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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
3
A columnist reflects on Independence Day history from 1776 and the nation’s birth. It laments past frivolity and urges fitting July 4 celebrations with public games bands music parks and patriotism worthy of the flag’s ideals. It praises freedom conscience religion and civil liberty as enduring national values.
A detailed profile of Timothy Matlack, famed penman of the Continental Congress, who copied the Declaration of Independence and wrote the engrossed commission to George Washington. It outlines his role in Thomson’s office, his handwriting peculiarities, and the creation of the official broadside and subsequent facsimile.
Philadelphia infant Billy McCarthy, age two years nine months and 100 pounds, moves furniture, rides in a custom chair with auto springs, eats large amounts, and shows advanced mental development. Doctors note unusual growth and cannot fully explain the infant's physiology.
Grizzled bell ringer sighs amid a crowd. a July sun beats on streets as a voice proclaims liberty. The poem celebrates the birth of a nation and calls Uncle Sam to ring the freedom bell to prevent a national peril.
A compact patriotic note celebrates the Fourth of July flag as a symbol of the union of lakes lands states and the unity of hearts and hands, underscoring national solidarity.
Blinks defends loyalty as Jinks recalls a Jackson critique of Maxsee speech. A punchline implies Blinks knocked down Jackson after the clash, with Blinks admitting he wrote that speech himself.
A readable panel lists Declaration of Independence signers by state with racial origins noted. New Hampshire includes John Bartlett French William Whipple English Matthew Thornton Irish. Massachusetts lists John Hancock John Adams Samuel Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry. Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery. Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott. New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris Welsh. New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson.
A fragmented Roll of Signers lists Hart English Abraham Clark Eng sh and many others from Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia and more. The text names figures such as Robert Mortis Welsh Benjamin Rush English Benjamin Franklin English John Morton Swedish George Clymer English James Smith English George Taylor English James Wilson English and Carter Braxton among others with varied accents and origins.
Mrs. Harvey J. Barnett told Judge Stelk that her husband warned he would die by his own hand within nine months and she fled with their six year old son. The judge ordered them to return and warned against further war talk. The courtroom remark on the war drew laughter as the couple resumed discussing weather.
In Temple Kansas Rowena Jozek a nineteen month old girl died after a bonnet string became entangled in a fence wire as she attempted to climb near her home.
President Arthur proposed a special blue banner bearing the United States arms as the presidential ensign. The design was approved by his cabinet in early 1882 and ordered for display at the mainmast on ships bearing the president. Arthur reportedly first used it in the following months.
An Agriculture Service overview explains baby beef as a stable, higher price market for well finished yearlings. It covers cow and bull selection basics, emphasizes beef blood, frame size, proper milk, and early maturity, plus calf quality, uniformity, and practical herd sizes for marketing in one load.
The article warns that grain quality suffers in poorly built shocks and stacks and from heating in storage. It stresses this loss is common yet inexcusable and urges action this year as the world needs food.
A historical tip instructs making an insect dust by mixing one part paris green with twenty parts flour. The compound should be dusted on plants in the early morning when the dew is present if possible.
Experiments by the Department of Agriculture show sour skim milk can replace sweet milk for calves in hot months without digestive problems. Twenty two Holstein Jersey and Guernsey calves showed rapid gains on sour milk, though preference rose with cold delivery and some delay in acclimation.
Ray Gatewood of Kansas State Agricultural College says crude oil outperforms market dips for hog lice control. Oil kills lice, softens skin, brightens hair, and gives better results though application methods vary. A recommended method involves driving hogs into a cement-floored pen to evenly distribute oil with a sprinkler can before release.
A guide lists seed amounts per 100 feet of row: about one pint of beans, two pints of peas, one half pint of corn, one half pint of lettuce cucumber melon squash or pumpkin, or one ounce of radish, onion, or carrot. The figures help plan planting density and yield.
Rotation. It is just as important to rotate gar den crops as field crops, and It is cer tainly great mistake to plant the same crop on the same three or four seasons in succession.
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