Government farm experts urge vitrified brick roads gain in use
A government agriculture bulletin promotes vitrified brick roads as durable and attractive for county and rural highways while warning that high first costs and quality control errors require proper engineering supervision. It notes that brick pavements demand careful planning, especially on unsuitable terrain, and highlights licensing and hunting regulation text mixed in from unrelated notices.
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Office of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Popcorn Emerges as Promising New Farming Industry
The department of agriculture outlines an investigation into popcorn as a breakfast food. It notes that 1.50 dollars of raw material can yield 30 dollars of popcorn on a forty by twenty foot plot and suggests profitable surplus disposal to merchants or consumers. It also offers a prepared snack recipe with sugar syrup and chocolate coating for popped corn.
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Department of Agriculture
Fourteenth Annual Summary of U S and Canada Game Laws
The Department of Agriculture via the Bureau of Biological Survey issues a yearly bulletin summarizing new game laws by state and province. It presents seasons, export, sale, limits, and licenses, and notes trends in interstate commerce regulation and migratory bird protection. Ohio and Pennsylvania now require a licensee to
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Biological Survey
United States
Canada
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Cattle Tick Eradication Boosts Southern Cattle Values
Reports to the U S Department of Agriculture show Mississippi cattle raisers gained over 2 million dollars in value from tick eradication efforts. Yet quarantined counties lose about 3 million annually to tick damage. Tennessee shows price gains after eradication, with hides rising in value and improved livestock interest, while leather grades and chrome leather production benefit from tick-free hides.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
South
Tennessee
Bradley County
Philadelphia Jack OBrien Returns to Ring in White Hope Era
Philadelphia Jack OBrien reenters boxing, pursuing the new white hopefuls and claiming he can whip Gunboat Smith who recently defeated Arthur Pesky. He vows to regain his speed and power and challenges Kilbane or Attell to start the comeback.
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Philadelphia
Jack O’brien
Sugared Popcorn Syrup Method From Old Recipe
Instructions describe making syrup by boiling two teacups of granulated sugar with one teacup of water until thick. Pour hot syrup over six quarts of freshly popped corn and stir well to coat.
Popcorn Balls Recipe Instructions
A recipe for popcorn balls uses one pint sirup one pint sugar two tablespoons butter and a teaspoon vinegar. Cook until the sirup hardens in cold water then add soda dissolved in hot water and pour over four quarts of hot popped corn stirring to coat and mold into balls or shapes.
Brooklyn Club Blames Tinker Over Signing Fight
Brooklyn vice president McWeever says they treated Joe Tinker fairly but he acted unjustly. Counsel Bernard York weighs court options, noting possible federal or state actions as the dispute with the Federal league drags toward potential supreme court involvement.
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Joe Tinker
McWeever
Brooklyn Baseball Club
Baseball Players’ Fraternity
Oubiw Baseball
National Commission
Bernard York
Brooklyn Club
New York
Illinois
New Jersey
Chicago
United States
York
United States Supreme Court
Federal League Faces Financial Hurdles and Fan Loyalty
The article argues public sympathy favors the Federal league but fan support hinges on competitive play and value. It notes promoters avoid excess competition, stressing that substantial funds come from stock sales, with Weeghman of Chicago and Steifel of St. Louis as wealthy backers, though not multimillionaires.
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Federal League
Federals
Weeghman
Chicago
Steifel
St. Louis
Olympic Fund Fiasco Leaves Britain Short on Berlin Team
The British Olympic fund aimed at 500000 dollars for a national subscription. In 1913 the committee set a 125000 target to proceed. Subscriptions totalled 855000 with cash of 32500 and 17500 already spent, leaving 15000 to raise a team to defend Britain at Berlin 1916 against American athletes from Stockholm.
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Olympic Fund
British Olympic Fund
Great Britain
Stockholm
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