Norman Struggles Inches From Doom On Moving Train
Norman clung to a chain and then a bar as the engine sped toward a tunnel east of Harper's Ferry. Inch by inch he inched to a ladder on the tender and crawled to safety, later recalling the stars after surviving a near fatal escape aboard the moving train.
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Norman E. Spencer
Norman
United States
Harper’s Ferry
W. Va
Harper's Ferry
Thas
Loneliest Places and People Across Distant Isles
A Pears London Weekly survey notes Britain's loneliest Britons dwell on small Hebrides isles with few inhabitants and no roads or amenities. It cites solitary lighthouse guards, Arranmore bagpipers, and night watchmen as among the loneliest workers, while noting other extreme outposts worldwide.
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Hebrides
Pearson
London Weekly
Isles
Bidon
Red ‘Sea
Suakin
Britain
Isle of Arranmore
Donegal
Origins of Scotch Irish People in Ulster and America
The text notes Scots and northern English settlers in Ulster starting in 1611 under King James I and describes early Scotch Irish migration to America around the 1700s, highlighting descent from Scotland and Ireland. The fragment emphasizes colonization and migration.
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Ireland
James
Ulster
Scotland
England
America
Ihe
Proper Milk Cooling Techniques For Winter
A dairy expert explains milk should be cooled quickly in a well insulated milk tank inside a clean milk house. Slow cooling or cooling in snow or on ice leads to partial freezing, separation of cold bottom milk, and higher rejection when the milk is dumped at the plant. Losses from rejected milk run into thousands of dollars annually.
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H. J. Brueckner
Dairy Dept
Mew Pon
State Gynt Bere
Iowa Seals Corn Handling Rules For Ventilation
The Iowa agriculture department prohibits sealing corn more than four feet from crib side or ventilator. Cribs wider than eight feet or deeper than eight feet require ventilators unless the corn is very dry. Ventilation options include tile vents and vertical shafts with wooden chases. Salting corn at crib time aids mold prevention, with one to two pounds of salt per hundred bushels, depending on feeding plans.
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Warehouse Board
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Wallaces
Hoofing It In Kansas A Major Cattle Feeding Run
Joe and Felix Corpstein of Nortonville Kansas topped the market May 1 with their twenty first carload of horned Hereford steers. From January 28 to May 1 25 cars sold with only four failing to keep pace. Most shipments sent to Chicago stockyards. Prices ranged 13 to 16 25 dollars. The Corpsteins began feeding 400 to 500 cattle yearly since 1929 on a 2000 acre farm to restore fertility. Steers fed alfalfa shelled corn bran ensilage molasses feed. Net cash profit for 407 steers this season estimated above 50 dollars per head.
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Joe
Felix Corpstein
Nortonville
Kan
Corpsteins
Chicago
Corpstein
Agricultural Notes and Farm Women Shifts and Goats
Agricultural notes discuss off flavor in cream and manure use, gender migration from farms to cities, and a ratio of 1 421 single men per 1 000 single women on farms. It notes Toggenburg and Saanen as leading Swiss goat breeds and hints at potato yields from seed treatments and summer dew effects.
French language survives in central and southern Mississippi Valley
Professor Joseph M. Carriere reports French dialects and Cajun folk traditions persist from Illinois to Louisiana. He cites communities in St. Genevieve Missouri and the Teche valley with residents still speaking French and singing French songs. The Evangeline legend influences local identity with claims about Emmeline Labiche and Gabriel and a tomb in St Martinsville.
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Mississippi Valley
Ilinois
Louisiana
Joseph M. Carriere
Northwestern University
Carriere
Longfellow
Nova ‘Beatia
Professor Carriere
IlHinois
Missouri
Kaskaskie
Mississippi
St. Genevieve
France
Teche
Nova Scotia
Evangeline
Emmeline’ Labiche
Louis Arsenault
Gabriel
Philadelphia
St. Martinsville
Emmeline Labiche
Opportunity Knocks Yet Passes For The Inactive
A Hesitant Habit Of Waiting For Chance Makes Opportunity Invisible. The Industrious Will Spot And Seize It. The Lethargic Misses It As It Slips By. William S. Marden notes energy and inclination drive success while waiting dulls perception.
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S. Marden
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