The Destroying Angel and the Silent Divorce Hint
In a theatre tale of love and danger Bara Law faces a tangle of suitors and a rumored curse. Whitaker contemplates marriage to a reforming actress while Ember probes missing men and dramatic misdirections. A widow’s future hinges on a fragile union and a cautious public divorce.
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Bin
Bara Law
Magic Whitaker
Mia
Teady
New York
Australis
Acrosa Nestoge
Martin Ember
Baber
Tne
Max
Ember
Jules Max
Broadway
Sara Law
Billy Hamilton
Drummond death by own action report questioned
Readers question the Drummond death by own action claim and its credibility. They ask whether the man is truly dead, or if the report may aim to create a death impression. They wonder if Drummond was a thief or a madman.
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Max
Ember
Drummond
Primitive Pueblo in Arizona Faces Harsh Desert Life
The Pueblo settlement Porhayn in the state, Arizona, described as a primeval village with about 1,500 people, sustains itself through agriculture despite extreme heat. The piece notes two distinct villages, harsh desert wastes, and a long history dating back to the sixteenth century. It also includes a humorous aside about daily life and a digression on a telephony anecdote and an old news figure.
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Porhayn
Arizona
Christian Herald
New Sorghum Varieties for Central and Southern Plains
United States Department of Agriculture reports four new sorghum varieties for trial in the Great Plains. Dwarf hegari and White milo show promising forage and drought tolerance. Improved feterita and dwarf feterita offer higher grain yields and earlier maturity. Bulletin 283 details field tests at Chillicothe Texas Avantillo Texas and Atways Kansas during 1933 to 1915, noting varying yields and potential local usefulness.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Central
Great Plains
Chilicothe
Texas
Africa
Oklahoma
Chillicothe
Avantillo
Tex
Blickhull Kafir
Atways
Kan
Southern
Department of Agriculture
Composted Manure For Garden Use War-Time Guide
A wartime guide outlines composted manure as a cheaper, better balanced fertilizer than fresh manure or commercial products. It details Missouri university methods, pile construction, layering with fresh manure and weeds, weed seed control, moisture management, and time to finish. It notes 10 to 15 tons of compost per acre and completion in six months to a year.
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University of Missouri
Day of Potato Digger and Hog Feeding Notes
The fragment mentions potato digging, tool quality, red clover for hogs, and pasturing young clover. It notes hogs fed on corn yield more profit, and milk vessels washing and hogging off corn at a Missouri experiment station. It reads like agricultural tips from a 19th or early 20th century publication.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Silo saves corn as owners harvest late crop
Fortunate silo owners will salvage much of the corn that would otherwise go to waste this season. Those with silos are relieved as late corn remains, urging harvest where possible since stalks will feed farm animals.
Cartagena the old port of the Americas and its fortifications
Cartagena stands as a picturesque old seat of power on the northern South American coast. The harbor town boasts gray walls red roofs and ancient castles that once served as the Indies headquarters and a fortress facing a wary fleet. The climate is hot and humid making the unacclimated seek cooler shade.
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Cartagena
Denness
Americas
South
Spain
America
Indies
Suc-H
New World
Meat Producers Get Large Share In Livestock Markets
Uncle Sam's experts released a year long study showing farmers receiving 54 to 85 percent of gross returns in centralized markets, with 8 to 33 percent to retailers and 2 to 9 percent to packers. Local sales yield smaller farm shares, while cooperatives now number 750 in 15 states. Over 1200 slaughtering and meat packing establishments operated in 1914 turning out over $1 billion in product.
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Uncle Sam
Central Sales Sring Most
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
C. J. Brand
Bureau of Markets
Central States
Great Central
United States
California
Pass billion dollar mark for U S lumber output
Census figures show U S lumber product value exceeded one billion dollars in 1916 with an estimated $1,022,082,000 despite a 5.3 percent drop in 1914. Wages rose 12.2 percent since 1908 while salary expenditures grew, even as industry earnings declined slightly.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Wis
Thendustry
China Friendly Message From Peking Attache Urges U S Investment
Commercial Attache Julean H Arnold reports China’s leaders, led by Li Yuan Hung, invite American capital and expertise to help build a new China. He notes U S trade has lagged despite rising imports from China and urges Americans to invest now to secure long term gains.
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Julean H. Arnold
Peking
China
America
Li Yuan Hung
United States
Americas
German women enter professions study up at many universities
Uncle Sam's consul at Nuremberg reports a surge in female university enrollments in the summer session of 191 numbered as 5,400, about double 1914. Women now make up 10.6 percent of students, with rising interest in mathematics, science, medicine, and other fields across Prussian and Bavarian universities despite World War I.
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Uncle Sam
Nuremberg
Berlin
Frankfort-on-Main
Marburg
Halle
Munich
Heidelberg
Tublagen
Gasoline From Gas A Rapid 1915 Industry Rise
The casing head gasoline industry expanded sharply in 1915 with 65.36 million gallons extracted from natural gas, up 58 percent from 1914. Unblended product sold at 7.9 cents per gallon, total market value $5.15 million, and 24.0 billion cubic feet of gas used. Plants grew from 86 to 414 and capacity from 170,353 to 232,336 gallons per day.
Hippopotamus to Footnote Beef Substitute in Louisiana Swamps
Western Africa reports a small hippo species proposed for cultivation as a beef substitute in Louisiana swamps. Copper consumption around 1,000,000 tons yearly implies the current supply could endure over two decades. In Maine, Mrs Willard’s golden wedding attire recalls her mother’s wedding dress from 74 years prior. An Arkansas bridge design allows any span to serve as the life span if River channel shifts.
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Western
Africa
Louisiana
Nathaniel Willard
West Freeman
Willard
International Sunday School Lesson Notes and Tech Findings
A patchwork of items describes an acting Sunday School director from Moody Bible Institute, a novel table lamp phonograph fusion with hidden mechanics, Africa's population figure, nickel plating on aluminum with hammering resistance, a microscopic nickel deposit study, and a reference to a boy named Holison who ran away from Detroit at age twelve.
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Africa
A. Holison
Detroit
ER. O. Bellers
Moody Bible Institute
Chicame
Waster
Let Us Not Judge Each Other On Temperance
A Sunday lesson reflects early church debates on Sabbath, idols, and temperance. Paul urges believers to act unto the Lord, avoid stumbling weaker brothers, and pursue righteousness peace and joy. Love overrides liberty, and temperance becomes a moral and economic issue guiding Christian conduct.
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Paul
Christ
Europe
Nethbor
Rome
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