Minnesota Experiment Measures Feed Costs for Beef and Butter
The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station reports on feed costs and outputs for steers and cows. Four steers fed 100 pounds each of grain hay and roots gained 24.19 pounds, while four cows produced 12.04 pounds of butter with the same feed. Steers cost 2 cents per pound of gain. cows yielded 255.48 pounds of butter fat at 3.97 cents per pound. The note discusses type differences, seed wheat selections, and winter work, urging seed-saving and careful autumn tasks to improve crops and farming efficiency.
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Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station
Yale's Albert H. Sharpe A versatile Yale athlete and star
Yale's Albert H. Sharpe of Chicago is presented as a leading all around athlete. The multi sport standout has played left half back for football, pitched and played first base, rows, plays basketball and tennis, and captained the varsity team. He is in Yale Medical School and plans athletic pathology work after graduation. He weighs 180 pounds, stands 6 feet 2 inches, and is 21 years old.
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Yale
Albert H. Sharpe
Chicago
Sharpe
Princeton
Young Poe
Harvard
New London
Chautauqua Assembly
Chautauqua Lake
N. Y
America
Yale Medical School
Sleep Habits of Sloths Bats and Ant Eaters
Observations describe sloths hanging upside down by hooked claws without effort in tropical American forests. Bats also suspend themselves, notably Goulds fruit eating bat which hangs by one hind foot and wraps its wings as a roof while resting, using shoulder membranes to shed rain and shelter its nose in fur.
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Tropical America
Amazons
Tropics
Gould
Australia
Palmistry defense and low neck dinners in comical hearings
A Chicago Journal tale features a defendant who trusts palmistry to prove innocence, while a magistrate jokes about soap and juries. A Boston Herald anecdote then follows about a cook job seeker asking if households eat in low neck dresses, critiquing modern domestic expectations.
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Boston Herald
The Dog's Watchfulness Examined
A reflection from Forest and Stream by B. Waters argues that a dog's vigilance is instinctive self preservation rather than pure devotion to humans. The piece notes dogs guard their own homes and lairs, and bark at strangers from their own perspective.
Rumor Contradicts Between Afloat and Ashore
In a playful exchange the speakers debate whether the Atlantic liner is afloat or ashore with a warning that rumors may say otherwise. The chatter highlights uncertainty about the vessel’s status and the persistence of conflicting signals among observers.
County fair tale and prize carrot win headline
A farmer returns home to boast that his 15 year neighbor Jim Johnson Jones took the blue ribbon for best carrot at the county fair and jokes about a presidential bid. An insert promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Care and DeWitt’s Little Early Risers from Grover’s City drug store with brief notes on the Lehigh Canal youth.
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Waal
Jim
Charlotte
James Johnson Jones
Jim Johnson
United States
Grover
City Drug Store
DeWitt
City
E. C. Dewitt
ACO
Chicago
Grover’s City Drug Store
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Kansas
the Sporting World
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M. W. Cor
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Currys
E. J. Curry
South Centre Street
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McNult
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Watchmaker
Centre Street
County Fair News
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Jo—Joel
Noap
Lehigh Canal
New Hope
Mauel Chunk
McMenamin’s
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Great Summe
GEO. P. Bible
A. M
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Kaufer Club
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Velvet
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Schweitzer
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Druag
Ehigh Valley Railroad
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Mauch Chunk
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Boston
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Potts Ville
Mt. Carmel
Sheandoah
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New York City
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Oneida Junction
Harwood
Humboldt Road
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Hazleton Junction
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Harwood Road
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Beaver Meadow Road
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