Labor unions press farmers to join, House warns of front groups
An official warns farmers that organized labor may back front outfits like the National Farmers Organization allied with the UAW and Teamsters. He argues contract farming threats rise as labor funds mobilize to steer farmer groups, urging the Farm Bureau Grange and Farmers Union to keep leadership and initiative.
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ABOR
United Automobile Workers Union
Organized Labor
UAW
Teamsters
National Farmers Organization
Jabo
NFO
Labor Front
American Farm Bureau
Grange
Farmers Union
Mountaineer Folklore and a Kentucky Murderer in 1883
A Mt Sterling writer profiles regional mountaineers as rugged and cunning with Scotch stubbornness. He notes feuds between families ending in gunfire, citing John Barnett jailed for murder and described as a feared armed leader with 1200 acres, eight followers, and a volatile temper amid harsh hillside life.
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Mt Sterling
Kentucky
John Barnett
Kentuckies
Mountaineers
Photho
Barnett
Swindlers Dishonest Drake in Butler County Farms Case
In Butler County the spring 1908 scam saw about seven hundred orders for clothing signed by farmers as agents of a mail order house. The orders totaled 20 to 50 dollars each, samples were attractive, notes discounted at 10 percent, and the culprits vanished when the scheme collapsed at the salesroom in Butler.
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Pennsylvania
Butler County
Butle
Butle County
Butler
Lancaster Farming and Expositions Pasteur Signs
Lancaster Farming outlines history and figures from Lancaster County and national events. It notes Pasteur Institute exhibits at Chicago 1933, a Pasteur monument in Chicago, public school attendance records in York County, and new highway signs aiding pupil safety near schools.
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Louis Pasteur
Pasteur Institute of Paris
Chicago
Giant Park
Field Museum
Michigan Boulevard
Pasteur
Louis Pastew
Humanity
People of
Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction
York County
Early Planted Seeds Benefit From Treating Seed
Seed treatment advised for peas and sweet corn to prevent decay and poor stands using Thitam or Captan powders per pound of seed before planting. Warmer weather prompts spraying plans for spittle bugs on legumes and weevil on alfalfa with Heptachlor at one unit of 2E emulsion per acre. Guard against cold ground for milking herd. gradual grazing and ventilation recommended. Nitrogen management suggests plowing under to boost corn top yields, with various fertilization options.
Learning by Failure and Hardship in Moses Leadership
A devotional on Moses as a leader in training taught by Providence. It argues leaders are prepared by failure, wilderness years, and hardship, contrasting secular and religious education and noting Moses’ ascent from luxury to poverty in service to Israel.
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Moses
Egypt
Jethro
God
Sinai
Garibaldi
Saint Paul
Israel
University of Hard Knocks
Division of Christian Education
Naonal Council of the Churches of Christ In the
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Lancaster County
Alfred C Alspach
Robert E Best
Robert G Campbell
Robert 3 Wiggins
Quarryville
Pennsyilvania of Highways
Pupis
By Max Smith
Samuel Lewis
OL Mancelona Mich
Thomas K Hull
Max Smith
In God’s School
Tor
Kenneth J. Foreman
Isaiah
Dr. Foreman
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