Veterans Corner recounts Damon and Pythias reunion and war tales
The column recalls Civil War era bonds as Damon and Pythias-like friends meet in Chickamauga trenches tied by shared battles with Sherman and Lee. It includes a Drury College offer to verify a Missouri war incident and a scout-led wagon train ambush avoided by a captain's premonition.
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Homer T. Fuller
Drury College
Springfield
Massachusetts
Drury
Missouri
Damon
Pythias
WIM
William Lear
Lear
War Time Anecdotes From Tennessee Front
During a Tennessee engagement a Confederate captain was sent to support a battery as Federal troops attacked and seized a gun. An angry officer vowed to recapture it while a nearby private proposed buying the ruined piece. A hungry Confederate named Johnston entered a farmhouse at supper, asking to eat, and a NC soldier left his regiment to beg water from a porch for lodging.
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Tennessee
Johnston
Confedera
North Carolina
Front Royal
Town to Be Moved From Wenatchee
The town of Wenatchee Washington will be relocated two miles to the riverbank. Buildings will be moved in the usual manner. Water shortage at the current site and anger at high land prices drive the move.
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Wenatchee, Wash
Deer Walks Through West Bristle as Sea Fleet Moves
A deer wanders the main street of West Bristle Maine during a strict close season. Separately a torpedo boat is transferred by rail from St Petersburg to Sebastopol in a notable military redeployment for the Black Sea fleet.
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West Bristle
Maine
St. Petersburg
Sebastopol
Black Sea
Hood
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Masa
Sotly
Nts
Dairy and Poultry Fights in Congress and Farm Talks
The Ohio State Dairy association warns against the Wilbur Filled Cheese Bill No 5213 and urges farmers to lobby Congress for pure dairy products. A Jasper County Farmers Institute talk highlights poultry economics with figures from Newton and emphasizes business methods, pure-bred stock, and proper housing as keys to success.
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Canada
Lon. D. F. Wilber
New York
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Wilber
Ohio State Dairy Association
Rose $, Carr
Jasper
Illinois
T Newton
Iowa farmers study root crops for stock and hog markets
Prof James Wilson of the Iowa station reports on root crops for dairy cows in September and October, noting mangles perform best for stock while turnips and yellow turnips offer feed value. Sugar beets averaged 14.14 percent sugar with 20 tons per acre, clay soils favor sugar, early planting helps, and fertilization offered little benefit. Market trends show lighter hogs favored and excess corn fatness harming pork quality. US Cavalry horses total about 7,000 priced 125 to 200 dollars, with geldings preferred and five years as typical minimum age.
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James Wilson
Iowa Station
Iowa
Ames
Weare
United States Cavalry
United States Cavalry Service
Bizarre Exchange on Bicycle Pipe Quip Cited by Detroit Free Press
A quirky remark about a bicycle pipe and pneumatic tube language surfaces in a Detroit Free Press quip, featuring Gilderateev and Tillinghast discussing windpipe and earth parts. The exchange blends humor and wordplay with a playful newspaper tone.
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Gilderateev
Tillinghast
Detroit Free Press
Comparative feeding tests at the Iowa station and English stock notes
The Iowa experiment station reports cattle and sheep feeding trials showing one pound gain in January. Sheep reach higher gains earlier than cattle. English farmers value fast fattening, while heavy horses require 1,700 to 1,800 pound animals. Kansas station notes sheltered hogs gain on corn, unsheltered hogs show no gain. Pleuro-pneumonia outbreak in Essex cattle prompts slaughters, with English fears of American disease and calls for import bans.
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Iowa Experiment Station
Kansas
England
Essex
Veterinary Department
Board of Agriculture
United States
Dipping Sheep For Tick Elimination And Pasture Moves
A Wisconsin experiment notes zero degree dipping to remove ticks from mixed origin flocks. It urges farmers to inspect and dip when needed, avoiding feeding parasitized sheep. The piece also covers southern sheep feeding challenges, Montana prospects, and a dairying account of Jersey herd improvements with rising butter yield and profits, ending with a quip on talkative people.
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Wisconsin Experiment Station
A Mental Test and Local Club Remarks
A fragmentary passage references a mental test and remarks about a hand organ performance. It notes a guest who played well and won a prize, with banter about asking Stew Bigsby to join the club. The tone is casual and disjointed, reflecting a newspaper snippet with incomplete dialogue.
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Stew Bigsby
Also Mentioned on This Page
Veterans
Chickmauga
Sherman
Lee
Nevermore
Frank L. Stanton
Injuna
Bin
Squaw
Abyssinia
Central America
Central Asia
Formosa
Transvaal
Dairy and Poultry
Ohion Dairyigen
Plymouth Rock
Chicago
Charles Dilke
South
Montana
West
H. B. Gurler
Handorga
Bret
Hood's Pitts
Hall’s
BP. Man Gc
Anon & Co, Tobacco Works
Darius
Eames Rman
Cripple Creek
Sraight Torrenvander Singer & Co
Poate Wes
John W. More
Eaert
Casa Tiga Wee Western School Supply
Wapoleon
Hassiatoo
Thompson
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