Dan Lapham’s Heroic Fight Against Deadly Tide at Columbia Bay
A stormy tale centers on Dan Lapham, a famed bay fisherman, who risks life to rescue companions. Trapped by undertow and rising water near Chinook rocks, he battles the crush of waves, clinging to slick boulders as the tide peaks, while life savers search anxiously for survivors.
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Nelse
Mark
Dan
Joe
Hayden
June Golden
Dan Lapham
Hayden’s
Joe Golden
Old Hayden
Sankala
Ringwold
Disappointment Rocks
Chinook Rocks
Columbia
Lapham
Lapam
Liszard
Ile Saavers
Eace
North Side Fishermen Clash On Sand Island
Dan Lapham escapes a storm bound on Sand Island and witnesses a nocturnal clash as the northside and southside fishing factions prepare dawn attacks. He steals a boat using Bankala's cabin light as a beacon to flee toward safety.
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Sankala
Sand Island
Dan
Epit
Dan Lapham
Bankala
True friendship compared to health in loss
A quotation noting that true friendship is like sound health whose value is rarely known until it is lost. It attributes the thought to Cotton.
Two Row Corn Cutter and Danish Agriculture Advances
A reader sketches a homemade two row corn cutter with an axle from a 4x4 and 2x4 platform, using old planter wheels and knives from a stalk cutter. The piece discusses Denmark's grain yield gains and Hungary's agricultural institutions, plus practical notes on shocks, fodder, and proper corn cutting to reduce grain damage.
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Iowa Homestead
Keystone
Denmark
T Academy For
Make the Cows Comfortable and Boost Milk Returns
Farmers urged to improve cow comfort with sunshine, draft control, heavy straw bedding, clean stalls, and a sunny ventilated barn. Advocates ensure regular meals and chewing habit to raise milk yield. British wheat area down 13 percent year over year with barley also reduced, land reallocating to oats and to fruits flowers vegetables or pasture.
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Great Britain
Feeding condiments for fowls in moderate amounts
The guide notes red pepper can season feed to avoid flatness and stimulate appetite, with chopped onions offering a similar effect and being safer. Red pepper may aid moulting hens as a stimulant but should not become a regular ration.
Illustration shows construction and use of a device
The piece explains an illustration in clear terms detailing how the object is built and operated, guiding readers through each component and its function with straightforward visuals and practical description.
Farm Notes on Preparations for Winter and Stock Market
Farmers are advised to plan changes for next winter and prepare livestock for sale. Emphasis on home and outbuilding repairs, wintering young stock, and ensuring beef supply next year. The Agriculture Department will study stock raising with a $25,000 appropriation, focusing on cavalry and carriage horses at the Fort Collins experimental farm.
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Department of Agriculture
Fort Collins
Col
Poultry Care Tips Emphasize Clean Housing and Feed
Practical poultry guidance covers single breed focus for farmers, cleanliness of fowls and houses, and neglect leading to roup. Advice includes using 2 year old hens for hatching stock, granulated bone supplement, uniform perches, ample ventilation, and balanced feeding with whole wheat as a supplement.
Henry Miller Protects California Elk Herds At Buena Vista
Henry Miller owns about 125 elk at his Buena Vista ranch in Kern County California. He created an eight foot fenced refuge to save the herd from extinction as other elk populations dwindle in Wyoming Arizona and elsewhere. The protected elk have increased over the past decade in their secluded retreat away from hunters.
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California
Henry Miller
Jackson's Hole
Wyoming
Arilzona
United States
Miller
Buena Vista Ranch
Kern County
Bakersfield
San Francisco Chronicle
Timepiece from Columbus era clocks 400 years old
A wooden clock over 400 years old owned by H. Halbich of Lynn keeps time and chimes with two skeleton and Father Time figures. Made after Columbus discovery, it bears Roman numerals and quarter hour bells, with origins traced to Bohemia's Wallenstein and Kreinskal castles and repaired in 1869.
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H. Halbich
West Neptune Street
Lynn
America
Wallenstein
Bohemia
Ritta Freiherr von Frederich
Kreinskal
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Toilers
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By Paul de Laney
Oregon
Pacific Coast
W. B. Anderson
Indianapolis News
Columbus
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