Dan Wilkes a Thoroughbred trotter with notable lineage
Dan Wilkes, a dark bay road horse at 1s.3 hands and 125 pounds, shows a 2:40 gait and derives from Garnet Wilkes and Nettie T. on both sides. Garnet Wilkes has sired 30 plus standard performers with speeds from 2.0834 to 2:30. Kittie Wilkes is a full sister, and a 1906 colt won first prize at the Jefferson County Fair. Terms include $10 to insure to stand and suck. mares removed from county forfeits insurance and the seller disclaims accidents liability.
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Z. W
Ganzoo
Gambetta Wilkes
Ilion
Herod
Maude S
Firefly
South Third Street
A.C. Wisecarver
Dan Wilkes
Garnet Wilkes
Onward
Harold
Pilot Jr
Nettie T
Grey John
Grey Dick
Stonewall Jackson
Ola Layde
Darwin
Green
Bashaw
Kittie Wilkes
Jefferson County
Jumbo Nos 16925 27767 Recorded in draft books
Pedigree details filed on application for Jumbo horses recorded in New Percheron and French Draft books with numbers 16925 and 27767.
Pioneer Rail Anchor Company Incorporation Notice
Notice states The Pioneer Rail Anchor Company is incorporated in Fairfield Iowa with principal business in manufacturing and selling rail anchors and related devices. Capital stock set at 10000 payable on call, 20 year duration, four director board, maximum indebtedness 6666.66, stockholders private property exempt from corporate debts.
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Pioneer Rail Anchor Company
Fairfield
Iowa
Board of Directors
Gleaned From Our Exchanges on Farm Planning
A memo plan helps farmers track tasks and prioritize work when time is scarce. The note notes optimism about improving weather and sunshine, warning pessimists that wet cold weather may affect corn growers financially if delays occur. The piece urges maintaining a small task book to prevent neglect.
Grower argues year round strawberry transplanting possible
An old strawberry grower says plants may be transplanted any time if soil moisture is adequate. Season is not important, though his preference is for spring planting.
Pumpkins Put To Work In Corn Fields For Feed
Farmers find pumpkins boost field value by feeding shores and lambs. They serve as ver mifuge and act as an appetizer at a season when feed is scarce. The note highlights pumpkins as a versatile supplementary feed beyond corn.
Oleo supporters push to compete with butter
A light debate over oleomargarine pits supporters against butter makers. A farmer jokes that his corn is nearly knee high, while another boasts Chicago corn stands even higher in comparison.
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Chicago
Cutworms Trouble in Sod Ground Hinders Planting
Farmers note cut worms work best in favorable sod conditions making them hard to head off. Related planting strategies emerge as a key preventive measure to reduce future cutworm damage.
Weedy Corn Field Tests Generalship After Wet Spell
A prolonged five week wet spell threatens corn tillage and demands strong management to reclaim a weed infested field. The passage stresses how extended wet weather can upend good farming theory and require decisive action to avoid failure.
Excessive rains shift losses from corn to hay and other crops
The text notes that heavy rains cause corn losses while hay and other crops benefit or recover from the excess moisture. It highlights a regional impact on agriculture with contrasting outcomes for different crops due to the weather.
Know How Key To Farm Profit Says Ohio Farmer
An Ohio farmer describes follow up advice from the Department of Agriculture after rain mud is tamed by a split-log drag. He cleared $200 last year and the experts forecast $2,000 yearly profit, illustrating that good know how is the best fertilizer.
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Ohio
Department of Agriculture
Caring for Colts Feet In Winter And Spring
Colts’ feet often grow crookedly in winter and spring with uneven hoof growth. This causes tendon strain and lameness. Trim and level hooves before turning out to pasture to prevent permanent blemishes. Do not dub them off too …
Footcare note on hooves to preserve natural shape
The guidance emphasizes keeping a natural hoof foot shape and avoiding cutting away the bars of the hoof while leveling the soles. It advocates conservative trimming to maintain proper balance and function.
Dry Farming Explained and Its Use in Moisture Conservation
The article defines dry farming as plowing and repeated surface harrowing to keep the soil open and saturated during rain and snow, preventing evaporation. It cites the amateur gardener as an illustration and urges farmers in drought prone areas to adopt dry farming to conserve moisture and protect crops.
American beef reshapes Britain market and policy
The Times calls on Britons to eat American dressed beef as American packers open branch houses in London, challenging traditional English slaughtered meat. The piece notes ten major London shops are American owned and warns England cannot be self sufficient in food, relying on U S beef links for peace and trade.
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Old England
England
Great Britain
American Enteprise
the Times
London
London Times
Times
United States
Japan
France
Germany
The
Hague
Omaha
Shoot Fish With Arrows
Natives of the islands in the south sea are experts at catching fish with a bow and arrow. The method is difficult because the water's reflections must be accounted for.
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South Sea
First Meeting Sparks Old Romance Recalled
A young man and woman argue over memory of their first meeting as he clings to a remembered scene from years ago while she insists the encounter meant nothing. Their flirtation shifts between playful teasing and awkward truth-telling in a car on a sunny drive.
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Europe
Molly Frost
Annette
Smiths
Howardson
Meeting Remembered In Veiled Confession
A man confronts a woman about their past meeting while she clutches her veil and admits uncertainty. He accuses her of smiling through forgetfulness and demands clarity, exposing tension between nerve and memory in a Chicago Daily News segment.
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Tommy
Chicago Daily News
Age and Ambition in Napoleon Career
A historical anecdote recalls Napoleon’s claim that one grows old quickly on the battlefield and a clever lawyer who gained a high post by replying to the emperor with his own remembered age at Marengo. The exchange highlights quick wit over youth in power.
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Napoleon
Paris
Directory
Monsieur
Marengo
Please Say Please Amusing Dispatch From War Tale
Gen Smith-Dorrien tells of a South African War moment when an orderly delivered dispatches from Lord Kitchener in casual language. The general asked to be ready in two hours and to say please next time, prompting Kitchener to learn the line and repeat it back to the officer in a humorous exchange.
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Smith-Dorrien
Lord Kitchener
Rivers and their global roles in navigation and fertility
The text ranks rivers by size usefulness and impact. It highlights the Amazon as large but less useful due to geography, the Mississippi Mississippi Missouri as the longest system and highly useful with urban growth along its banks, and the Nile as long but less navigable with fertility from flood deposits defining the region.
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Amazon
Mississippi-Missouri
Nile
Inventor of Envelopes and their Early Use
The envelope, a simple yet modern device, traces its origin to a Brighton paper maker Brewes about 100 years ago. It took until around 1850 for envelopes to become common, as letters were once written on one side, folded, sealed with wafer or wax, and addressed on a blank side.
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Brighton
Brewes
Germany to Have New Coin With Perforation
Germany plans a six cent quarter mark coin and will distinguish it from the 20 pfennig coin by perforation. The Welt Spiegel showed perforated English coins used in an East African colony, a Hamburg humorist urged holes for easy stringing of coins.
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Germany
Welt Spiegel
England
Hamburg
Professor Phelps Uses Parade To Explain Logic
Passing Illustration recounts Yale English professor Billy Phelps remarking on the troops marching past his class. He jokes that the scene shows “the undistributed middle” as the Second company governor's foot guard parades with band and colors.
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Arthur Deerin Call
Billy Phelps
Yale
Governor's Foot Guard
Married in a buggy in the street in Rochester
John Creslip of Rochester and Ivy Davis of Beaver were wed in a street buggy with Rev. Harvey L. Grimes officiating by an arc light. No witnesses initially. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hayes later agreed to witness as Creslip and Davis rode away.
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John Creslip
Rochester
Ivy Davis
Beaver
Harvey L. Grimes
Thomas Hayes
Creslip
Miss Davis
Mr. Grimey
Careful manners praised at Mrs Tiptop's restaurant
Conversation between Careful Reared and Small Son about dining at Mrs Tiptop's, noting manners and gratuities. The son recalls finishing dishes, scraping saucers, and being served more without prompting as the waiter silently complied.
Keen in Business Tablets Found in Babylon Ruins
A Kansas City Star report notes 5000 year old Babylon tablets show lawyers real estate men and craftsmen in old Mesopotamia. Eugene F Ware displays a clay tablet in Paris Louvre style noting a jewelry real estate sale with a 20 year guarantee.
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B. C
Eugene F. Ware
Kansas City
Ware
Kansas City Star
Europe
Louvre
Paris
Nippur
Babylonia
Tigris
Euphrates
Bel
Mr Ware
Baylonians
Henry Towlinson
Preventing Round Shoulders in Daily Posture
The text urges readers to avoid slouching by standing against a door jamb each morning to check posture and by walking around with a broom or stick under the arms to lift the chest. It recommends deep breathing and keeping the chest up as simple, continual preventive practices.
Last Year's Linen Suit Gets Parisians Color Trim
Suggestions to refresh a white linen suit for summer include adding colored cretonne trimming, a new set of cuffs, or an adjustable shawl collar. Renovate linen skirts and coat suits by changing buttons, such as replacing large pearl buttons with cretonne covered molds.
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Paris
Whose Fault and the Burden of Self Reflection
A reflective meditation on human fault and the tendency to blame others. The text argues most troubles spring from our own failures and selfish thought, urging self-improvement before judging others. It emphasizes lifting selfishness to reduce interpersonal conflicts and tensions.
Cleaned Out in Old Rome
A compact note evokes Walker and James in a playful, fragmentary scene. The text hints at tramps in ancient Rome and bath imagery, with a wry aside about Rita and a toy town.
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Walker
Rome
James
Rita
Witty quotes on character and money from New York Press
The New York Press offers sharp observations on honesty and greed. A man who boasts may steal to seem agreeable while a saver with bad habits can marry. A man exaggerates character when lending a dollar only half. A coquettish girl seems to spot a man around a corner but not when he stands before her.
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New York Press
Salt a Necessity Across Civilizations and Nature
A famed scientist notes that salt is essential to all races, civilizations and even wild animals. He explains salt's presence in the body and its use in flavoring meat via ashes containing saltpetre. The article highlights salt’s universal appeal from tears to taste and hunting bait.
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Central
Africa
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