Commemoration of Signers Prompted by Revolutionary Movement
The article recalls a patriotic verse and describes a commemorative chapel at a park site tied to Washington. It notes a revolutionary museum in the Isaac Potts house, park improvements, and a 1907 James town reunion. It outlines the Descendants of the Signers aims. Members span Switzerland, France, England, Hungary with hundreds of descendants.
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Episcopal Church
Washington
Isaac Potts
State Department
Jamestown Exposition
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
United States
Switzerland
France
England
Hungary
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge Restored into Public Park and Historic Site
Valley Forge has been beautified and opened as a public park under the Valley Forge Park Commission. Fort Washington and Fort Huntington are restored, an iron tower on Mount Joy rises to provide a birdseye view of the camp ground and surrounding country, marking a national and state effort to preserve Revolutionary War relics for all Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge Park Commission
Schuylkill
Washington
Germantown
Fort Washington
Fort Huntington
Mount Joy
Inevitable Result in a Kitchen Chair Tale
A fragmentary note describes Mr Head ofhouse and Mrs Head ofhouse with a question about a parrot and its head feathers. Willie is said to have given a cracker, implying a small domestic scene.
Preserving the Declaration at the Nation’s Capital
The Declaration is kept in the State Department in a specially built safe. William H. McNeer oversees guardianship of the parchment bearing the original signers. Since 1789 the document has been safeguarded, with a copperplate facsimile made in 1823 for signers and heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Department
William H. McNeer
Department of State
John Quincy Adams
July Fourth in American Wars Through the Years
The piece notes key July Fourth milestones in U S history. It cites 1861 as the eight states unrepresented at the start of a congressional extra session, 1863 as Vicksburg’s surrender to General Grant with concurrent Gettysburg victory news, 1804 as Grant pressing Lee with high casualties, and 1898 as the destruction of Cervera’s Spanish fleet off Santiago with heavy Spanish casualties and prisoners taken.
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Congress
Vicksburg
Grant
Gettysburg
Lee
Cervera
Santiago
United States
Dialogue on a man’s odd hobby and a wife’s suffrage stance
The Cleveland Leader quotes a man who enjoys his wife being a suffragette and describes a disturbing habit of rifling through her trousers pockets for change while she sleeps. The piece portrays unsettling gender dynamics and a provocative stance on women's rights.
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Cleveland
Round barns and coop designs in farm economy bulletin
The Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station discusses round dairy barns versus rectangular ones, noting cost advantages of 34 to 5 percent and better convenience for feeding. It includes plans, cuts, and an example at the agricultural college, plus a Georgia Poplar Mechanics note on a collapsible A shaped chicken coop.
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Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural College
Georgia
Popular Mechanics
Pasteurizing Milke at Home
Home milk safety guidance warns against feeding milk to children if it is not drawn under sanitary conditions. It stresses the need for proper handling to prevent illness and emphasizes pasteurization as a protective measure.
Alfatian Needs Food and Better Crop Growth
Article notes that strong harvests hinge on good farming and fertile land. It argues there is little difference between successful alfalfa growth and other crops, warning that poor farming and poor land limit yields.
Pasteurizing Milk With Simple Home Setup
Instructions describe heating milk to 155 degrees using a bottle, holes in a pie plate, and a thermometer to pasteurize. Guidance covers cooling, slow air over bottles, and rapid cooling in cold water to preserve soil elements for crops.
Fertilizing Fruit Trees and Orchard Soil Care
After fruit trees begin bearing the best fertilizer is potash. Wood ashes are excellent for fruit trees though they contain lime. Orchards in grass should be plowed sometimes and a grain crop grown to keep ground clean and loose the soil, but the land must be heavily manured or fertilized as soil cannot feed two crops without abundant plant food.
Serviceable Draft Horse Characteristics
A heavy draft horse should have long ribs and a well filled rib cage. Short ribs indicate a light middle and poor feeding capacity, with a stomach too small for repeated meals. In hard work this type looks fagged, while weight from bone and muscle in a light-centered draft horse adds to commercial value.
Three Kinds of Corns in Horses
Three corns types are recognized in horses: dry, moist, and suppurating. Dry corns show blood stained horn with little inflammation. Moist corns have significant inflammation with fluid accumulation. Suppurating corns are moist corns infected with pus germs.
Mural Phone in the South Sees Rural Line Push
Merchants in the South awaken to the value of rural telephone lines and seek to develop them, highlighting a regional push to expand communications infrastructure.
Weight of a Quart of Feed From Connecticut Station
Connecticut Experiment Station provides figures on the weight of one quart of feed. The data specify the mass per quart for various feed types and are intended for farmers and dealers to gauge bulk purchases and feeding costs.
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Connecticut Experiment Station
Treatment to curb gray rot in grapes
A single investigator endorses a simple effective method to prevent gray rot by thinning leaves on the vines north side and applying Bordeaux mixture with soap for better adherence. The spray should occur around July 23 5 or when grapes near full size, after which no further trouble is expected from the disease.
Desirability of Wide Tires for Hauling
The text argues wide tires reduce road damage from heavy wagons and increase hauling capacity. It notes the damage caused by narrow sharp rounded tires and highlights the practical advantage of wide tires in improving load carriage.
Weather broadcasts for Texas farmers by telephone
The Weather Bureau will provide daily forecasts to Texas farmers by telephone. At noon each day rural subscribers are called and the forecast is aired. Town subscribers may call central after 11 am to obtain the forecast at any time.
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The
Weather Bureau
Texas
Central
Potassium sulphide as a remedy for powdery mildews
A historical note describes a potassium sulphide solution of three ounces in ten gallons of water as effective against gooseberry powdery mildew, claiming it outperforms Bordeaux mixture in effect though not lasting. It states the solution does not discolor fruit and is harmless. It also mentions nitrogen in air and legume bacteria, plus a James I silver goblet sold for £410 in London.
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London
Immigrant Labor Studied Across 25 Industries
Special agents of the immigration commission investigate nearly 700000 workers in 200000 families across 250 communities. The survey covers cotton goods iron and steel meat packing clothing glass woolen goods oil refining copper mining silk goods leather gloves furniture sugar refining tobacco implement manufacture and anthracite coal mining to assess immigration impact on industries and communities.
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Immigration Commission
Congress
United States
Justice Waite Seeks Less Alimony to Curb Divorces
Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice William C. Waite proposes tighter alimony limits to reduce divorces. He argues courts should require divorce seekers to prove fault and that sensational alimony stories drive women to sue for income. He notes he has dissolving many marriages during his decade on the bench.
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William C. Waite
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Flexner Assails U S Medical Colleges Standards
The Carnegie Foundation report on Medical Education in the United States notes entrance prerequisites are too low and probes an overproduction of inadequately trained doctors. It cites proprietary schools, wrong hospital links, and argues only a fraction of the 155 existing schools would better serve the public, with lists of fit and unfit colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Abraham Flexner
Pritchett
Foundation
French Scientist Tissier Promotes Veggie Diet and Less Food
A French scientist named Tissier reports experiments cited by the Literary Digest and Revue Scientifique showing hard work can be sustained on a vegetable diet with less total intake. He claims a method to treat intestinal troubles by making the gut unfriendly to harmful microbes and favorable to beneficial ones. The diet excludes meat eggs milk and cheese and emphasizes carbohydrates and fruits and vegetables while legumes are avoided for their high nitrogen content. Two men in active work followed the regimen for two years and reportedly thrived while eating less than a standard meat diet.
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Tissier
Literary Digest
Revue Scientifique
Medical Men Hold Convention in St Louis
Several thousand physicians attend the American Medical Association convention in St Louis. Dr Welch of Johns Hopkins and other leading figures presented papers on cure and prevention of disease without drugs and urged doctors to rely more on nature under proper patient conditions.
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American Medical Association
St. Louis
Welch
Johns Hopkins
Monument to Confederates Unveiled at Toledo Site
A Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Toledo was unveiled on the site of a former federal prison. Gen Gordon of Memphis delivered the address as Confederate and Union colors were displayed side by side.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Toledo
Gen. Gordon
Memphis
Confederate Veterans
British Publisher Sir George Newnes Dies at 54
Sir George Newnes wealthy publisher founder of Tit Bits and owner of Westminster Gazette dies in London at age 54.
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George Newnes
Tit-Bits
Westminster Gazette
London
Prize for two-motor aeroplane at New York dinner
At the New York Press Club dinner to Glenn Curtiss Edwin Gould offered a prize of 15000 dollars to the first person to produce an aeroplane with two motors and two propellers and reserve motive power. The Evening World also created a permanent silver cup trophy for the best amateur flight each year with conditions to be set.
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New York Press Club
Glenn Curtiss
Scientific American
Edwin Gould
Evening World
Brewers See Better Times Ahead at Convention
President Hester of the United States Brewers Association reports at the annual Washington convention that beer sales rose by about 90 million gallons and spirits by 11 million gallons in the last fiscal year. The report notes temperance progress but says overall liquor consumption keeps increasing. Congressman Boutelle says prohibition did not prohibit and raises concern over rising drug habit dangers.
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Hester
United States Brewers’ Association
Washington
Boutelle
Record-Breaking Congressional Activity and Pension Bills
Washington correspondence notes unprecedented bill passage this Congress with 8,592 Senate and 26,651 House introductions. About 10,000 reported, 5,500 passed, and 6,000+ enacted in some form. Pension measures dominate as aging veterans die, prompting leniency in pension approvals and rising private pension actions.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
House
Senate
Pension Committee
Notable Sports Figures and Events From Around the World
The report notes the death of polo figure Punch at 45, injuries to jockey Harry Birkenruth in Belgium, and the Derby at Epsom Downs won by Lemberg. It covers May Sutton defeating Nazel Hotchkiss in Los Angeles, amateur trotting meetings in Baltimore Wilmington and Philadelphia, Frank Gotch retaining the wrestling world title in Chicago, and King Edward’s ties to Epsom. Additional items include a Juarez race course with $500000 in stakes, Gustav Ljungstrom’s 1 23 41 fifteen mile run in Wheeling, and local gun club activity in South Shore. Matt McGrath of NYAC set a 56-pound weight for height mark of 16 feet 1 inch in an expedition record.
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Woodbury Kane
Punch
Harry Birkenruth
Belgium
Epsom Downs
Eng
Lemberg
May Sutton
Nazel Hotchkiss
Los Angeles
Miss Sutton
Baltimore
Wilmington
Philadelphia
Frank Gotch
Humboldt
Iowa
Stanislaus Zbyszko
Coliseum
Chicago
Edward
Juarez
Mex
Mexico
Gustav Ljungstrom
Fairgrounds
Wheeling
W. Va
Johansen
Sweden
St. Yves
France
South Shore
S. D
Matt McGrath
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Lollows
Csivveesetel
Massachusetts
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Doris
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