Horace Wade Eleven Year Old Author From Chicago
Horace Atkinson Wade an eleven year old novelist from Chicago writes vivid tales of bandits escapes and rescues. Born in St Louis March 26 1908 he spent three weeks on a novel last August titled In the Shadow of Great Peril praised by Irvin Cobb and prefaced by George Ade. He plans a sequel The Heavy Hand of Justice.
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Horace Atkinson
Wade
Horace
Edward I
Chicago
St. Louis
George Ade
Irvin Cobb
Carter
Root Declines Delegacy to Attend Court of Nations Talks
Elihu Root, seen as a Republican policy spokesman, declines a delegate role at the party convention to attend the Paris conference in June on establishing a permanent Court of International Justice. He is among invited experts forming a committee to plan the court's constitution. A. J. Balfour notes Root may not join but welcomes his influence at any stage of the council's sittings.
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Elihu Root
Paris
Council
League of Nations
A. J. Balfour
Root
John Bull
Mather Earns Life Membership in National Geographical Society
Stephen T. Mather director of the national park service receives a life membership in the National Geographical Society in recognition of promoting geographic knowledge. His work includes upbuilding the park system and boosting public interest in national parks.
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Stephen VT. Mather
National Park Service
National Geographical Society
Lane
Interior Department
Mather
National Park System
Suffrage Leaders Expand to New League of Women Voters
Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt dominated the Chicago convention and will lead the transition as the suffrage association dissolves after ratification. Maud Wood Park of Boston was elected chair of the new League with Catt as honorary chair. Officers include Mrs George Gellhorn vice chairman and Solon Jacobs secretary.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Chicago
Association
League of Women Voters
George Gellhorn
St. Louis
Richard Edwards
Indiana
Solon Jacobs
Albama
Emancipation and mind in the modern woman
Dr Alfred T Schofield argues in a Central Hall lecture that women have gained independence in intellect and rights, replacing the passive role with self respect and choice. He links economic independence to true emancipation and calls for reforms in education and endowment of motherhood to improve national progress.
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London
Alfred T. Schofield
Paris Hotels Requisitioned to Return to Owners
Paris government advises return of government offices to French hotel owners at earliest convenience. About 600 large hotels and 2 500 smaller hostels exist in Paris with 1 000 suited for tourism. Officials anticipate a surge of American visitors next summer and expect water men to handle the influx.
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Paris
Government bill bars aliens from key trades and bureaus
The proposed measure in parliament would open a central bureau to direct strangers to quarters while foreigners are barred from hotel and restaurant operations. It also bans aliens from customs transit or commission agencies, information bureaus, and defense related industries as wartime concerns reveal enemy agents.
Explorer Bernard Fails to Reach Polar Channel
Los Angeles based explorer and former resident Joseph Bernard returns from the North American polar region after a three year effort to force a passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. A ten ton schooner named Teddy Bear and one assistant attempted two routes via lee fields and Siberian coasts, with Bernard venturing alone on the second voyage. Sightings report his failure to navigate the passage between the two oceans near Bankshind.
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Los Angeles
Joseph I. Bernard
Bernard
Lee Fields
Explorer
Tee Fhelds
Pacific
David W. Hurley
Bernard Here
Bankshind
Oceany
Will Hunt Man-Eating Tiger Expedition Near Kulling China
Little, a noted scholar and traveler, plans a spring expedition with sportsmen to southwest district to hunt man-eating tigers. Natives report twenty Chinese killed and livestock decimated as fears grow in the 1000 foot high foothill region where villagers have fled home and fields. Five tigers have been sighted, stirring terror since last summer.
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Kulling
China
Little
Pastor Quits to Enter Business at Wealthy Detroit Church
Derok Rev. Thomas G. Sykes, pastor of the Grosse Pointe Protestant Church, one of America’s wealthiest congregations, resigns citing salary as insufficient for his family. Doctor Sykes, a former chaplain with the First Division in France, plans to enter business.
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Thomas G. Sykes
Grosse Pointe
America
Doctor Sykes
Bank Boosts Better Sires Campaign on Pacific Coast
A Bend Oregon bank wrote to the U S Department of Agriculture offering support for the Better Sires campaign. The bank has brought in 15 registered beef bulls since March and plans a stockmen caravan to the Pacific International show in Portland. The USDA is ready to enroll livestock owners who submit the prescribed forms and property certificates.
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Pacific Coast
United States Department of Agriculture
Bend
Ore
Pacific International
Portland
Tre Thly
Department of Agriculture
Stand by Present Tuberculosis Free Herd Plan
After two years of operation a joint committee for pure bred cattle associations and the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association decides no steps to lower the high standard. No herd accredited if it contains a tubercular animal. A supplementary list will name owners of pure bred herds free from tuberculosis on two annual tests but with a reacting bull, in which case no accredited certificate is issued. Accredited herd plan is run by the Bureau of Animal Industry with state institutes cooperation.
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United States
Live Stock Sanitary Association
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agericulture
Stitutes
Steers Fattened on Silage at Missouri Station
At the Missouri experiment station one lot of steers received 15 pounds of shelled corn daily plus 2.5 pounds of oil cake, 2.9 pounds of clover hay and 25 pounds of corn silage. A second lot had no shelled corn but more oil cake and clover with 4 pounds of silage daily. The shelled corn group gained for $15.05 per 100 pounds of gain while the non corn group was $10.69. Feed cost per steer was $50.28 with shelled corn and $21.17 without.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Water intake by calves and salt use in early feeding
Farmers are advised to let young calves have free access to fresh water and salt. The belief that calves drink too much water is mistaken. During the first four months calves should not eat too much grain.
Goats Adapted to Grazing on Thin Pasture
Angora goats are economical producers under ordinary farm conditions and well adapted to grazing on rather thin pasture. They require careful management and are not suitable for very poor or overgrazed land.
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