Costs of Marketing Livestock Too High for Retail Trade
A National Stockman and Farmer article argues marketing livestock costs run under five percent for producers when prices are strong and freight is modest. It notes slaughterers earn under three percent, while retailers shoulder high per pound charges for meat, due to rent, ice, labor, and waste. The piece urges consumer education and retailer concentration as paths to lower margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Territory
National Stockman
Memory Restored for Boston Composer After Wandering
Charles Fitzzhugh McReigh, a Boston composer, vanished for six months and was found in Norwalk with memory loss. In Worcester he regained his identity when the pianist wife, posing as a musician, played The Song of the Winds. The couple returned to Boston with plans for a second honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mess
Charles Fitzzhugh Mc Reigh
Boston
McReigh
McReith
Larcest
McReiegh
Mcteigh
Tom
Frances
Melteieh
Specialista
Turtles fast to his foot in Delawares smokehouse
Walter Millman walked barefooted into his smoke house to slice ham when two snapping turtles fastened themselves to his foot. His family aided him for nearly an hour as they pried the tiles loose. James Millman had captured several large snappers and placed them in the smokehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellendale
Del
Walter Millman
James Millman
Tailor’s turtle hides 224 pennies in Ashville
Roy Bowsher, a local Ashville tailor, fished a turtle he sold to Cr. KR. Cook, owner of a saloon. When Cook opened the shell for lunch, he found 224 pennies inside the turtle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashville
Ohio
Roy Bowsher
Cr. KR. Cook
Cook
The Typewriter Rhyme by Walt Mason in Judge
A humorous piece praising the modern typewriter and lampooning pen and ink era writers. The narrator boasts of owning many machines, laments a broken typewriter, and recalls Dickens and other authors with comic imagery about ink spills and mechanical repairs.
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Dickens
Bulwer
Scott
E'Ey
Charles Dickens
Charlie Sweat Winle
Edwin Drood
Jim
Martin Chuzzlewit
York
Ami
Tinkever
Walt Mason
Judge
Sunlight Risk to Blondes Highlighted by Doctors
A Philadelphia discussion notes sun exposure may raise cancer risk for blondes and freckled women. Dr Knowles warns prevention helps, while Dr Wheeler questions direct causation, citing skin irritation and incidental factors in cancer development.
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Frank C. Knowles
Philadelphia County Medial Society
Marguerie Mooers Marshall
Knowles
WALT MASON VERSE ON WISHING FOR WEALTH AND WORK
A humorous venting monologue by Walt Mason describing desires to escape preaching and take easily earned money through banking, farming, dancing, or selling. The speaker contrasts the ease and status of various jobs with his own aim to write verse, ending with a resigned note about remaining indoors and composing feeble rhymes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Mason
Juige
How White Woman Came Near Being an Indian
Omaha residents recall a decades old incident where a domestic Indian servant abducted a baby girl, later chased by the mother who recovered the child in a hill country race. The tale blends early Omaha life, frontier dangers, and local charity workers involved in the child’s life.
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Omaha
Neb
Josephine Cerro
South Omaha
Carroll
Missouri River Bluffs
John Godola
Edison
Beired
Bird rings burglar alarm at bank in Wrightsville
In Lewistown Pennsylvania a flicker, a woodpecker family member, sparked a prank by pecking the firstNational bank bell in Wrightsville. The bird pecked an insect from the gong surface and learned the bell sound echoing the electric tapper, causing neighborhood excitement.
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Lewistown
First National Bank
Wrightaville
Tite Gons
Don't Make Misfits Parents Talk To Sons About Farm Work
Advice urges frank discussion with a son about staying in farming or pursuing other paths. Emphasizes dignity of labor, educated farming, and allowing a trial of alternatives while keeping door open for return. Warns against coercive, sarcastic tactics and notes the value of individual choice and experience.
Rooster Crows Backwards in Tarrytown Yard
Jacob Newman, a clothier on Washington Street, owns two roosters one crowing normally and another that crowed backward. While two strangers passed, the natural crow drew a reply from the backward crowing bird prompting one man to remark on the echo. Newman noted the backward crowing has long puzzled him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarrytown
N. Y
Jacob Newman
Washington Street
Mr. Newman
Crooked Sale of Street Cars Reported in Midwest
Cleveland police say Adorjan Antal is under arrest on a charge that he sold street cars to foreigners who recently settled in Kane county Illinois. Authorities note similar sales occurred in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois within the last two weeks as farmers watched the supposed wonders of great cities.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Mlinois
Adorjan Antal
Kane County
Ilinois
Indian farmer drives car to sell produce in Eureka
Eureka Nev John Hawley Piute Indian, the state's only known Indian farmer, bought a car a week ago and now makes daily trips from his Diamond Valley ranch to Eureka to sell produce. He learned to drive in one day, becoming the only known Indian to own and operate a car.
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Eureka
Nev
John Hawley
Diamomd Valley
Hawley
Faces and their colors and uses described in Life
The article defines faces as varying in size shape and color and notes they belong to young women aged seventeen to twenty five as ornamental. It says faces come in red blue and white, are used to imply lack of brains, and lists features including a single nose two eyes and a chin used to make music.
Fallacious Fabrications and Humorous Maxims
A spoof piece mixes a sleeping old horse woken by a hired man with a college graduate and a tall tale about a master’s funeral. It also includes brief, quippy maxims on vanity, transfers, family troubles, umbrellas, marriage, and secrets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thia Wall
Arts
Dia Suet
Tam
Mike
Grnffy
Horng
Lyom
Birthday Selects Its Own Date Under Chicago Doctor System
Dr. Charles B. Reed of Wesley Memorial Hospital Chicago pioneers a "choose your own birthday" plan with obstetrician Dr. James D. Vorhees and German scientist Dr. Ahifeis. Babies select birthdays within a two week window by notifying mothers, with hospital procedures arranged a day ahead and the stork delivering within hours after admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles B. Reed
Wesley Memorial Hospital
James D. Vorhees
Corneliniversity
Ahifeis
Vorhees
Reed
Willy Nilly
Anil
Wesley Hospital
Ideal husband defined by Miss Clymer at Warrington meeting
Philadelphia Virginia Miss Minerva Clymer rattled off what she calls the ideal husband at the Warrington Farmers' club. She listed five foot ten stature sparkling eyes and a clean appearance. She praised a husband who treats his wife with respect and shares duties and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Miss Clymer
Fe Muta
Texas cows suffer oat leaf poisoning scare in terse town
Panic among farmers in Weatherford and Laerferd as sick cattle are traced to green oat leaves. State Veterinarian Chrisman notes cattle quickly develop a taste for the leaves and refuse other feed, easing only when craving fades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetherford
Texas
Bennett
Chrisman
Laerferd
Chinaman
Cherry Pie Day Draws Thousands in Manzadulay
In Manzadulay Colo a Cherry Pie Day event saw women and children attending as about ten thousand pies were distributed. A New Jersey inventor patent a saddle with leather flaps for buckles. A New York man patents a garmee can with a wire trap to catch insects.
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New Jersey
New York
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Rover
Sal
Fischaly
Tove
Lan
Unter Doge
Denver
Des Moines
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Buck
Squaw
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Weron
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