows with strong milking ability. Wallaces' Farmer notes a good milker yields the best, most vigorous calves. Milk is essential for calf growth and no substitute matches milk as a calf’s food. cows that milk poorly hamper calf rearing and value.
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Naby
Wallaces
How to Tell Raw and Cooked Eggs Apart
A Housewife offers a quick test for distinguishing raw eggs from cooked ones. Spin each egg. the raw eggs will not spin, while the cooked eggs whirl like a top.
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Public Ledger, Inc
WNU Service
Wetherill Medal for Naumburg Visagraph Invention
The Franklin Institute will award the John Price Wetherill medal on May 15 to Robert J. W. Naumburg of New York for the Visagraph. The device reads printed text for the blind by a photoelectric cell and embosses enlarged letters on paper for fingertip reading. It began at Perkins Institution and aids reading without Braille.
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John Price Wetherill
Robert JW. Naumburg
New York
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Naumburg
Perkins Institution For the Blind
Watertown
Mass
Literary Digest
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Liver Pills Ad Claims 60 Years
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills dating back sixty years. The copy asserts they regulate the liver and bowels for health.
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Dr. Pierce
Quip on ailing spouse sparks playful retort
A light exchange shows a husband remarking his wife has nursed a grouch all week and another asks if she has been laid up. The dialogue hints at domestic banter and mutual familiarity without further context.
Watch Your Kidneys Doan's Pills Advertisement
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Doan
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