Disease Breaks Out Again in Illinois Cattle Trade Banned
Des Moines reports Iowa acts to curb hoof and mouth disease by banning shipment from Illinois of cattle sheep swine goats hay straw cholera serum and raw milk with enforcement and sanitation rules for carriers and bedding. Dr J I Gibson criticizes Illinois handling and hopes broad adoption of strict isolation by other states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Illinois
Iowa Commission of Animal Health
J. I. Gibson
Gibson
Diabetes linked to pancreas defect say researchers
Doctors Ss J Metzer and I S Kleiner of the Rockefeller Institute report two years of study concluding diabetes results from a defect in pancreas operation. They have not offered a cure yet but are pursuing that aim now that the cause seems clear.
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W. S. Allen
Lsts
Remark on Wives and Pearl Necklace Demand
A dialogic fragment shows Gidlay remarking on a woman always thinking of clothing and Chubson mentioning his wife. The exchange includes a quip about pointing out a wife and a remark about a six week plea to buy a pearl necklace.
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Gidlay
Chubson
Wal
Was a Man of Peculiar Mind De Quincey
The essay reviews De Quincey author of The Confession of an Opium Eater as strange and ill balanced. Vernon Lee notes he spoke on irrelevant topics showing intellectual weakness and emotional vanity. Yet his subtle thought and tragic depth redeem him.
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de Quincey
Vernon Lee
Gates In Norway Slow Travelers On Open Roads
A travel note highlights numerous gates across Norway marking farm boundaries and separating home fields from waste lands. The gates hinder progress as travelers must stop, exit, and open each gate to continue.
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Norway
Ways of tactful nurse in the patient’s room
A guidance piece stressing tact and sympathy in nursing. It warns against nerves and noises that irritate patients, whispering about the patient, and unnecessary interference with a patient’s belongings. It urges nurses to observe the patient’s habits and to suppress personal habits while caring for the nervous invalid.
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Stcp
Infantry Tactics in Modern Trench Warfare
excerpts describe earthworks defense and offensive uses of gas petrol bayonets and artillery. It notes trench mortars lack accuracy and heavy explosives win decisive battles. It praises close combat knives for subterranean work and body to body fighting as future infantry training on the continent.
Modern Farming Era Cited by U S Secretary at Washington Dinner
United States Secretary of Agriculture, in Washington, notes shifts in farming with new machinery replacing traditional roles. He cites milking machines, phonographs, motor plows, and contrasts a modern farmer needing less robust help due to machines. An anecdote about a young farmer choosing between two romantic partners ends with a humorous parental tip favoring smaller, less costly wife.
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United States
Houston
Washington
Jaimes
Food for Cattle from Prickly Pear and Cottonseed
A Bombay Agriculture Department bulletin describes Kirdee government dairy tests where six bullocks received 72 pounds daily of a prickly pear and cottonseed mix, fed at 100 to 6 parts per 1,000 pounds hive weight for six months. Spines were burned off, fodder chopped, and results show the mixture can sustain life and revive half-starved cattle.
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Department of Agriculture of
Bombay
Kirdee
German Spitzbergen Station Closes Due to War
The German scientific station in Spitzbergen founded in 1911 by Professor Hergesel ended its work at the outbreak of the European war. A relief party and the station staff returned to Germany with instruments. The institute studied upper air via balloons and aimed to aid Count Zeppelin’s North Pole airship expedition plans.
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Spitzbergen
Hergesel
Germany
Count Zeppelin
North Pole
Moody Bible Institute director calls for radical change
Rev. William Wallace Ketchum, director of the Practical Work Course at Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, urges sweeping reforms to address what he calls radical wrongs and to implement practical reforms in religious instruction.
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WM. Wallace Ketchum
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Born Again Truth in a Radical Change Through Faith
A sermon argues all people are spiritually lost due to sin and only a radical, God initiated change can save. It explains that human reform fails, God provides through Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd who dies and rises, and urges readers to come to Christ, seek life, and confess faith publicly.
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God
Paul
John
David
Ealing
Jesus
Geo
Jesus Christ
Hlee
Kingdom of Heaven
Christ
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