Governor Lister Endorses Alfalfa Week in Schools
Governor Ernest Lister urges a March 13th to 19th Alfalfa Week across Washington public schools. He notes benefits to students and parents and pledges cooperation with the State Educational Department, Washington State Grange, and farmers unions. The Holden Improvement Committee in Spokane receives his supportive letter.
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Washington
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Grangea
Farmers’ Unions
Holden Improvement Committee
Spokane
Northwest
Ernest Lister
Educational booklets to be sent by H C Extension Dept
The H C Extension Department in Chicago will distribute a catalog of booklets on agriculture and related subjects. Titles include The Story of Bread, The Golden Stream, For Better Crops, The Disk Harrow, The Binder Twine Industry, Harvest Scenes of the World, Sweet Clover, The J H C Demonstration Farm, Getting a Start With Alfalfa, Seed Corn, Studies In Alfalfa, Alfalfa Sermon, For More and Better Corn, For More and Hardier Alfalfa, Poultry Book, and cloth and paper testing items. Prices range from 1 to 60 cents per copy, with reduced rates for quantities. Plans and specifications for farm buildings priced separately.
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Agricultural Extension Department
LH. G. Harvester Chicago
J. H. C. Demonstration Farme
Northwest
Hardier
al- Main
Jes
Plan to supply farmers two-pound seed corn samples
Spokane improvement committee and Northwest partners plan distributing Steene two-pound seed corn samples to farmers. Each package includes a report form to track harvest results. A 25 cent charge covers packing and shipping. Farmers are asked to return reports at harvest time.
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Improvement Committee
Spokane
Northwest
Alfalfa Week Planned in Oregon Schools
Oregon Superintendent J A Churchill designates March 9 to 13 as Alfalfa Week. High schools will emphasize alfalfa in language work, bulletins from Oregon Agricultural College and Holden Committee will be distributed, and pupil projects will include corn testing and written reports. Industrial clubs statewide prepare ten projects with alfalfa growth to be added next year.
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Skinscoes Danke Ce Cee
Oregon Agricultural College
Holden Improvement Committee
Farmers Union Campaign Support for Alfalfa on Every Farm
The Farmers Union cooperated in a campaign promoting diversified farming and intensified interest along a traveling line. Observations show substantial progress, with good accomplished and continued follow up by the Holden Improvement committee to advance the movement.
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Farmers’ Union
Holden Improvement Committee
National Wool Growers' Association Backs Alfalfa Education Campaign
The National Wool Growers' Association in convention resolves to support the Holden Alfalfa Committee education drive aimed at increasing alfalfa on farms. A follow-up campaign will be launched to make the effort permanent and expand its value to the country.
Holden Improvement urged for diversified farming methods
J. D. Brown urges readers in the Pacific Northwest to value the Holden Improvement as a path to better farming. He notes that reliance on a single crop harms financial returns and community upbuilding, promoting broader, more independent, diversified farming practices.
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Pacific Northwest
Optical Illusions Amid Train Travel Sparks Perceptual Tricks
The piece describes visual effects causing misjudgments of motion and direction. Readers observe speeding objects, rotating cups on anemometers, and wall-induced distortions as they gaze upward. The notes explain how stationary setups create apparent rotation and incline illusions.
Whipping in Parliament Told as Lunatic Asylum Anecdote
In Sir Hen Drummond Wolff’s Rambling Collections a tale shows parliamentary whipping. A member confined in a lunatic asylum was to be delivered home for a crucial vote with a stick of barley sugar in his reel. The anecdote is claimed as perfectly true.
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Hen Drummond Wolff
Strong Room of a Great Bank
The bank’s strong room sits sixty six feet below street level with a twenty feet thick concrete foundation. A seven foot lake sits above, followed by thick iron plates built to resist skilled intruders. Entrances from above would face the same concrete bed, lake, and iron plates. Walls are impenetrable and doors weigh four tons each and are undrillable.
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Bank of Eah
Lee
Grave Marker on Stone Heap Confuses Traveler
A traveler riding through a wild region asks about a cross atop a heap of stones. The guide explains it marks a grave where a man died and was buried there. The traveler presses for details and learns the man died a natural death, then clarifies he was shot.
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New York
The Greyhound Etymology and Color Origins
London Notes and Queries surveys explanations for the term hound in Greyhound. Arguments include Greek origin from Graius and a suggested link to affinity with the animal’s gray-blue coat. The piece favors the coat color as the most plausible explanation.
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London
Fragmented exchange hints at a hospitalized figure
A garbled quote references Groucher and Huskie with stray phrases about a hospital today. The Philadelphia Press mentions someone being around yesterday and a line about trouble and being in the hospital.
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Huskie
Philadelphia Press
One View Of The Door Key
A humorous piece from the Indianapolis News arguing a world without door keys might be safer. It notes doors lock, keys fail, burglars could still enter, and suggests a latchstring left out as a safer, simpler remedy to avoid lockouts and dangers.
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Indianapolis News
The Water Came Back and the Missing Waist
A flat dweller recalls hanging a prettiest waist to dry, misplacing it for two days, and searching with the janitress over coal in a sixth story building. They finally find the waist in the chiffonier the next day and note no reply to the janitress about the search.
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New York Press
Barry Sullivan an Irish dan and Sancho Panza quips
Barry Sullivan once played Richard III at Shrewsbury where a heckler called for a donkey. Sullivan replied please come round to the stage door. In a Sancho Panza bid the duke says I begin to get tired of Sancho and a wag in the pit agrees and exits.
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Barry Sullivan
Dan
Richard
Shrewsbury
Mr. Sullivan
Sancho Panza
Dufreni
Sancho
Brockton Man Spotted Calm After Lunch With Locked Coat Pocket
A Brockton man was observed at a corner after lunch seeming calm. A friend noticed the pocket flap secured by a large safety blanket, raising questions about the pocket’s contents and locking mechanism.
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Brockton
Boston
Oldest Newspapers Span Continents and Centuries
The Swedish Official Gazette is described as Europe’s oldest newspaper though centuries separate it from Chinese rivals. The Peking Gazette has issued official news since Tang times ending around 905, and the Peking How is a yellow octavo book of twenty four still cited as dating to the sixth century.
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Official Gazette
Europe
Peking Gazette
Peking
Tiny World Revealed Electron Swarm Within Atoms
A Boston Herald summary notes scientists weigh and count the smallest things, estimating 125 trillion could fit in a cubic centimeter. Electrons move rapidly inside the atom, blurring the line between matter and the basal substance of all material.
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Boston Herald
The Flying Dutchman Legend and Its Variants
The article recounts the long standing phantom ship tale The Flying Dutchman. One version says a metal laden vessel carried a murder and plague while cursed so no port would admit it and it roams endlessly. Another tale says a homeward bound sailor vowed to round the Cape of Good Hope despite headwinds and never returns.
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Ca of Good Hope
The Ring Finger Positioning Tradition Explored
The article discusses why wedding rings are worn on the left hand and on the fourth finger. It cites the lesser use of the left hand and a 1788 British Apollo claim that this finger is least prone to bruising and cannot be extended without other fingers, unlike the others.
Schoolboy Blunders
A fragmentary note highlights misused phrases and garbled text. It cites Danish butter imports and references Cowper's death, then mentions imperfect tense usage and an unreadable line about Quebec. The passage appears as a collection of stray quotes and errors from an OCR source.
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Denmark
Cowper
Quebec
Turquoises and the Mongols in Jewelry Customs
Turquoises and the Mongols are described as favored stones of Mongol races. Chinese women arrange them in pieces with pearls and coral, while Tibetan men and women wear turquoises without accompanying stones. Tibetan men wear single right ear rings.
Clarifying Use of the Word Execute in Legal Language
The text explains the difference between execute as perform and its awkward legal use for killing. It notes that a sentence is carried out, while a person is killed, not executed, highlighting common blunders in phrasing.
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