Navy to survey world news with winter cruise plan
Secretary Daniels promotes a grand winter Atlantic squadron voyage to the Mediterranean. The fleet, larger than the 1907 world cruise, includes Wyoming Florida Arkansas Delaware and more, starting Jan 1 to Gibraltar, for broadening enlisted knowledge and offering shore leave in key ports. A museum of voices project follows.
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Daniels
United States Navy
Mediterranean
Wyoming
Florida
Arkansas
Delaware
North Dakota
Utah
Vermont
Louisiana
Michigan
New Hampshire
South Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Nebraska
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Minnesota
Connecticut
Itaho
Kansas
Gibraltar
Aton
Stay in Town and Help Your Community
A persuasive exhortation urges residents outside big cities to stay put and boost local growth. It argues city life erodes opportunity, praises small towns for higher salaries in stores, and stresses recruiting city newcomers, improving roads, and civic pride to benefit merchants and residents.
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New York
Chicago
Quote from Bryan on local vanity and a sewing circle visit
A fragment quotes William Jennings Bryan praising a visit to Tuckahoe and a remark about mosquitoes. It mentions an old resident and a line about hiring a newspaper, then humorously contrasts with a ladies sewing circle from a New York Tribune note.
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Innsenila
Orm
William Jennings Bryan
Tuckahoe
New York ‘Tribune
Unknown Philosophical Note on Self Seeking Truth
The fragment hints at a meditation on the soul that seeks self knowledge without hindrance. It speaks of candor and a straight path advancing toward a perfected day, ending abruptly with an incomplete phrase.
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Fenelon
Crop rotation as a foundation of farm organization
Frank App of the New Hampshire Experiment Station explains that soil fertility, livestock subsistence, labor economy, and farming type hinge on a cropping plan or rotation. He notes historical shifts from continuous cropping to rest and fallow, and from summer fallow to cultivated crops, shaping agricultural development.
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Frank App
New Hampshire Experiment Station
Orchard and range feed for chicks in old homestead plan
Orchard fine for chicks with access to gree feeds, bugs, worms and safe night roosting. A ration of mixed grains fed in litter aims to develop robust bodies. plan suggests keeping poultry on homestead land to maximize growth and health.
Little Work May Save Cows in Kansas Pasture
Kansas industrialist urges quick action to ground fence wires around pasture to prevent cow losses from lightning strikes. A short repair effort could protect the herd and reduce damage.
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Lobbing
Kansas
Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers in Egypt
Senior Berean Sunday School lesson centers on Joseph's emotional disclosure to his brothers in Egypt. The speech from Judah stems from love and anxiety, followed by Joseph's tender explanations, the brothers' fear, and God's overruling plan to preserve lineage. The narrative concludes with a warm reunion and Joseph urging immediate reunion with their father in Goshen.
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Judah
Joseph
Pharaoh
Tissot
Juedas
Christ
Egypt
Hhis House
Goshen
Kesem
Lower
Delta
Pasoft
Sufte-Henneh
Cairo
Benjamin
Chel
Seasonal Dairy Notes From an Old Almanac Guide
Practical advice on cow milking and feed etiquette. It stresses milder handling during milking, feeding by need not quantity, and using dry Timothy hay and bran to aid digestion. It warns against overfeeding, suggests staged hay portions, and notes benefits to cow health and milk yield with careful management. American Calfthater
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Timothy Hay
Humus Conservation and Tillage Effects on Pastures
A historic note explains that continuous tillage reduces humus in soil, causing decay and poor land health. It warns that frequent air exposure, lack of rest periods, and insufficient long-term manure dressings accelerate humus loss, reducing soil vitality and favoring pasture rotation to prevent decline.
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Ge Duc
Rene
Dumas
Kentucky’s Gambler Deception Sparks Hanging Plot
The piece recounts Eliza Skemp’s campaign to pardon Joe Bates in a frontier Kentucky territory amid a planned public hanging. A deceptive clock tampering scheme by Skemp and allies delays the execution, as townsfolk push for a decisive punishment and governor’s involvement to restore order and deter future law evasion.
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Kentucky
New Orleans
Eliza Skemp
Sin
Nobuly
Thunder
Kentucky Bnt
Eliza
Ewan
Joe Bates
Welock
Liz
Bates
Julie
Hur
Tower Dock
Lie
Sovidlie
Papper
Ine
Lis
Bile
Micky
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International Congress of Agriculture
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Taylor
Geud
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London
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Department of Agricultural Extension
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New York University
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Union Theological Seminary
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Washington Steinly
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