Review of the World's Events and Health Musings
A broad survey covers aging and retirement with Dr Charles W Eliot touring the world at seventy seven, addressing age, mobility, and the urge to keep moving. Other items discuss cruelty to fish in Yellowstone, a baseball commission report on ticket speculation, prisoners in dining cars, and a host of world events from diamonds in India to foreign missions and U.S. labor safety efforts.
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Eliot
Harvard
Dr. Hilot
National Baseball Commission
New York
Philadelphia
Ban Johnson
New York City
Interdenominational Committee of Seven
Japan
William P. Hall
A. S
Robert B. Maxwell
Mansfield
F. H. Robinson
Ontario
J. T. D. Pyles
Washington
Leslie W. Jones
Chicago
Ernest W. W. Kuehn
Toledo
Pastor Russell
Publicity and the catalogue threat to local merchants
An analysis warns retail merchants and local press to unite against powerful mail order catalogues. It notes vast advertising campaigns, journals, and banked deposits enabling dominance, while local merchants lag in bold publicity. The piece urges coordinated action via local columns to defend market share and expose catalogue abuses.
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Uim
Saya Maxlwell
Mustrous
Mome
Fresh From the Farm Describes Gas Tractor Revolution
A New York Tribune piece quoted by Fresh From the Farm discusses a farmer who turned gas tractors into multi use power machines. It details one grower buying two gas engines and two engine plows turning six furrows, plowing at night by acetylene light and rapidly expanding to farm thousands of acres with harvesters binders drills disks and seeders. The report highlights power and efficiency gains from mechanized farming techniques.
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Nts
Red Valley
New York Teil Tune
Forrest
Crisley
Crisney Chesther
Value of Cooperation in Seed Corn Shows
A farmer tried to trick neighbors by buying seed corn and plotting to win a prize without sharing details. A neighbor exposed the plan and suggested planting good seed to improve all harvests. The locality adopted cooperative planting, and farmer No 1 won prizes at the international corn show while neighbors benefited overall.
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Flewits
Seedless apples discovered in Nevada orchard
Accidental finding by C. & Seager of Darls Creek Morroe county Nevada reports a seven year old tree in an orchard producing twenty seedless and careless apples this year. Cattle incursion earlier halted growth but flawless specimens appeared despite withered stamens and pistils. Selected details from New York Herald.
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C. & Seager
Darls Creek
Morroe County
Nev
New York Herald
Patchwork patching of a grain sack method
A guide on repairing a grain sack by cutting a circular or square hole, preparing a patch two or three toe lengths larger, turning the sack inside out, making a four taste, applying a quantity of it, placing the patch over the hole, and ironing until the patch and sack are thoroughly saturated.
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Patel
Tag
Sacha Patel
Warning to Horse Breeders on Alfalfa Feeding Risks
An Idaho bulletin notes many colts are born dead or weak due to mare nutrition. Excess alfalfa hay raises nitrogen, stressing the digestive tract and kidneys and risks abortion or weak foals. Brood mares weighing 1200 to 1500 pounds should not receive more than 15 to 16 pounds of alfalfa, best when mixed with other forage.
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Idaho
Oil Your Harness for Longer Life on Relay Day
Proper oiling of barnes extends life, Kale and mud on leather cause cracks, and maintenance should occur on relay day for best results.
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Barnes
Brave Girl Saves Father on Fraele Pass Boat
Edgar Bertram, a young traveler, shares a Alpine inn with a man and a girl smuggling goods into Italy by foot. The daughter endures freezing rope tension as her father slips, but a rescuer arrives as Bertram departs, leaving the girl forever marked by the courage shown that day.
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Edgar Bertram
Alps
Ing
Caine
Bertram
Pipe
Strom
Ber Soma
Axple
Italy
Baikrannet
Heraeit
Bertran
Mor
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American Press Association
Charlies W. Elliot
Walton
Yellowstone Lake
Boiling Spring
Yellowstone Park
Wyoming
American Humane Society
Wall Street
Buffalo
Edward
India
Delhi
George
Mary
Kus
Iad
South Africa
Royal House of
England
Twin Cities
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minesots State Labor Bureau
de Soto County
Fla
America
Stockholm
Opon
Harvard Stadium
Cambridge
Chicago University
United States
National Federation of Women’s Clubs
Congress
Federation
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Corporation of New York
John D. Rockefeller
Carnegie Corporation
Fronummster
Aes
Ameri
Y Emma Silvers
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