Americans Eat More Beef Than British Despite Tales Of Old England
Washington says Americans lead the world in meat consumption for 1909 with per capita figures: beef 80 pounds, veal 7, pork 6?, mutton and lamb 6, goat 13. The English consume 26 pounds of mutton annually while beef makes up 47 percent of their diet, and Germans eat 113 pounds total with pork favored in both France and Germany. The report urges expanded sheep farming to diversify meat sources amid rising prices, calling for greater demand for mutton and lamb especially among smaller families.
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Washington
Johnny Bull
Old England
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriq Iunture
United States
England
Little
Isle
Germany
France
Bureau
Annual Picnic of the Eagles Lodge at Leland
The Eagles lodge holds its annual picnic at Leland on Sunday August 10 with a special M N E train departing 7:30 AM from the depot to Provedent where small boats will be provided. The lodge baseball team will face Leland in a lively game and attendees may bring dinner or eat at the hotel where provisions will be arranged.
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Eagles’ Lodge
Leland
Provendent
Eagles
State Powder Factory urged by Washington farmers
Seattle, Aug. 6. Organizations of farmers across Washington sent a petition to Governor Lister urging immediate action to pass legislation for a state powder factory. A $60,000 appropriation was made previously, but farmers say more legislation is needed to make the plant effective. They claim the plant would cut powder costs for stump and rock blasting from $13–$14 per hundred pounds to about $5–$6.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Lister
School Activity Expands Teaching Materials in County
County Commissioner Lee Hornsby reports state library sent 50 approved books for grades one through eight to every county. Materials are colorful and loaned for home reading. Per capita primary money rises to 7.41. Bowers Harbor to build a one room schoolhouse and Williamsburg a three room building. County normal enrollments open with priority to graduates and experienced teachers. class limited to 20. Next teachers exam August 14 and 15 at the court house. A uniform text list is being used. about a quarter of schools have adopted it.
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Lee Hornsby
State Library
Bowers Harbor
Williamsburg
County Normal
Supt
L. L. Tyler
Miss Pepple
County Board of Examiners
Regatta Plans Drive Wequetong club event August 22
C E Case of Benzonia arrives with a speedy new boat for the Wequetong regatta to be held Friday August 22. The event promises diverse races including cruiser motor boats sail boat row boat tub races log rolling and tug of war with dancing and decorated grounds. Members and out of town guests are expected to participate and programs will be issued soon.
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Wequetong Club
C. E. Case
Benzonia
Thompson
Mary Lee
Lind Charged with Mission to Aid Mexican Peace
President Wilson will wait for a report from his special representative ex Governor Lind of Minnesota en route to Mexico City. Lind will have a free hand to aid influential Mexicans seeking peace and will report conditions to the president as he discovers them, guiding future steps.
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Washington
Lind
Minnesota
Mexico City
Wilson
Mexico
Sulzer Campaign Funds Scrutinized by New York Committee
Frederick Caldwell refused to answer questions as the Frawley committee pressed its probe into Governor Sulzer's campaign finances. Attorney Richards presented deposit slips from Mutual Alliance Trust Co. showing $12,000 in deposits between October 5 and November 12, while Sulzer’s sworn statement tallies contributions at $5,460.
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Richards
New York
Sulzer
Fuller and Gray
Wall Street
Frawley Legislative
Frederick Caldwell
Fuller & Gray's
Mutual Alliance Trust Co
Sunday School Picnic Parade and Track Day Details
August Sth marks the county Sunday schools big picnic with a 9 30 parade starting Cass and Washington. March goes Cass to Wighth Highth Division Front to picnic grounds with each school joining near their church. After dinner a five inning baseball game for married and unmarried men then more games. Mitts bats balls urged. 2 30 track events with prizes including a Holy Land wall map for the winning school.
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Cass and
Washington Streets
Cass
Wighth
Highth
Division
Holy Land
Banking by Mail Expands Postal Savings Reach
Postmaster General Burleson announced August 15 changes to promote parcel post with a 20 pound weight limit and a reduction in package transport charges. On the same date banking by mail will be added to the postal savings system, enabling depositors in remote districts to access benefits. The reform has been under consideration for some time.
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Washington
Burleson
Prodigal Money: Keep Wealth Home to Aid Local Towns
Sermon argues that spending money outside the hometown harms local economies. Prodigality extends beyond riotous living to mail order habits and outsourcing purchases. Each dollar sent away tests community circulation and undermines local businesses, urging residents to invest at home.
School reform and health concerns in state districts
An old soldier and his family may not hold school office or vote unless they are parents of children on the census. The piece argues for better school ventilation and lighting, noting many wear glasses, and promotes sanitary drinking fountains to cut disease. urges trained teachers and doctors for child safety.
Bermuda naval base move aims to protect trade
London reports Britain has exaggerated fears about Bermuda. The navy plans to repair and modernize defenses, station five cruisers there, and insist no threat to the Monroe Doctrine. The action is described as safeguarding maritime trade anticipated to grow with the Panama Canal opening.
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Panama Canal
London
Bermuda
Great Britain
England
Take Troops From Calumet Governor Orders Awaited
Calumet news reports Brigadier General Abbey moving to withdraw militiamen from the strike district within days. A definite order from Governor Ferris is expected soon as the military board meets to decide withdrawals. Sheriff Cruze, under county authorization, gathers 600 deputies to join 1,000 deputies guarding mine property after troop withdrawal.
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Calumet
Abbey
Ferris
County Board of ‘Supervisors
Cruze
Houghton County
Four Areas Approved for Monongahela National Forest
The National Forest Reserve Commission approves four areas for purchase on the Ohio watershed, including the Monongahela. The purchases total 113,909 acres, boosting eastern forest lands to 713,415 acres. About 300,000 acres were added in 1912 and 400,000 in 1913.
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Washington, Arg
Ohio River
National Forest Reserve Commission
Monongahela
Ohio
Pittsburgh ‘Flood Commission
General Hsu Victorious At Chin-kiang Garrison
Northern forces under General Hsu defeated the Chin kiang garrison and forced terms for government restoration. Late at night the garrison attacked northern troops after they moved to Changtse river positions, sinking several junks and killing about two hundred northerners. Chinking lies in Kiangsu province, roughly 85 miles northeast of Nanking.
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Shanghai
Hsu
Chinkiang
Hsus
Changtse
Chingking
Kiangsu
Nanking
Health Exhibits Tour Promotes Public Welfare In Michigan
Dr R L Dixon head of the state board of health leads a 24 day public health special tour of Michigan lower peninsula. Three exhibition coaches and a Pullman carry charts models and moving pictures illustrating tuberculosis sanitation wells and ventilation. About 60 communities will be visited with stays from hours to days in larger cities.
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Lansing
State of Michigan
R. L. Dixon
State Board of Health
Lower Peninsula
Dixon
New Feature Adopted Promotes Local Convention Prep
Seven autos carried thirty three members of the Committee of Twenty-One to Hotel Neahwanta for a supper and meeting. The group planned a basket picnic at the baseball park for August 15 with a baseball game and other amusements, and discussed the postmasters’ convention to be held August 27 to 29. Delegates will need transport to Neahwanta for a fish dinner. Grangers from five counties plan a big rally at the ball park on August 27 with four prominent speakers.
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Hotel Neahawanta
Renner
T. H. Sherman
Frank E. Lahym
United Comercial
A. W. Friedrich
Jnc. G. Straub
Friedrich
Neahtawanta
Ball Park
Boxing Enacted In Wisconsin Law With Three Commissioners
Wisconsin adopts a boxing statute modeled after New York's Frawley law. A three member commission enforces the rules, licensing clubs for 3000 dollars, and requiring licensed referees, yearlong leases for venues, ten round bouts, eight year minimum, and mandatory physician and referee examinations with accountability for accidents.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
New York
County teachers face new state exam including agriculture
The prospecting teachers of the county will sit the state fall examination August 14 to 16 with agriculture added to the list of subjects. The eighth grade already tested agriculture and now teachers must pass on it too. Oral language and arithmetic tasks will continue, with topics chosen from a long list and answered orally. Mental arithmetic and rapid thinking will be tested by oral responses rather than written work.
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State Powder Factory
Will Aid
Court House
Minnesota Statesman
Peace Party
Republic
Naval Base
National Forest
Great Watershed
Michigan
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