Smuts of Wheat and the Hessian fly
E J Kinney, Assistant Professor of Agronomy at the State University of Kentucky, warns Kentucky farmers about smut in wheat and Hessian fly damage. He details formalin and Briarstone treatments to eradicate smut costing about two cents per bushel, plus late sowing as a preventative to reduce fly infestation and improve seed bed conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Tthat
E. J. Kinney
College of Agriculture
State University of Kentucky
Senate panel to consult trust leaders on new commerce law
Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce will invite top capitalists and labor leaders to a hearing starting November 15 in Washington. The aim is to draft a law replacing the Sherman and Interstate Commerce acts, deciding whether restraints of trade should be legalized or dissolved to restore competition. Senator Cummins chairs the sub committee coordinating hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Trust
Senate
John D. Rockefeller
J. Pierpont Morgan
George W. Perkins
Elbert H. Gary
Samuel Gompers
Cummins
Iowa
Washington
Freckle Remedy Promises Free Trial and Guarantee
A dismissible advertisement offers ethinedouble strength from Wm. S. Lloyd's drug store claiming a freckle remedy with a money back guarantee. One night of treatment allegedly clears freckles with minimal cost, rarely needing more than an ounce.
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Lloyd’s Drug Store
Wm. 5
Record Trotting Speed Keeps Advancing Throughout Grand Circuit
The article notes continual improvements in trotting times with horses like Uhlan and The Harvester lowering marks. It highlights 0:56 for half a mile to wagon by Uhlan, rapid first and second quarters, and mentions Penisa Maid and Justice Brooks among rising juveniles. Public enthusiasm for track events remains high.
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Uhlan
Justice Brooks
Colorado
Belle
Joan
Penisa Maid
Major Delmar
Lou Dillion
Breeders’ Gazette
Man Arrested After Carnival Game Hustle Case
John Divine of Mt. Sterling operated a carnival game aimed at luck and money at the Carnival Grounds Saturday night. Police observed the setup and detained him to the Grand Jury with bail set at $100, which he could not furnish.
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John Divine
Mt. Sterling
Grand Jury
Winchester News
Corrections to Apvocater mailing list subscribers
Notice to subscribers says the Apvocater list has been updated with many new names and renewals. Readers should check the date beside their name and notify if incorrect. receipts will be issued to those not yet receiving them.
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Apvocater
Lightning Strikes Mansfield Center Farm Worker
A farmer, Joseph Barrow, was burned when a lightning bolt entered his kitchen through the stovepipe and tracked to his hip pocket where an iron monkey wrench and a jackknife, kept for work, fused into a single steel mass. The strike caused severe burns and scattered a tub of water and a chopping block.
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Joseph Barrow
Mansfield Center
Conn
Barrow
Late Inventions Spark Curiosity Across Industries
The Columbus Dispatch notes a coin in slot machines to clean straw hats as a novelty, while an English idea introduces a hydraulic clutch for gasoline cars. Innovations include a folding auto top operated by a side crank, an Illinois brooder protecting chicks, tree gum formation linked to disease and inoculation, and a Michigan combined postcard and letter sheet with a gum flap.
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Columbus Dispatch
Michigan
Relief for chronic constipation praised by Tex. grocer
Suffered habitually from constipation. Dean's Regulats relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that they have been regular ever since. A. E. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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Dean
A. E. Davis
Grocer
Sulphur Springs
Tex. Lm
State Bacteriological Laboratory Aids Public Health
A new laboratory linked to the State Board offers physicians facilities for early detection of communicable diseases. County depots will mail out specimen kits with instructions. if needed, kits are prepaid and sent by train messenger. Services include sputum tests, throat cultures, malaria blood tests, typhoid reactions, gonococcus, parasites in stool, urinalysis, and rabies testing.
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State Bacteriological Laboratory
12th _ street
Bowling Green
Promote Digestion and Blood Purification with Liver Tonic
A short advertises Feel languid and weak and offers Bur dock Blood Bitters as a liver and stomach tonic. It claims to tone the liver, aid digestion, and purify the blood, presenting a plain language remedy for malaise.
Winchester Monument Works Ad from Winchester KY
An advertising notice from Winchester Kentucky promoting monument work with the claim of best quality and lowest prices. The message invites readers to share their needs and promises a call to discuss payment. The promoter signs as I H Jackson, Provisional.
Kentucky Fair Dates for 1911 Announced
Paris Monticello Alexander Mount Olivet Hodgenville and other towns list fair dates in September. The Kentucky State Fair at Louisville runs September 11 for six days with several counties holding fairs from September 5 to September 27.
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Paris
Monticello
Alexander
Mount Olivet
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Louisville
Horse Cave
Falmouth
Mayfield
County court days listed for nearby counties
A timetable notes county court days near Mt. Sterling. Bath and Owingsville meet on the second Monday, Bourbon at Paris on the first Monday, Clark at Winchester on the fourth Monday, Fayette at Lexington on the second Monday, Fleming at Flemingsburg on the fourth Monday, Harrison at Cynthiana on the fourth Monday, Madison at Richmond on the first Monday, Montgomery at Mt. Sterling on the third, and Nicholas at Carlisle on the second Monday.
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Mt. Sterling
Bath
Owingsville
Bourbon Paris
Clark
Winchester
Fayette
Lexgton
Fleming
Flemingsburg
Harrison
Cynthiana
Madison
Richmond
Montgomery
Nicholas
Carlisle
Harriman Gives $50,000 for Southern Pacific Hospital
Mrs. E. H. Harriman widow and railroad magnate donated fifty thousand dollars to Dr. K. Ainsworth chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific for a bacteriological and pathological laboratory to aid the company’s employees. Dr. Ainsworth announced the lab would be housed in the Southern Pacific general hospital in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Harriman
K. Ainsworth
Southern Pacific System
Ainsworth
Southern Pacific General Hospital
San Francisco
Largest New York maternity birth recorded at hospital
A baby weighing fifteen pounds at birth is reported thriving. Born to Mrs. G. A. Fritzer, it is said to be the largest baby in the hospital’s history and Mrs. Fritzer’s seventeenth child, born to a teen mother living with her family in a four room tenement on Rivington Street in the East Side.
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New York Maternity Hospital
G. A. Fritzer
Best Farm in the South Offers 1300 Acre Plantation for Sale
A large southern plantation offers 1300 acres with 750 in cultivation and rest timber, seven houses and barns, two steamboat landings, and proximity to a railroad station. The farm yielded 300 bales of cotton and 10 000 bushels of corn in one year worth about 33 000 dollars, with potential for a second crop and full cultivation. Price is 30 dollars per acre, inquiries at the office.
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Hoffman’s
Hoffman
Mr. Sterling
Entuci
Dame Chance
Lightning
I. H. Jackson
The
Sky
Queen & Crescent
Southern Railway
Land of the Sky
Sapphire Country
Lexington
Asheville, N. C
Hendersonville
N. C
Waynesville
Lake Toxaway, N. C
Pullman
Chattanooga
Lookout Mountain
Knoxville
Tenn
H. C. King
W. A. Beckler
Cincinnati
Ohio
County Court
S. P. Hospital
Best Farm
Kentucky State Fair
J. C. Beam, Jr
St. Louis
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