Birds aid farmers by protecting crops across Oklahoma
An Oklahoma reporter cites game laws protecting insectivorous birds, noting farmers should nurture species like the meadowlark bluebird and woodpecker. Lincoln county farmer observations show larks and bluebirds consume thousands of pests, with nests and boxes urged, plus enforcement to deter out of season shooting to safeguard crops.
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Oklahoma
Kansas City Star
Lincoln County
Yateley
Lincoln
Bluebird
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
A. Lttle
Digging Panama Canal Thirty Trains A Day Six Years
Engineers estimate sixty work trains daily and six years to remove earth from Culebra cut. J. L. Bristow, in Kansas City, says ten years for completion with rapid shovel deployment and many Jamaica laborers. The Panama railroad may double track to support canal traffic.
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Culebra
Kansas City
J. L. Bristow
Panama Canal
Theansas City
Panama
Gulf
Japanese Reading Tastes Show Fewer Fiction Demands
The Imperial Library in Tokyo reports no demand for fiction contrasting with American and English libraries. Reading requests include 166 677 mathematics science and medicine volumes 21 6 percent. Literature language 152 711 20 percent and history geography 18 percent. Art industries engineering military and naval science notable in recent acquisitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Library
Tokyo
New York World
Wild Duck Becomes Domesticated In Bucks County
Andrew Paist of Mechanicsville Bucks County Pa reports a wild duck adopted by his Pekin flock. The bird alighted last November exhausted and was captured easily. Wings clipped, it could not fly and adapts to corn diet. In March it laid twenty eight eggs, twenty three set to hatch two tame ducks, awaiting final hatch to see half wild half domestic offspring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Paistof Mechanicsville
Bucks
County
Bristol Observer
May Festival Opens as Nature Sings in Spring
A lively verse preserves a May festival mood where Dame Nature feeds the year with blossoms and fruit. The poem notes holly, rose, cherry and peach ripening, breezes lifting spirits, and busy orchards at the gate as spring activity begins to peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Dame Nature
Japanese Team's Early US Tour Spurs New Era in Athletics
Waseda University baseball team departs for America marking a shift in Japanese sports culture. Fred Merrifield notes Japan moves from pickup port teams to organized university play, praising perseverance, discipline, and adaptability in training while highlighting language, equipment, and tactics as they adapt to Western baseball.
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Japan
Waseda University
America
Fred Merrifield
Chicago University
Chicago Tribune
Tokyo
Zip
Waseda
Abe
Peveral
Roosevelt’s Clemency Stance Highlighted in Article
The Indianapolis Star summary notes President Roosevelt’s consistent denial of clemency requests. It cites Nathan Levin’s five year sentence for fraud to influence votes and J. M. McKnight’s embezzlement case, with Kentucky Republicans lobbying for mercy. The president insists on principled pardons and refuses to sign deserter-bill rescissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Brown
Indianapolis Star
Louis Ludlow
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Nathan Levin
Jefferson City
St. Louis
Levin
J. M. McKnight
German National Bank of
Louisville
McKnight
Indiana
Elkhart
Atlanta
Kentucky
William Bradley
White House
Congress
Mekknight
Brown
Temperance Ladies Hear Liquor Statistics In Elkhart
The Elkhart Central Union meeting at Mrs A Luke's home featured a Scientific Temperance Instruction program. A paper cited 175,000 saloons 225,000 liquor dealers 1,200,000 bartenders and vast annual liquor costs totaling about 2.5 billion dollars plus medical alcohol use, urging Christians to abolish the traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Cgc. T. U
Elkhart Central Union
State Street
United States
Rogers Band Benefit in Goshen Falls Short of Support
A Goshen benefit concert by the Rogers band faced a tepid turnout and disappointing attendance. Organizers expressed concern over late-stage encouragement and support, noting the event may not proceed if public interest does not improve.
Launching Crews Attract Elkhart River Boats
Launching on the St Joe river grows popular as Hen Island dam creates a lake enabling navigation of larger boats. About 25 crafts now operate from 16 to 35 feet carrying 10 to 50 passengers, mostly private but some run regular trips from Highland Park leisure area.
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Elkhart
St. Joe River
St. Joe
Hen Island
Highland Park
Elkhart Trio Pleads Guilty After Pony Saloon Arrest
Frank Cripe Rosa Warner and Clara Wolfingre were arrested at the Pony saloon in Goshen Monday afternoon and pleaded guilty to associating before Justice Whisler. Cripe bound over to circuit court with a $101 bond but could not meet it and was jailed. The women were fined 19 and driven to a Syracuse money-collection attempt by Special Constable Charles Noel to pay, returning empty handed and jailed. Will Warner arrived from Kalamazoo but could not help. They will serve their sentence.
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Frank Cripe
Rosa Warner
Clara Wolfingre
Elkhart
Goshen
Whisler
Cripe
Gourtonia
Charles Noel
Will Warner
Kalamazoo
Autoists Lost On Moonlit Return From Elkhart Trip
An automobile party from South Bend misread directions on a moonlit ride last night. After traveling five miles they were lost and, unable to find familiar objects, halted at Henry Horning’s farm. They woke the family at 1 am and learned they were far from South Bend. The group, including several ladies, retraced their route with good humor.
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South Bend
Elkhart
Ees
Ndt
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Imperial Librarian
Shire
Fred" Merrifield
Nippon
Marooni
Mikado
Walter Brown Butt
Roosevelt
Leavenworth
Clem
Rogers
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