Cattle Brands Tell Texas Range Tales and Tricks
The article surveys Texas cattle brands, tracing origins from Cortes era ranching to modern barbed-wire eras. It explains brands identify owners, deter theft, and evolved with new shapes, letters, and devices as branding shifts from large marks to smaller designs. It notes brands mix letters and symbols, with examples like the Spur, Tumbling K, and various animals and tools, and discusses weight loss from branding and reading ease.
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Phun Perura
Dexuas Rangereo
Great Vale
Hothr
Telegraph systems show rapid growth in five years
A government study reports 21 commercial land telegraph systems in the United States used 1,885,703 miles of wire and 641,012 miles of pole lines, moved 151,720,208 messages, and employed 7,227 workers with $30,302,140 in wages. The period saw a 45.7 percent rise in telegrams and a capital stock value of $106,360,237. The report is prepared under the Bureau of the Census and notes gains in wire mileage despite a slight drop in gasoline mill output.
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Washington
Sam I
Agore
Bureau of the Coast
Department of Commerce
United States
Laverne
Wis
Eugene F. Tartley
Manufacturera
Motor Trucks Start Long Trip
The article reports on trends in motor truck usage and telegraph traffic from 1907 to 1917, noting large gains in messages, employees, and salaries, while telegraph offices slightly declined. It includes figures on income, expenses, net income, and stock value, and discusses printing telegraph developments and integration with press associations.
Flour Sack of Money in Missouri Cash Deal
In Maries County Missouri a farm sale closed as a cash transaction at the buyers Hoeller home. After closing every family member brought silver coins from hidden places. The seller carried most of the money in a flour sack to the bank where tellers spent two hours counting it. Most funds came from two daughters earning by washing.
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St. Louis
Maries County
Missouri
Hoeller
Blondes Dying Out In America
The article reports Madison Grant’s claim that world war accelerates the decline of blonde Americans. He argues Nordic traits dwindle as brunettes predominate due to immigration and wartime losses, predicting American beauty will shift to Spanish, French, or Italian types.
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New York
America
Madison Grant
American Museum of Natural History
American Geographical Society
Scribner's
Mr. Grant
Mediterranean
Balkans
Europe
India
Miss Elizabeth Dubois Debuts In Washington Society
Miss Elizabeth Dubois eldest daughter of former Senator Fred Dubois has just graduated from college and will be presented to Washington society next season. She is active in the Big Sister movement at Walter Reed Military Hospital in the national capital.
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Hilzabeth Dubois
Fred , Dubois
Washington Society
Walter Reed Military Hospital
National Capital
Here's a Little Primer for Aviation Deposters
New York story explains the term blimp with Major G H Scott of the R-34 calling it an overgrown blimp and adding that a blimp is a fileted rigid. The exchange captures wartime jargon as aircraft talk stirs curiosity.
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New York
G. H. Scott
Notorious Racial Theories Advance in Canada Study
A writer claims in a darker stream of blood that in the United States a blonde utopia is doomed and that northwest Canada offers the only hope for a relatively pure blonde community due to climate, rendering brunettes unsuitable.
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United States
Canada
Air photos of Labrador forester survey by four planes
Captain Daniel Owen announces a four airplane aerial expedition from Battle Harbor Labrador to survey 1 000 000 acres of forest and timber land for a Boston bankers syndicate. Forty crew members and a physician staff sail from Annapolis Nova Scotia to photograph timber lands over six days the project aims to beat traditional methods.
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New York
Daniel Owen
Royal Air Force
Battle Harbor
Labrador
Boston
Annapolis
Nova Scotia
Owen
United States Army
Irwin Tiss
Ashland
Mass
Owens
Creel Family Wealth Treasure Discovered in Mexico City
Creel family representatives sought details on mining and railway shares valued near 2 million pesos and 9 million pesos in paper money, found by chance in a federal district building. Officials say treasure and stock were in locked boxes identified only by discovery months ago. Authorities cannot determine ownership.
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Mexico City
Creel
Chihuahua
National Treasury
Federal District Government
Federal District
Alfredo Breceda
District Court
Hunger Edema Reported Among Children in Prague Districts
A new hunger disease called hunger edema is seen in remote districts of Czecho-Slovakia among children. It stems from excessive water in the body due to starvation, with parents often blamed for failing to provide food. Many children suffer while tuberculosis cases rise sharply.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Oldest North Wales Brewery Becomes Cheese Factory
Tanqueray's Llangollen brewery in Carnarvon Wales, long famed in the region, has been sold to a temperance reformer and will be converted into a cheese factory.
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Carnarvon
Wales
Tanqueray
Llangollen
North Wales
Nine of family die in war leave lone survivor
London reports Private Thomas William Smith as the sole surviving member of a family bereaved by WWI. He lost his father and four brothers on July 15, 1916 during the Somme assault, his three sisters in 1910 and 1915 air raids, and his mother in 1917 air raids in London.
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London
Thomas William Smith
Somme
Adidiscombe
Croydon
East End
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