Fox Skin Lawsuit Draws Dutchess County Interest
A local fox skin dispute pulls in two hunters, two farmers, four lawyers, and a justice of the peace as it heads toward higher courts. Meade, who killed the wounded fox on De Witt Clinton Flanagan’s woods, won the pelt under an old rule that a wild animal shot by hunters belongs to them, and a colonial statute allowing seizure of a predator invading enclosed land backs the verdict.
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Dutchess County
Supreme Court
Poughkeepsie
New York Evening Sun
Reynard
de Witt Clinton Flanagan
Congress
L. C. Hart
Edward Meade
Meade
Rag Doll Holds Ground in Toy World Says Industry Chief
Homer Stephens of the American Toy Exhibitors notes rag dolls remain premier in children’s play amid new toys. He cites record rag doll production and rising demand while predicting a surge in inexpensive phonographs and juvenile engineering toys for all ages.
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Homer Stephens
American Toy Exhibitors, Inc
New York Evening Telegram
Stephens
Annual party talk at Uniform Bank lodge raises memories
A young Uniform Bank K. of P. member plans the lodge’s annual party while his mother recalls the past. She notes how his father attended frequent lodge events in earlier times and jokes about drink names before Prohibition in Indiana.
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Uniform Bank
K. of P. Lodge
Competitive drilling and oil boundaries in Wells region
In Oi Wells competition over leases creates rapid drilling near boundaries. Neighbors fear offsetting wells across borders, as oil can easily spill to adjacent plots. Ray Morris notes owners drill borders with haste to keep ahead, while interior wells are often left alone or drilled cautiously.
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Ray Morris
Birds for Winter Food Help Save Orchards
Birds provide winter lunches for thousands of caterpillars that would damage orchards, says American Forestry Magazine. Regular bird presence reduces codling moths in bark flake tests. forests in southern New England cover about 46 percent of land, up from 41 percent in 1910 and 26 percent in Connecticut in 1820.
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American Forestry Magazine
New England
American Forestry Association of
Washington
Connecticut
Mayflower Flag Anomaly Shows Union Jack Misstep
The Manchester Guardian notes a curious anachronism in a Westminister Palace fresco. It depicts the Mayflower departure with the Union Jack, though that flag did not exist until 1800 after the Pilgrim Fathers sailed. The piece cites the Irish Union banner as a later official standard.
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Manchester
Palace of Westminster
England
Scotland
Ireland
Manchester Guardian
The Sugar Maple’s Value and Jerusalem Scots Memorial
The sugar maple is highlighted as the premier maple for its sweet sap and lumber value. A historical note recalls real estate men promoting western lands with the banner The Sugar Tree Grows Here. A planned memorial in Jerusalem by the Church of Scotland and United Free Church will be the Scots Kirk and College for Biblical Research and worship.
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American Forestry Magazine of
Washington
New England
Pennsylvania
Scotland
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Church of Scotland
United Free Church of Scotland
Institute For Biblical Research
Scots’ Kirk and College
Contest Sparks Interest in Birdhouse Building Nationwide
The American Forestry Magazine of Washington promotes a bird house building contest drawing seven children to participate. The magazine awards blue ribbons to prize winners in serials across the country.
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American Forestry Magazine
Washington
Sevon
Notice to chicken owners in Greencastle city
Rupert Bartley, mayor, warns Greencastle residents that a city ordinance prohibits free roaming chickens and instructs the city marshal to file affidavits against violators who do not pen up their poultry.
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Greencastle
Rupert Bartley
Fresh Meat and Produce Ad Roundup
Advertising round up lists round steak pork chops bacon lettuce fruit and lard with prices per pound or unit. Items include loin or porterhouse steak fresh pork ham breakfast bacon and grape fruit among others.
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Eacy Sagan
Classified ads blend meat demand and estate sales
Domestic venison and rabbit stock offered for Easter. Lost brown overcoat. return to office for reward. Clover seed for sale at reasonable price. Combination sale at Brother's barn April 3 1:30 pm items include horses cows hogs wagons. Chevrolet touring car for sale. Mortgage exemptions noted by J B Harris and county recorder. Single comb brown leghorn eggs for sale.
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Brother's Barn
Dobbs & Vestal
Paul Albin
Mutiny is work of Reds at Koyno reports say
Discrepant official and newspaper messages describe the Polish mutiny at Koyno as either suppressed or ongoing. Reports claim hundreds of Bolshevik prisoners were freed and urged to join insurgents while government lines state heavy fighting occurred and few arrests followed. Lithuanian-Polish talks show friction with extremist ministers and a bishop blocking settlement.
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Warsaw
Kogono
Koyno
Poland
Lithuania
Kovno
Speed in Montenegro Fastest Courier on Mule Trails
A Red Cross courier in the Montenegro section is described as the fastest and surest express service in the country. Weighing more than his burro, he braves perilous Black Mountain trails aboard a pack mule, noted for his stirrups and reliance on mule power.
Kosciuszko Heart to Return to Poland from Switzerland
Embalmed heart of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, famed Polish patriot, will be moved from its bronze urn in Chateau Rapperswil near Zurich back to Poland. The relics will go to Lemberg and then Warsaw after transfer plans were arranged. The heart was removed at Kosciuszko's death in 1817 and placed in Zugwil, later moved to Rapperswil in 1887 as a Polish museum shrine for pilgrims.
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Switzerland
Poland
Geneva
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
George Washington
Chateau Rapperswil
Zurich
Lemberg
Warsaw
Kosciuszko
Zugwil
Solothurn
Cracow
Rapperswil
Girls Plan Rush to Alaska for Work and Marriage
Juneau Alaska officials say many young women from Minnesota Texas Iowa Washington Colorado and Canada have written seeking jobs in Alaska this spring. They ask for school teaching bookkeeping typing and clerking positions and some hint at matrimony seeking eligible bachelors.
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Juneau
Alaska
J. L. Gray
Territory
Minnesota
Texas
Iowa
Washington
Colorado
Canada
Curious Tastes and Telephones in 1917 Era Reflections
A collage traces an Englishman at an American Sunday supper with a risky honeyed fish ball, then shifts to notes on Edmond About and nose surgery tales. It cites the 1917 census showing 124 telephone systems, 11 million phones, 21 thousand exchanges, and 21845 million messages. It ends with Sir Charles Ballance’s Lancet account of war era heart surgeries and bullets expelled via the aorta.
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Fludd
Naples
Edmond About
Kenelin Digby
America
Bureau of the Census
United States
Charles Ballance
St. Thomas’ Hospital
London
Farmer and Applicant Riff on Cows in Comic Exchange
A humorous dialogue pits a farmer asking about a job on the farm against an applicant who claims to know both kinds of cows. The exchange features punning on American and French cows and a kitchen bedroom setting as a joke.
Bump Test Among Electric Irons Trials Durability
A large electric appliance maker tests irons by repeatedly bumping a specimen iron on a hard surface to simulate real use shocks. A well balanced iron survives 16 to 24 hours of such treatment before failing.
Architect and contractor in Greencastle
W H Evens of Greencastle Indiana listed as architect and contractor involved with landscape gardening services in a local notice.
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W H. Evens
Greencastle
Ind
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