Pennsylvania agriculture tours draw business leaders with Governor Brumbaugh
A thousand business men and others are invited to accompany Governor Brumbaugh and the Secretary of Agriculture on three weeks of September tours across Pennsylvania. W R Douglas guides route planning with W R D Hall. speeches are brief to encourage direct exchange of farming progress and potential.
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Brumbaugh Ai
Secretary’ of Agriculture
W. R. Douglas
Agricultural Department
W. R. D. Hall
State Highway Department
Douglas
Patton
Pennsylvania State College
School of Agriculture
Lancaster tobacco crop to net six million in 1914 season
The Lancaster county tobacco crop is valued at about six million dollars from roughly 39.5 million pounds at prevailing prices. Most sales have concluded, though some farmers held out hoping prices would rise. War effects and aging need influence long term demand for European tobacco.
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the Ark
Mt.Ararat
Montgomery County
Noah
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Romania
York County
Chester
Bradford
Berks
Clinton
Lebanon
Tioga
Disease in Wheat Stalks and Fertilizer Trials at State College
Reports detail a brown watery streak in joints indicating a internal fungus harming stalks and wheat filling. Researchers at Pennsylvania State College study the disease and urge growers to contact the botany department.
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Botany Department
Pennsylvania State College School of Agriculture and Experiment Station
Botany
State College
Potatoes Save the Day for Grumbling Wiggins
The village vicar praises era Wiggins for a crop of potatoes praised as the finest for miles. The cantankerous old woman retorts that some spuds are for pigs, but the crowd notes her generosity and raises a smile.
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Wiggins
Freight Bills Rise If Eight Hour Day Granted
B F Yoakum former Chicago Rock Island chairman writes to President Wilson asserting freight bills would rise by 167 million annually if the eight hour day with ten hours pay is granted by the four transportation brotherhoods. He cites Interstate Commerce Commission figures to show freight revenue sources and estimates increases for farm, mining, lumber and manufactured goods.
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B. F. Yoakum
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Wilson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Yoakum
Untitled Cartoon Exchange on Roman Empire Decline
A classroom cartoon features a student attributing Rome’s fall to outsized militarism by outsiders. The exchange presents a humorous take on historical causation and classroom dialogue.
Ice dealer in a joke about colder ice for the same money
A light exchange features Mrs. Youngbride and Dear Mrs. Youngbride complaining about ice quality. The punchline reveals the new ice dealer promises colder ice for the same price, prompting a witty back and forth.
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Lebanon Valley
H. S. Bitner
Samuel Bitner
Greencastle
Army
Pershing
Gibson
Charles T. Boyd
James L. Baker
Harrisburg
Farmers’ Insurance
State Orange
Insurance Department
Grange Committee
Deodate
Hershey
Elizabethtown
John Witmer
Jos. Witmer
Hummelstown
Witmer
Samuel Hoffer
Susquehanna River
Dauphin
Clark's Ferry
Northern Central Railroad
Inglenook
Northern Central
Frederick
Kilhefner
J. W. White
Snow Shoe
C. I. Noll
Department of Agronomy
Secadence
Yoakuma
J. E.gruber
Derry Church
Yingst’s
David Gordon Hershey
Senate
Oeeeence
Ea Assay
Wii
Hershey Printing Co
Hershey, Pa
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