Stage Coach Tales of Zachary Taylors Icebound Ride
President Zachary Taylor and a retinue of statesmen traveled by stage along the old National Road in 1849 between Cumberland and the Ohio River. The ice slicked route caused skidding and fear, but Taylor enjoyed the Arctic scenery and halted at the Narrows to admire glistening ice before resuming the journey to Washington.
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Zachary Taylor
Zach
Santa Anma
Mexico
Taylor
Cumberland
Ohio River
Henry Farwell
Archie McNeill
Alfred Wolf
Thomas Shriver
Colonel Bullet
New Orleans
Colonel House
Meadow Mountain
Shriver
Panama
Narrows
The
Atlantic Coast
Wills Creek
Santa Anna
Washington
Old Pike
Alleghenies
Jackson
van Buren
Monroe
Harrison
Polk
Tyler
Henry Clay
Congress
Benton
Cass
Lafayette
Black Hawk
John Quincy Adams
P. T. Barnum
Jenny Lind
Western Newspaper Union
China’s Bootleg Calendar Sparks Lunar New Year Customs
Chinese families ignore a ban on lunar calendar printing by buying Gregorian calendars and writing in lunar dates. They still mark the new year by abstaining from work, visiting friends, paying debts, and setting off firecrackers as in centuries past.
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China
Passenger asks for legal taxi fare in Scotsman verse
A taxi driver quotes the legal fare as two shillings for the miser, two and threepence for the mean man, and two and sixpence for the gentleman. The passenger asks which he is.
Danger of Poison in the Pastures
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the warning notes drought frost or heavy trampling can trigger prussic acid in pastured plants. Sudan grass velvet grass sorghum and Johnson grass may become poisonous when growth is retarded. Preventive feeding mowing and proper haying reduce risk.
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United States Department of Agriculture
WNU
Sudan
United States
Painter Ladder Elopement Provokes Romantic Trap
Doctor Lanning avoids a family crisis as Martha and Peter Letson plot an elopement. A painter is used to stage a window scene and a ladder accident leads to a comical reconciliation with the physician. The doctor teases a wedding any time they choose.
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Lanning
Martha
Peter Letson
Peter
Doctor Lanning
Effective Results With Blow Land Farm Land
Farm land treated with blow sand on the Oquawka experiment farm in Henderson county Illinois shows large yield and profit gains. Average annual profit up to 18.75 dollars per acre more than untreated land over five years. If animal manure is unavailable plow under legume organic matter and apply lime to optimize alfalfa use. Rotation suggested: corn soybeans rye red clover alfalfa hay wheat with a sweet clover catch crop. alfalfa sown for five years.
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Oquawka
Henderson County
Illinois
C. H. Farnham
Farnham
Cane Molasses Restores Iron in Rats on Milk Diet
An Ohio station reports that adding cane molasses to the diet of white rats with nutritional anemia restored their blood hemoglobin. Beet molasses did not have the same effect. Analysis shows cane molasses contains higher iron and copper, likely accounting for improved outcomes.
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Ohio
Wheat to hogs nets feed farmer $892.60 profit
O Axtell Castro county demonstrator fed 71 hogs with ground wheat at 1 per bushel using tankage and cottonseed meal in a self feeder. Over 140 days the hogs gained 1410 pounds, turning 884 bushels of ground wheat into a marketable result with final selling price $1,299 and total costs listed as $873.20 for pigs and $42.20 for feed.
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O. ©. Axtell
Castro County
Beans Pinto Growths Plan Advertising Campaign
Colorado State College Bulletin notes that pinto bean production has risen rapidly in the last two years. An advertising campaign is planned to familiarize consumers with the beans as a food product, funded by a small deduction from each bag sold.
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Colorado
New Mexico
Colorado State College Bulletin
Can Not Alter Asbestos Oldest Earth Material Remains Unchanged
Asbestos, derived from serpentine rock and reputed as the oldest material on earth, remains unchanged despite volcanic activity or earth pressure.
Auto Wins Its Way In Eastern Lands
The United States recognizes Ibn Saud as ruler of Hejaz and Nejd, Likely boosting American car sales in Mecca. In Tibet the dalai lama orders a private car from India despite 15,000 monks, whose prayer wheels symbolize limited machine age progress. The piece ends with a quip that mercy beats rigidity.
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State Department
Ibn Saud
Hejaz
Nejd
Arabian Desert
Ibn
Mecca
Dalai Lama
Tibet
India
Easy Fat Loss Promise From Kruschen Salts Ad
A vintage advertisement promises rapid fat loss and health boosts by using Kruschen Salts. It claims weight declines of 15 pounds in a month, improved energy, and a clearer complexion, urging readers to weigh themselves, take an 85 cent bottle daily, then reweigh after four weeks. It touts wide drugstore availability.
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America
Good Health And Germicide Offer From Rollins Co
A 1920s advertisement promotes B. and M The Penetrating Germicide to destroy disease organisms and restore health. It claims quick, positive action for coughs colds bronchitis tonsillitis rheumatism and neuritis and offers a full size bottle by mail for 1.25 plus requests for a free booklet from F Be Rollins Co Boston Massachusetts. It ends with a quotation about government and responsibility.
Clockmakers mark 300th anniversary of London charter
British clockmakers celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of Charles I granting their charter of incorporation, naming themselves the Master Wardens and Fellowship of the Art of Mystery of Clockmaking of the City of London.
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City of London
Doorstep Diplomacy Spurs Quarrel Over Debt Parley
A quarrel erupts as a caller asks a woman if she is a bill collector and seeks a debt parley with her husband. Neighbors report the confrontation escalated when unclear threats surfaced and police were summoned.
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Thass
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E. C. Taylor
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNN Service
St.Joseph’s
An Investment Corp
Esperson
Houston
Target
Virginia
Burley
Jack
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp
Louisville, KY
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