War on Hessian Flies Told to Kansas Farmers
Kansas experts urge a five day campaign to save next year’s crop by early plowing five to seven inches deep, destroying volunteer wheat and late planting. They cite Leavenworth County as a model where cooperation cut Hessian fly presence to near zero, contrasting with lagging neighbors who suffer greater losses.
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Reos
Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Kansas Isrom
Insect Train Delivers Hesian Fly Message Across Kansas
The Hesian fly lecture train toured 66 towns in 17 counties last week, reaching over 1,200 farmers daily. Great Bend showed the poorest turnout while Stafford sent 305 people in two lecture cars. Lecturers included Professors Dean and Call, C Jetson, T Talbert, W McUtseh, and J Welly from Wellington.
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Stafford
Sterling
Kane
Dean
LE Call
The
State Enlege
Deolge. C. Jetson
Evilege
T. Talbert Aic W. McUtseh
Policer
J. . Welly
Federal Agricultural Department
Wellington
Subscribers Who Pay and Those Who Don't
The News reports that about 100 notices were sent to subscribers with only a fraction failing to respond. It urges readers to notify if they wish to stop the paper and to pay for any months already served, noting new names added to the nonpayer list and no hard feelings toward those ending subscriptions.
Memory and the nature of recall according to Dr Hirshberg
The quote asserts that when praising memory people mean retention power rather than precise accurate recall of events. Dr Leonard Keene Hirshberg argues true memory implies the ability to retain information regardless of full fidelity to every detail, challenging common assumptions about recall.
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Leonard Keene Hirshberg
Let The News In In Your Subscription Note
A brief notice urging readers to subscribe to the Star Times Journal Breeder s Givette Drover s Telegram or Burstist with a focus on updating delivery options and contact channels for service inquiries.
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Star-Times
Journal
Breeder
Drover
Should Women Vote as The Texan Warners Debate
A lengthy 1910s style political tract argues against women’s suffrage while praising women’s virtues. It surveys rights, duties, and social roles, criticizing female voting and urging women to stay in home and family spheres rather than public life. It cites notable figures and contrasts domestic labor with political power. The piece frames suffrage as a threat to traditional gender roles and uses religious and moral arguments.
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Lon. Vo. Fowls
Texas Warners’ Union
Irvine
South
Christ
Themistocles and the fiddle tale of towns
A dinner party quip by Themistocles contrasts playing the lute with turning a small town into a great city. The text shifts to criticize modern politicians who imitate fiddling but fail to elevate towns, noting a nationwide trend of empty rhetoric.
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Themistocles
Political Prayer Meetings Debate Religious Political Fanaticism
A voiced critique argues that political prayer meetings inflame sectarian hatred and threaten church and state. It urges farmers to prioritize practical builders of public goods over orators who stir passions, praising plows and hammers as true symbols of statesmanship.
Australia’s Animal Pesta and Rabbit Pest Costs
Australia faces pest problems including rabbits wild game and kangaroos with large public funds spent on reducing numbers. Victoria reportedly killed 150,000,000 rabbits in 1913 as crops and pastures suffer. Rabbits are said to consume as much as ten sheep, pushing many farmers to abandon sheep on infested lands.
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Australia
Vicctoria
John C Cox Son Advertises Business Stationery
The News promotes commercial correspondence supplies including unruled linen and band papers in white gray and blue. They offer printable stock sizes and can custom print in three or four dips with a large line of samples. Ladies cards with matching envelopes for short correspondence are also offered for invitations and announcements.
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Advic Peat
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