Vast Growth in Year in Motors and Lamps Development
Director Durand of the Census Bureau reports a 180 percent rise in the value of electrical machinery over the last decade, from 105,832,000 to 243,967,000. The bulletin notes that figures reflect selling value of goods produced, not total industry activity, and highlights high production of motors for power and automobiles, storage batteries, and arc lamps, with sizable factory values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durand
Census Bureau
United States
Billion a year in chickens shows poultry boom across nation
Poultry authority Charlies T Cornun of Carlisle cites a $1 billion annual industry and argues fairs now rival winter shows in size and quality. He notes a 60 percent rise in bird quality over five years and larger exhibits reflecting industry progress. Lucy Pumphrey of Glen is knocked from a bogey in a runaway accident. her companion Mr. Fisher jumped free and escaped injury.
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Charlies ‘T. Cornun
Carlisle
America
St Louis
Lucy Pumphrey
Glen
Montgomery County
Mr. Fisher
Massive Chicago Mail Weighing Milestone Report
In Chicago a large postal staff completed a four year weighing of mail in transit totaling between 1 090 060 000 and 1 500 000 000 pieces. Weighing occurs on 100 000 000 pounds of merchandise and determines railroad payments for the next four years. The operation spans four districts with about 100 000 pounds per route, and Chicago serves as the central hub with thousands of pouches weighed daily.
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Chicago
Sone
Cne
Chicaso
Eures
Chiease
West Office
New York
Lave
Superintendent of Railways
Post Ofice
Pastor Lambert and Astor wedding ceremony stir
Lambert pastor of Elmwood Congregational temple conducted the marriage of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Madeleine Force. He received a fee of 1000 dollars and faced public condemnation from several ministers while defending his action and urging reconsideration of remarriage amid prohibition debates.
Profit To The Farmer: Department Of Agriculture Price Comparisons
The Department of Agriculture reports Sept 1 price changes for U S crops and livestock. Potatoes up 53 percent, barley up 20 percent, oats 13 percent higher, flax down 7 percent, wheat up 23 percent, corn down 7 percent, cabbage up, onions up, honey up, milk up 5 percent, apples down 11 percent, beef cattle down, horses down, wool down, sugar set to rise to seven cents a pound today.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Blackbirds as Musicians in Varying Cities and Times
A Scotsman note recalls blackbirds mimicking complex musical phrases from Beethoven and English songs. Observations span Banffshire woodlands, Edinburgh gardens near Buccleuch Place, and Paris Latin Quarter’s Garde Republicaine. One bird even matched a cavalry call in a Paris cobbler's stall, praised for tone and timing.
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Banffshire
Scotsman
Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh
Luxembourg Gardens
Latin Quarter
Paris
Betthoven
Garde Republicaine
Beethoven
Wreck Tennyson
Old Abbe
Cobler
Notes of News From Across Maryland and Nearby States
Notes of news from Baltimore and across the state recount openings, inaugurations, and incidents. Topics include school schedules in Baltimore, a new Protestant church cornerstone at Point of Rocks, the death of Mrs. Tilghman in Miles River Neck, and a potential West firm establishing a Baltimore branch. Also covered are infant mortality delegates, a railroad president’s New York visit, Loreley Distilling incorporation, a plane incident near Orange Grove, a rector’s resignation, gas-rate hearing delays, a fatal bicycle accident, political nominations, labor federation sessions, Republican notification events, steamer accommodations, Cardinal Gibbons commemorations, a elopement marriage in Wilmington, and a motorcar damages suit set for Montgomery County.
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Baltimore
Point of Rocks
Milcah M. Tilghman
Riverslie
Miles River Neck
Talbot County
Bible Class Union
Hagerstown
International Congress For
Berlin
Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
New York
Wythe L. Kinsolving
St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church
Perryman’s
St. Louis
Public Service Commission
Morris Eckhart
Dulaneys Valley
Long Green Road
Gorman
Fairview
Federation of Labor of Maryland
Randolph Winslow
Mount Royal Terrace
Mary J. Winslow
Wilmington
J. Meriwether Shellman
Westminster
John E. Sanbury
Carter Motorcar Company
Prince George's County
Montgomery County
Values life at six thousand per adult scale
Dr A de Neuville of Paris proposes a scale of human values by age. He assigns monetary values to age ranges from 90 dollars at age five up to 6000 dollars between ages 40 and 60, with values declining thereafter and no gender differences noted.
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A. de Neuville
Paris
Harvest Home Services at St. Paul's Utica Mills
Harvest Home services will be held at St. Paul's Reformed Church in Utica Mills next Sunday morning September 17 at 1 o'clock led by Rev. A J Herman the pastor.
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Harvest Home
St. Paul's Reformed Church
Utica Mills
A. J. Herman
Dr King’s New Discovery Featured in Local Ad
An Arkansas reader, W. OB Nelson of Valamine, endorses Dr King’s New Discovery for lung and throat ailments. The ad claims it cures coughs and lung troubles, promotes weight gain, and offers a dollar trial bottle free at Verne’s Pharmacy, urging readers to mention seeing the item in The News.
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Vearre
Needle Origins and Craft in Ancient and Modern Times
A historical overview traces the needle’s invention and global impact, detailing manufacture steps from wire to finished needle. It cites biblical references and classical depictions of embroidery, notes early London origins circa 1540, and tracks the Greenings’ long needle trade from Long Hendon to Sheffield and Birmingham.
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Fulier
Dan
Minerva
Homer
Andromache
Hector
Telemachus
Menelaus
London
Spain
Elias Growse
Greenings
Earl of Dorchester
Greden Bucks
Long Hendon
Sheffield
Birmingham
Dean's Kidney Pills Advertised in Frederick Notice
Kidney troubles affect children, women, and men with back pain and nervous symptoms. Mrs. F. J. Kottmger of Frederick testifies the pills eased her backache after use. For sale at J. W Harner's Drug Store. price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Dean's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Frederick
F. J. Kottmger
West Patrick Street
Frederick, Md
J. W Harner
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Maryland Surgeons to Attend National Convention
The Maryland National Guard will send delegates to the annual Association of Military Surgeons meeting in Milwaukee this month and push to bring the convention to Baltimore next year. Adjutant General Henry M. Warfield is selecting the Maryland delegation, with Dr. W. P. Morrill, Major W. Guy Townsend, and Captain J Harry Ulrich among those named.
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N. G
Maryland National Guard
Association of Military Surgeons
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Maryland
Adjt
Henry M. Warfield
W. P. Morrill
Sydenham Hospital
W. Guy Townsend
J Harry Ulrich
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Electrical World Products Inccrease
Astor
Providence
Tosept
THE
Western Union Telegraph Company
Blackbirds
News OF the
News OF the Churches
Hay
Hiesith
Philo Hay Specialties Co
Newark
N. J
U.S. A
Hartina
Steiner Bros
Fountains
Merhlf
Moberly
W. Patrick
Baltimore &Ohio
Atlantic City
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
H. Trundle
Footer’s
Footer
Footer’s Dye Works
Cumberland
A. Kate Gittinger
East Patrick Street
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