Luther Burbank Endowed by Carnegie for Horticultural Research
Washington reports Carnegie Institute trustees provide Luther Burbank a ten year endowment to continue plant hybridization work. Burbank, famed for spineless cactus and the Australian Star flower, notes alfalfa as the best forage plant and highlights new European and African plant varieties for California agriculture. He also supports Bulgarian, Bohemian, and Central European hops for high value in hop districts.
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Carnegie Institute
Washington
Luther Burbank
Luther Bortank
Sonoma County
California
Australia
Plain of
Australis
California Promotion Committee
Burbank
Mr. Burbank
West
Europe
Uganda
Africa
Barbank
New Alfalfa Scheme to Reclaim Western Lands
A Omaha dispatch reports Union Pacific and Burlington routes with U S Government backing plan to reclaim hundreds of millions of arid acres using a drought tolerant alfalfa from Southern Russia. Experimental stations will spread the seed along rail lines and irrigation demands are to be minimized. Spring work to begin.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
Burlington
United States
Russia
Missouri
Uranium Discovered By Hammond Near Moab Utah
Uranium found by F B Hammond on eight Moab claims ten miles south of Thompson Springs. Blanket vein one to four feet deep. Prof Tibbets of Salt Lake endorses the find as valuable though no nearby market exists. Ore to be shipped to New York for potential $4 per pound.
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Moab
F. B. Hammond
Thompson's Springs
New York
Tribune
Wedding Gift From 109 Prussian Cities Planned
A joint wedding gift to Crown Prince Frederick and Duchess Cecelia of Mecklenburg Schwerin will be a silver table service for 50 with more than 1000 pieces of original designs. The package, costing $125,000, symbolically represents Kent from each Prussian city dweller.
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Prussia
Frederick
Cecelia
Mecklenburg Schwerin
Kent
His Only Wish and a Dysentery Cure Testimony
Mr N J Lewis of Newberry Iida writes praising Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure after three years of dysentery and recounts the funeral of his child. He urges every household to keep the remedy and notes it is sold by Mrs H M Schneiders Co.
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N. J. Lewis
Newberry
Iida
Chamberlain
H. M. Schneiders & Co
Fragmented verse and prose snippets from a late 19th century miscellany
The page blends poems and prose from Ella Wheeler Wilcox and others with scattered verse about words, song, summer, and rural scenes. It includes short lyrical pieces by W. W. Mitchell and references to Kansas City Star and Atlanta Constitu tion with stray dialect lines and a mining location note.
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Marguerite Merington
Btu
Faytory
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
W. W. Mitchell
Kansas City Star
Love
LL Branton
Atlanta
Laddie
Charlo Sibley
Blanksur Sale
Skw| Tinel
Titcomr
Parker
Tatiana
Kanes
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Ou ‘Misaiaalj
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Dakota
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Ficial Directory
Theodore Rooteraly
Treasury
John W
Eliba Root
Navy
William Moody
Wynne
Interior
D. Hiveboock
Wees Op
Robert Raffioe
Sa A. Brostemer
Edgar Badler
W. H. Sweeney
J. H. Hough
McTerney
William Spinner
Attorne
Lew Kogera
John Pardy
D. E. Lewie
Alex Fraser
Phillip Paroni
J. Hena
Eureka County
Nevada
Sodrok OF Revenue
Sear Ene
Jie Balary
Prind ‘Teanster
Eureka
Wale
CS Ada
State of
Eniling Dee
A.D
J. I. Hoegh
C. Hamilton
THE
W. E. Griffin
Minin Scientitific Press
Bureka
W. P. Burnett
Axp
Epwarp
Crakk Ski
Prollast Kosanpztos Pp. O
Scientific Press
Market ST
San Francisco
Cal
Otto T. Williams
Atterney
Court House
Elko
LEW Rogers Law Y
Brown Hotel
Mr. I
C. Whitmore
Wells Fargo & Co
R. Herz & Bro
Reno Jewelers
Frederick Davis
P.o.bo
Elko, New
Thomas Rosselli
South Main Street
Singer Universal
H.C. McTarney
South Africa
Johannesburg
Eureka Shaving Parlor
Main Street
U. S
Agency For
Mutual Life of New York, Travelers’ Accident & Health Insurance Co
Atlas Fire of
London
Underwriters’ Fire Co
Manchester
England
Sewruxes
Elm
North Main Street
Eureka, Nevada
Babbitt
Sentinel Office
Nev
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