Daddy Dimmie and the Robe of Courage at St Michael's
An ambulance rushes a boy to St Michael's Hospital where Dr Peyton and staff perform urgent surgery on crushed legs. The child asks if he is in heaven and asks for his sister Jinny and baby. He calls himself Daddy Dimmie as Jinny and the baby are brought to visit, then faces his impending amputations and separation from family. Nurses comfort the children and arrange care for Jinny and the baby while he fights for life.
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St. Michael's
Heaven
God
Jennings
St. Michael's Hospital
Larimer Street
Jinny
Mis’ Marini
Jimmie
Daddy Dimmie
Marini
Dimmie
Daddy Dimmmie
Baby
Dr. Peyton
Daddy Dimmie Ends In A Long Farewell Dream
A dying boy in hospital recalls Jinny and the baby as night falls. He speaks of Mother, church music, lilies, and heaven, calling for Jinny and the child while Nurse Jennings and Dr. Peyton watch. He envisions a final reunion and utters a peaceful farewell.
Mistake of French Diplomats in Abyssinia
In Abyssinia King Menelik scorned Paris toys brought by French diplomats as gifts. He preferred firearms from Russian and English emissaries, calling them gifts worthy of a warrior and a king. The incident marked a turning point in Menelik’s reception of foreign influence.
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Abyssinia
Menelik
Monument to Skat Erected in Altenburg Germany
Citizens of Altenburg Germany unveil a monument to skat a German form of whist. The column is painted with diamonds hearts spades and clubs and topped by two pigs symbols of luck with a fountain jet spouting water from the top.
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Altenburg
Germany
Lutheran Church Figures and Institutions in the United States
The Lutheran church ranks first among Protestant denominations in the United States with 1,200 congregations and 1,800,000 members. It lists 48 seminaries, 48 colleges, 50 academies, 10 young ladies institutions, 22 hospitals, 52 orphan asylums, 20 homes for the aged and 8 deaconess houses.
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Lutheran Church
United States
Live Stock Cautions on Calf Feeding Practices
Calves four weeks old eat from a half to three quarters of a pound daily, rising to one and a quarter to one and a half pounds at eight weeks. Do not mix corn or grain in milk. starch must become sugar via alkaline saliva. Corn fed with milk digests poorly. kafir corn is preferred and helps reduce scours. Shelled corn and kafir corn mix is ideal. soybeans are unsuitable for young calves. For dairy calves shift to oats and bran or oil meal when fleshy.
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Professor 1D
Otis
Kansas Station
Artichokes as Swine Food Creditably Endorsed
J E Brethour praises artichokes as a highly satisfactory pig feed, noting easy cultivation, healthful benefits, and lean meat gains. He suggests feeding with a moderate grain ration, spring feeding advantages, and tubers hardy to frost. Crops yield 600 to 1000 bushels per acre in suitable sandy loam soils.
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J, E
Brethour
Passing of Dale Hereford Bull Ends Illustrious Line
The Hereford bull Dale, owned by Jesse C. Adams of Moneaqua Illinois, dies after long indigestion. Foaled on Clem Graves farm in Indiana, he rose from a 1100 dollar yearling to 8000 dollar sale, then 10000 dollars in 1901, the highest price for a Hereford bull. Dale produced more champion show cattle than any bull on record.
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Hereford
I. A. Nave
Attica
Ind
Mr. Adams
Dale
Man Quits Tobacco After Sixty Years Challenge
A Waterville Maine man who smoked for sixty years quit a month ago after someone said he could not. He stopped smoking to prove them wrong and to improve his health.
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Waterville
Maine
Educational Butter Test 1904 participation urged by dairy assoc
In Farmers' Review the NCBSA executive urges buttermaker members to express interest in 1994 educational tests. Proposes letting butter be sent by refrigerator freight with destination charges deducted from tub proceeds to save costs, allow butter from any make day, and boost participation to include national and state tests.
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Farmers’ Review
Sam
St. Louis
E. Sudendorf
See
N. C. B. Assn
Windsor Place
Cattle Trade Shifts Ahead in Wallace County
From Farmers' Review, cattle begin changing hands with sales around October 15. About 3,000 yearlings and two grazing herds were shipped from the county, some cows also moved. Range grass cured. steers bring 3 cents per pound gross, cows 2 to 4.4 cents. Small cattlemen now ship cream to Topeka creamery, with a car of cream weekly during May to August. Cows include Short horns, White Faces and Galloways, averaging 2.50 to 3.50 per head monthly in summer. calves raised on skim milk fetch similar value to beeves.
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Topeka
M. T. Greigg
Wallace County
Kansas
Milking discipline and equipment tips from Prof Farrington
The text urges quiet, regular milking by the same worker and order, noting milking by watch aids lactation. It warns against talking, wet hands, and milking with moisture. It discourages wooden pails and recommends smooth soldered seams on tin pails for cleanliness.
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BE. H, Farrington
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