Notable Women and Innovations Express Progress Across Nations
A roundup of women in public life and achievements. Queen Victoria forbids tails ducking for horses. Miss Vern Butler drives London to Paris, first Englishwoman to do so. Mattie Pegues wins WCTU prize for oratory. Mrs Jeannette Herreid linked to South Dakota’s governor. Vienna bans trailing skirts in public with fines possible. Jennie Powers famed for 25 years of Sunday school attendance. Nevada Stout licensed to run stationary engine. Suffrage bazaar opens December 8 with hosts over 80. University of Michigan grants BS in civil engineering to two women. Maria Ebner-Eschenbach honored by Vienna University. Edythe Stevens sought for Rockefeller portrait. Mrs Clarence Burns reports on European industrial schools and progress in Paris and beyond.
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Clarence Burns
Paris
New York State
Europe
Parla
Torgirte
Sitzerland
Germany
Winter preservation and farming reflections from agricultural notes
A collection of circa articles on apples storage near freezing, cotton price shifts from 22 to 55, and farming wisdom. It notes the fruit and crop storage, market changes, weed seed germination at extreme cold, spring optimism, and cautions against fakirs while promoting neutral Grange conduct and shared knowledge.
Farmer Advice on Sheds and Grange Meetings
State Secretary urges harmony in farm groups and warns against discord. The narrator recalls winters with cramped sheds and stresses ample shed space, proper ventilation, and well fed stock to avoid losses during storms.
Will Hay Set Itself Afire A Farmers Debate
H L Taylor of Kankakee recounts a clover hay heating episode at a Crescent City area farm. About 40 tons of hay heated in a stock barn, smoke rose, center of the hay burned black, and only air access kept it from ignition. He argues proper curing and venting matter for hay safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Taylor
Kankakee
Wenona Endex
Kankakee Gazette
Crescent City
Avery
Illinois Cattle Sweep At Pittsburg Fat Stock Show
Illinois cattle dominated the Pittsburg Fat Stock Show with top prizes awarded to Arm strong Camargo for Herefords and to A A Armstrong Camargo for Polled Angus bred stock. A sale at the prize gate saw 15 head of Polled Angus fetch 9.25 per hundredweight to Pittsburg Provision Co, the highest price since 1880. John Virgin of Fairfield died at the Sherman House in Chicago following a dispute at a French Draft Horse Association meeting he chaired.
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Illinois
Pittsburg
A. Armstrong
Camargo
Ill
H. F. Pinnell
Kansas
J. D. Hunter & Son
Paris
A. A. Armstrong
John Virgin
Fairbury
Sherman
Henry Republican Office Ad Offers Stationery and Printing
The Henry Republican Office advertises school tablets two for a nickel, various sizes of writing paper and envelopes, note and receipt books, and cheap box stationery. It also promotes subscriptions to local newspapers, phot0graphic mailing envelopes, engraving services, artistic printing, and wedding and anniversary samples.
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Henry Republican
Republican
Wayson Sale
Republican Vfice
Fem
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Rock Island
Rockies
Sierra Nevada
Duffel Library Care
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California
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Los Angeles
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Q RL & P. RR
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James Divelbiss
W. W. Givien
O. Given
Princeton Normal School
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Princeton, Illinois
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Ohina
George Val
A. D. Stevens
Borrew
Py Mus, M. L. Huwesnant Pare, x
Misa Vern Butler
London
Mattie Pegues
Siloam Springs
Ark
Jeannette I. Herreid
Eureka
South Dakota
Vienna
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Germantown
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Dyerville
Meigs County
Ohio
J. H. Elbright
Canal Dover
Stout
Madison Square Garden
New York
Elizabeth Cady Branton
Susan B. Anthony
Mary A. Livermore
Julia Ward Mowe
University of Michigan
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Mra
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la Salle
Marian Sara Parker
Mies Parker
Purdy & Henderson
New York City
Mme Pensconcevie Arian
Russia
Novellst
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
University of Vienna
Atlanta, Ga
Edythe Stevens
John D. Rockefeller
Iss Stevens
Cooper Institute New York
RiveRside
Grange
Fl i. Sura
Mr Palatine
Putnant Cowpty
Paramount
Live Stocck
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