Enchantress of the Slums at Word's Landing
In Word's Landing a once thriving river village decays after trade fades. Lizzie Jagist heads a struggling family while a romance with Joe Stanley and Jack Mann unsettles locals. A bold daylight robbery at Joe Bailey's store shocks the town, revealing fragile loyalties as Lizzie seeks a new life.
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Word's Landing
Metropolitan Newspanera
Joe Bailey
Ftereen
Jack Mann
Marla Simpson
Joe Stinley
Detroit
Coconut Palm Rightly Prized by Ceylon Natives
In Asia Magazine Mary Thizel notes palm coco palms along Ceylon shores are held above rare woods spices tea and jewels. The tree provides food oil sap wine rope mats fuel and more. Its fiber builds ropes and bedding while leaves light torches and thatch. A hollowed trunk serves as a coffin and cradle for infants.
Noted Balls and Church Bell Foundry Castings
A fragment notes the Church Bell foundry turning out about a dozen bells for American churches including New England sites. It mentions rosette bells sold to Roosevelts connections, with castings in Vancouver and Montreal by French and Mott foundries. The piece references global bell work and silver plated, costly special bells for aristocratic homes.
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Church Bell Foundry
America
Wagland
Church of the Advent
Boston
Groton School
Roosevelt
Westgynn University
Middleton
Conn
Vancouver
Montreal
Mott
Australia
Robert Mott
Anccessors
Great Britain
The History and Training of Homing Pigeons
A historic overview on the value of racing pigeons, their wartime roles, and training methods. It covers origins, notable organizations like the Washington Racing Pigeon Club, and guidance on gradual distance increases, weather considerations, and the care needed to develop flight endurance in young birds.
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United States
United States Department of Art Culture
Government Poultry Farm
Beltsville
Washington Racing Pigeon Club
Washington Club
Department of Agriculture
Warned to Eradicate Chicory Weeds From Farms
The United States Department of Agriculture warns farmers to eradicate chicory from fields as a weed. It spreads from Virginia to Michigan, appears with blue flowers and thick roots, and can be controlled by cutting below soil, sowing intercrops, or continuous grazing. Historical notes: chicory came to Massachusetts from Holland in 1785 and is mainly a coffee substitute elsewhere.
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Nat Chivary
Europe
Yaya
United States
Virginia
Department of Agriculture
Cheory
Massachusetts
Holland
Ehiecory
United States Department of Agriculture
Self loading grain truck invention featured
The Scientific American describes the self loading grain truck by J. A. Kloystad of Hope N. J. as a hand truck designed for farms, cars, and warehouses to load itself quickly. It notes a slide elevation and loading position, enabling transport with or without the load.
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Scientife American
J. A. Kloystad
Hope
N. 1
Tuberculosis of Chickens and Its Spread in Poultry
The article explains that chicken tuberculosis is common and caused by a bird-adapted tubercle bacillus. Transmission to mammals is rare, though hogs are more susceptible than cattle. Affected chickens waste away, show emaciation, and lesions appear mainly in liver, spleen, and intestines, with cheesy masses signaling infection. Detection methods include tuberculin tests developed at Colorado Agricultural College.
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George H. Glove
Colorado Agricultural College
Hairy Vetch Advised as Best Winter Cover Crop
The U.S. Department of Agriculture lauds hairy vetch as an excellent winter cover crop for the eastern United States. It outperforms red clover where red clover underperforms, offering green manure benefits and soil protection across the region.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Haley Veteh
United States
Farm Poultry: Reducing Losses Through Better Care and Stock
The United States poultry industry loses about eight percent of eggs due to improper handling from farm to market. Using pure breeds like Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds, better care, cleaned nests, confinement of males, frequent collection, and proper storage can prevent most losses. Marketing eggs by cash value rather than case count and packing attractively also helps.
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Tt Ja
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Grain Ration For Pigeons By Variety And Mix
Several grain mixtures suit feeding pigeons with equal parts by weight of small corn hard wheat peas and vetch plus about five percent hemp and millet during molting. Substitutes include peanuts dried garden peas cowpeas oats buckwheat Egyptine corn and milo maize with small portions of bread rice rape millet canary or sunflower seed for variety. Peas are costly but vital during breeding. soybeans are not well liked. Tender greens like clover alfalfa lettuce plantain and chickweed can be fed but are not essential.
TURKEYS IN CONDITION FOR MARKET IN TEN DAYS
Turkeys should not be confined for long. If fed properly while allowed to run free, they can be kept in condition for marketing within ten days.
Best arrangement of hens for higher fertility and vigor
Avet explains mating a single male to six to eight American females or ten to twelve Mediterranean females yields higher fertility and more vigorous chickens than using fewer males.
Road Building A National Drive For Better Roads
A movement for better roads argues farmers can ship directly to towns within fifty miles, boosting profits and cutting living costs. Merchants gain from new supply sources and faster delivery via motor trucks, while perishable goods are saved from railroad delays. Local authorities are urged to act now before rivals advantage accrues. Southern Good Roads.
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Raibvey Express
Heven
Haul on unimproved roads in early data
In 1906 the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture calculated an average cost per ton mile of 22 7/8 cents from inquiries to about 2,800 county correspondents. The average haul was 9.4 miles, with less than 8 percent of roads improved, indicating the cost of hauling on unimproved roads.
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Bureau of Statiatioes
Department of Agriculture
Farmers' Mud Tax Campaign for 360 Million Road Plan
Alabama good roads advocates urge a 12 year program costing 360 million to build roads. They warn the mud tax lands on farmers, yet argue faster travel yields higher farm values and benefits beyond dollars. Better roads promise better schools and markets, with improved farm prosperity as the goal.
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Alabama
Dolara-And-Coutaway
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