Minnesota Crop Improvement Association to hold Worthington seed show
The Minnesota Crop Improvement Association plans its annual convention and seed show in Worthington Nobles County. Officers met with Worthington Chamber of Commerce May 14. The Armory will host the convention and a large garage will display farm seed. The event is set for mid February 1916 with $2,000 in cash prizes and many machinery awards. C W Glotfelter predicts the best seed show yet seen in Minnesota.
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Minnesota Crop Improvement Association
Worthington
Nobles County
Minn
Chamber of Commerce of
C. W. Glotfelter
Waterville
Minnesota
Corn prizes to boys at Minnesota State Fair
The Minnesota State Fair offers cash premiums totaling 304 to boys entering corn in the Acre Yield Corn contest. Entries close August 15 with shipments accepted until August 20. Corn from four state zones will compete with equal prizes, plus liberal awards for corn clubs.
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Minnesota
Institute Hall
How Family Names Originated Across Nations
The Minneapolis Daily News editor explains how surnames emerged as populations grew in the eleventh century. Names derived from work, locations, and lineage, with examples like Johnson and Williamson, Smith, Bywater, Hill, and the Norman Fitz prefixes. Welsh Ap forms also evolved into Bevan.
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Minneapolis Daily News
Abraham
Sarah
Ruth
Jacob
John
Johnson
William
Williamson
Smith
John Smith
Bywater
England
Fitz
Fitzwilliam
Gerald
Fitzgerald
Scales and Pencil for Dairy Farmer
Guide on dairy cow rations links grain to milk output and roughage type. It explains feeding one pound of grain per two to three pounds of milk, with adjustments for hay quality and availability of bran and meal. It warns against high grain costs and suggests balancing roughage with appropriate grain amounts.
Dairy Barn Tools For Maximum Profit
A guidance note explains daily feed quality and quantity rearing cows. It says acgles and a lead pencil are essential tools in the dairy barn to ensure feeding is done efficiently for the greatest profit.
Loyalty of German American Fellows to Birth and Adopted Lands
The Duluth Herald argues that German American citizens show unwavering devotion to both their birth land and the United States. It asserts no conflict between loyalties, and that strong love of Germany enhances faithful citizenship to the U S, even in war. It concludes that in a US Germany clash, most would choose the United States with steadfast loyalty.
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Duluth
Germany
Europe
United States
America
Remembering a Farm Transformed by Modern Advances
A reminiscence recalls the old house birth place now updated with acetyline lighting, gasoline engine laundry, silos and autos. Dynamos and a telephone replace gossip, while a phonograph sings. Labor shifts to college grads as Dad runs the farm as business.
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Jersey
Southdown
Plymouth Rock
Dad
Feeding birds at home the coming winter season
A short call to bird lovers asks if feeding places were used last winter and suggests trying again this winter. It invites readers to provide nesting areas near homes for spring and notes benefits such as birdsong and reduction of harmful insects.
Check Book Accounting for Farm Finances
Farmers who do most of their busties by check can keep a very satisfactory account of farm receipts and expenses. Deposit all money received to show total income and use checks with stubs to itemize expenditures. A memorandum is needed for cash purchases and produce exchanges to keep a complete record.
Realty Transfers in New Ulm Area Report
Property deeds show transfers involving Julius Mielke, Pfaender Realty Co., and multiple buyers including Joseph Tastel, Ada Leary, and August Schell Brewing Co. for parcels on Center Street and various blocks in New Ulm. totals range from $1.00 to $40,000 plus. Other notable transfers involve Sleepy Eye, BrackenRidges additions, and Comfrey with buyers such as Henry Pfisterer, John Suess, and the Leary and Manderfeld estates.
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Julius Mielke
George Gieseke
L. T
South New Ulm
Pfaender Realty Co
Joseph Tastel
North New Ulm
Harry 8. Jenkins
Mary Iverson
Hunska
Pfaender Realty Company
Ada Leary
Lno
Center St
New Ulm
John M. Reminger
H. G. Hillesheim
N. E
Anton Wiesner
Emil G. Huge
Alwina C. Scherer
Edgar C. Veeck
Center Street
Andrew G. Duetsch
August Schell Brewing Co
Carl Crone
Henry Meyerding
August Nehls
Pfuender Realty Co
Alois Scheid
William W. Smith
Carl W. LuGow
Brackenridge
Sleepy Eye
Henry R. Schwartz
Frank W. Pfisterer
Aquinette Leary
Ella Leary
L Land
Allisons
Dayton
August Schroeder
J. P. Graff
A. R. Kelm
Bracken
N. New Ulm
Edward Bigot
Edward A. Manderfeld
John Grondmeyer
John Suess
N. W
N. EB
N. 1
Alfred A. Schlumpberger
la N. Henningsett
Adolph G. Moile
John Nagel
George Leary
Henry Simons Lumber Co
S. E
N. Parks
Wenzel Remiger
John M. Remiger
S. W
Agnes C. Schneider
Xavier Wensauer
John Fischer
Mathias Siebenbrunner
William Clement
Mike Meisinger
Allin
Charles Knapp
Frank Bublitz
Oscar L. Johnson
E. P. Lilla
Clara C. Lilla
Comfrey
Real estate transfers and a church reunion in Sleepy Eye and New Ulm
A lengthy list documents numerous property transfers in Sleepy Eye and New Ulm, including L and B parcels bought by individuals such as Joseph Bruckbauer, John Lukas, Henry Vedder, and Barbara Baer, with prices ranging from 1 to 16 916 dollars. A special reunion service for Evangelical Friedens Church confirmants is announced for Sunday June 30, featuring classes from Essig Nicollet and Sanborn, with a long roll of names of confirmed members from 1906 to 1918 listed as attendees.
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Evangelical Friedens Church
Essig, Nicollet
Sanborn
Family tree joke spurs light humor in Yonkers paper
A humorous exchange about family lineage and kilts appears in the Yonkers Statesman. The banter centers on ancestry and a visual tree with foliage, jokingly tying to Scotch descent and bare limbs.
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Andy
Randy
Yonkers
Orbits of the Planets Ere Long Not Perfect Circles
The article discusses Kepler's law that planetary orbits are ellipses with the Sun at a common focus. It notes eccentricities vary due to planetary perturbations, predicting Earth's orbit will slowly change over about 24,000 years, Venus remaining closest to a circle but never exact.
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Leverrier
Ima
Venus
Lucien Larkin
New York American
The Silver Sword Plant Grows In Hawaii Paradise
An excerpt notes the silver sword aho alohina ina, a rare gray headed plant found only on inaccessible volcanoes in Hawaii. Native Hawaiians valued it highly, calling it inahina, while tourists rarely learn of its existence amid the paradise.
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Hawaii
Pacific
Silver Sword
Resson
Edelweiss
Switzerland
San Francisco Chronicle
Elephant Ball Game in Sparks Circus Herd
The Sparks Circus elephants perform a hilarious baseball stunt with prewar gear and a famed batter called Big Mary who posts a 400 Turk batting record. The act includes base running and fielding antics provoking loud audience laughs and drew strong NY press praise during a prior winter run.
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Sparks
Manis
Mary
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