Transatlantic airship plans and naval notes unfold
A survey of world news covers Dr. Paull P. Gans of Munich planning a five day transatlantic flight in the Suchard dirigible with sea water ballast. James V. Martin eyes Newfoundland to Ireland voyage with Harvard input. Britain’s new dreadnought barques up to 26,000 tons. Debate on capital punishment advances in New York and California. Princeton names Hibben as new president. Aviation squad gains four more officers. civic federation meets in March. US Navy to study German language through Mayflower officers.
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Atlantic Ocean
Walter Wellman
Mereln Vantman
Ts Nowise
Vankman
Suchard
Barbados
Florida
Gans Anys
Royal Aero Club of London
James V. Martin
Newfoundland
Ireland
Martin
Harvard Aeronautical Society
Harvard
Great Britain
England
JAP SWORD ETIQUETTE IN JAPAN AS DESCRIBED
Harper's Weekly recounts strict sword etiquette in Japan, detailing how aristocrats wore long and short blades, the handling rules, guest reception, and ritual observances. Hosts keep weapons at entrances, swords are shown with reverence, and signaling respect governs drawing and returning blades.
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Harper's Weekly
Birds as Incendiaries: Fire from Starling Flock in German Town
A German Electrotechnical Review tale describes how a hawk chasing starlings trapped between power lines and a lightning conductor caused a short circuit. Dry soil prevented earth grounding, forcing current to seek an outlet and ignite multiple houses. A scorched starling heap and an electrocuted hawk finally clarified the mystery.
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Germany
Wurttemberg
Fusarium Blight and Dry Rot of the Potato in Ohio
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin details Fusarium disease in potatoes as both field and storage trouble. It covers symptoms, stages from root attack to dry rot, infection depth, seed vitality, and handling to prevent spread, including guidance on manure use and farm planning to save time and labor.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Handling Infected Potatoes For Storage And Seed
The Kansas Farmer article advises inspecting potatoes before storage and avoiding badly infected seed in cellar storage. If infection is high, set aside seed and sell or use table potatoes early. For lightly infected crops, cut away diseased parts or store seed separately, with outdoor pit storage as a fallback. Planning reduces travel burdens and crop loss.
Organize to Protect Home Trade and Town Development
Town merchants are urged to revive any local business organization to lead a vigorous campaign for home trade protection and town development. A national movement supports keeping trade local, aided by rural merchants and the local press, to avoid long term losses from outsourcing.
Improvers of a Town Highlight Civic Character
A citizen who praises his town abroad. a well dressed, well behaved woman. a married mother raising a Rooseveltian brood. and a farmer who buys locally and sells produce in town. The excerpt sketches types shaping local life and population growth.
Town Improvers Promote Trade and Neatness
A compact tribute highlights residents who maintain clean sidewalks show windows and neat backyards along the railroad, praising merchants who advertise in the home paper and help attract trade to the town. Other unnamed improvers are also noted.
Buying Cat In A Bag And The Catalog Trust
A nattering essay questions why millions pay 250 million dollars yearly to catalog houses for pictures and promises without seeing the goods. It contrasts this with buying in bags or pokes, urging local merchants to probe why sensible buyers skip in person examination before paying.
Alfalfa No Lazy Man's Crop
A writer notes alfalfa requires good farming with dry, fertile soil and thorough care. It resists poor conditions, thrives with drainage, proper acidity, and fertilization, and must be cut sparingly first year while avoiding trampling. A Kansas farmer recalls past ease before modern demands.
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Saturday Evening Post
Winter Orchard Pruning for Dead Trees and Firewood
The article advises pruning dead branches after harvest to preserve vigor and firewood use. Prune on a dry, clear day, cut to live wood, seal large wounds with a linseed oil and white lead mixture, and avoid leaving long stubs that invite decay. It warns decay travels from cuts into trunks and weakens trees over years.
Road Dust Use In Manure Proposed By Ithaca Expert
Professor W. Cavanagh at Ithaca Experiment Station suggests road dust can be used to hold atmospheric and ab trogen in manure, applying the material to the stable gutter as part of a soil and waste management idea.
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W. Cavanagh
Ithaca
Silas Mudge Foils Mining Scam In Denver
A simple farmer, Silas Mudge, pursues a Denver mining scheme run by a promoter posing as heirs and a Pinkerton detective. The plot promises stock on fake Mudge land but collapses when Silas tests the papers and cash, securing $25,000 then walking away. The Mudge Mining stock crashes after the sham collapses.
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Ilas Mudgh
Colorado
Silas
Denver
Pinkerton
Mudge Mining Company
Howe
Mudge
Imap
Silas Mudge
Sins
Lila
Slings Mudge
L S
Siine
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Survey of the World
Joseph F. Scott
New York
Dix
Scott
Governor Dix
Johnson
California
William Creswell Deane
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
Edgar M. Cullen
Court of Appeals
Prac
New York State
Collins
Princeton
John Grier Hibsen
Princeton University
Peoria
Mme
Princeton Theological Seminary
University of Berlin
Chambersburg
Hibben
Hegal
Regular Army
Signal Corps
Army
Augusta
Army Aviaion School
Charles Dep. Chandler
Civic Federation
National Civic Federation
Washington
Pas American
Cardinal Gibbons
Taft
Federation
National Association of Newspaper Publishers
International Organization of Printers
Congress
Senator la Follette
Uncle Sam
American Navy Department
Leutenants
Niblack
United States
Japan
American Press Association
John A. Dix
John Grier Hibben
Woodrow Wilson
Department On Agriculture
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