England Plans Jubilee Celebration
Portraits of King George and Queen Mary mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of their ascension. A meeting in Stresa involving Britain, France, and Italy’s leaders mapped European peace efforts. Farther west, the Green river flood in Kentucky forced hundreds from their homes.
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Honor 25th Anniversary of Coronation
All Britain plans silver jubilee on May 6 to mark 25 years since King George's accession. A new The King's Forest of about 6 000 acres will be named after the monarch. A three mile beech avenue will be planted as Queen Mary's Avenue.
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George
Unusual Camden Shiplaunched The St Johns Guild Hospital Vessel
The St Johns Guild hospital ship slides into Camden waters as a 181 ft long nonsinkable craft with 25 watertight compartments. It can house 1500 people with special child accommodations and a convertible upper deck that serves as a dance floor or theater. A 10 foot glass sun deck surrounds the forward promenade.
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Camden
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Cites Many Cows as Unprofitable
Prof W J Fraser contends most US dairy cows are too thin to pay under current feed prices. He urges dairymen to cull poor producers, feeding only the better cows to cut maintenance costs and boost herd profits.
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W. J. Fraser
Dairy Eopink University of
Lime urged for alfalfa and clover to boost yields
Prof A F Gustafson of Cornell urges widespread lime use for clover and alfalfa to avoid poor yields. He notes these crops support dairy feeding and that New York soils need lime for red and alsike clover and for alfalfa, sweet clover, cabbage and cauliflower. Lime tonnage rose to 191000 tons in 1930 but fell to about 95000 tons by 1934 due to economic conditions.
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A. F. Gustafson
Cornell
New York State
New York
Minerals for Hogs Tests Highlight Mineral Grain Savings
Tests show pigs fattened on forage with corn supplement save about six pounds of grain per pound of suitable minerals used, excluding salt. Minerals don’t replace grain. provide a practical mix 100 lb bone meal 100 lb limestone 50 lb salt, plus 3 lb mix per 100 lb grain. Excess minerals offer no advantage and can harm.
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New Yorker
Farm woods and crops noted in global agricultural update
The report details Canadian farm settlements nearing 100000 on farms in three years, Idaho woodland acreage around 9.2 percent per farm, Egyptian wheat imports from Austria totaling 34000 tons, and Idaho winter wheat planted for 1935. It mentions leather harness cracking from poor oiling, Creston British Columbia hog yields, soybeans as a leading forage seed crop with 1984 production near 994 million pounds versus 458 million prior year.
Washington Prayer Controversy Surrounds Disbanding Letter
Historians spar over Washington’s religious life after a controversy sparked by a New York suit against Trinity Church. Freethinkers say a final paragraph in a June 1788 letter reads as a prayer. others call it a reverential aspiration.
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Virginia
Freethinkers of America, Inc
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Valley Forge
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Library of Congress
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Alexandria
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Callahan
Episcopal Church
Visagraph Inventor to Receive Wetherill Medal
Robert B. Naumburg of New York will be awarded the John Price Wetherill medal by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on May 15 for his Visagraph device. The machine reads printed material for the blind using a photo electric cell and embosses magnified letters on a strip of paper passed under the reader’s fingertips. It first trialed at Perkins Institution for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts and is regularly used there. The system lets blind readers understand any printed material without Braille.
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John Price Wetherill
Robert B. Naumburg
New York
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Naumburg
Perkins Institution For the
Watertown
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Literary Digest
No more tired let down feeling for me
An advertisement for S.S.S. Tonic claims to restore red blood corpuscle strength, improve digestion and energy, and aid appetite, sleep, nerves, and complexion. It emphasizes twofold benefits, urges starting treatment today, and notes economy and regular sizes available through drug stores.
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