Rabbit pest and germology drive Department of Agriculture plan
The piece reviews the push to breed contagious diseases to curb pests like rabbits and rats, detailing the biological survey’s hopes, past leads, and experiments. It recounts Ernest Thompson Seton’s early observations and notes wolves in the West, with field studies by Vernon Bailey and the aims to use disease as a pest control method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Department
Biological Survey
Forest Service
California
Wilson
West
Australia
Washington
Wyoming
United States
Bureau of Animal Industry
Ernest Thompson Seton
Canada
New York
Vernon Bailey
Montana
Successful Kansas Farmer Kept Receipts Twenty Years
A. L. Hollinger, a Kansas farmer, kept book entries for twenty years and found a trial balance showing a $50,000 gain. He retired to tour America after compiling totals from 1886 onward, including 5,265 acres of wheat yielding 98,791 bushels and 2,846 acres of corn yielding 72,672 bushels with strong long term averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Kansas City Journal
A. L. Hollinger
Kansas
America
Bears and Roosevelt Meet in Duluth Bears in Streets and Trolley Cars
Minnesota Congressman J Adam Bede tells President Roosevelt jokes about bear hunts in Duluth. He boasts of bears blocking trolley cars, climbing telegraph poles, and police driving them out. The tale paints Duluth as a great bear country and hints at a presidential bear hunting trip.
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Bede
Minnesota
Duluth
Washington
J. Adam Bede
Roosevelt
New York Evening Post
Jadam
Wild West
Minnesota Statesman
Northwest
Momma
Minnesota Woods
Mr. Bede
Great Bear Slayer
Kansas farmer touts cattle alfalfa as steadier wealth
Mr. Hollinger explains twenty years of farming in central Kansas shifted from pure grain to cattle and alfalfa. He notes stocking from 100 to 400 head uses roughness and corn, providing reliable income with careful planning. He recently sold $9,500 worth of stock and remains on his farm for family education and recreation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Hollinger
Help Wanted and Employment Ads in Chicago Area
WANTED A HUNDRED FIREMEN AND BRAKEMEN on different railroads. Ages and conditions listed. send stamps for particulars to Association, Room 6, 337 Monroe Street. WANTED to learn plumbing trade complete course in 2-3 months. juniors earn 3-4 per day. union membership after 6 months. SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY notices. Felix Corset Co. 13 Prince St. New York.
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Goobie
Broadway
Ed Ithiy
Monroe Street
Phaliway
Coun
Alfred Holzman
Pulier
Chicago
N & Fear
New York
State
Strietly
Rough Co
Mass
Inglane
Felix Corset Co
Prince St
Choice Lands and Property Ads Across the Nation
Classified notices advertise 2 percent tracts in Alabama Gulf Coast Highlands with installment offers, Wichita Kansas lands for sale, California colonization tracts from 2000 to 20000 acres, and country properties nationwide. Firms Irvington Land Co, U S Dike Investment Co, Phillips & Wells solicit buyers with catalogs and terms.
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Jana
Gulf Coast Highlands
Alabama
T. S
Cro
Irvington Land Co
la Salle &J
Chicago
Wichita
Kansas
E. I. Spencer
Lawrence Ave
California
U. S. Dike Investment Co. (Inc
Mason Bidg
Los Angeles
Country Property
Phillips & Wells
Tribune Building
New York
Caligraphy Typewriter and Supplies Listed for Sale
Classified ad offers a Caligraphy typewriter for 10.00 and multiple brand typewriters Remington Yost Densmore Jewett at 15.00 each. Also mentions electric graphaphone and other equipment with pricing and seller address at A. ID cal Co 1960 Washington Ave New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caligraph
Remington, Yost, Densmore & Jewett
Ecorta
Best
ID Cal Co
Washington Ave
New York
Miscellaneous advertisements in New York history postcard sales
A collage of small 19th century ads offers souvenir postcards of New York City and various ephemera. Items include visiting cards, cypher writing guides, mass historical post cards, Catskill mountain views, athletic catalogs, beekeeping supplies, accident insurance, and patent protection notices with contact details for Julius Weil and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Julius Weil
West Houston St
Alove
York City
Mechanics & Traders UK
L J. W. Magrath
P. O
New York
Mass
Newton Art Co
Broadway
Catskill MT
Rip van Winkle
West Point
Hudson River
Barton & Spooner
Cornwall-on-Hudson
Conan Doyle novel to begin serial publication
The magazine announces the serial release of The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has earned wide praise, and readers are urged to obtain the initial chapters of the new stirring tale as it appears in the magazine section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egg Farme
California
T. F. McGrew
Ohio
United States
Petaluma
Brownlow
Sir A. Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Europe
America
Sir Conan Doyle
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San Francisco
Illinois
Guy Elliott Mitchell
Boston
Great Bear Country
Cornell
Aod Square
Gembetter
Moresco
24Th St
Geo
Emda
Wales Ave
Novelty Shear Co
la Salle St
Ladies’ Apparel
Diamond Point Pen Co
Beekman St
Matteson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Poin Ao
U. S
Wiliam Read Sons
Rypinski
West Street
Newly
A. J. Root Co
Medina
N.Y
Philadelphia
Reese
A. B. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Connor
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