The Wild Geese Abend in Kerry Passage
A tense scene unfolds in a tower as Flavia and James McMurrough clash over a key to freedom. Payton intervenes, a dare of swords suggested, and Flavia’s loyalties shift as she confronts Nick’s cruelty and the peril surrounding them.
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Flavia
Colonel John
James
Kerry
Payton
Adam
Match Industry Touts Timber Quality and Conservation
A historical note highlights global match usage and the wood sources for match timbers. It stresses choosing sap wood free timber from pines, Linden, aspen, white cedar, poplar, birch and willow and links forest conservation to longer supply. The article includes a humorous Christmas quip about neckties and suspenders.
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Havana
Uncle Sam
Free Alcohol’s Handicap in Upland Industry Debate
The Indianapolis News reports that despite slow progress, support exists for free denatured alcohol and farm alcohol production. It cites farmers eager to buy stills, notes a 20 tax hinders small-scale stills, and highlights beets and other wastes as viable feedstocks yielding significant alcohol output at low cost.
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Minneapolis
Snyder
Minnesota School of Agriculture
A Good Manager from the New York Tribune
Homer S. Taylor of the National Archery association hosts archers in Chicago and offers a quip comparing archery skill to Mrs. Pearck managing her husband. He narrates Fear’s late night row and a joke about choosing which hat rack to use.
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New York Tribune
Homer S. Taylor
National Archery Association
Chicago
Pearck
Michigan Avenue
Equal partners on Ozark farm redefine gender roles
On a Rogersville Missouri 160 acre homestead Jacob and Serillo Longman live a reversed division of labor with Serillo handling farmwork and Jacob managing the house. They emphasize equal abilities and compatibility formed since their 1883 marriage, earning neighbors’ respect for their practical, nontraditional arrangement.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ozark
Rogersville
Jacob Longman
Serillo
Jake
Mrs. Longman
Indiana
Missouri
Serilla
Ozark Country
Mr. Longman
To Escape the Laugh From a Plaza Luncheon
Loie Fuller recalls a Christmas pudding story about dancing children. She said she hid a coin a china doll and a button in the pudding. The coin and doll appeared but the button vanished with a child admitting she swallowed it.
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Washington Star
Loie Fuller
Plaza
Gambling instinct fades when fear of losses grows
The text notes that people resist gambling because fear of losing keeps them away. It suggests that once someone is so deaf to money talk his case is hopeless and that something considered bad to eat with worthless plumage may still be lucky.
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John
Early corn varieties suit drought prone southern fields
A Wallaces Farmer correspondent from southwestern Missouri asks how to grow corn under a long dry spell from July to mid August. The reply advises early maturing corn of about 100 days, plowing and fine soil prep in spring, and frequent harrowing until late June to conserve moisture, enabling tasseling before drought and a fall harvest before frost.
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Walliaces
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Territory
Wallaces
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