Navy Adds Fourth Admiral as Dewey Leads Historic Flag Rank
The Navy elevates four flag officers to full admiral, a historic milestone. Admiral Dewey keeps the blue four star flag, with Frank Fletcher, Thomas Howard, and Walter Cowles sharing fleet commands. If Dewey is aboard, juniors fly red with four stars. Dewey would fly blue in combined fleet reviews.
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United States Navy
Farragut
Porter
George Dewey
David Glasgow Farragut
Continental Congress
Esek Hopkins
George Washington
Admiral Hopkins
Hopkins
Philadelphia
Alfred
John Paul Jones
Congress
George Henry Preble
David Porter
Essex
Thompson
Isaac Toucey
Richard H. Dana
Mizzen
Gerade
Franklin
Secretary of the Navy
David Dixon Porter
Manila Bay
Dewey
Secretary Daniels
Admiral Dewey
Frank Friday Fletcher
Atlantic
Thomas H. Howard
Pacific
Walter C Cowles
Killing Quack Grass Eradication Tactics
Idaho B Experiment Station advises early, earnest action to stamp out quack grass. Identify by long heads and underground rhizomes, then dig up and burn patches, avoiding seeds. Use disk harrow and deep plowing at heading, pulverize soil, and prevent any regrowth.
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F. L. Kennard
Idaho B
Weeder tool warned against killing young weeds
The Weeder is praised as a top implement for killing young weeds but may destroy grass on some soils. Replowing might be advised in fall. usually not until the next spring. Two years of rigid treatment should discourage quack grass and let the land recover.
King of All Forage Crops
Alfalfa rises to king status among forage crops. First seen in New York in 1821, later reintroduced from Mexico via Chile. After initial failures in the East, irrigation and understanding its cultural needs allowed alfalfa to spread coast to coast becoming the staple hay crop in the West and then nationwide.
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New York State
United States
Mexico
Chile
California
Western Canada Shows Rapid Railway Growth and Education Gains
The Alberta rail mileage has doubled to 4 097 miles in three years with Dominion Railway Commission oversight. University attendance rose 1 000 percent in five years across 61 districts, while J B Edward of Blackie testifies to farming profitability and health gains since moving from Iowa, detailing crops, livestock, weather, and no land for sale.
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Western
Canada
Alberta
Dominion Railway Commission
University of Alberta
J. B. Edward
Blackie
Alta
Iowa
Cass County
Doctors With the Armies in War Effort
English medical schools are drained as students join the front and Red Cross work. Time spent serving counts toward terms, aiding sanitation and prevention while combatants and French volunteers seek frontline action. doctors aim to lessen pain and death for the wounded.
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England
Red Cross
Cete
Head Wounds Rise in French Army Says Doctor
Doctor Sendral states a marked increase in head wounds in the French army. The assertion notes a rise attributed to ongoing combat conditions and battlefield hazards.
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Sendral
Jarmy
Causes of Roup in Chickens Told
Roup, a troublesome chicken disease, is mainly caused by damp quarters. Keep coops dry and warm and yards clean to prevent roup.
Fractured Text Fragments Prompt Brief Summary
Fragmentary OCR snippet offers no coherent event or identifiable entities. Limited readable words hinder factual summary beyond noting a disrupted, nonstandard string of characters. No clear people, places, dates, or actions emerge for a valid card.
Caring for Forest Timber by L G Johnson
A Laketon reader describes timber land management on a 46 acre tract. He removes diseased trees to prevent spread, salvages sound trunks, clears undergrowth, and seeds the land to bluegrass for cattle pasture. Manure enriches soil, promoting faster growth and healthier trees.
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L. G. Johnson
Laketon, Fy
Pruning Guidelines by Soil and Growth Type
Pruning for wood follows soil and growth rules. Weak varieties can be pruned generously while strong growing kinds are pruned lightly. Freely branching varieties need little pruning. unbranching limbs require more severe pruning. Rich soils favor growth and light pruning. shallow sandy soils yield short roots and closer cuts.
Time Well Spent in Farming Wisdom
A terse farmer’s adage stresses not wasting time, arguing that stopping briefly to remove a nail from a board or to pick up a loose barbed wire piece counts as time well spent and prevents bigger losses later.
Water the Horse. Often. Brief: the hot little at al time
Water the Horse. Often. Bief: the hot little at al time.
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Bief
Russian Vodka Consumption Drops Under War Time Ban
The Russian empire bans selling brandy in government shops from mobilization day, eight months in. A Moscow table shows vodka use in 1914 shrank sharply versus 1913 with July and August drops and a drastic October decline. Early in the war vodka could be bought in first class restaurants but bottle sales faced heavy fines.
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Russia
Russian Empire
Moscow
Hands Like Velvet One Night Treatment for Sore Hands
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura for red rough chapped hands. It advises hot soaks, drying, rubbing ointment, and wearing gloves at night. A free sample offer requests 32 cents for a Skin Book and mailing address in Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Ady
Steep the Sassafras and the poet’s fading charm
A St. Louis clergyman laments that images of poets and painters no longer charm society. He argues people seek realities, predicting poetry’s decline. He notes sassafras tea as a seasonal remedy once believed to ease the mental state tied to this view.
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St. Louis
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Claims American Quality
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as American made and the best whitening product, claiming wide availability at grocers. It emphasizes beauty and clarity of white clothing with a brief promotional line.
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Red Cross Ball
Adv
Ashamed of Them Protest Hits Christian Identity
A quoted exchange questions Christian behavior in the world and contrasts it with a baby crying during a baptism or christening. The dialogue suggests disappointment with Christians and uses the infant’s protest as a pointed image.
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Sayre
Denison's Coffee Pledge Prompts Curious Inquiry
A fragment mentions Denison's Coffee described as pure and delicious and ends with a stray question about a vote. The readable text lacks clear events, dates, or entities beyond the brand name.
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Denison’s.Coffee
Marriage rings and prize rings lead to the stage
A compact note reflects on how marriage rings and prize rings steer pathways toward performance stages, hinting at the cultural link between unions and public spectacle.
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