Illinois Leads Scientific Farming Push With Soil Booklets
Illinois advances in scientific farming as 60 000 Saving the Soil booklets reach farmers statewide. Dr Cyril G Hopkins chief in agronomy leads the campaign with Bankers association of Minors aiding, preparing half a million more booklets. Conference ties to National Irrigation Congress in Chicago December 5 to 9.
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Illinois
National Irrigation Congress
University of Iliols
Cyril G. Hopkins
Hopkins
United States
Bankers’ Association of Minors
Richard L. Crampton
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Crampton
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Six Pound Guilty of Hazing Coeds at Washington State
Pullman Wash April The committee investigating the raid by students of Washington State College on the Elms dormitory March 27 found six young men sulky and recommends three be expelled and three suspended indefinitely. The board of regents will decide the final action. Names not public. One mother traveled from Tacoma to advocate for her son.
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Wash
Washington State College
Elms
Bryan
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Tacoma
Power Plant Project Underway Near Castlerock
Castlerock Washington firms Colling and Byerly begin a power development on the Tootle river eight miles from Castlerock on Tower road. They plan a 1000 horsepower facility to supply nearby towns. Six months are projected for completion. Simultaneously work resumes on double tracking the Northern Pacific with a large labor force to follow.
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Castlerock
Wash
Colling & Byerly
Tootle River
Tower Road
Poverty blamed for downfall of Chicago girls report
The Chicago vice commission urges poverty as the main driver of girl downfall. It proposes radical measures opposing segregation, including a morals court, a child hygiene program, enhanced licensing and oversight of employment, municipal dance halls, lodging for women, and targeted protections for working girls, with emphasis on parental oversight and reform.
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Chicago
Giria
Vice Districte
How Color Line Works in the South
Discussion notes the racial backlash following a New Orleans homicide report. A white family is exposed to accusations of mixed blood, triggering bans on interracial marriage and segregation of relatives. The piece mocks the obsession and predicts records would be altered or burned as a failed purge of lineage.
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New Orleans
North
New York Evening Post
Louisiana
New York
Jefferson Lavis
Drainage question draws great interest at Chicago meet
At the nineteenth National Irrigation congress in Chicago from December 4 to 6, leaders push drainage and reclamation of swamp and overflow lands through a cooperative plan with federal, state, and private owners. The Pueblo resolution urged action to reclaim vast swamp lands similar to arid land reclamation.
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United States
National Irrigation Congress
Union
South
Middle West
Pueblo
Irrigation Congress
Federal Congress
Reclamation Service
We Set the Fashion in Steel Across the Nations
A vivid poem contrasts American steel greatness with French fashion in cloth and global reach. It highlights American skyscrapers bridges rail power and naval might, while noting British travel and enterprise, urging steel as the defining national fashion across continents oceans and empires.
New Comers at Redmond Oregon Population Growth
Newcomers continue to arrive in Redmond daily drawn by climate and land, with many buying irrigated plots within six miles of the city. Field agents expect a surge of colonists in coming weeks as buyers begin improvements and recruit friends. A bronze figure honors Mrs Leland Stanford at Stanford University. Arlington Cemetery memorial notes nurses who died in the Spanish American War.
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Redmond
Ore
Irrigation Company
Ccate
Leland Stanford
Oregon Audubon Society Pushes City Song Birds Campaign
The Oregon Audubon Society launches a spring effort to attract song birds by urging Portland residents to build bird houses and feed birds in winter. President Finley notes habitat loss as stumps disappear and urges statewide participation to create a center for songsters in the state. Electric trucks are used to carry high explosives in and about powder factories because there trucks run.
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Oregon Audubon Society
Finley
Mr. Finley
Manny
Audubon Society
Union Passenger Station Planned at Wichita
Within ninety days the erection of a union passenger station, to cost 2,000,000 will begin at Wichita. The project promises a major transportation hub for the region and follows discussions of expanding rail services.
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Wichita
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