Free Seed Testing Service By Kentucky Experiment Station
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station offers free seed testing for purity and germination. A new laboratory is nearing completion and will provide prompt, reliable tests. Send properly packaged seed samples with complete return address to the Division of Entomology and Botany in Lexington.
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Kentucky
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station
Europe
Canada
Kentuky Experiment Station
Lexington, Ky
Carriage and Transfer Service Ad
Transfer and Carriage offers wagon and transfer services to meet all trains. Call 21 or 337 for courteous treatment, prompt delivery, and appreciated trade. E. Kelly & Co. public notice row shows their address and hours.
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E. Kelly & Co
Women to Play Important Part in General Elections
The piece notes women voters in six states with full suffrage and discusses impact on the electoral college. It cites historic presidential elections decided by small margins and lists states with broad or limited women’s voting rights. It also mentions upcoming referendums in Oregon, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona and predicts gains for the equal suffrage movement.
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Washington
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Prabe Party
Equal Suffrage Movement
California
Colorado
United States
Adams
Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Lewis Cass
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Grover Cleve
James G. Blaine
Nevada
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsyvania
Rhode Island
Maine
Oregon
Kansas
Michigan
Wisconsin
Arizona
South
Suffrage Movement Sees Varied State-Level Prospects
In Ohio the matter was defeated this summer, a result expected to influence upcoming votes in Michigan and Wisconsin. Wisconsin suffragists push hard for success while Kansas is seen as likeliest to adopt the amendment next month. The South shows slower impact though agitation grows, possibly drawing Louisiana, Georgia and others into future campaign states within a year or two.
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Falls
Ohio
Buckeye
Michigan
Wisconsin
Kansas
South
Louisiana
Georgia
Days Lose Local Option Fight In Shelby County
Judge Ralph Gilbert refused to call a December local option election for Shelby county under the county unit law. The petition faltered as withdrawals reduced precinct signers below 25 percent, while counsel argued a constitutional conflict and that a county-wide will could be defeated by a single precinct.
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Ralph Gilbert
Shelby County
Shelbyville No. 1
E. C. O’rear
Gilbert
Shelbyville
Court of Apsocals
Peak
Whiskey People
Van Arsdell's steak and roast advertisement
A period advertisement promising best steaks and roasts at Van Arsdell's, with a monthly cost range and claims of active local men needed. It touts large cash benefits for sickness, injury, and death, and directs readers to I-L-U in Covington, while noting Heinz Pickling Vinegar used in Greenwade's goods.
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Covington
Heinz
Greenwade’s
King Alfonso’s Impulsive Humble Side Noted
A magazine piece portrays King Alfonso of Spain as a versatile, impulsive monarch with a boyish, human side. It recalls a playful anecdote from his twenty sixth birthday when he helped choose a hat for his sister, trying on toques himself and suggesting shared style.
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Alfonso
Spain
Nevisse Questions Cruel Sport of Fly Chases
Rooter Jones catches every fly but Miss Nevisse decries the pastime as cruel. The playful exchange centers on chasing insects rather than playing ball.
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Rooter—Jones
Miss Nevisse
SICK-ROOM CHEER AND NIGHTINGALE QUOTE ON CONVERSATION
Florence Nightingale argues that the well should avoid burdening sick visitors. A sick person enjoys good news and practical success stories, not repeated advice. She urges sharing something material or amusing as a daily health boost.
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Florence Nightingal
Uncertain Apple Tree and the Gift of Grafting
The passage explains that apples grown from seed reflect their origin rather than cultivated quality. It notes that careful selection and grafting over years produce the varieties available today, while seed alone often yields crabapples or misshapen fruit.
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Hove
Harper’s Weekly
Power and Islam in Nigerian Society Lecture
E. D. lectures in London warn that Islam is more than a religion in Nigeria, serving as social fabric and constitution. Critics should avoid legislation that undermines the native system and fails to substitute its social role.
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Nigeria
E. D
London
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Detroit, Mich
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Cleveland, G., Toledo, C
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Cincinnati
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