Dry farming gains ground in Missouri during 1914 drought
In drought year 1914 Missouri farmers who used dry farming methods saw higher corn yields per acre than in 1901. The Chamber of Commerce committee notes dry farming fits regions lacking irrigation and drought, stressing soil moisture conservation and disciplined cultivation. It argues dry farming suits humid regions in droughts and highlights its growing national importance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Washington
Committee On Statistics and Standards
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Semarid
Archer Wall Douglas
St. Louis
National Commerce Committee
Training Fleet for Lakes to Train Recruits at Naval Station
A new training fleet will sail the Great Lakes under Captain W. A. Moffett at the U S naval training station Eastland to serve as flagship after being rebuilt as a gunboat The plan includes mounting guns from one pounders to six inch pieces and uses vessels including two former Spanish gun boats captured by Dewey at Manila Bay to protect lake cities and train recruits during wartime
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Eastland
Great Lakes
United States Naval Training Station
W. A. Moffett
Chicago River
Dewey
Manila Bay
Slacker Enlists After Renaming Himself to Join Army
A heavyset man in Newark entered the army recruiting office and claimed the name Slacker. Officers refused, then he revealed his real name Andrew Slacker of Middletown New Jersey. He was eventually accepted into service after changing his circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Army
Questions in War Registration Requirements
The article lists the core questions for nationwide war department registration. It covers full name age home address date of birth citizenship status place of birth trade or occupation employer dependents marital status race past military service and location, and exemption grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Petain Rising to War Ministry Chief of Staff
The article recalls General Philippe Petain becoming chief of staff at the war ministry after the Verdun battle. It notes his ascent from colonel to general and his famed offensive mastery, including leading the Second Army in Champagne and the Verdun defense with the iron division and motor transport that bore the slogan They shall not pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verdun
Paris
Petain
Ministry of War
Joffre
France
Nivelle
Calais
Chasseurs
Twenty-third
Artois
Second Army
Champagne
de Castelnau
Herr
No Fireworks This Year in New York
New York announces a quiet Fourth of July with no licenses for fireworks. Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson cites safety, enemy concerns exploiting sales to store explosives and wartime powder conservation as reasons to ban fireworks licenses this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adamson
New York
Robert Adamson
Five Hundred Redmen Parade to Escort Infantry
Five hundred Passamaquoddy Indians led by Chief Peter Neptune marched six miles from their reservation to Eastport Maine to escort Maine infantry to the railroad station before departure for duty elsewhere. All male members of the tribe of military age offered to enlist and were accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastport
Peter Neptune
Maine Infantry
Shackleton Endorses Selective Draft to Save American Talent
Sir Ernest Shackleton, arriving en route to London, asserts that Allied victory over Germany is assured and urges selective conscription in the United States to preserve scientists and inventors. He argues volunteering fails at scale, cites Australia’s conscription debate, and warns England's brain drain under a volunteer system. He predicts America must supply specialists for thirty years to lead the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Si Ernest H. Shackleton
London
America
United States
Australia
William Hughes
England
Germany
Beavers Destroy Forest on Adirondack Preserve
Mount Vernon New York five year court battle ends with William G Barrett of Katonah losing a $1900 claim against the state for poplar trees on his Adirondack game preserve. Court of appeals reverses lower rulings upholding the award finding beavers caused the damage. The four beavers were said to be released on Eagle creek and their descendants used branches for houses.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
William G. Barrett
Katonah
State of New York
Adirondacks
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Court of Claims
Eagle Creek
Not One Purdue Graduate Divorced
Lafayette Indiana records show that none of Purdue University female graduates are divorced and an unusually large percentage of the graduates are married.
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Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Purdue
Whole family to serve Uncle Sam in Cincinnati
Cincinnati boasts it is the only Ohio city with an entire Vine family enlisted for war service. James A. Vine’s son serves in a guard regiment, his father joined the regiment band, and Vine’s wife and daughter have enlisted in a Red Cross unit.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
James A. Vine
Vine
Red Cross
New York Can Raise Half a Million Men
Albany reports that if war comes New York could supply about 570000 men for active service and a similar number for home defense based on census data of physical condition. State health data suggest enough men are fit for service and defense work, with NYS population around 10490680 and males 18 to 45 totaling about 2480000.
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New York
Albany
United States
State Health Department
Stotesbury
New York State
Adjutant General of the
Williams
Sailor’s World War I Odyssey Ends in Endurance
Stewart Springer, eighteen when he sailed in 1914, recounts a perilous voyage from New York to Montague Street, Brooklyn, through captures, torpedoes, mines, and bombardments. He survived raids aboard Pearlmoor, Gulflight, Aidenwing, Frankstream, and other vessels, ending after a North Sea mine strike.
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New York
Stewart Springer
Here
Springer
Montague Street
Brooklyn
Cardiff
Wales
Teneriffe
England
Scilly Isles
Gulflight
Bay of Biscay
Frankstream
English Channel
Dardanelles
North Sea
Walnut log harvest yields ancient trees near Shelbyville
W J Norris a walnut lumber dealer from northeast Missouri is harvesting from G W Hope's 160 acre tract near Shelbyville. About 50 000 feet of lumber will be produced from the site with trees averaging forty years in age and one specimen showing 152 rings. Logs will be used for veneering aircraft lumber and other pieces for airplane use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
W. J. Norris
Missouri
G. W. Hope
Bet He'd Win Bride in California Honeymoon
Gordon Thorne and Miss Virginia Milner wed and depart for California for their honeymoon. They carry a $2,000 check signed by Townsend Netcher, best man, who confirms the wager he made last autumn he would win the bride. Netcher reflects on never losing a bet with such pleasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gordon Thorne
Virginia Milner
California
Townsend Netcher
Netcher
Snake Under Horse Foot Endangers Timber Crew
In Monterey Massachusetts on Dry Hill C Wellman and his crew, while harvesting timber, heard a rattlesnake beneath a horse's hoof. The snake was pinned by the hoof, unable to strike. the men killed it after locating it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterey
Mass
Dry Hill
Wellman
Sheriff Sale Notice Chelan County Washington 1917
In Chelan County, Washington, Foreclosure sale ordered by the Superior Court. John S. Thomas, plaintiff, seeks to sell real property described in the mortgage to satisfy a judgment of $3,120 plus interest, taxes, attorney fees, and costs. Sale at 10:00 am June 16, 1917, at the courthouse front door Wenatchee, cash to the highest bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
State of Washington
County of
Chelan
John I.thomas
J. Louis Phipps
Ellen A. Phipps
Dan J. Coffin
Lilie M. Coffin
Chelan County
Towit
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company
Township
Range
St. Paul
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company
Wenatchee Avenue
Castle of Wenatchee Avenue
Minneapolis and
Manitoba
Wenatchee
Washington
Foreclosure Sale Ordered in Chelan County Case
Aaron Woolard sues J A Graham and James A Graham estate administrator over a mortgage foreclosure. Judgment totals 2787.20 with 10 percent interest, 273 attorney fee, and 13 costs. Order directs sale of real property described in the mortgage in Chelan County Washington.
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Aaron Woolard
J. A. Graham
James A. Graham
Margery L. Graham
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General Petain
Britain
Ernest Shackleton
American Press Association
Sir Ernest H. Shackleton
Barrett
Uncle Sam
Fense
Cook
Bride
Superior Court of the
John S. Thomas
Lillie M. Coffin
Zener Hill Company, & Corporation
Sam Davis Lumber Company
W. H. Mills
Nettie M. Mills
Albert Kisling
Emma Kisling
Bart Mecmanus
Samuel R. Templeton
A. D
Burt McManus
Sam KR. Sumner
Wenatchee Wash
Knights of
Pythias
Masonic Hall
Harry Warner
A.R. Brown
Zarthan Lodge No
Masonic Temple
E. Mohler
W.M
A. G. McKeown
Chehalis
Cowlitz
E. J. Widby
D. Eye
W. W. Elmer
Commercial &I
Echo
Leavenworth, H
G. W. Hoxley
Leavenworth, Wash
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Attorneys AT Law
A. N. Corbin
Burt J. Williams
Central Building
Chelan Co
Wenatchee, Wash
Reeves & Reeves
W.F. Whitney
O. B. Hughes
J. A. Adams
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Fred Kemp
Halbert Block
Geo. G. Hannan
Suite Plowate Bldg
Crollard & Crollard Lawyers
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
E. H. Fox
Regioining Weoler
John E. Porter
Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Tiree
Bank Colleges
Prac
Tweeds System CO
Pacific Block
Eeatila
Wash
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