Kansas Wheat Harvest Opens Next Week Across State
Kansas will start wheat harvest around June 20 across about eight and a half million acres with central and western districts leading. State employment officials estimate 26,000 harvest workers will be needed from outside the state though influx remains cautious. Average crew size projected around 50 workers per crew, total yield about 560,000 bushels, slightly less than last year, keeping Kansas as the nation’s top wheat producer. State and federal employment services will coordinate with branch offices in Topeka Salina Hutchinson Dodge City Wichita and Colby to distribute harvesters.
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Central Wheat Belt
State Free Umployment Bureau
Kaneak
Enstera
Central
J. Mohter
Secre
State Board of Azure
United States
Army of Harers
Kas Itrane
Topeka
Salina
Hutchinson
Dassans
Wichita
Colthy
They Like American Corn Arrival Stirs Russian Welcome
American corn seed arrives in Russia amid welcome after prior failures blamed on improper introduction. The article notes improved reception as the grain is introduced and gains favor despite past setbacks.
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Russia
Lifer fights to stay in prison in Columbia story
Dan Murphy, a 68 year old inmate with 25 years in state prison, presses to remain behind bars despite a pardons board recommendation. He asserts innocence in the killing of a county treasurer linked to robbery, recalls escape to the Philippines, and notes a candy shop and bank account at the penitentiary.
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Columbia, S. G
Dan Murphy
Murphy
State Board of Pardons
Sanders
Philippines
Learned
Georgia
Russian font emergency sparks fear of rotio storage
Suggested to send some over to help font in the py nt emergency. Perre ferad feared sanctioning the experiment. Russians adopted it quickly and now clamor for more. It suits Russian consumption and carries qualities desired by the people. Evil Taxes quote notes inheritance taxes on it. Life.
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Perreferad
Albania Considers Tax on Beds as Luxury Item
Tirana Albania The finance minister said the government will add a bed tax to the existing tithe system which has long funded state expenses but yields limited revenue. He noted Albanians often sleep on floors and only wealthier households own beds, making beds a luxury target for new taxation.
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Tiranla
Albania
Esi Kol Haci
Associated Press
May Overcome Sea-Sickness Investigations At Pasteur Institute
Dr Pozerski of the Pasteur Institute at Paris conducts sea sickness studies using a motion platform that simulates boat movement. Various animals are subjected to the tests, with clothing or togs noted as highly sensitive and about thirty percent of the animals showing intense reactions, including rabbits.
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Pozerski
Pasteur Institute of
Paris
Light in the Window and a Drunk Man's Exchange
A drunken man shouts at a lamp post near a doorway. A policeman intervenes as the man insists he sees a light upstairs. The passage, drawn from Everybody's Magazine, hints at a humorous vignette amid a broader discussion of immunity research ideas.
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Law
Everybody's Magazine
Big Boy Seeks Diet in Texas as He Grows Large
Ban Harris of Farmersville Texas is noted for inviting Sam to dine while a city marshal notes the subject’s dramatic weight gain. Once resigning fourteen years ago for being too heavy for work he rose from 400 pounds to 680 pounds. He stands seventy inches tall with a 48 inch chest and matching thigh, calves at half that size.
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Harris
Farmersville
Texas
Sam
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