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Newspaper
Filer Record
Location
Filer, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1919
Page
2
A early 20th century speaker condemns commercial influence on the Boy Scouts, asserting the movement’s service spirit must remain free of gain. He warns against individuals who blur the line between service and business profit, urging personal integrity over moneyed motives.
Twenty eight scout troops assigned to Minneapolis by L. & Dale to care for birdfeeding stations in 914 parks. Dale notes feeding should follow storms or severe weather and warns against overfeeding. He cites 1,800 city scouts ready to protect birds and hopes to raise public awareness of bird life protection in parks.
City plans living memorials to Theodore Roosevelt with trees planted by Boy Scout troops. Thirty trees will form a grove to be planted and bronze tablets set at the site. The main troupe and 120 scouts will sign up at headquarters and each troop will plant an oak bearing a bronze inscription commemorating Arbor Day 1910 for Theodore Roosevelt.
In Wheeling West Virginia about 100 Scouts cultivated war gardens and secured a fifth of the county’s Liberty Bond subscriptions. They distributed the President's Birthday address and helped with a book drive while distributing care items and clothing for influenza victims.
The statue honoring Kara Cornell, founder of Cornell University, was unveiled during semicentennial exercises. Sculptor Ferman A. McNell of New York completed the work.
The Kansas City Star recalls a dying humor about a late horse doctor known for examining horses and joking with autos. A funeral procession followed as a landlord recounts Dee, a kindly man who once prowled among wagons and hearses, meeting his end when a standing vehicle startled him.
The report estimates beet and cane sugar crops totaling about 1,007,000 tons for the season. Cane sugar is projected around 498,000 tons, beet sugar about 740,100 tons, with figures near or below five year averages pending revision by the Bureau of Crop Estimates.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture, the report shows cholera losses down and control efforts thriving. In 1918, 5.5 million hogs inoculated with serum and 2,200 infected hogs cleaned and disinfected under patrols by about 165 federal veterinarians. Dept representatives visited over 15,000 farms to inspect outbreaks and apply preventive measures. The death rate for swine from disease dropped to 42.1 per 1,000, about 4 percent, the lowest on record.
The Department of Agriculture reports hog cholera control boosting swine raising across the South. Georgia led gains, reducing losses and expanding production and shipments by 1918. Similar progress occurred in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with growers increasing hog numbers and improving types.
Livestock guidance urges more calves and purebred grade cows. Salt and proper care prevent flesh loss in dairy herds. Calves die from scours each year. Silage supports cattle feeding. one hundred tons sustains 25 cows for 300 days. A silo is economical for farms with ten or more cattle.
The article recalls Capt John Smith’s romance filled career and his frontier explorations. It notes his naming of New England and his early mapping of the southwestern Maine coast from Penobscot to Sagadahock. Smith’s travels include Nova Scotia and the St John river, with Penobscot Bay and surrounding shores described in period prose.
A short excerpt discusses how nerves tire quickly, notably the smell nerves, heat and cold nerves, and the heart nerves, while hearing and night nerves endure heavy workloads. It extols an early morning country ride as a source of refined pleasure, urging a fresh May day ride with a responsive horse enjoying dawn scents.
The seven days king Mac apleno also Thomas Apielia led a revolt against the Duse of Arcos in Naples on July 7 and was slain July 1. Runic letters, called Runes, were believed by Teutonic tribes to possess magical power and were used as fate signs. Christian teachers discouraged runes as heathen superstition.
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