Durum Wheat Drives Western Desert Agriculture Push
The article details the USDA effort led by Secretary Wilson and Mark Carleton to introduce durum wheat, also called pasta wheat, to the United States. It describes how hardier desert crops could reclaim wastelands, scale planting across the Northwest, and boost bread quality, with milling challenges and miller resistance amid price pressures.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Simglar
Old World
Durnia Spd
Wylsen
Gt Serous
Fergages
Duran
Mark A. Carleton
Wilson
Man Tries HobO Trek to Test Charity of World
Connecticut man William A. Gleason, a National Temperance delegate, traveled penniless from New York to Torrington posing as a tramp. He found conductors farmers and hosts unreceptive, with only one kind response from a Bridgeport waitress who lectured him on folly. He concludes charity is not as believed.
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Connecticut
New York
Torrington
Ue Waller
Aud
Cedell
William A. Gleason
Wilkes-Barre
Gleason
Bridgeport
Farmers of the United States must grow more grain
In a candid discussion, a speaker argues U S farmers will expand wheat and other crops despite droughts and market fears. He cites past yields of six, eleven, then twenty to twenty-five million bushels and questions forecasts of global limits to grain production.
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United States
Wei
Caucausus
Algeria
Turkestan
Sir Wil- Yar
Einarland
Fish Need Air in Water to Survive
Fishes breathe air dissolved in water through their gills and mouths. Without aerated water, or when air is not replenished due to isolation from the atmosphere, they suffocate and die. A severe prolonged freeze could block air contact in small bodies of water, ending life for fish.
Unique Wisconsin angler uses paddle wheel boat drive
A Wisconsin fisherman echoes Isaac Walton by propelling his boat with a stern paddle wheel connected by gearing to a central crank. He operates the wheel with one hand while fishing with the other, a novel method inspired by river steamer technology.
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Wisconsin
Isaac Walton
A Toast to You Old Pal Across the Vale of Tears
An old verse wishes a departed friend long life in a poetic toast. The speaker hopes to live nearly as long, sacrifices a single day to avoid being left behind. The lines blend humor and sorrow in a farewell toast about friendship and mortality.
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Reig
Vale of Tears
Brentzer plots new barn in York Springs
In York Springs Pennsylvania the Comet reports FE Brentzer preparing to build a new barn, despite earlier town doubts about its future. The note highlights local development and the town’s ongoing groundwork.
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York Springs
Comet
FE. P. Brentzer
Local Notices from Cheyenne and Lebanon Towns
I B Carn plans to move to Wheatland after leaving Rice. In Lebanon Tennessee a bachelor’s hall on Spring street hosts nightly company with music and cards, run by Avery Grannis and Towgaat.
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Cheyenne
Wye
I. B. Carn
Aft
Rice
Wheatland
Lebanon
Messrs. Tow Gaat
Avery Grannis
Spring Street
Mallard Minnesotan Bicycle Riding Report
Bassie Pat Tom and Res Bovee were out riding. Hovee and Ralph Stevens were out bicycle riding. Ollie Chapiauso was out buggy riding last week.
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Mallard
Minn
Bassie Pat- Tom
Res Bovee
Tihouaehe Hovee
Ralph Stevens
Ollie Chapiauso
Afterthoughts and Scattered News from the Era
A garbled column of political and social notes mentions Missouri governor Folk and a dollar’s fading potency, Polk’s cries to buy beefsteak, Rockefeller funding science, Japanese beetle displays in London, a Hassian navy model, Taft banquet jokes, a Berlin robbery, a New York hippopotamus for sale, and a trope on Nepotism and spelling.
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Folk
Missouri
Polk
London
England
Hassian Navy
New York
Fragmented New York Press fragment on gardens and stockings
A rough, incomplete clipping from the New York Press discusses sunburned legs through open-work stockings and mentions profits from private vegetable gardens. The text is garbled with stray phrases about weeks old vegetables and people pulling in money, with several misspellings and unclear context.
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New York Press
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