IHC Service Bureau launches to boost crops and prosperity
Professor Perry G. Holden joins the IHC Service Bureau in Chicago after leading agricultural extension at Iowa State College. The program aims to promote agricultural education, larger yields, and nationwide cooperative service across the United States and Canada, with Holden guiding a global effort from Chicago.
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IHC Service Bureau
Fielp
States
Canada
Holden
Iowa
Perry G. Holden
H C Service Bureau
Chicago
Iowa State College of Agriculture
Cummins
United States
International Harvester Company
Bureau
Michigan
Agricultural College
Tnois
Wisdom of a Great Painter Meissonier on Rembrandt and Art
Extracts from Meissonier’s Conversations reveal his favorite painter Rembrandt and his quotes on art and education. He praises drawing as educational universal language and insists artists must sign only when fully satisfied. The notes quote his motto to will and his regret at unmade work as he ages.
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Meissonier
Rembrandt
Charles L. Barstow
Famous Pictures
St. Nicholas
Real Land of the Automat
Germany boasts widespread automat services with post offices and stations using coin operated machines. Automats sell stamps tickets snacks and drinks and even small medical supplies. Public eateries offer drinks meals and small goods by dropping coins into slots.
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Germany
Confessions of Thomas B Thompson Lie and Loss
The Kansas City Star reports confessions by Thomas B Thompson recounting a key check scheme tied to a hat bluff, a lost token, and a plea for distress. He recalls attempting love with a giggly girl and being laughed out of court, noting her change in demeanor years later.
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Thomas B. Thompson
Kansas City
Wordplay in a Daring Youths Companion Quip
The passage recalls a discussion of recent events in China and a teacher prompting children to name cannibalistic foes. A bright boy suggests a sharper term, then admits he lied, offering the word Manchus as a provocative label.
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China
Aegean Sun Dial Marks The Sea Horizon
The text describes a vast sun dial on the Aegean coast where a promontory rises 3,000 feet above the sea. As the sun moves, its shadow touches a chain of small islands that serve as markers, forming a colossal natural timepiece.
Early Pneumatic Tires and 1847 Patent Discovery
The text notes that as early as 1847 an English inventor received a US patent covering several tire forms, including a distended tire held by air under pressure. It highlights he argued such an air filled tire reduced propulsion power, with other variants using springs also described at the time.
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Patent Office of
United States
Chocolate praised as sustaining food and stimulant
The Lancet defends chocolate as a good sustaining food with nutritive value and staying power, noting its sugar fat and mineral content. Dr J Sim Wallace argues chocolate harms teeth when eaten between meals or at night and recommends consuming it with meals followed by fresh fruit.
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Saya
J. Sim Wallace
London
Family budgets and lone workers face similar weekly food costs
A New Zealand labor department study of 2,000 households shows single workers spend nearly the same on food as family heads yet save on rent and clothing, ending each weekend with a 39 cent surplus. The analysis contrasts family costs across rent food clothing and other items, noting fuel was lighter for families. The piece shifts to a biology note about snails surviving without air, water or nourishment under frosty shells, citing Leppert and Spallanzani.
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New Zealand Department of Labor
London Globe
Leppert
Spallanzani
New Yorker Bias And A Drenched Mackintosh Tale
An old drummer warns against showing New Yorker pride to proviners. A traveler's watch is ruined after a quick repair, while a seven year old Bessie loses her new mackintosh in rain, misunderstanding her mother’s care command.
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Bessie
Wother
London
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