Minnesota Pageant Marks Schoolcraft Mississippi Find
Long historical feature recounts Henry Schoolcraft’s 1832 discovery of Lake Itasca as the Mississippi head, through a trek from Cass Lake with Chippewa guide Yellow Head. It notes the Itasca centennial celebrations by Northwestern Minnesota Historical Association and Minnesota Historical Society.
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Duluth
Minn
American Fur Company
Fond du Lac
St. Louis
East Savanna
West Savanna
Sandy Lake
Mississippi
Red Cedar Lake
Cassina
Cass Lake
Pike
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Minnesota
Schoolcraft
Lake Itasca
Itasca State Parks
Northwestern
Trew
Hamilton
N. Y
Middlebury
Union Colleges
Mississippi Valley
Cass
Northwest
Great Lakes
Black Hawk
TiMnois
William T Routwell
Douglass Houghton
James Allen
Sault Ste. Marie
Savanna Portage
Sandy
Cass Lakes
Lake. Superior
Ozawindib
Yellow Head
Cass. Lake
Lake Bemidji
Schoolcraft River
la Salle
Itasca Lake
Lac la Biche
Boutwell
Itasen
Superior
United States
Itasca
Star Island
Cobaspi
Grand Island
Fort Snelling
Sault
St. Croix
Lake Superior
Elk Lake
Quotations on Wisdom and Fortune From Classic Thinkers
A collection of aphorisms referencing age fortune judgment and talent from La Rochefoucauld Quarley Eliot Seneca Johnson Thackeray La Rochefoucauld Helps Coleridge and others. The lines discuss the limits of knowledge and the dangers of misplaced praise within society and personal growth.
Oddities and observations from Pathfinder Magazine
The excerpt notes curious facts about animals and weather, mentions how some Mexican families bury multiple kin in one grave, and recalls Haiti's president Salomon being ousted with stamps affixed upside down on envelopes, reflecting quirky archival trivia from Pathfinder Magazine.
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Salomon
Haiti
Pathfinder Magazine
Pedestrian Geometry Courtesy in a Kansas City Star Note
A Kansas City Star humorous piece plays with pedestrian and vehicle geometry. It blends paradoxical definitions with a mock math problem about a 6 foot pedestrian waiting to cross. It wittily contrasts a car tangent to a pedestrian with traffic as a limiting variable.
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Kansas City Star
Affairs of state water and mineral resource notes
Water is piped into 29 per cent of Ohio farm homes. Indiana government cost per capita $71.08 in 1980-1931. Virginia produces the bulk of slab and black soapstone. If Florida drainage ditches were placed end to end they would total 5 113 miles.
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Ohio
Indiana
Virginia
Florida
Beans Cut Ration Costs for Cattle, Study Finds
A. Tedman of Arapahoe county reports to Colorado Agricultural College that dairy cows can adapt to bean-rich feed, starting at 6 to 1 percent split beans and reaching 20 percent by weight. The remaining 80 percent is corn oats and wheat mixture, with beans replacing cottonseed meal to cheapen the ration.
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Tedman
Arapahoe County
Colorado Agricultural College
Controlling Lice Infestations in Dairy Cattle
Costly to feed lice with current milk prices, but timely treatment avoids loss. Three lice types affect cattle: blue lice that suck blood, red lice feeding on skin secretions, and gray lice that also suck blood. Recommend spraying cattle every ten days with a non irritant insecticide and treating bedding stalls and walls, keeping cattle inside until dry in cold weather.
Dairy Notes on Milk Yields and Herd Practices
Dairy notes discuss milk production figures and feeding practices. A dairy cow yields about 8,000 pounds of milk annually and 1,100 pounds of dry matter in the milk. The piece highlights cooperative bull associations in New York and Pennsylvania silage benefits, plus culling studies in 20 cow herds, and stresses clean udders and milking gear.
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Pennsylvania
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Elmo Scott Watson
North American
Our Man
Hernando de Soto
Panfilo Narvaez
Gulf of Mexico
Chickasaw Bluffs
State of
de Soto
Great River
Luis de Moscosco
Gulf
Mexico
Moscosco
New World
Pierre Esprit Radissén
Medard Chouart Grosceillers
Three Rivers
Quebec
Mississipp
Agnes C. Laut
West
Marquette
Louis Joliet
Wisconsin River
Arkansas River
Louis Hennepin
Falls of
St. Anthony
Rene Cavalier de la Salle
Illinois
France
North America
David Thompson
Northwest Company
Grand Portage
North Dakota
Turtle Lake
Zebulon M. Pike
Little Falls
Leech Lake
Cas
Lek Trasca
Williamt Boutell
la Rochefoucauld
Quarley
Eliot
Seneca
Johnson
Thackeray
Coleridge
Country Club Plaza Circle
New York State
Lewis & Walker
P. O
North
Wyoming
Butte, Mont
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Butte, Montana
Cpt
Bstract CO
Pearl I. Smith & Title Building
Dillon, Montana
Commercial Printing
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