Agricultural department cited for multi‑million annual benefits
A special report to The Sun outlines that the agriculture department yields about 231 million dollars annually in benefits. It highlights the Animal Industry, Plant Industry, Weather, Entomology and other bureaus, noting contributions from hens production, cow pea resistance, sorghum syrup, denatured alcohol, and the Australian lady beetle, among others, while criticizing Weather Bureau budget excess and a partial department building.
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Mashington
Agricultural Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
Iiet
Willis J. Moore
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau ¢ Chemistry
Wiley
Bureau of Biology
Unita
Bureau of Entomology
Bureau of Public Roads
Chief Core
Weather Bureau
Blue Ridge Mountains
Tracewell
Lawere
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Aingle Wing
FHE BOYS GOOD MANNERS AND HOME TRAINING
The piece cites Margaret E. Sangster urging mothers to enforce good manners for growing boys. It stresses removing hats in homes, rising on entry, providing small tasks, and practicing courtesy to ladies, with boys learning through daily care to act automatically in social settings.
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Margaret E. Sangster
Eason
Preddie
Freddie
Pallimore
Philadelphia
Pergzon
Cure for Indigestion Promises Readership Mail-Order Plaster
An 19th century style pitch claims a plaster cures indigestion headaches and digestive issues by stimulating the solar plexus nerve center. It urges readers to mail 10 cents to Ohio Company in Toledo for mailing costs and proof of relief.
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Ohio Company
Sta
Toledo
Norway Maine called the woman’s town of America
NORWAY Maine March 7 framed as a feature on a town run by women. The piece notes roles across commerce, banking, printing, law, medicine, hospitality and post offices held by many local women, including Miss Grace Thayer, Mrs Alice Nash, Miss Jennie Baker, Dr Annette Bennett, Miss Margaret Baker, Miss Minnie Litby, Stella Pike, Mrs Martha Whitmarsh and Mrs Lizzie Woodman, with men as quiet supporters. It claims Norway leads in female empowerment with women directing streets, railways and electric lighting while planning to curb liquor and crime.
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O. P. Brookes
Grace Thayer
Alice J. Nash
Rose Powers
Annette Bennett
Mararet Baker
Cora Briggs
F. W. Sanborn
Advertiser
Jennie Baker
Norway
America
Russell Sage
Miss Prince
Edith Smith
Stella RB. Pike
Norway National Bank
Margaret A. Baker
Justice of the Peace
Justices of the Peace
Jennie P. Baker
Portland
Jennie
Bennett
Maine
Minnie F. Litby
Martha
Whitmarsh
Elm House
Lizzie Woodman
Ella Tibbitts
Charles S. Akers
Roosevelt
Eftie Akers
Owen P. Brookes
Gertie Allen
Elizabeth Cooley
Elizabeth PB. Heal
Dynamite Explosion Roars Through Manhattan and Jersey City
On March 6 a massive dynamite blast near the Pennsylvania tunnel approach outside Jersey City shook Manhattan, waking two million people. The 1000 pounds of dynamite triggered panic across Jersey towns within 15 miles, disrupted telephone exchanges, and sent ambulances racing through streets after theater dinners dissolved into chaos.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Jersey
Manhattan Island
Broadway
B. R
Women power in Chile from streetcars to shops
National Magazine notes women as streetcar conductors, shop salesgirls, and telegraph operators across Chile while men handle hotel chambermaid duties. The observations mix social change with cultural contrast as Americans question gender roles abroad. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ad closes the clipping claiming appetite, vitality, and digestion benefits.
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Chile
Dr Carter Reliable Specialist Ad
An advertisement for Dr Carter a medical specialist located at No 9 N Meridian St room 4 promises cure for chronic nervous blood skin and special diseases with doctor or clinic listed in a brief old fashioned notice.
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DR. Carter
Meridian St
Stage Cranks and Ad Tricks Target Gertrude Coghlan
Actress Gertrude Coghlan reveals daily legions of fan letters and marriage proposals from strangers. Advertisers seek endorsements by leveraging famous names, with corset makers and beauty firms among those seeking signatures.
Famous actress to be here for a week in The Lion and the Mouse
GERTRUDE COGHLAN reports that famed actress will star in The Lion and the Mouse for a week with a few days’ rest in a Surrey inn. Mr Irving seeks quiet retreat, but a moment of fame reveals local recognition as children misidentify him as a Beecham pill label.
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London
Sir Henry Irving
Gertrude Coghlan
California a Jap Gold Min
A historical piece argues that Japanese workers in California have steadily sent large sums to Japan, claiming California has been financially drained. It cites census figures, wage estimates, and post office data to claim trillions in today’s dollars over decades, warning of long term economic loss to California.
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Perkins
United States Senate
China
Jamiorse
California
iSeh
Japanese and Korean Exclusion League
Japan
Unites States
Hawaii
United States
Wittelaborere
Women Prisoners Suffer Indignities
Berlin reports detail brutal treatment of political prisoners in Russia and Siberia. Women, including Mile. Maria Spiridonova, are chained, stripped of clothes, forced into vermin-infested garb, and kept in overcrowded prisons and mines. Despite fears, revolts and heroism persist as stories of sacrifice emerge. Kingston makes specialty of old whisky.
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Russia
Siberia
Mile
Maria Spiridonova
Luzhenoffsky
Tambov
War Auto Engines Tested in France
Paris reports France leads in wartime autos with armor protected car, 35 horsepower engine, 36 mph speed, 50 degree climb, and a rear revolving gun tower. Chauffeur shielded. tested by a war ministry commission. potential army deployment.
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Paris
France
Reminding Mucker’s Second Wife of the First
A dialogue hints at a man named Mucker and his second wife. The first wife is contrasted with the current wife, implying mutual reminders of past relationships. The exchange suggests lingering memories and humor about repeated comparisons between spouses.
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Mucker
Courageous Rescue of Baby From New York Fire
Spectators cheered as Richard Gregory, 2nd New York National Guard, carried his injured mother and siblings to safety and rescued six month old Joe Holstein from a five story building blaze on 105th street. Fire crews contained the fire with minimal loss.
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Joe
Richard Reserve
Joe Holstein
Maung Gregory
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Jennie Holstein
Gregory
Charles
Hughter
Kristina
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